Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-04
Joint Committee on Printing.

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The joint committee on printing is also
given definite organization by the BILL
which provides that it shall consist of
three members of the committee on print
ing of the Senate and three members Of
the committee on printing of the House,
to be designated by their respective COM
mittees.
The committee is given power to en-
ploy such measures as may be deemed
necessary to remedy any delay or neg
lect, or to effect any economy in the ex-
ecution Of the public printing and bind
ing and the distribution of government
publications. The bill gives the COM
mittee power to award the annual paper
Office, and gives the committee greater
supervision over the affairs of the gov
eminent printing office.
The joint committee also retains an in
spector at the government printing Office.
Allotment of Documents.
One of the most CONSPICUOUS features
of the new bill is the proposed valua-
ton plan for the distribution of docu-
ments to members of Congress.
This plan would supersede the present
method of allotting fixed quotas of gov
eminent publications to members of Con-
SFeSS. LII OInef WOruS, MEMBER may
obtain as many copies of one more
government publications as his annual
credit will permit instead of being re-
stricted as at present to a fixed number
of these publications.
incidentally the adoption of the valua-
ton plan would abolish the folding rooms
OF the House and Senate and concentrate
this distribution under the superintendent
of documents at the government PRINT
ing office.
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printing clerk in the office of the secre-
tary of the Senate and in the office of the
clerk of the House, who shall have gen.
e.al charge over the printing for their
respective houses. Each department of
the government is also to have a division
of publications Immediately under the
control of the head OF sucn department.
These divisions will have supervision
over the printing and distribution of pub
locations for their respective departments.
Depository Libraries.
1t was originally intended that there
should be one depository library in each
congressional district having a complete
set of government publications. The COM
mission has worked out plan by which
depository libraries may now make Sc
lections in advance of the publications
that are desired, thus avoiding waste in
that regard. Repositories will be made
permanent. Members of the present Con-
gress are given until March : to make
any changes of any designations tina I.
they desire. After that date the desig-
nation of depository libraries is placed
in the hands of the superintendent OF
documents
The bill does away with the present
plan for each member of Congress 10
designate eight Patent Gazette libraries
and four libraries as repositories of geo
logical survey publications.
Publications Abolished.
The bill also abolshes several publica-
tons, the principal one being the bound
edition of patent specifications and draw
ings.
Another publca ton which the commits
sion proposes to. discontinue is the
Arrangement of the messages of the
President and accompanying documents
submitted to Congress. The annual re-
port on the commercial relations of the
United States is also discontinued.
The annual reports of the executive
departments to Congress are restricted
to the report of the held of the depart
ment and such reports of his subordi-
mates as he may include in his report.
The bill requires that all printing and
binding for Congress, the executive de-
pa rtments, independent offices or estab-
lishments of the government shall be
done at the government printing Office or
it's authorized branches.
cept envelopes, shall be furnished by the
public printer.
Each newspaper correspondent entitled