Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-10
REPORTED TO SENATE
Legislative Appropriation Bill
Completed by Committee.
NET INCREASE S225,45O
Provision for More Pay for High Of.
ficials Omitted.
THE SALARIES OF MEMBERS
Position Of the House on a Number
Of Matters Opposed by
the Senators.
NET INCREASE s225,45O
THE SALARIES OF MEMBERS

appropriation bill was today reported to
the Senate from the committee on aporo-
priations. At meeting of the full COM
! mittee today Senator Allison the chair
| man. was present and final consideration
| was given to the measure. In reporting
| the bill Mr.. Culiom said he would call it
up for passage by the Senate tomorrow
The committee struck out the House pro-
| vision increasing the salaries of the Vice
| President. the Speaker of the House and
members of the cabinet from 5000 TO
$l2.CCa. Senator GalIinger's amendment
| increasing the salaries Of senator's and
| representatives from 5000 to $500 was
also not accepted by the committee.
| The net increase of the bill Is SD. 40
making the bill carry $50. $50. SS3 The
amount of the bill passed for the present
fiscal year Is 80 .9t9, and the amount Of
items for the legislative, executive and jul
dlcial departments in other bills siSii.-
566. making total appropriations for the
present year $40 16s 4s5
The bill as reported is less than the esti-
mates by $353692 and as reported T. ex-
ceeds the approprat atoms for the present
fiscal year by $6S7 .5iS.
The increases and decreases made in the
bill by the committee follow:
Increase
| Senate, $6S,040; Capitol police $50:
Library of Congress- $500: civil service COM
mission, 81, 100: Department Of State meO.
$50: Treasury Department, namely. office Of
the treasurer, $50: office of the controller
of the currency. $40; Office of the auditor
| for the Post Office Department contingent
expenses. 81 800; office of assistant treas
urer at Chicago. 1890: office of assistant
trea surer at New York. $780, mint at Car
son, New. $1,000: mint at Denver. Col. $500;
government In the territories $500: War
| Department, namely, office of the judge ad-
| vocate general. $3.50: office of the commits
sary general. $500; office of the surgeon gen
eral, $40; Office of paymaster general 2D0;
Navy Department. namely. photographic
office. 500: naval observatory, 500. De-
| partment Of the Interior, namely. patent
| office. $3.50: bureau of education. $1.J0o:
| rent for patent office model exhibit. $3.50
| Post Office Department namey V, office of
| third assistant postmaster general. 1880:
| division of topography, 81 800. Depa rtment
| of Justice. namely. Office of the olicitor
! Of the Department of Commerce and Labor.
! 800 Department of Commerce and Labor,
| namely, expenses of investigating trade
| conditions abroad $40 600: the census office
| $l,5oO: for census Office investigation and
reports, $125.NO. Office of supervising in
! spector general steamboat inspection serv-
| Ice. increase $500 additional to the super
| vising inspector general, to be paid from
| permanent appropriation for that service.
Bureau of naviga ton. 81. 800. Bureau of
! immigration and naturalization. 5000. for
! additional clerical force. to be paid from
| permanent appropria ton for expenses of
| regulating immigration. Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia. 5000. Total increase
| s267 $50
| Decrease.
| House of Representatives,. So 80: Office
of the public printer s4.62O: indexes. d.gests
and compilation of law. $50: under execu-
tive. $4,000: Treasury Department namely.
| office of the Secretary (neb, 81 $40; office
| of the auditor for War Department s.. 600
| Mint at Philadelphia. Pa, $500: War De-
| partment namely office of the Secretary
| (net. 3120; Office of public buildings and
| grounds 500: Navy Department. namely
| office Of the Secretary, $500: Department
| Of the Interior. namely. office of the Secre-
| tary (net, $1,000; Post Office Department,
! namely. Office of the Postmaster General
| (net). $2,24O: Department of Justice. name
| ly. office of the Attorney General neD.
| $3.21O; Department of Commerce and
| La Dor. namely. office of the Secretary (neu.
| $3.50: Court of Claims, custodian of ~uild-
| ings. $500 Total decrease, $40. go. Net in
crease recommended by the committee.
S225.45O. Amount of bill as reported to
! the Senate, $50, $50, SSs.
! The bill as reported increases the salary
Of the secretary to the Vice President from
! The salary of the assistant clerk on mill
| tary affairs of the Senate is increased from
81 40 to 5000 Additional clerks are given
! to the Senate committee on manufactures
l
| The Capitol police force is increased by
| the addition of two privates
The House provision, giving the public
| printer a salary of 5000. is reduced to
5000. The present salary of the public
printer is $500. The salary of the deputy
public printer was fixed by the House at
| 1000, which is reduced to $3.50 by the
| committee. The chief inspector and pur-
| chasing agent was given $1,000 by the
| House, but the Senate committee reduced
the allowance to 5000 The provision for
I fa1a md 1uyitn nanl
| for two assistant telephone and switch
| board operators is stricken out. Foreman
of the press room is given $3.50 instead of
| $500, the reduction being made in
| binding and of superintendent of supplies
| Congressional Library.
| Tie assistant in charge of binding at the
Congressional Library is given s1.4GO. in
stead of $3.50: the chief of division of
documents. s1.4OO. instead of $1,000: as
sistant chief of division maps and charts.
| increased from $1,000 to $1,40O; assistant
chief of division of prints. from $1,000 to
| 81, 400: assistant custodian of Smithsonian
deposit. from S1,50O to $1.4OO.
The House provision for continuing the
| preparation of new index to the statutes
| at large. in accordance with the plans of
| the committees the judiciary of both
| houses. is stricken out.
In Executive Departments.
| The salaries Of civil service commission
ers raised from $500 to $4,000. One
| examiner of the field force Of the commits
| sion has his salary increased from 50 200
| to 81, 400.
| The State Department is given increases
for two chiefs of bureaus from 81 100 to
| $500. and for six others from $500 to
| $3.50.
| The clerk to the Secretary of State is
| given q salary Of 81 100 instead of $3.50
In he rfr amt i-
vided for the chief of division of appoint
ments instead of s., $50. The division of
printing and stationery is given an extra
clerk of class 3. A reduction of one clerk
| in class in the Office of the auditor for
| the War Department is made. In the office
of the treasurer an additional assistant chief
| OF division at s. $50 is provided; one clerk
of class is dropped and a compositor and
pressman at 81 400 provided by the House
| Is stricken out. bond clerk at 81 600 Is
allowed.
In the office of the cont raller of the CIR