Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-03
Senate Quickly Passes Sundry
Civil Bill.
INCLUDES DISTRICT ITEMS
Provision for the Pay of Substitute
School Teachers.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE GRANTED
Extra Consideration for Firemen.
Appropriation for Reference Blu
reau in Library Of Congress.

With important amendments of local
Interest affecting the public schools and
other municipal affairs, the sundry civil
appropriation bill, the largest of the gen.
leral supply measures adopted annually
by Congress. was passed by the Senate
this morning in less than three hours.
AS agreed to, 1t contains provision for
Substitute teachers in the local public
schools at half-basic salary: for extra
leaves of absence for firemen injured In
the performance of their duties: leaves
for annual employees of the school sys-
tenn; for continuing the economy inquiry
in the government departments; for con-
Meeting the light and power plant of
Freedmen's Hospital to the buildings of
Howard University; for refrigerating ap-
paratus for cooling the air in the Senate
| chamber and the House hail. and for an
investigation of conditions in Alaska.
| All of the important amendments of
local interest recommended by the COM
mittee were agreedsto.
Provides for Reference Bureau.
Senator Owen. on the floor. proposed
the establishment of a legislative ref
erence bureau in the Library of Congress
and an appropriation Of $1,000 for it's
work during the next year. and the
amendment was agreed to without dis
cussion
| An amendment to the bill, proposed by
Senator Stone, will prevent the hiring
of the Marine Band for private func-
tions. 1t provides specifically that no
officer or enlisted man OF the army or
navy shall during his military service
engage in any WORK outside OF mis- duties
| to the detriment of civilians engaged IN
the same line of effort. 1t was adopted
without discussion.
Provisions of Local Interest.
| The sundry civil appropriation bill was
reported to the Senate last evening fol-
lowing a meeting of the appropriations
committee. The important amendments
| of local interest recommended by the
committee are as follows:
To enable the President to continue his
| investigation of the business methods OF
| the several government departments,
| with a view to increased economy anu
efficiency, $4,000 is provided, and the
| amendment requires that the chief execu-
| tive shall submit to Congress before the
| close of the current calendar year a re-
port of the progress made and the re-
| suits attained, with recommendations.
Public Buildings Fund.
| The House provision that disburse-
| ments of money for the construction OF
public buildings under the control of the
Treasury Department shall be made at
| Washington is stricken out.
| 1t is provided that officers and men or
| the revenue cutter service who die in the
service, or who die in destitute condi-
| ton after having been hOnOrably d1S-
| charged, may be buried in any national
| cemetery free of cost under similar con-
ditions governing the burial of officers
| and men of the army therein.
| The House provision allowing the con-
struction of two revenue cutters, author-
| lied at a previous session, to be built IN
| a government navy yard on the basis OF
actual cost of construction is cut out
A new scale of wages for special agents
| for the customs service, to be appointed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, Is
| proyided as follows: One supervising
agent at $500 per year; ten agents at
| not more than $12 per day: ten agents
at not more than $40 per DAY ana ten
agents at not more than SO per day,
all in addition to necessary tra'eiihs
| expenses
Annual Leave for School Employees.
| Both of Senator Gallinger's amend
ments providing for the hiring OF sub
stitute teachers in the public schools
and providing leaves OF absence Tor
annual employees of the school system
and for additional leave of firemen in
jured in the performance Of their du-
| ties are included in the bill. Substi-
| tute teachers are to receive one-haiI
| the basic salary in the grade in which
they are employed for thirty days and
| the whole basic salary for all time
over that. Leaves of absence OF regu-
| lar teachers are limited to thirty days
Il
death in the family or quarantine. to
be with pay less the amount paid the
substitute. Employees of the school
| system who are required to be on
| duty the year around, whether school
| keeps or not are allowed thirty days
of annual leave.
| A Judge Of the Court of Commerce may
be designated by the President to act for
the chairman of the interstate commerce
comm ssion in performing duties under
the F,rdman act for the arbitration OF
| disputes between railroads and their en-
ployes.
| appropriation to enable the commissioner
| of the general land Office to continue to
reproduce. worn official plats of surveys
is provided.
mines to analyze and test Goals and other
| m neral fuel substances belonging to or
| for the use of the United States is pro-
vide1
|
| of the Federal Reporter, in which are
| preserved the decisions OF the United
States Supreme Court, an appropr'at on
of $64, 900 is authorized. the volumes to
be for official use.
Freedmen's Hospital Plant.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the nee
essary conduits. cables. wires and labor
in connecting the central heating. cleo
trio light and power plant from Freed
mems Hospital to the various buildings
of Howard University, as proposed in an
amendment introduced recently by Sen
ator Burkett, is included.
| There Is also an amendment appropri-
| ating from the 100000 Chinese indem-
nifty fund such sums as the Attorney
| General may certify that have been used
in defending claims of citizens Of the
| United States against the Chinese in
demnity fund.
| For the purchase of a marble bust,
with pedestal, of the late Chief Justice
Fuller, to be placed in the courtroom Of
the United States Supreme Court and for
the purchase of an oil portrait of the late
Chief Justice to be put in the robing
room of the court, two amendments pro-
vida ono