Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04
INCREASED AMOUNTS ARE URGED FOR ARMY AND NAVY PR

assistant attorneys, from $35s, 500 to
$450,000; and salaries and expenses of
clerks, United States courts, from
81 ,943 400 to $2,lO5,06O. These esti-
mates provide for increases in salaries
of some of the United States attorneys,
marshals, and clerks of courts, and part
OF their Office forces additional person.
mel where necessary, and additional
funds for travelling and other expenses.
Expenses Of Courts.
The estimates for fees of commits
sionerS and fees of jurors and witnesses,
| over which the department has no ad-
ministrative control, are inc" ased re-
spectivsly from $3.50, 900 to sec ; 900 and
from $3500,000 to S3,700,o 600. 70 meet
| the increase in the business of the
courts. There is an increase in rent of
court rooms. United States court from
$4,000 to $4,000, to provide neces-
sary space for the new Judges md to
meet anticipated increases in rentals
in some places; pay of bailiffS, etc,
which includes not only the attend .nce
| per diem Of bailiffs, crierS, and ,ury
| commissioners but also the trave ing
expenses of circuit and district judges
and meals and lodging Of jurors and
| bailiffs in United States cases when
ordered by the court, is increased from
| pTJO,OUU w 3HOO,UUUs anu LIle increase
from $390,360 to $950,000 in miscel-
is to promote stenographers and mes
sengers to judges in meritorious cases
employ stenographers and messengers
for the new judges, and provide addi-
| tlonal funds for expenses in connec-
| ton with condemnation proceedings
outside the District of Columbia.
! The estimate for United States peni-
1entiary, Leavenworth, Kans.. is in
creased from $1.036,910 to $1,623,357,
main prison at Leavenworth with an
! estimated average daily population OF
3,400 prisoners; the remaining SSH ,745
| is for the operation of a branch prison
in the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort
Leavenworth, where it is expected to
maintain an average daily population
OF 1900 prisoners of a definite type.
The estimate for United States peniten-
tiary, Atlanta, Ga, is increased from
$923,31e to $1,O45. 1897, based on an esti-
mated average daily population of 5000
prisoners, while the estimate for United
States penitentiary, Mcneil Island,
| Wash, Is increased from 1881 ,S72 to
$4"8, 708, for an estimate average daily
population Of 1000 prisoners. For
ms intenance of the capacity daily aver
| az of 500 inmates at the Federal In
| du3trial Institution for Women Alder
son, w. Va. the estimate for that insti-
tution is increased from s2862lO to
$393,l25. The estimate for United
States Industrial Reformatory, Chilli
cothe. Ohio, Is increased from 1891 800
to 1858, 500, to maintain an average
daily population of 1900 prisoners. The
increase in the estimate for National
Training School for Boys, Washington,
d. G.; from s2oS,0oo to s215.osO Is to
provide for the employment Of physi-
-psychiatrist. steward dietitian, and
chief Of mechanical service
Construction Projects.
The following items are included in
the estimates for construction projects
at the several institutions Leaven-
worth, $22, 800: Atlanta, $4,000; Nc
Neil Island. $4,000; and $3.50, 900 to
continue the construction OF the In
dustrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, in
addition to the $3.50, 900 already appro-
priated, the total amount to be ex-
pended for this purpose being limited
by law to 100000.
Provision has been made for the
interchange Of not to exceed 10 per
cent OF the amounts appropriated under
penal and correctional institutions on
the objects named therein, except APP
| preparations for construction and
repair, working capital, and support of
United States prisoners, with a re-
Striction that the total of any appro-
priation shall not be increased by more
capital funds for the United States
penitentiaries at Leavenworth and At
lanta have been combined into a single
fund, for the industrial enterprises
authorized at those penitentiaries, in
Guiding payment Of obligations for such
| purposes for prior years.
! Under the act of March 4, 1925, pro-
viding for the establishment of a pro-
baton system in the United States
courts except in the District of Column
bia, there are now employed seven SAL
aried probation officers. For the ex-
tension of this activity, the estimate
for probation system, United States
courts, Is increased from $4,000 to
! 100000, to provide for the salaries and
expenses of "a salaried officers and for
the expenses of voluntary officers ap-
pointed by the court for temporary
service.
The increase from $2,450oOo to
$4,000 900 in the estimate for support
OF United States prisoners is due prin-
| cipally to the increase in the number
OF Federal prisoners confined in State
institutions and increases in the rates
charged by such institutions. Also
IneTe Is palC from CnS appropriation
the expenses of operating the United
States Jail in New York City, which
cares for prisoners awaiting trial, short
term prisoners, and prisoners tempo
rarily detained pending transportation
to Federal penitentiary.
The estimate for defending suits in
claims against the United States is
reduced from 100000 to $4,000 based
on expenditures during preceding years,
A reduction Is made in the estimate
for salaries and expenses, Pueblo Lands
Board, from $4,000 to $4,000, as it
is expected that the work for which
this board was established will be fin-
ished before the close of the fiscal year
1881.
The estimate for salaries and ex-
penses Of commissioners Court of
Claims, has been reduced from SIS. 100
to $4l,790. because the law authorizing
the appointment of these commissioners
will expire on January 10, 1891, and
there is recommended for 1891 a pro
rata amount Of the appropriation for
1880.
! Department of Labor.