The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-14
MANY Items INCREASED
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation Bill.
As Reported to the Senate Ii Carries
S265, SO4.65 More Thnn the enc
Recently Passed by the House-A
Reduction in the Amounts Allow
ed to Some of the Departments.

The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
| Appropriation bill for the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1901, was reported TO the SEN
ate yesterday by the Committee on Appro-
priations. The amount appropriated is
| s24, 155 500
| The net increase recommended by the
| Senate over the amount appropriated by
the House bill is s2G5 ,s04.65, which includes
the following items:
Senate, s41, 500.
House = Representatives. $2OCo.
Library of Congress, $40, 1925.
| Executive, So, 200.
Civil Service Commission 1920.
Department of State. $500.
| Treasury MISUNDERSTANDING office,
81 500; Treasurer's Office. $3.50; Regis
| ter's Office, 81 200; Commissioner Of Inter-
nal Revenues Office, $500; Life Saving Serv-
ice, 81, 500; Bureau of Statistics, 81 soc; d.
rector of the Mint, s2OO; Assistant Treas
urer at St Louis. $3.50; assay office at Sc
attic. Wash, 1880; Territory of Alaska,
! sS.5O0; Territory OF Arizona, $500; Terri
tory of New Mexico. $1,000; Territory of
| Oklahoma, $500
| War Department-Secreta office, 5000;
Signal Office, $2oO; Quartermaster Generals
office, s2O0.
| Navy Department-Secreta Office, ST.
| GOO; Judge Advocate Generals office 81
| 500: Bureau of Equipment. 50. 800; Hydro
graphic office, S25, us; Naval Observatory,
| 81, 0CO.
Interior northumberland Land Of
! flee, $3.50; Indian office 500: Patent Of
of I
Architect of the Capitors Office $3.50; sta
tionery, etc. $500; surveyors general and
clerks 81 0OO.
Postotice Department-Flrst Assistant
Postmaster Generals Office s4150: Second
Assistant Postmaster Generals office. ST.
500; Third Assistant Postmaster Generals
Office, s., $40; Fourth Assistant Postmaster
Generals office, s1C0; contingent expenses,
$685.; official postal guide, 5000.
Department of Justice. 5000; Depart
ment of Labor, $500; Court OF Private
Land Claims. s41.5O0; Commissioner in
Yellowstone Park, $500; Court of Claims
SIS 600.
Library OF Congress-For Librarian
$4,000, instead of 5000 one clerk to Libra
r:ar, 81 .200 instead of $500; two assistants
TO the chief of division OF the order depart
ment, at S120 each. instead of one at $500:
two additional assistants. at $500 one ad-
VI IOHdi SSSlbldHt at s0sUs one additional
assistant at 81 200. Chief of division cata-
logue and shelf five instead of four as
sistants. at sl.a00 each; six instead of five
assistants. at 81 200 each: eleven instead of
nine assistants. at $500 each: four instead
of three assistants, at 1920 each; one ad-
ditional assistant, $500, and ten instead OF
five assistants at $40 each.
Under the chief Of division. photography
for chief of division, $500 instead OF
fua AT in I'D
Of one assistant at that salary.
Reading rooms. including evening seTy-
ice-One assistant. reading room for the
blind, 81 900 instead of 5000.
Division OF periodicais-one additional
chief assistant, $500; for arrears of as-
sorting and collating and to enable period
zeal reading room to be open in the even
ing. two assistants, at 1920 each.
Documents-For chief Of division. 81 600:
one assistant, $1,000; one assistant 1920;
one messenger. 1850.
Manuscript-Chief OF division 50 900 in
stead Of 81 500: one assistant at 81 200. one
assistant at 5000. instead OF two assistants
at 500.
Maps and charts-Chief of division, |
s., $50. instead of s.. 900; one assistant, 1920
Music-One assistant, 81 200.
Prints-Chief of division, $4,000 instead
of $4,000: one assistant, 81, 200: two instead
of three assistants at 5000; one messenger
$500.
Smithsonian deposit-one messenger,
1920.
For special temporary and miscellaneous
service, at the discretion Of the Librarian.
to be Immediately available. 81 600
Increase OF library, for purchase OF books |
for the library and for freight, commits /
sions and travelling expenses, incidental TO
the acquisition Of books by purchase. gift |
or exchange $4,000 instead OF $4,000 for
purchase of books. For purchase of books
for the library under the direction Of the
Chief Justice. SO 900 instead Of s., 500. For
purchase of periodicals. serials. and news
papers. $1,000 instead OF 81 500. For mis-
ceilaneous and contingent expenses. s.. 800 |
instead of 81 900.
Custody care and maintenance OF library
building and grounds, chief clerk. 81 200 in
stead of 81. 600
To enable the superintendent to employ
during the last quarter of the fiscal year
1900 such additional employees as are pro-
vided for the custody, care. and mainte-
nance of the library building and grounds,
for the fiscal year 1901 at the rates of com
pensatio prescribed. ss03.25. For furni-
ture S45 900 instead of $4,000
An increase of three messengers is al
lowed the Civil Service Commission.
One thousand six hundred dollars is ep-
propriated. To enable the Secretary of
State TO purchase for the library of the
department OF State books and manu-
scripts bearing upon the history Of the
War of the Revolution, formerly in the
library Of Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, COM
handkerchief OF the British forces in
America during that period the same hay-
ing been richly annotated in his hand.
Under the miscellaneous division of the
Treasury Department there is a reduction
of one clerk of class l. and under the Di-
vision of Stationery a reduction OF one
clerk of class and an additional assistant
chief OF division al 81 900. In the office
Of the disSursing clerk. Treasury Depart
ment. tSo instead of one clerk of class (
are allowed, and one clerk OF class 3 Is
dropped. Two additional clerks OF class l
are allowed. In the Office of the auditor
for the Treasury Department four clerks
of class are dropped. In the Office OF the
Treasurer the salaries OF four pressmen
are Increased from 81 200 to 81 400 and the
SALARY of one compositor IS fixed at 81 200
year instead of 1920 day. In the office
OF the Register OF the Treasury seven in
stead OF three clerks of class ! and twenty
instead Of twenty-four clerks at $500
are provided for In the office of the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue the
salary of the additional deputy commits
sioner is fixed at 80 500 instead OF IS 000
and he is 10 be appointed by the Secretary
OF the Treasury. In the same office TWEEN
I ty-two instead of thirteen clerks at
| 81 900 are allowed and thirty instead OF
| forty clerks a. $500 each are provided for
| In the Office of the Life Saving Service
four instead of three clerks of class are
provided for. The salary OF the officer in
| charge of the Bureau of Statistics is in
creased from SO GOO to $500 and ag-
preparation is made of $4,000 instead OF