Public Law 70–367

An Act

Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SENATE salaries and mileage of senators For compensation of Senators, $960,000. For mileage of Senators, $51,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the vice president Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,200; clerk, $2,080; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; in all, $10,050. chaplain For Chaplain, $1,520. office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $4,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $5,500; financial clerk, $5,000; principal clerk, $3,420; assistant financial clerk, $4,200; minute and Journal clerk, $4,500; legislative clerk, $3,150; chief bookkeeper, $3,000; librarian, $3,000; enrolling clerk, $3,150; printing clerk, $3,150; executive clerk, $2,890; file clerk, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,880 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, $2,780 each; assistant librarian, $2,150; skilled laborer. $1,520; clerks—three at $2,880 each, one at $2,590, one at $2,460, two at $2,100 each, one at $1,800, one at $1,770; two assistant keepers of stationery, at $1,800 each; assistant in stationery room, $1,520: messenger in library, $1,310; special officer, $2,150; assistant in library, $1,800; laborers—two at $1,350 each, three at $1,140 each, one in stationery room, $1,440; in all, $106,350. document room Salaries: Superintendent, $3,600; first assistant, $3,000; second assistant, in lieu of employee heretofore paid under Senate Resolution Numbered 90, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,770 each; skilled laborer $1,520; in all, $14,060. committee employees Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture and Forestry—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Appropria-tions—clerk, $6,000; assistant clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $3,000; three assistant clerks, at $2,700 each; two assistant clerks, at $2,100 each; messenger, $1,770. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Civil Service—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,750; assistant clerk, $2,360; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Commerce—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830. Conference minority of the Senate—clerk $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,480; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Education and Labor—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Finance—clerk, $3,600; special assistant to, the committee, $3,150; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,460; assistant clerk, $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each: two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $3,000 each; messenger, $1,520. Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520; messenger, $1,520. Immigration—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,570; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Interoceanic Canals—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Interstate Commerce—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,500; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Judiciary—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830. Library—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Manufactures—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Military Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,400; additional clerk, $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Mines and Mining—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Patents—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; four assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; three assistant clerks, at $1,830 each; additional clerk, $1,520. Printing—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Privileges and Elections—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Public Lands and Surveys—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Rules—clerk, $3,300, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Territories and Insular Possessions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520; in all, $383,640. clerical assistance to senators For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein: Seventy clerks at $3,300 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,940 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,830 each, $494,900: Provided, That such clerks and assistant clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman; Seventy additional clerks at $1,520 each, one for each Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman, $106,400; messenger, $1,520; in all, $602,820. office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; two Assistant Sergeants at Arms, at $4,500 each; two floor assistants, at $3,600 each; messengers—five (acting as assistant doorkeepers, including one for minority) at $2,400 each, thirty-seven (including one for minority) at $1,770 each, one at $1,310, one at card door, $2,580; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,800; Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $4,000; clerk, $2,140; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,520; upholsterer and locksmith, $2,100; cabinetmaker, $1,800; three carpenters, at $1,800 each; janitor, $1,800; skilled laborers—four at $1,440 each, one at $1,310; laborer in charge of private passage, $1,440; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,240 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,240 each; telephone operators—chief, $2,160, seven at $1,320 each; night operator, $1,140; telephone page, $1,610; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $950; press gallery—superintendent, $3,300; assistant superintendent, $2,240; messenger for service to press correspondents, $1,500; laborers—three at $1,100 each, thirty-four at $1,010 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $3.30 per day each during the session, $14,691.60; in all, $215,461.60. For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,360 each; special officer, $1,520; in all, $23,280. post office Salaries: Postmaster, $2,740; chief clerk, $2,150; wagon master, $1,800; seven mail carriers, at $1,520 each; two riding pages, at $1,220 each; in all, $19,770. folding room Salaries: Foreman, $2,160; assistant, $1,940; clerk, $1,520; folders—chief, $1,770; seven at $1,310 each, seven at $1,140 each; in all, $24,540. contingent expenses of the senate For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including $7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $25,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $250; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $350. