Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-01
'$69,533,39S ASKED
INLEG|SLATNE BILL
Increase of $13,581,5 99 Re.
ported to House Is Main
IA, Iy for Salaries.
COVERS 3 DEPARTMENTS

The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, as reported to the
House by Representative Byrnes, from
the committee on appropriations, carries
L$6s, 533, 2es.25, being $13,5sl ,5s9.0s more
than was appropriated for the same serv-
/ ice for the fiscal year 1918. The bill pro-
vides for 1,21a more specific salaries
than were appropriated for this year.
Principal Increases.
The principal increases in the bill over
the current appropriations include the fol-
Bureau of ,efneiency, $4,000.
| Civil Service Commission, $lSl,14o.
Department Of State $149,32O.
| Treasury Department.
I Care Of rented buildings for bureaus Of
internal revenue and war+risk insurance
| $71, $50.
4 Division of loans and currency. S1o5. SS0
Bureau of war-risk insurance, 50, 341 900
Auditing accounts abroad. 100000.
Auditors oflces $194,S70:
| Treasurers office. 323o,o1o.
1 Registers office $61,920.
| Auditor for Post Office Department.
tabulating equipment. $64.6oo ,o
| Internal revenue service. $2.742.O0O.
| MINIS and assay offices, S446, 200.
War Department temporary employees
IS. 116,01s.
Maintenance and protection of temporary
$685. 500.
Navy Department. $13o,226
| Interior Department
Contingent expenses. $4,000.
Bureau of education. $22,960
| Alaska, legislative expenses. $46.O1O.
| Hawaii. legislative expenses, 100000.
| Department of Commerce
| Cans,S ofIice additional employes and
new machines, S122,7S0. .
Promotion of commerce with the far
east, $4,000.
Steamboat Inspection service. S50,4oe.
Bureau of standards, s21S,s60.
! Department of Labor
Secretary's Office, S21,360.
| Commissioners Of Cancellation. $4,000.
Bureau Of Labor statistics, $30.S90.
Principal Reductions.
The principal reductions made in the
rent year include the following:
| Federal farm loan bureau, $23,1S0.
| War Department, contingent expenses,
| Building for Interior Department Of
fees. s1sa.045.
| Pension office, s5s.2s0.
Post Office Department. salaries,
Census Office. collection offstatistics,
$197 900.
| Child labor division, children's bu-
reau. $4,000.
| A reduction of thfrty-seven employees
| is made in the clerical force of the Post
Office Department and total reduction
| in the salaries of that department OF
! $28,120. Forsthe current fiscal year a
| reduction was made in the force of the
| Post Office Department of thirty-fve
persons, with total pay amounting to
| $2S.s2o. making total net decrease
| during the present administration of
| 1ss persons and $174.3S6 in annual ex-
penses.
A limitation in the bill requires mem
bers Of the House to place on the pay
rolls Of the House the names of their
secretaries and clerks. who are to be
paid directly by the disbursing officer
I and not by the member.
| The bill makes $4,000 the maximum
salary in the legislative reference bu-
reau Of the Library of Congress. $4,000
| in the bureau of efficiency Except the
chief. at $4,000, and in the Civil Service
Commissions additional force not more
| than two persons shall receive $l,400.
$40, 500 for officials Autos.
| Vice President Marshall and Speaker
| Clark are given $2,750 each toward the
exchange and purchase Of new auto
mobiles. The secretaries of War. Navy
master General. Attorney General and
| Secretary Of Commerce are given new
automobiles,- not to exceed $4,000 each.
| The salary Of the superintendent Of
| the Botanical Garden Is increased $3.50
and his assistant $500. The salary of
| the president OF the Civil Service Com
| mission is increased $1,000. and the
other commissioners $500 each. The
chief of the bureau of efficiency is in
creased $1,000.
| For the office of the Secretary of the
Treasury. 800 additional employees are
provided: for the Office Of the auditor
Il FH.41 s]hx
clerks; auditor for the Navy, fifty new
! clerks; auditor for the Interior, re-
| duction Of sixteen clerks. and auditor
/ for. the Department of State, ten new
1 clerks. .-r
| For the office of, the treasurer of the
United States 1874 additional employees
are provided; regtster Of the Treasury.
4 fifty mine additionaI: controller of the
currency, four additional; controller of
1.-The Treasury, thirteen additional, and
| public health service, nine additional.
For the War Department lump sum
| of $10.277.260 for temporary employees
i! Is provided, being an increase Of $5,-
116.o1S over the current year.
' SIT New Caretakers.
! For the new building in Henry Park
at additional employees for the care of
the building are provided.
For the Navy Department temporary
employees $654.584 is provided, an in
crease of $166.000, the rates of COM
1 pensation to individuals to be fixed by
/ the Secretary Of the Navy.
| For the pension office there is a re-