Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-19
LEGISLATIVE BILL
Appropriation Measure Re-
ported to Senate.
THE INCREASES MADE
TOTAL AMOUNT EXCEEDS THE
ESTIMATES By NEARLY $4oo, 900.
Additional Clerks and Employees Pro-
vided for in Congress and the
Different Departments.

The Senate committee on appropriations
today reported to ane Senate the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation Dill.
The total of the bill as reported Is
$27, 656, 233. Sc. The amount Of estimates for
1904 was $27 ,354 1850. The 100000 appro-
priated by the House for the interstate
commerce commission was not in the esti-
mates and causes the unusual condition Of
having the appropriation exceed the esti-
mates. The amount Of the bill as passed
by the House was $27, 474, 1915. the In
crease recommended by the Senate being
$1e2,114.5O.
The amount appropriated in 1908 for the
objects covered by this bill was 49,
ISL. so The bill as reported exceeds the
estimates 1901 955.l8 and exceeds the ap-
changes recommended by the committee In
amounts of the House bill follow:
Increase.
Salaries, $4,000; miscellaneous expenses,
SIS, $40; Congressional Directory, compiling.
&C., 500; House of Representatives, 81, $50;
Library of Congress, namely, salaries. 81
400; purchase Of books, $4,000; Botanic
Garden, $500; executive office, 5000; State
Department, namely, salaries, $4,000; mis-
cellaneous expenses. $1,000; Treasury De-
partment, namely. office OF the secretary,
81 $50; Office Of chief clerk and superintend-
ent. 500; division Of customs, $l,SO0;
division of revenue cutter service. 5000;
miscellaneous division, 5000; Office of audi
tor for Post Office Department. $9,oOo; Of
flee. Of the treasurer, $3.50; office or the
register, $3.50; Office Of the controller of the
currency $500; office of the lighthouse
board, 5000; Office of life saving service.
81 220; bureau Of statistics. 1920; office OF
surgeon general Of public health and ma
rine hospital service. increase of $780, PAID
moi ~ ont
hospital service; bureau OF immigration,
net increase Of $50, paid from perma-
nent appropriation for regulating i'm
migration; miscellaneous expenses, $4,oO0;
Independent treasury, namely: ONCE OF as
sistant treasurer at Baltimore. $4,000; office
of assistant treasurer at Boston, S2,SOO;
office of assistant treasurer at Chicago, 3d.
$50; Office of assistant treasurer at Clncln-
natl, 50, $50; Office of assistant treasurer at
New Orleans 81, 200; Office of assistant
treasurer at st. Louis, $500; assay office at
Seattle, Wash, $500; resident commissioner
from Porto Rico, travelling expenses, S134.5O;
War Department rent of buildings, 81 1000;
public buildings and. grounds, pay of watch
men, 81 $50; States War and Navy Depart
ment building 81 $50; Navy Department, Of
flee of the Secretary, 81 200 Interior Depart
Indian office, $500; pension office. $50; pat
ent office, 81 600; contingent expenses. $500:
rent of buildings, $1,000. Surveyors general
and their clerks, namely: Office OF surveyor
d.,
general of Idaho, $500; office of surveyor
general of Minnesota, $500; Office of sur
veyor general of Nevada, $1,000. Post Office
Department, namely: Office Of Postmaster
General $200;T office of assistant attorney
general for Post Office Department, $500:
office Of first assistant postmaster general,
81, 500; office of disbursing clerk and super
intendent, 5000; miscellaneous expenses,
Sc, 800. Department Of Justice. S,11O: Su-
preme Court of the United States, salary o:
marshal, $500; Circuit Courts of Appeals,
salaries Of clerks, $4,000; Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia, 81, 300 Total increase,
1882 11450. Total Of bill as reported to the
Senate $27, $3.50, 1896
Senate Clerks.
In the office of the secretary of the Sen
ate one additional clerk at 81 800 is pro-
vided by the Senate committee, the salary
of the assistant in the stationery room be-
ing Increased from 81 200 to 81 100.
A provision is made for an increase in
the salary of the clerk Of the Senate COM
mittee on appropriations from 5000 to
81 600, while the office Is held by the pres
emit incumbent" This provision Is a per-
sonal tribute to the efficient work of Mr..
Thomas P. Cleaves, who became clerk of
the committee thirty years ago, and has
the remarkable record Of having attended
every meeting of the committee during that
period. Mr.. Cleaves is recognized through
out Congress as being familiar with every
detail Of the work of the committee on APP
preparations during the generation that he
has been connected with it. Prior to coming
here Mr.. Cleaves served in the Maine SEN
ate for two terms, prior to that service
having been assistant secretary three years
and secretary Of the Maine senate five
years. Senator Allison is the only member
Of the committee on appropriations who
was connected with it when Mr.. Cleaves
became it's clerk, the service of both of
them having dated from the same time
The bill as reported provides clerk
for the committee organization con-
duct and expenditures Of the execu-
tive departme ras at $3.50, in place Of
laborers are promoted from $500 to 5000 in
the office of the sergeant-at-arms and door
keeper, and the salaries of the Senate tele-
phone operators are raised from $72O to
$500.
Under the superintendent of the CAPITOL
eight instead of seven elevator conductors
at $1,000 are provided, and reduction is
made In an assistant conductor at 81 600
The salary of the machinist and electrical
is increased from $1,000 to 81, 400.
In the folding room of the Senate the as
sistant's salary is increased from 81 200 to
81, 400, as Is the salary Of the foreman of
the folding room. Fourteen instead Of
thirteen folders at $40 are provided.
Thirty-five instead of thirty annual clerks
to senators, who are not chairmen of COM
mittees are provided at salaries of $500
each.
To enable the committee on claims to
complete the preparation of a record and
index of private Claims introduced during
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Com
crosses, 5000 is provided.
Increases in the House.
The salary of the janitor of the House
committee on sayS and means is increased
from $40 to $1.0O0,s and an assistant clerk
is allowed for sthel House committee on the
judiciary, at 81 co.
For the Librarian of Congress two in
stead of one stenQgrapher and typewriter
at 81. 600 each are provided In the mail
and supply division of the Congressional
Library the sHlaryh of the assistant in
charge is increased from 81 200 to 81, 5OO' In
the catalogue, and shelf division two of the
Ave assistants at 81 800 have increases of
salary to 5000 each: In the division of
photography the chief of division has his
salary increased ;heom $500 to 5000, one
assistant froml 81. 400 to 81, 400 and an addi-
tional stenographer at $500 is provided In
the Recommendation the salary OF the as
sistant Is Increased from 1920 to 81, 400.
In the divisiomof maps and charts the sal
airy of the chief, of division Is increased
from s., 500 to. $3.QO. and that Of one as
sistant firm 200 TO s.. 400.
The allowance for. assistants and labor
ers in the Botanic Garden is increased from
49, O93 to $12. 593.
The White House Is given an extra la
borer at $500.
Under the head of the Department OF
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