Evening star., 1902-03-04

Total decrease $3.50 90
.monn, as reportei to the Senate SIS si9o $50
The committee placed a provision in the
bill providing that all the additional clerks
and other employees who We're rendered
necessary because of the increased work
incident to the war with Spain and now
employed in the several departments of the
government shall be placed in the classified
service as of their present grade or rate or
compensation and shall be continued In
the several departments where now en-
ployed without further examination, sub
ject, however. to transfer. promotion or re-
moval as are other: clerks in the CLASSIFIED
service. This provision placed In the Dill
by the Senate committee takes the place or
the House provision in effect that the tenn
porary service of this class Of clerks should
be extended for the term Of one year from
June 30, 1902. and giving the President
authority to transfer all of them to the
classified service. The provision Is of very
widespread Importance. as it places within
the classified service many hundreds or
clerks. The legislative, executive and ju-
dicial bill itself includes appropriations ag
gregating 1896 900 for the War Department
alone for this class of clerks.
No Books for Public Library.
That section of the bill providing that all
books In the library of the Department OF
the Interior not of a professional and tech
nical character and essential In the JudG-
ment of the Secretary to the transaction OF
the business of that department shall. on
or before the 1st of July. 1902, be turned
over to the public library of the District OF
Columbia for general use as part or mat
library is stricken from the bill. This
paragraph of the bill also provides that
upon examination by the librarian OF Con-
gress any or such books not required by
the Secretary of the Interior as specified in
the provision found to be valuable for the
collection of the Library of Congress snail
be turned over to that institution. and inns
| = ~sx ,lror,
is understood that the Interior Department
strongly objected to being singled out as a
department which should have It's library
divided up in this manner. The committee
in striking out this provision of the bill is
not necessarily on record against the gem
eral proposition Of having books in the
various departmental Libraries not needed
for them for their uses turned over to the
public library or to the Library Of Con-
gress but thought it best to enact no legis-
lation on the subject until such time as a
general proposition is made. which will
apply to all the libraries in the various de-
partmentS.
At the Capitol
The bill provides that in the Office of the
secretary of the Senate instead of a salary
of s.; 600 for the chief clerk and the finan-
cial clerk each the chief clerk shall receive
81 go and the financial 5000 and the finan-
cial clerk to have $50 additional while the
office is held by the incumbent. The
salaries of the principal clerk, minute and
journal clerk and enrolling clerk are In
creased from s. 592 to 81, $50 each. The SAL
ary Of the assistant financial clerk Is al
| lowed to remain at S., 400, while that Of the
| reading clerk is increased to $500, an in
| crease of 500 per annum. The keeper of
| stationery has his salary Increased from
s.. 102 40 to $2,22O.- An appropriation is in
| serted IN the bill for clerk at $2,22D for
| the committee on Improvement OF the Mis-
sissippi river and its tributaries. This
/ aEoS instead nf rk0
| to committees.
| In the office of the ergeant-at-arms and
doorkeeper of the Senate two instead Of
one assistant messengers on the floor of the
Senate are provided for at salaries of 81. .44O
each The salary of the press gallery page
| is increased from $500 to $40.
An additional clerk to a committee is pro-
vided for the House, this clerk being for
the committee on revision of the laws. at
$1,000
In the office of the public printer instead
! Of two clerks of class 4. there Is provided a
clerk in charge of the Congressional Record
! at the Capitol at $1,000 and one clerk Of
class 4.
Library Of Congress.
In the Library of Congress the chief Of
| the order division has his salary raised
| from $2.2;O to $2.5OO. The assistant chief
Of the division of photography. has his sal
ary raised from $1,000 to $1.5OO. The as
sistant to the chief OF the division Of docu-
| ments has an increase from 81 200 to 81, 800
| this same increase being given the assist
| ants in the divisions of manuscripts and
maps and charts In the division of music
! the salary of the chief Is increased from
81, 500 to $1,000. and his assistant from 81, 200
| to 81 $50. An assistant is provided for in
| the division Of prints at 81. 500, which causes
a reduction of one assistant at $500 The
assistant to the custodian of the Smith
sonian deposit at the library has his salary
increased from 81 900 to 81. 500. For the
Increase OF the Library OF Congress for the
purchase Of books, for freight, commits
sions and travelling expenses incidental to
the acquisition OF books by purchase. gift
or oxchapge S1O0 iS allowed instead of