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

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| for personal services out of the appro-
priations for armament of Notifications
| and organized militia is increased IRON.
! $4,000 to $4,000, for 1915
| Engineer office: The amount authorized
to be used out of the appropriations
| for rivers and harbors'' and ''fortifica-
! tons for personal services is increased
| from $4,000 to $50. 400 for 1913.
! Bureau of insular affairs: reduction
is made of three clerks at $1,000 each.
| State, War and Navy Department build
| ings. reduction is made of nine watch
men at $40 each.
Navy Department.
| Secretarys Office: 4 private secretary to
the assistant secretary of the navy at
s., COO is recommended and a reduction IS
made of one clerk at S1,SOO.
| Interior Department.
| Indian office: An increase is recommend
| ed as follows: Two clerks at 81 900 each
four clerks at 81, 400 each, seven clerks at
$500 each.
Pension office: A reduction is recon-
| mended as follows: Ten principal exam
liners at 5000 each. ten clerks at Sl.SoO
each, fifteen clerks at $1,000 each. twenty
five clerks at 81, 400 each, forty-five clerks
at $500 each, twenty-one clerks at
81 900 each. four copyists at $500 eac en-
forty-ive special examiners at sl'o"
each.
the commissioner of pensions to reor-
ganize the finance division and the once
of the disbursing clerk for the payment
of pensions so to eliminate useless
work and prevent duplication OF laoot:
The provision heretofore prohibiting
the filing of more than % per cent OF
the vacancies occurring in the pension
Office is continued for the fiscal year
1915.
Patent office: A first assistant exam
iner of trade marks and designs at
$1,000 is recommended, three laoorers
at $3.50 each are omitted and an IN
crease in the pay of forty-tWo laoorers
from $3.50 to $40 each and OF forty
messenger bows from $3.50 to $500 each
is recommended.
Bureau of education: An increase IS
recommended of one translator at
81. 500. two clerks at $500 each, one
clerk at $1,000 and one clerk at 400.
The appropriation for the investigation
of rural and industrial education is in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000
Post Office Department.
An additional assistant attorney at
$4,000 is recommended in the division
of the assistant attorney general for
the department.
Provision is made for seventy-seVen
employees. including assistant ensl-
neers, electricians, elevator conductors
watchmep, laborers and charWomen,
with salaries amounting to $4s.54o. FOR tne
new Washington city post once ouiio-
ing.
The topography division is omitted
and its duties and employees conSon-
dated with the division of supplies
The clerical and other force OF EN-
ployes in certain offices of the depart
ment is reorganized. resulting In a net
reduction of fifty-siX employees. with
salaries amounting to $4325o' Tor the
fiscal year 1914. as compared with the
ensuing year, 1915.
In accordance with the recommends
ton of the department. the salary OF
the director of the postal savings sys.
tenn is reduced from $4,000 to S4soo
and the salary of the superintendent OF
the money order DIVISION Is reuuceo
from $500 to $3.50.
Department of Justice.
Attorney Generals office-The sala-
ries of six assistant attorneys general
are increased from $1,000 to $4,000
each. An increase is recommended OF
two attorneys. at $500 each; two at
torneys at $4,000 each; three clerks
at s1.400 each: four clerks, at sl'29O
each: three clerks, at $1,000 each, and
one messenger, at $40. A reduction IS
recommended of one clerk. at $1,000
and five clerks, at $500 each. The sal
arv of the clerk to the Attorney Cen
eral is increased from 1880 to $1,000
Solicitor for Department of Labor
An increase is recommended of one
clerk, at 81 500, and one messenger, at
$40.
Department of Commerce.
Secretary's ofice-An increase is
recommended of one elevator con-
ductor, at $3.50, and seven charwomen,
at $240 each.
mended as follows: One clerk. $1,000:
one electrician, $1,000: one skilled la
borer $1,000: one skilled laborer. $500:
five skilled laborers, at s720 each; four
watchmen at $3.50 each; two firemen,
$40 each; nine charwomen, at $40 each.
Bureau of foreign and domestic COM
merce-The salary of the chief of the bu-
reau is increased from $4,000 to 5000,
and the salaries of two assistant chiefs of
the bureau are increased from 5000 to
So 800 and from ESQ to 5000. respec-
lively.
An increase is recommended of one
translator at s., 200; two clerks, at 81, 500
each; one clerk, at 81 600; one clerk, at
81 400: four clerks, at $500 each and a re-
duction is made of two clerks, at LOCO
each: one messenger, al $40; two assist
ers at $500 each. and one laborer, at
$40.
A new appropriation of $4,000 is rec
ompended for promoting commerce in