Evening star., 1924-01-29
POST OFFICE BILL SHOWS
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE
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preparation bill, authorized a change
IN the method of printing United
States currency, national bank cur
rency and federal reserve notes. The
change included the installation of
more power presses, the full use OF
power presses and the utilization of
eightsubject plates In printing paper
money.
In reporting the Treasury Post Of
fee appropriation bill today, Chair
man Madden submits tables showing
the number Of sheets estimated for
the fiscal year 1925 for each class of
work and the difference in the cost
per 900 sheets for each class between
the fiscal year 1928. the year in which
the legislation became effective, and
the fiscal year 1925. which will be the
first complete year in which the bu
reau will be operating on the maxi
mum basis authorized by the legis-
lation.
The difference, principally due to
changes in the method of printing.
has resulted in saving of $9S5.S50.
Adding to this the cost for 1925 on
account of Reconsideration, which is
not included in the 1923 cost, and
therefore should be credited for alb
aorption into the 1925 cost, s20I5S5.
Chairman Madden figures the total
saving to be si,l92,ss5.
The direct appropriations for the
bureau of engraving and printing
for the fiscal year 1924 aggregate
s5,5S2,76o, to. which should be added
the amount for that year on account
of the s240 bonus, making a total for
1924 of $5,1Sa,760. The amount es-
timated for the fiscal year 1926 and
recommended in the bill reported to-
day. in which is absorbed the S240
honus and the cost under the classi
fication act, is s5,945.675, a decrease
under the 1924 appropriations of
s237,0S5.
An Appropriation Decrease.
Chairman Madden says that this
is the net decrease In the appropri-
ations and in comparing 1924 with
1925 all of the factors for each year
covered by the 1925 amounts than
were carried in the 1924 sppropria-
tions. There is an added expense for
1925 on account of the classification
act that was not included in 1924.
The 1924 items contained in ap-
propriations for new power presses
is not repeated in the 1925 amounts.
s237,0S5 would show much larger II
! the 1925 estimates had not been COM
PEELED to absorb the additional work
and the increased cost on account of
the classification act, Chairman Mad
den says. He included tables for the
two years on a comparable basis of
quality or worK
In the preparation of the 1924 or
current appropriation act. which con-
tanned the legislation requiring q
change in the method of printing,
there was deducted from the esti-
mates for wages of plate printers
and their assistants the sum of s74s.-
555 and from the estimate for COM
rensation Of other employees the sum
of $4,000, making total OF $780,
555, and from that amount was taken
1855. 900 and added to the appropria-
tion for materials and for the purchase
of the new presses, making the net
deductions In the preparation OF last
years bill s44l.555.
Cites Real Reduction.
Chairman Madden emphasizes in
his report today that the real deduc-
tion last year was s7sS,55s. because
sS55,000 OF the amount out off the
two salary appropriations was used
to buy tho new equipment
The reduction in direct appropria-
tions, taking into consideration the
cut in these salary appropriations for
the fiscal year 1924 Of $796,556, and
the reduction in the 1925 estima tes
under the 1924 appropriations, put
ting them both on q compa rable basis
of quantity of work of S3I2,S56.
makes an aggregate decrease in al
rect appropriation of $1.10s,4li,
Chairman Madden figures, and that is
the combined reduction the last
years bill and the 1925 estimates
would have directly shown on their
face IL the quantity Of work had not
increa sed and there had been no clas-
slfication act, Chairman Madden says.