Evening star., 1904-02-24
Congressional Employees.

as reported 1sG. p
Congressional Employees.
The salary of the chaplain of the Senate
| is increased from 5000 to 81 600, and pro-
vision is made, for a minute and journal
clerk at $1,000. An additional clerk for
the>Senate is provided at Zoo. The House
provision giving S400 additional to the as
sistant In the stationery room while it 10
held by the present incumbent is stricken
out. One messenger at 81 4I0 is droppetI
twenty-five instead of nineteen clerks to
committees of the Senate are provided at
$1,So0 each. In the Office ef the sergeant
alarms and doorkeeper a jantor at 81 200
instead of two jantors at $780, and four
skilled laborers instead of two at 5000 are
provided.
Under the superintendent of the CAPITOL
building and grounds provision is made
for an assistant machnist and electrician
2t SI,0oo, and one laborer at S721 is drop
PED and another at $500 is added. Thirty
instead of thirty-five annual clerks to sem
ators who are not chairmen of committees
are provided. For stationery and newspa-
pers Tor senators S15315 instead of S14 376
is appropriated To enable the postmaster
OF the Senate to keep constant supply
or postage stamps for sale to senators so
is appropriated For folding speeches and
pamphlets $4,000 instead of $1,000 is appro-
pr1ated. The secretary of the Speaker of
the House of Representatives has an in
crease of salary from $3.50 to $4,000
clerks to committees on labor and terri
tories to perform duties of messengers at
SI2t each are provided for in addition to
other committee employees Eleven instead
OF thirteen clerks to committees at Sc a
day during the session are appropriated for
the House.
In the Office of the sereeant-at-arms ~
the House two clerks in charge of pairs
instead of one clerk for that duty are pro-
vided
penses of the Library of Congress 81 300 in
stead OF s5.oG0 is provided and two instead
OF one telephone operator at sGoo are al
lowed.
Treasury Department.
Under the head of the Treasury DEPART
ment one clerk of class f. who shall be a
physician, is dropped and four instead OF
three clerks OF class in the division of Gus
toms and four instead of three clerks at
ao0o in the same division are provided for.
Two clerks at 500 each are dropped In
the DIVISION OF loans and currency Treas
ury Department, eighteen instead of seven
Teen clerks at 500 each, twelve instead of
eleven expert counters at ST20 nine instead
of seven lahorers, tEirty-six instead of thir-
ty-four paper coup ters and laborers at S62O
each are provided for. In the office for the
auditor for state and other departments
sixteen instead of fifteen clerks of class 4
are appropriated for. In Office of the audi
tor for the Post Office Department six adj
dtionai watehmen and twenty-one instead
OF eighteen charwomen are allowed
1t is provided by The Senate committee
that the marine hospital service shall re-
main under the jurisdiction of the Treasury
Department until otherwise provided by law
and no bureau Office branch of the pub
lie service shall be transferred from one
executive department to anothee without the
authority oi Congress Some increases are
granted Tor contingent expenses of the
treasury Department and the auditor for
the Post Office Department is allowed S. 500
instead OF 5000 for furniture and repairs
An amendment by the committee pro-
vides that he compensation of the chief or
the ternal revenue agents SHALL not ex-
ceeu $lU a day, ana OF all other internal
revenue agents shall not exceed s. day
to be fixed by the commissioner of internal
revenGe For per dem in Ecu of subsistence
when absent from he legal residen res when
on duty these agents. including the CHIEF
or internal revenue agents. shall receive
not to exceed $3 each to be fixed by the
commissioner of internal revenue, with the
approval Of the Secre. ry. Ii is also pro-
vIGed that internal revenue agents, when
examining accounts of collectors of inter-
nal revenue, shall receive in leu of SUBJ
sistence 81 day. Hereafter internal reve-
nue. agents shall have the same authority
TO administer oaths that is now possessed
by collectors of internal revenue
Provision is made FOR the mint at New
Orleans.
War Department.
Under the head of the war department the
House provision that s.yacancies occurring
from any cause hereunder shall not be fa-
cd, except by promotions of persons en-
pioyed and paid from this appropriation"
is stricken out, and II is provided In lieu
cancy in any force Of any bureau or once