Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-01

report on conditions in the manufactur-
ing industries and trade of foreign coun-
tries as may be of interest to the United
States.
Steamboat inspection service-One clerk.
at &tO and a travelling inspector, at
$2.5Oo are recommended.
Bureau of StandardS-An increase IS
recommended of one elevator boy, at
$3.50; one wcodworker. at $1,000, and one
photographer, at 1900.
Department of Labor.
Secretary's office: An increase is recon-.
lnended as follows: One clerk at $1,s00
one clerk at 81 800. one clerk at 81, 400
two clerks at $1,000 each, one clerk a,
81 900. one clerk at $780, one telephone
operator at 1920, two assistant messengers
at 500 each. one messenger boy at $3.50
one engineer at 81 900, one skilled Iaborer
at SS4O three laborers at $500. one watch
man at S72O three charwomen at $24C
each. two elevator conductors at 1916
each.
Bureau of naturaliZation-The salary OF
the commissioner is increased from s., SOC
to s1.4OO. and the deputy commissioner
from So 900 to IS, go. An increase is recon-
mended of one clerk at 81 400. three clerks
at S1,2uO and one clerk at $1,000.
Limitations.
Limitations with respect to expenditures
or legislative provisions. not heretofore
enacted. are recommended as follows
The mileage matter is disposed of in this
way:
thereafter, in lieu of the mileage now
authorized by law, each senator, representa-
tive. delegate and resident commissioner
81 "a he cd tn 10 fr9 q l.
ing expenses. including the travelling eN-
penses of immediate and dependent men,
bers of their respective families actually
incurred in going to and returning once
from each session of Congress by the
nearest route usually Travelled, the same
to be paid on certificates duly approved
as in the manner heretofore prescribed
for the payment of mileage.
Another one states:
The operation of the executive order
of March 90. 1912. for the annual sub
mission to the civil service commission
of an outline of organization of the gov
eminent of the United States is suspend
ed until otherwise provided by law"
Piece Rate Employees.
With reference to piece-rate employees
in the office of the auditor for the Int
rior Department the bill says:
Provided. That the Secretary of the
Treasury may, during the fiscal year
1915, in his discretion, diminish the num-
Der of positions of the grades below that
of clerk at S1.2OO per annum in the office
of the auditor for the Interior Depart
ment and use the uneXpended balances
of the appropriation for the positions SC
diminished as fund to pay. on a piece
rate basis. to be fixed by the Secretary
of the Treasury, the compensation OF
Io1,
may be necessary to tabulate by the use
of mechanical devices the accounts and
vouchers of the Interior Department
Provided further. That under such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe, piece-rate en-
ployes in the office of the auditor for the
Interior Department shall be entitled to
the same leave of absence with pay as is
provided by law for clerks ard employees
IN the executive departments in Wash,
ploye during such leave shall be deter.
mined by the average quantity of work
done by such employe and the pay there
for
With reference to the treasurers Office
the bill also says:
And the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to transfer and appoint
in the Office of the treasurer of the Unit
ed States such of the employees in his
discretion. Is are now employed in sale
office under details authorized by the ac1
of March 4, 1913"
New Quarters for Treasury Employees
In addition to the offices of the foul
auditors of the Treasury required to bt
removed to the old building of the bu
reau of engraving and printing. the gen
eral supply committee and Offices Of the
Treasury now occupying rented quarters
and such other offices or parts of offices
of the Treasury Department as the Sec.
rotary of the Treasury may determine
shall be removed thereto: and the bureau
of engraving and printing shall entirely
vacate all of said buildings on or before
June ], 1914.
Hereafter the estimates for expenses
of government in the territories shall be
submitted through and be subject to re-
vision by the Department of the Interior. =
The pension bureau shake-up is couched
in the following words:
THE commissioner of pensions shall or
or before July l. 1914. rearrange the
finance division and the office of the dis
bursting clerk for the payment of pensions
in the pension Office and reorganiZe the
forces employed therein so as to elimi-
nate useless work and prevent duplica-
ton of labor
Aid for Apprentices.
Apprentices at the bureau of standards
in District Of {'olup,hia will