Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04
Department of Justice.

Appropriated for 1880, $27,s37,370;
budget estimate for 1881, $32,017,292.
Increase. $4,O79,922.
The estimate for salaries, Department
of Justice, contains an increase of $43,-
900 for additional legal and clerical
personnel in the department and $4,000
for increasing the salaries Of the So
licitor General, Assistant to the Attor-
ney General, and the six Assistant At
torneys General, while $56,14O has been
deducted for the personnel in the ONCE
of the Superintendent of Prisons which
is new being paid from this appropr'a-
ton but which is provided for in q
separate estimate for 1881, resulting in
a net reduction in the estimate for
salaries, Department of Justice, from
81 ,228, 300 to 81 ,225 ,060.
The estimate of appropriation for
travelling and miscellaneous expenses.
Department of Justice, which is charge
able with the travelling expenses of all
officers and employees of the depart
ment not provided for by specific APP
! preparations, has been increased from
! $4,000 to $4,000 to meet the REQUIRE
ments of the service.
| The increase in protecting interests
| OF the United States in customs mat
tiers from $l13,17O to $l20,2lO includes
attorney at $4,000, stenographer at
$l,44O, and $1,000 for an increase in
the salary OF the Assistant Attorney
General at New York in charge Of this
activity.
There Is an increase in the estimate
for detection and prosecution of crimes
from $2,3O7.720 to $2,78l,4l9. The
principal part of this increase Is re-
! CURED to meet the large increase in the
number Of field Investigations of al
legged violations of Federal statutes
throughout the United States, and
! which is reflected to some extent in
the work of the administrative office
at Washington. Additional personnel
for the Division of Identification and
Information of this bureau Is also pro-
vided for in the estimate to meet the
increasing demands for criminal iderlti-
| f1cation data from peace officers and
reinforcement officials.
In the Budget for 1881 there appears
Tor the first time an estimate for SAL
aries and expenses, Office Of the Super
intendent of Prisons, amounting to
Sl92,878, which consists of $l57,878 for
| personnel and $35 900 for travelling ex-
penses as compared to $56.140 for the
| present personnel of this Office which is
bsing paid from the appropriation SAL
aries, Department of Justice, and
$4,000 for travelling expenses Of this
personnel for which there is sep
a si appropriation entitled "1nspec-
! tlon OF prisons and prisoners" an in
crease over all of $123,738 for 1881.
The purpose of this estimate is to pro-
vide specific funds for an organization
unit at Washington to supervise the
maintenance and care of United States
prisoners under the proposed plan for
reorganization of the Federal penal
system.
New Judges Salaries.
The increase in the estimate for sal
aries of circuit. district and retired
judges from $l,930O0O to $2,099,000 is
required to pay the salaries of judges
appointed pursuant to legislation
authorizing additional circuit and dis
trict judges and creating the tenth
judicial circuit, and the salaries of
additional retired judges
The Federal Government has &C
cepted the cession by the State of
Colorado OF exclusive jurisdiction over
the lands embraced within the Rocky
Mountain National Park, and the esti-
mate for salaries, National Park Com
misSionerS, is increased from $4,000 to
$4,000 to provide for the salary OF the
1huISo ~S~ SNAA~
park.
The act of March 2. 1929, transferred
the Jurisdiction over appeals from the
Patent Office in patent and trade
mark cases from the Court of Appeals
of the District of Columbia to the
United States Court of Customs APP
peals and changed the name of the
1"'ter court to the United States Court
Customs and Patent Appeals. Some
Gditional personnel and promotions
are recommended on account of the
increase in work caused by this trans
fer. which, however, have been largely
Offset by reductions in the rent and
the cleaning force. as 1t is expected
that the court will occupy space in one
of the new Government buildings
shortly after July /, 1880. the net
result being an increase from $l10,280
to Sill, 800 in this estimate.
Increases are contained in the fol-
lowing estimates relating to law en-
forcement. in order to expedite the
work of the courts and bring 1t up to
date: Salaries, fees. and expenses of
marshals, from SO, $50, 600 to $3.50 900;
salaries and expenses of district attor-
neys, from 81 $4,000 to Al ,67S,5 $50; pay
Of regular assistant attorneys, from
; 81 ,223,40O to A,479,700; pay of special