Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-29
WORK NOT TO STOP
Text OF Resolution Extending
the Appropriations.
COVERS ALL DEPARTMENTS
Government Expenses for Month Of
July Guaranteed.
BEFORE CONGRESS MONDAY
Representative Fitzgerald to Intro
duce the Measure in House for
Immediate Action.
COVERS ALL DEPARTMENTS
BEFORE CONGRESS MONDAY

Inc JOINT resolution extending the pres
ent appropriations for the government
service until till such time as the an
preparation bills now before Congress
shall have become laws. which lis 10 be
laid before the House for immediate ac-
ton Monday by Representative Fitz-
gerald. chairman OF the House appro-
priations committee was made public to-
day. The resolution. as soon as II is
passed by both houses and signed by
President Taft. will relieve the situation
so far as the financing OF the government
Is concerned. The Senate will act upon il
as soon as 1t has passed the House and IL
is expected that the entire transaction
Will have been completed Monday after
noon.
The resolution provides for extending
the appropriations through the month Of
July.
Text of the Resolution.
The measure Is as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States
OF America In Congress assembled. That
all appropriations for the necessary
operation of the government, and for the
payment of pensions under existing laws,
which shall remain unprovided for on the
Both day of June, 1912, be, and they are
hereby, continued and made available for
and during the month of July. 1917 s1R-
less the regular appropriations provided
therefor in bills now pending in Con-
gress shall have been previously made for
the service of the fiscal year ending June
30. 1913. and sufficient amount is here
by appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
to carry on the same: Provided. That no
greater amount shall be expended for
such operations than as the sum of one
twelfth OF the appropriations made for
the fiscal year 1912 bears to the whole OF
the appropriations OF said fiscal year.
Provided further. That the total ex-
penditures for the whole OF the fiscal
year 1913 under the several appropria-
tons hereby continued, and under the sew
eral appropriation bills now pend
ing. shall not exceed in the aggre-
gate the amounts finally appropriated
therefor in the several bills now pending,
except in cages where a change Is made
In the annual. monthly, or per diem COM
pensation or In the numbers of officers.
clerks, or other persons authorized to De
employed by the several appropriations
hereby continued in which cases the
amounts authorized to be expended shall
equal one-twelfth of the appropriations
for the fiscal year 1912, and eleven
twelfths of the appropriations contained
the same shall have been finally passed.
unless the salary or compensation OF
any office shall be increased or dimin-
ished without changing the grade or the
duties thereof, in which case such sal
airy or compensation shall relate to the
entire fiscal year and run from the be-
ginning thereof.
House and Senate Employees.
"And provided further. That the ses-
sion employees OF the Senate and House
of Representatives now authorized by
law shall be continued upon the rolls I'M
til the end OF the present session of Con-
gress and paid at the rate per diem or
month at which they are now paid and a
sufficient amount Is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated to pay the same.
This joint resolution shall be con-
strued as authorizing the continuance OF
the salaries and other expenses under
the organization of the bureau OF the CEN
sus of the Department of Commerce and
Labor as the latter existed June 30. 1912.
for the period of time and under the con-
ditions provided herein for all other
branches of the public service
Navy Yards to Remain Open Monday
Assistant Secretary Winthrop of the
Navy Department after a conference
with President Taft this afternoon, an
nounced that he would order all navy
yards to remain open Monday and go
on with business as heretofore. The
President and Mr.. Winthrop are con-
fident that Congress will pass the pro-
posed joint resolution Monday continu-
ing salaries of government employees
until the regular appropriation bills may
be passed. Should there be delay Mon
day in the passage Of the resolution