Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-09

rate OF compensation and the aggregate OF
salaries in each such division
The only changes In the department with
reference to numbers of employees and their
compensation are as follows:
Once of the Postmaster Generai.--A tele-
phone switchboard operator at s720 is pro-
yided for in lieu of a telephone operator a.
$1,000
Division of Post Office Tnspeetors.-The
salary of the chief inspector lie increased
from So. 900 TO $4,000
Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
Generai-The salary of the supervisor OF
rural free delivery Is reduced from So. 75l
to 81, 600, and an increase Is made Of three
clerks at 81 200 each and seven clerks al
81, GOO each. and reductions are made as
follows. One clerk at $1,000. one clerk al
81. 400. twenty-six clerks at 5000 each, and
one assistant messenger at SI20
Department Of Justice.
Under the Department of Justice the fol-
lowing employments are provided for:
Two assistant attorneys at s2750 each,
two assistant attorneys at 5000 each. one
law clerk at 1880, one clerk at 81. 600 one
clerk at 81, 400, one clerk at $1,000. one clerk
at 81 eco nine in all, with salaries aggre-
eating $4,000. and there Is omitted gen.
eral appropriation of $4,000, from which
said salaries have been heretofore paid In
addition to the foregoing the following
changes are made in the Office of the Attor-
ney General: A law clerk at $3.50 is omit
ted, and a messenger at $40 Is recommend
ed instead of assistant messenger at
500. and chief bookkeeper and record
clerk at So 600 instead of clerk at 81 800.
Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury
law clerk at $1,000 instead of clerk at
s1,s00 is provided for, and one clerk at 81, 400
is omitted
ONCE of the Solicitor for the Department
of Commerce and Labor.-The following In
creases: Two clerks at $500 each, one
clerk at S1.6o0. two clerks at S1.4Oo each
and three clerks at $1,000 each.
Department of Commerce and Labor.
These changes are made In the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor:
Office of the Secretary-The salary of the
chief of the appointment division is in
creased from 5000 to $3.50, two chiefs OF
division at 5000 each are provided for in
stead Of two clerks at $500 each; two
clerks at $500 each and four laborers at
$500 each are omitted.
Bureau of manufactures-In addition to
certain transfers there is recommended In
this bureau an assistant chief of bureau,
s., 500; one clerk at 81 400 and one assistant
messenger at $120.
Census off1ce-A reduction is made OF
twenty-five clerks at $1,000 each, three
clerks at 500 each and three charwomen
at $40 each.
Bureau of navigation-One messenger at
$40 is recommended in lieu of laborer
at $500.
Bureau of immigration-One clerk at
s1.4OO is provided for in lieu of one clerk
at 81 200, and one additional copyist at 500
is recommended.
Bureau of standards-The following in
crease is recommended: One assistant
physicist at 1880, one assistant physicist
at sl,ooO two assistant physicists at s, 400
each. one laboratory assistant at 81 600,
one laboratory apprentice at $780, one clerk
at s1,6O0, one clerk at $500 and one janitor
at $500; one computer at 1000 is omitted,
two aids at $720 instead of 5000 each are
provided for, and the following salaries
$1,000; one associate chemist, from 81 200 to
1850. and three associate physists from
1920 to $500 and three associate physi-
cists, from 1920 to $500 each.
District Judiciary.
Court of Appeals, District of Columbia
Ihree stenographers. one for the chief JUS
tlce and one for each associate Justice at
$500 each are provided for.
supreme Court, District of Columbia-six
stenographers. one for the chief Justice and
one Tor each associate justice at $500 each
are provided for.
Miscellaneous Limitations.
OF the many limitations imposed by the
committee the following are of general IN
terest:
Inc public printer shall submit for the
nseaI year 1907, and annually thereafter,
estimates for all clerks and other employees
additional to those provided, who are re.
CURED In the executive or administrative
om n OF the government printing office.
1hat hereafter there shall not be en-
pioyed in the Department of States any ner
sonal services other than those which shall
be specifically authorized or appropriated
for. 0N
Hereafter 1t shall not be lawful to exnend
for any of the offices or bureaus of the
navy department at Washington any sum
out Of appropriations made fol. the naval
establishment for any Of the purposes men
toned or authorized In the bill.
NO vacancy existing in the clerical or
other classified service of the pension office,
or which may occur after March l. 1905
and prior to July l, 1907 shall be filed by
original appointment or by transfer from
any other office or bureau of the Interior
Department.
Hereafter the estimates for expenses of
the government. except those for sundry
civil expenses, shall be prepared and sub
mitted each year according to the order
and arrangement of the appropriation acts
for the year preceding.
1t shall not be lawful hereafter for any
employe In the classified service in any of
the executive departments to be transferred
from one department to another until such
employe shall have served for a term of
three years in the department from which
he desires to be transferred.
The section requiring newspapers pur-
chased for the use of the executive depart
ments to be preserved for the permanent
files of such departments is repealed.
Limitation Of Clerks Tenure.
After June 30. 1906, there shall not be en-
ployed In any executive department or other
government establishment In the District
of Columbia any person in the classified
service who is sixty-five years of age and
under sxty-eight years of age at rate of
annual compensation exceeding S1,4OO, or
who is sixty-eight years of age and under
seventy years of age at a rate of annual
compensation exceeding $500 dollars, or
who is over seventy years of age at a rate
of annual compensation exceeding $40; and
after June 80 1913. no person In the CLASH
fed service shall be continued in the en-
ployment of any such executive department
or other government establishment who has
attained seventy years of age
PUBLIC FAIRGROUNDS.