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $13,000. For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $4,000. For materials for folding, $1,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. For the purchase of furniture, $5,000. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. For packing boxes, $970. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $2,000. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $125,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $250,000. For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $55,340. For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $40,000.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES salaries and mileage of members For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $4,407,500. For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the speaker Salaries: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,200; parliamentarian, $4,000, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; assistant parliamentarian, $2,500; clerk to the Speaker, $1,940; clerk to the Speaker, $1,200; messenger to the Speaker’s table, $1,520; messenger to the Speaker, $1,440; in all, $17,800. chaplain For Chaplain, $1,520. office of the clerk Salaries: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; Journal clerk and two reading clerks, at $5,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,570; tally clerk, $5,000; file clerk, $3,420; enrolling clerk, $3,200 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; property custodian and superintendent of furniture and repair shop, who shall be a skilled cabinetmaker or upholsterer and experienced in the construction and purchase of furniture, $3,600; two assistant custodians at $3,000 each; chief bill clerk, $3,150; assistant enrolling clerk, $2,880; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,780; stationery clerk, $2,570; librarian, $2,460; assistant librarian, $2,240; assistant file clerk, $2,250; assistant librarian, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,150 each; clerks—one at $2,150, three at $2,020 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,940 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,830 each; stenographer to the Clerk, $1,730; locksmith and typewriter repairer, $1,620; messenger and clock repairer, $1,520; assistant in stationery room, $1,520; three messengers, at $1,410 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,310; fifteen telephone operators, at $1,320 each; substitute telephone operator when required, at $3.30 per day, $1,200; laborers—three at $1,200 each, nine at $1,010 each; purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicle, $1,200; in all, $136,150. committee employees Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Agriculture—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Appropriations—clerk, $5,000, and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $4,500, five assistant clerks at $3,300 each, assistant clerk, $2,700; janitor, $1,440. Banking and Currency—clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Census—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Civil Service—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Disposition of Useless Executive Papers—clerk, $2,360. District of Columbia—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Education—clerk, $2,360. Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk, $2,360. Elections Numbered 1—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Elections Numbered 2—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Elections Numbered 3—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk, $2,880; janitor, $1,010. Flood Control—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Foreign Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Immigration and Naturalization—clerk, $2,880; janitor, $1,010. Indian Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Insular Affairs—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Interstate and Foreign Commerce-clerk, $3,300; additional clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Invalid Pensions—clerk, $2,880; stenographer, $2,560; expert examiner (Norman E. Ives), $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,240. Judiciary—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; janitor, $1,240. Labor—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Library—clerk, $2,360; janitor $1,010. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Military Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310. Mines and Mining—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Naval Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310. Patents—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Pensions—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,940; janitor, $1,010. Post Office and Post Roads—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,730; janitor, $1,310. Printing—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,310. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Pub-lic Lands—clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,000; janitor, $1,010. Rivers and Harbors—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Roads—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Rules—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,010. Territories—clerk, $2,360; janitor $1,010. War Claims—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Ways and Means—clerk, $4,200; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,360; assistant clerk, $2,250; clerk for the minority, $2,880; janitors—one $1,310, one $1,010. World War Veterans’ Legislation—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; in all, $250,230. Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be available for the payment of any clerk or assistant clerk to a committee who does not, after the termination of the Congress during which he was appointed, perform his duties under the direction of the Clerk of the House: Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply to the Committee on Accounts. Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. office of sergeant at arms Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, $2,880; cashier, $4,500; two bookkeepers, at $3,000 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of pairs, $2,500; pair clerk and messenger, $2,500; messenger, $2,500; stenographer and typewriter, $600; skilled laborer, $1,140; hire for automobiles, $600; in all, $29,720. For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,520; nineteen privates, at $1,360 each; in all, $27,360. office of doorkeeper Salaries: Doorkeeper, $5,000; special employee, $2,500; superintendent of House press gallery, $3,300; assistant to the superintendent of the House press gallery, $2,240; janitor, $2,400; messengers—seventeen at $1,500 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,520 each; laborers—seventeen at $1,010 each, two known as cloakroom men at $1,140 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one at $1,010, and seven at $890 each; three female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,440 each; attendant for the ladies’ reception room, $1,200; superintendent of folding room, $2,880; foreman of folding room, $2,340; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room, $2,150; three clerks, at $1,940 each; janitor, $1,010; laborer, $1,010; thirty-one folders, at $1,200 each; shipping clerk, $1,520; two drivers, at $1,140 each; two chief pages, at $1,740 each; two telephone pages, at $1,440 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority), at $2,880 each; two assistant floor managers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,830 each; forty-one pages, during the session, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $3.30 per day each, $28,683.60; press-gallery page, $1,700; superintendent of document room, Elmer A. Lewis, $3,500; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,460, and $420 additional while the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,940; eight assistants, at $1,600 each; janitor, $1,220; messenger to press room, $1,310; maintenance and repair of folding-room motor truck, $500; in all, $222,993.60. special and minority employees For six minority employees at $2,500 each, authorized and named in the resolution of December 5, 1927, $15,000. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, $1,737.40. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, as a laborer, $1,140. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $1,140. Clerk, under the direction of the Clerk of the House, named in the resolution of February 13, 1923, $2,740. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the five preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,600; clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310; in all, $9,620. Conference minority: Clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310; in all $6,020. The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader. To continue the employment of messengers in the majority and minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,520 each; in all, $3,040. post office Salaries: Postmaster, $4,200; assistant postmaster, $2,570; registry and money-order clerk, $1,830; thirty-four messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,520 each; for the employment of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees at the rate of not to exceed $125 per month each, $1,000; laborer, $1,010; in all, $62,290. For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles for carrying the mails, $3,400. official reporters of debates Salaries: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of official reporters, the House, at $7,500 each; assistant (John J. Cameron), $3,000; clerk, $2,750; six expert transcribers, at $1,520 each; janitor, $1,220; in all, $61,090. committee stenographers Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $6,500 each; janitor, $1,220; in all, $27,220. Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and twelve days from December 1, 1929, to June 30, 1930, both inclusive. clerk hire, members and delegates For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government,” approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 6, secs. 74, 92), $1,760,000. contingent expenses of the house For materials for folding, $5,000. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $20,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $40,000. For packing boxes, $4,500. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries and labor unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, and including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily paid out by them for transcribing hearings, $75,000. For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, $25,000. For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $40,000. For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $90,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $4,000. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $8,000. For assistance rendered during the calendar years 1928 and 1929 in compiling list of reports to be made to Congress by public officials; compiling copy and revising proofs for the House portion of the Official Register; preparing and indexing the statistical reports of the Clerk of the House; compiling the telephone and Members’ directories; preparing and indexing the daily Calendars of Business; preparing the official statement of Members’ voting records; preparing list of congressional nominees, and statistical summary of elections; preparing and indexing questions of order printed in the appendix to the Journal pursuant to House Rule III; and for recording and filing statements of political committees and candidates for election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, 1925 (U. S. C., pp. 15–17, secs. 241–256), $5,000. capitol police Salaries: Captain, $2,150; three lieutenants, at $1,520 each; two special officers, at $1,520 each; three sergeants, at $1,410 each; forty-four privates, at $1,360 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $73,820. For contingent expenses, $200. For purchasing and supplying uniforms and motor cycles to Capitol police, $3,750. One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING For clerk, $4,000; inspector, under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895 (U. S. C., pp. 14–18, sec. 49), $2,490; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,100; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $10,190, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the office of Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, $75,000, of which $37,500 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $37,500 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives of the statements for the second session of the Seventieth Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do the work.

