Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-21
THE LEGISLATIVE Bill
Measure Taken Up by the Sen
ate Today.
CHANGES BY COMMITTEE
Provisions for Clerks in the Depart
ments.
REDUCTIONS AND INCREASES
House Provision Which Allowed Pat
ent Office Work to Be Done by
Private Contract Eliminated.
REDUCTIONS AND INCREASES

The Senate today took up the legislative,
executive and judicial bill in the form in
which 1t was amended by the committee on
appropriations.
10 the office of the secretary of the SEN
ate an additional skilled laborer at 5000 is
added The number of clerks to commit
tees of the Senate is reduced from twenty
two to twenty. The salary of the sergeant
alarms and doorkeeper is increased from
$4'ooo to 5000. The salary of the assistant
In the press gallery is increased to $780,
In the Senate post Office an additional clerk
at $l,4oo is provided. The number of an
nual clerks to senator's, not chairmen of
committees, is reduced from thirty to TWEEN
ty-four.
The allowance for the reporting of Senate
debate is increased from SOS, coo to $50, 600.
Inc salaries of the Capitol police are in
creased slightly BY the House bill sixty
nine privates were paid S1,020 each The
. senate gives to thirty privates 81, 100, to
thirty $1,000 and to nine, $500 each, making
an aggregate of S76,S40 instead of S75.5SO.
according to the former plan
In the Library of Congress a chief CLASH
ner is provided at $1,000, which makes an
increase of salary and a change of desip
nation for one assistant librarian at 81 800
An additional appropriation of $4,000 Is
provided to enable the joint committee on
tne library to consider the question of addi-
uonal bookstack accommodation esneoiaIIv
Tor newspaper files for the Library of Con-
gress, and to report to Congress plans and
estimates for that purpose, IL in their opin-
Ion such additional stack roo,,, &c . IL.
BILE - ~
The bill provides that hereafter emploves
or the executive departments and other
esua DllShmentS of the executive branch of
IN" government may be detailed from time
10 time TO the office of the President of
the United States for such temporary as
slstance as may be necessary.
Assistant Solicitor for State Depart
ment
An additional assistant solicitor of the
Department of State at 1900 per annum
IS provided. Eight chiefs of bureaus OF the
Department of State have their salaries in
creased from 81. 100 TO $3.50. The same
department Is given another clerk of class
4. one more Of class 3, one more of class
z and one of class 1. Two instead of one
telephone operators are provided
The Treasury Department is given an
other examiner at $1,000. Another clerk of
printing in the department foreman of
bindery Is provided at SO per day. four
binders at "a per day each and two sewers
and folders at $3.50 per day.
For the purpose of restoring and repair
Ing the WORKOUT and defaced rolls and
vouchers in the office of the auditor for
the War Department $500 are appropriated
Twenty skilled laborers are given In
ereases of pay in the Office of the auditor
for the Post Office Department from $72O
to $40 each.
In the bureau of engraving and printing
six additional watchmen are provided
The office of surgeon general, War De-
partment, is given three additional clerks at
$500 each and a skilled laborer at 5000.
The chief Of engineers of the army is
given two more expert clerks at $1,000 and
two at 800 each.
Work for the Patent Office
The provision of the House bill which al
lowed the patent office to have work done
by private contract that has formerly been
done in the government printing Office is
stricken out The appropriation of $4,000
for photo-lithographing the Official Gazette
Is decreased to S65, 900 and the appropra-
ton for work in connection with the Ga
zette to be done in the government printing
Office Is increased from 5000 to $S0, 600.
For rent for patent office model exhibit.
$40, 500 are appropriated, and the Secretary
Of the Interior Is directed to report to Con-
gress at its next session his views and rec
ommendation as to the practicability of
diSposing of part all OF the models OF
that exhibit either by sale, gift or other
wise.
For rent of temporary offices for the gen.
eral land Office for the purchase OF type
writer's, furniture, stationery and other
drafting supplies and for the binding of
plats and field notes constituting the
produced records OF the office of the sur
veyor general Of California, which were
destroyed by earthquake and fire April 1S,
1905, $4,000, as appropriated
Preparation of Estimates