Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-07

naval war records is recommended for
the purpose of completing the serial
publication on Official Records OF tne
Union and Confederate Navies in the
War of the Rebellion" including the
general index; the continuation of the
important work of collecting the de-
partmental records of the navy: the
continuance of the work on the RECORDS
Of the volunteer navy, and navy rolls
from 1898 to 1912; the collection OIL
naval records of the revolutionary
war; the collection and preservation
of the naval records of wars; the care.
administration and preservation or the
rolls and records of the Confederate
states navy and of naval historical pa
pers deposited in the Navy Depart
ment; and the development and ad-
ministration of the library of the Navy
Department.
These appropriations for salaries for
the combined offices are recommended:
Salaries, naval records and library:
Chief clerk, $4,000; clerks, two of class
4, one to be selected from officers of
the Confederate navy agent for col
lection of Confederate recordsl, $500;
four of class 2, $500; four of class i.
$500: two, at 81 900 each. $4,000: copy
list, $500; copyist, $40: two assistant
messengers, at s720 each, $1,440; labor
er. $500.
Nautical almanac office-One new as
sistant, $4,000, and one at $500.
Division of naval militia affairs
Two new clerks at $1,000; one new
clerk at $500.
Department Of the Interior: Office OF
the Secretary-Two new clerks al
s., 900.
Pension Office Decreases.
Pension ofice-Decrease of seven
principal examiners, at $1,000; decrease
of 9 clerks, class 4; decrease of II
clerks, class :; decrease of 20 clerks
class 2; decrease of 25 clerks, class i
decrease of . clerks. at $1,000; decrease
of one copyist, at 5000.
Patent office-Three new law exam
liners at $3.50.
Bureau of Observation-Disclosures il
the lump sum appropriations for va
rious Investigations of the bureau are
submitted as follows: $4,000 for in
vestigation of rural education, $4,000
for Investigation of city school admin
istration, $4,000 for investigation in
secondary and elementary education
$500 for collecting statistics.
Post Office Department: Office o.
clerk, class ); decrease of , clerks
class =.
Division of post office inspectors
Decrease of clerks at $500.
Office OF first assistant postmaster
general: Division of CORES pondents-
Decrease of messengers. at $3.50; de.
crease Of l laborer, at $500.
Division OF city delivery-Decreese OF
laborer, at $500.
Office of the fourth assistant post.
master general-Two clerks, class tire,
dropped: two new clerks. class two; de
crease of thirteen clerks at $1,000, de
crease of fifteen clerks at $500, de
crease of one skilled craftsman a
$1,400. decrease of one mat copyist a
$1,000, also one at 5000; decrease of five
laborers at $500, decrease of one pag.
at $3.50.
Department of Commerce-Ofice Of
the Secretary: two new clerks, elias:
one two new messengers at $3.50.
Agricultural Census.
The force necessary to take the cen
sus of agriculture which was made
necessary by a previous act is esti
mated at s3,103.500. to be expended a:
follows: one chief statistician. at $1,000
per annum. for two years, $4,000: one
expert chief OF division. at $4,000 pei
annum, for two years. $4,000: two
class three. $12,s00: clerks. class two
S22. 400; 1000 clerks at 500 to $1,000
per annum. for from one to eighteen
months. 100000; 10000 to $4,000 enun-
orators, s2.s00,000: expert specia
agents for Office work. Sic, O00; 200 spe.
cial agents for supervisory and Other
field work. $156,O00: travel, subsistence
Office expenses, etc, of clerks and spe-
cial agents, $4,000: interpreters. s12,.
500; printing. $4,000; general office eX-
penses, $4,000.
Bureau of foreign and domestic COM
merce-One new clerk, class four; two
new clerks, class three; one new clerk
at $1,000; two new clerks, class two;
clerk at 81 1000; two new clerks at $500:
one new messenger at $40, and one
new messenger at S720.
Steamboat inspection service-Two
Bureau of navigation-One new
clerk, class 4 one new sterographer
for six months. $3.50.
Bureau of standards-One new as
sociate physicist at $4,000; one new
chemist at S1,40O; one new laboratory
helper at $40; one at $3.50. and two at
5000; one new laboratory apprentice at
$40. and two at $3.50: one new clerk,
class four; one new clerk, class two;
two new clerks, class one; two labor
ers at 500: one new messenger at
$3.50; one fireman at $720: one fore
man at $40, and one at $500; two new
laborerS at $3.50.
For testing structural materials an
increase of $4,000 over the current
act is estimated: the same increase is
asked in the appropriation for inveSti-
eating public utility standards; an in
crease of $4,000 is also asked for the
investigation of railway materials.
The bureau proposes new fnvestiga-
lions in radio communication, $4,000;
standard materials. $4,000: textiles,
paper, leather and rubber, $4,000; COL
or standards. $4,000; clay products,
$4,000.
Labor Department Increases.
Department of Labor. office of the
Secretary-Two new clerks, class 4;
three new clerks, class 8; one new
clerk, class 1 two new clerks at $500;