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL office of the architect of the capitol Salaries: Architect of the Capitol, $7,500; chief clerk, $3,150; civil engineer, $2,770; clerk, $2,040; two clerks, at $1,840 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; laborers—one at $1,104, two at $1,010 each, two at $950 each; forewoman of charwomen, $760; twenty-two charwomen, at $412.80 each; in all, $35,005.60. For forty-eight elevator conductors, including fourteen for the Senate Office Building and fourteen for the House Office Building, at $1,520 each, $72,960. capitol buildings and grounds Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, and appurtenances; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art; purchase or exchange, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $300 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, periodicals and city directory, $79,432.60. Ventilation of the Senate Chamber: The unexpended balance of the appropriation “Senate and House ventilation, 1928 and 1929,” is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1930, and in addition thereto the sum of $3,725, to be available for the same purposes and under the same conditions of expenditure. Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol shall be available for expenses of travel on official business not to exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $1,000. Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol shall be available hereafter for expenses of advertising. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; personal and other services; care of trees; plantings; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; purchase of waterproof wearing apparel; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709 (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5) and 3744 (U. S. C., p. 1310, sec. 16) of the Revised Statutes; $70,920. For tree surgery, $5,000. For a pedestal for the Marshall statue, $1,500. For repairs and improvements to Senate and House garages and Maltby Building, including personal services, $1,500. Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For repairs, rebuilding, and maintenance of the subway cars connecting the Senate Office Building with the Senate wing of the United States Capitol and for personal and other services, including maintenance of the track and electrical equipment connected therewith, $2,000. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof; and for personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $95,628. To enable the Architect of the Capitol to procure preliminary plans and estimates of cost for the completion of the Senate Office Building, including the erection of the wing on the First Street side of said building, the completion of the C Street side of the said building so as to conform with the development of the park area to the north, the completion of all approaches heretofore incompleted, and for landscape treatment of the court, $10,000. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $105,403.20. Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, House garage, Maltby Building, folding and storage rooms of the Senate, Government Printing Office, and Washington City post office; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,940 per annum and $300 additional for the maintenance of an automobile for his use, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; personal and other services; fuel, oil, materials, labor, advertising, and purchase of waterproof wearing apparel, in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant and substations connected therewith, $489,366. Capitol power plant: Stoker equipment, $162,000; new turbine, $190,000; new electrical distributing equipment, $110,000; annex, $65,000; renewal, steam piping Supreme Court section, Capitol, $13,000; lowering flood lights, Capitol, $5,000; in all, $545,000, to be immediately available. The appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol may be expended without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments. The Department of the Interior, the Public Health Service, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, the Government Printing Office, and the Washington City post office shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for heat, light, and power furnished during the fiscal year 1930 and the amounts so reimbursed shall be covered into the Treasury. library building and grounds Salaries: Chief engineer, $2,520; chief electrician, $2,520; decorator, $2,000; painter, $1,728; assistant engineer—one at $1,860, two at $1,764 each; sheet-metal worker, $1,728; two machinists at $1,764 each; three assistant electricians, at $1,800 each; carpenters—one $1,800, one $1,728; plumber, $1,740; skilled laborers—two at $1,320 each, five at $1,260 each; general mechanic, $1,800; two laborers at $1,020 each; in all, $42,860. For trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of Library of Congress, $1,500. For necessary expenditures for the Library Building under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, and appurtenances, and personal and other services in connection with the mechanical and structural maintenance of such building, $21,000. The appropriation “Bookstacks, Library Building, 1929,” contained in the Legislative Appropriation Act, approved May 14, 1928, is hereby continued and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1930. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, $24,000. For the acquisition of a site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress, as authorized in the Act approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 622), $600,000. Toward carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act Construction to authorize the construction of new conservatories and other necessary buildings for the United States Botanic Garden,” approved March 1, 1927 (44 Stat., pt. 2, p. 1262), $300,000, and in addition thereto the Architect of the Capitol, with the approval of the Joint Committee on the Library, is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such purposes for not to exceed $576,398.

BOTANIC GARDEN Salaries: For the director and other personal services, $101,260; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library: Provided, That the quarters, heat, light, fuel, and telephone service heretofore furnished for the director’s use in the Botanic Garden shall not be regarded as a part of his salary or compensation, and such allowances may continue to be so furnished without deduction from his salary or compensation, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the Act of March 5, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 193), or any other law. Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies, including rubber boots and aprons when required for use by employees in connection with their work; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the director and his assistants not to exceed $475; street-car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden; maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger motor vehicle, and exchange, care, and maintenance of motor trucks; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; general repairs to buildings, greenhouses, heating apparatus, packing sheds, storerooms, and stables; painting, glazing; repairs to footwalks and roadways; repairing and putting comfort stations in sanitary condition; repairs and improvements to director’s residence; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $71,800. The sum of $300 may be expended at any one time by the Botanic Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5).

