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Navy Department for the fiscal year
1920 for purposes for which appro-
priations are usually carried in the
Legislative. etc. act are reduced from
laterior Department Changes.
In the Interior Department the fol-
lowing changes in personnel are rec
commended:
Secretary's office-A clerk at $1,000
and a clerk at $S40 are omitted and
chauffeur at $1.0s0 is provided in
liep of chauffeur at e720.
| General land Office building-An as
sistant engineer at $1,000 is recon-
mended.
Building for Interior Department
! offices-An automobile mechanic at
$1.400 is recommended.
| In the Indian office twenty-six spe-
| cific employments are omitted with
I saving of $4,000. In the pension
office an additional clerk at $1,000 is
! recommended and thirty-eight spe-
cific. employments with total salaries
| of $31.S00 are vacated.
| In the patent Office. where additional
employees are recommended in a bill
now pending in the House, twenty six
specific employments are recommend
ed at a total estimate Of $4s.1eo.
In the bureau Of educatf0n no
, changes in the specific employments
are recommended. The total appro-
| priation for 1920 is reduced from
| S216,96O to $16O.960. or by $56.000.
Nine Positions Vacated.
| For the superintendent of the Capt.
! tol eighteen specific employees are
| recommended, with total salaries of
! $500. and nine specific positions are
vacated, with a saving of 5000.
The offices of the surveyors general
| in the states of Arizona. California.
Colorado. Idaho, Montana. Nevada.
| New Mexico. Oregon. South Dakota.
| a n q NJ n a n
the territory of Alaska are recon-
mended to be discontinued after June
| 80. 1920. and the work performed by
| those offices is REQUIRED thereafter
of the general land office.
| The total of appropriations for the
offices of surveyors general for the
fiscal year 1920 is reduced from $223.-
| same character of service under the
direction of the commissioner of the
general land office. or reduction of
$4S.87O.
The compensation of the private
secretary to the Governor Of Alaska
is increased from s2,250 to $4,000.
The compensation Of the private
secretary to the Governor OF Hawaii
| is increased from $4,000 to $2.25O.
Limited to Actual Expehses.
A paragraph it recommended which
| provides that. after June 30, 1920. un-
l iSSs otuSI =" iSe cApEeSSlS pToNIueu uS
law, no allowance or reimbursement
for subsistence other than expenses
| actually incurred for meals and lode-
| ings while travelling on duty or ac-
! tually engaged in the discharge of Of
fetal duties away from his regular
post of duty shall be paid to any Of
ficer or employe in any branch of the
public service of the United States, nor
| shall any sum be allowed or paid for
such expenses actually incurred for
| meals or lodgings in excess of IS per
day. and the expenses for which pay
ment or reimbursement is authorized
shall not include any tip or gratuity.
( Provisions for p. O. Department.
| In the Post Office Department an as
! sistant attorney at $500 and one at
| &2,75O are recommended in lieu Of
] two assistant attorneys at $4,000 each.
| Twenty nine specific additional EN-
ployes are recommended to receive
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