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS salaries For the Librarian, chief assistant librarian, and other personal services, $722,345. copyright office For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other personal services, $228,740. legislative reference service To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, including not to exceed $5,700 for employees engaged on piecework and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $70,950. distribution of card indexes For the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including personal services, freight charges (not exceeding $500), expressage, postage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, and including not to exceed $36,300 for employees engaged on piecework and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian; in all, $149,050. temporary services For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $3,000. index to state legislation To enable the Librarian of Congress to prepare an index to the legislation of the several States, together with a supplemental digest of the more important legislation, as authorized and directed by the Act entitled “An Act providing for the preparation of a biennial index to State legislation,” approved February 10, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. I, p. 4, secs. 164, 165), including personal and other services within and without the District of Columbia (including not to exceed $2,500 for special and temporary service at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), travel, necessary material and apparatus, printing and binding incident to the work of compilation, stationery, and incidentals, $33,280, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929: Provided, That so much of the Act approved February 10, 1927, as requires the Librarian to biennially report to Congress an index and digest of State legislation is repealed, and the Librarian of Congress is directed to have such indexes and digests printed and bound for official distribution only. sunday opening To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use on Sundays and on holidays within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $15,000. increase of the library For purchase of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material, for the increase of the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books, miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year 1931, $105,000. For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000. For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,500. printing and binding For miscellaneous printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for the Library Building, $196,000. For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, $45,000. For the printing of catalogue cards, $115,000. contingent expenses of the library For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $13,000. library building Salaries: For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other personal services, $148,247. For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Librarian to provide for the opening of the Library Building on Sundays and on legal holidays, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $4,700. For special and temporary services in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Building, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $500. For mail, delivery, and telephone services, rubber boots and rubber coats for workmen, stationery, uniforms for guards, miscellaneous supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Building, $7,000. For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the board, $500.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Public printing and binding: To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various branches of the Government: For salaries of Public Printer, $10,000, and Deputy Public Printer, $7,500; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary officers and employees additional to those herein appropriated for, including employees necessary to handle waste paper and condemned material for sale; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting thirty days’ annual leave to employees with pay; rents, fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including purchase, exchange, operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $4,000); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses; stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, newspapers and magazines, and books of reference (not exceeding $500) subscriptions for which may be paid in advance; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $200,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer: Provided, That inks, glues, and other supplies manufactured by the Government Printing Office in connection with its work may be furnished to departments and other establishments of the Government upon requisition, and payment made from appropriations available therefor; for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not exceeding $1,000); for salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,150, one cataloguer at $2,880, and two cataloguers at $2,150 each); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; in all, $2,500,000, to which shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress, the printing and binding for use of the Government Printing Office, and printing and binding (not exceeding $2,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol when authorized by the Secretary of the Senate; in all to an amount not exceeding this sum: Provided further, That hereafter such printing, binding and blank-book work authorized by law, as the Public Printer is not able or equipped to do at the Government Printing Office, may be produced elsewhere under contracts made by him with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. During the fiscal year 1930 any executive department or independent establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: Provided, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment concerned. All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do shall be deposited to the credit, on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office, for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1931 for printing and binding for any department or establishment, so far as the Bureau of the Budget may deem practicable, shall be incorporated in a single item for printing and binding for such department or establishment and be eliminated as a part of any estimate for any other purpose. And if any amounts for printing and binding are included as a part of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set forth in detail in a note immediately following the general estimate for printing and binding: Provided, That the foregoing requirements shall not apply to work to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. Equipment for new addition to Government Printing Office Buildings: To enable the Public Printer to equip the new eight-story addition to the Government Printing Office Buildings with the necessary steel filing equipment, intercommunicating carrier system, laboratory equipment, and other miscellaneous equipment not heretofore provided for under construction of the building, $200,000, to be available until expended.

office of superintendent of documents For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (U. S. C., p. 65–71, secs. 661–673, 45 Stat., pp. 776–785), and compensation of employees paid by the hour who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office,” approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 1417, sec. 40), $524,000: Provided, That for the purpose of conforming to section 3 of this Act this appropriation shall be considered a separate appropriation unit. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference (subscriptions to which may be paid in advance); directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies, paper, twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200); repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $85,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $25,000; for supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000; in all, $195,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries. In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1930 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: Provided, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection. Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations under the “Government Printing Office,” as provided for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments.

Approved, February 28, 1929.