Public Law 75–236

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, 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 the President of the Senate and of Senators, $102,000, of which $51,000 Shall be available immediately for the third session of the Seventy-fifth Congress. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the vice president Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,620; clerk, $2,400; assistant, clerks—one $2,280, one $2,160; in all, $11,460. chaplain Chaplain of the Senate, $1,680. 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, $8,000: Chief Clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $5,500 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; financial clerk, $5,000 and $2,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant financial clerk, $4,500; Parliamentarian, $5,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; Journal Clerk, $3,780; principal clerk, $3,780; legislative clerk, $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; enrolling clerk, $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; printing clerk, $3,540; chief bookkeeper, $3,600; librarian, $3,360; assistant Journal Clerk, $3,360; executive clerk, $3,180; first assistant librarian, $3,120; keeper of stationery, $3,320; clerks—one at $3,180, one at $2,880 and $300 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, three at $2,880 each, three at $2,640 each, clerk in Disbursing Office, $2,400, six at $2,400 each, three at $1,860 each, three at $1,740 each; special officer, $2,460; messenger, from April 15, 1938, to June 30, 1939, both dates inclusive, $1,522.50; laborers—one at $1,740, one at $1,620. five at $1,380 each, one in Secretary’s office, $1,680, one, $1,560, one, $1,260; in all, $142,302.50. document room Salaries: Superintendent, $3,960 and $1,040 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; first assistant, $2,640; second assistant, $2,040; four assistants, at $2,040 each; skilled laborer, $1,380; in all, $19,220. committee employees Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture and Forestry—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Appropriations—clerk, $7,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $4,800; assistant clerk, $3,900; three assistant clerks at $3,000 each; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each: messenger, $1,800. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220. Civil Service—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Claims—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks, at $2,220 each. Commerce—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks, at $2,220 each. Conference Majority of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,900; two assistant clerks at $2,880 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Education and Labor—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Finance—clerk, $4,200; special assistant to the committee, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,700; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each; two experts (one for majority and one for the minority) at $3,600 each; messenger, $1,800. Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800; messenger, $1,800. Immigration—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600, and $1,400 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Inter-oceanic Canals—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Interstate Commerce—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Irrigation and Reclamation— clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Judiciary—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; two assistant clerks at $2,580 each; assistant clerk, $2,220. Library—clerk, $3,900; two assistant clerks at $2,400 each; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Manufactures—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Military Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Mines and Mining—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; two additional clerks at $1,800 each. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,400; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Patents—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Pensions—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; four assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; four assistant clerks at $2,220 each; additional clerk, $1,800. Printing—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Privileges and Elections— clerk, $3,900; assistant, clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Public Lands and Surveys—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,400; assistant clerk $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Rules—clerk, $3,900 and $200 toward the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; assistant clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,580; assistant clerk, $2,220; additional clerk, $1,800. Territories and Insular Affairs—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,580; two assistant clerks at $2,220 each: assistant clerk, $2,000; additional clerk, $1,800; in all, $505,400. clerical assistants to senators Clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specially provided for herein, as follows: Seventy clerks at $3,900 each; seventy assistant clerks at $2,400 each; and seventy assistant clerks at $2,220 each; 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 $1,800 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; messenger, $1,800; in all, $724,200. office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $8,000; two secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $5,400 each and $1,000 additional each so long as the respective positions are held by the present respective incumbents; two assistant secretaries (one for the majority and one for the minority), at $4,320 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $4,800; clerks—one $3,000, one $2,100; two at $2,000 each, one $1,800, one to the secretary for the majority, $1,800, one to the secretary of the minority, $1,800, one $1,500; assistant doorkeeper, $2,880; messengers—three (acting as assistant doorkeepers), at $2,400 each; thirty-one (including four for minority), at $1,740 each; four, at $1,620 each; one at card door, $2,640, and $240 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk on journal work for Congressional Record to be selected by the Official Reporters, $3,360; upholsterer and locksmith, $2,400; cabinetmaker, $2,040; three carpenters, at $2,040 each; janitor, $2,400; five skilled laborers, $1,680 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $1,740; four female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,500 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,500 each; telephone operators— chief, $2,460 and $280 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; fourteen, at $1,560 each; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $1,200; press gallery— superintendent, $3,660, assistant superintendent, $2,520; assistant superintendent, $2,400; messengers for service to press correspondents—three at $1,440 each; laborers—three, at $1,380 each, thirty at $1,260 each, three at $480 each; special employees—seven, at $1,000 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $4 per day each, during the session, $15,204; in all, $264,844. Police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,740; special officer, $1,740; thirty-one privates at $1,620 each; in all, $53,700. post office Salaries: Postmaster, $3,600; assistant postmaster, $2,880; chief clerk, $2,460; wagon master, $2,280; twenty-six mail carriers, at $1,620 each; in all, $53,340. folding room Salaries: Foremen, $2,460; assistant, $2,160; clerk, $1,740; folders— chief, $2,040, fourteen at $1,440 each; in all, $28,560. contingent expenses of the senate For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $4,000. For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $60,340. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. 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, $150,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended. For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law, $29,000. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $18,000. For materials for folding, $1,500. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2.000. 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, $35,000. 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, $8,260. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $200,000. For packing boxes, $970. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $350; office of Sergeant at Arms, $150; in all, $500. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, and for the purchase of furniture, $8.000. For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, including $7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $31,500, of which sum $12,000 shall be available immediately. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $2,000.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES salaries and mileage of members For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, $4,385,000. For mileage of Representatives, the Delegate from Hawaii, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and for expenses of the Delegate from Alaska, $342,000, of which amount $171,000 shall be available immediately for the third session of the Seventy-fifth Congress. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: office of the speaker Salaries: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,620; three clerks to the Speaker, at $2,400 each; messenger to Speaker, $1,680; in all, $13,500. the speaker’s table Salaries: Parliamentarian $4,500, and $1,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; Assistant Parliamentarian, $2,760 and $750 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; messenger to Speaker’s Table, $1,740; in all, $12,250. chaplain Chaplain of the House of Representatives, $1,680. office of the clerk Salaries: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $8,000; Journal clerk, two reading clerks, and tally clerk, at $5,000 each; enrolling clerk, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $3,960 and $1,040 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; file clerk, $3,780; chief bill clerk, $3,540; assistant enrolling clerk, $3,180 and $720 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant to disbursing clerk, $3,120 and $780 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; stationery clerk, $2,880; librarian, $2,760; assistant librarian, and assistant file clerk, at $2,520 each; assistant Journal clerk, and assistant librarian, at $2,460 each; clerks—one at $2,460, three at $2,340 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $2,160 each: four assistants to chief bill clerk at $2,100 each; stenographer to the Clerk, $2,500; assistant in stationery room, $1,740; three messengers at $1,680 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,560; laborers—three at $1,440 each, ten at $1,260 each; telephone operators—assistant chief, $1,800; twenty-three at $1,560 each; substitute telephone operator, when required, at $4 per day, $1,460; 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, $3,960; two assistant custodians at $3,360 each; locksmith and typewriter repairer, $1,860; messenger and clock repairer, $1,740; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, $1,200; in all, $172,300. committee employees Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Agriculture—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Appropriations—clerk, $7,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $5,000 and $2,500 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $3,900, and $1,100 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; two assistant clerks at $3,900 each and $600 each additional so long as the respective positions are held by the present respective incumbents; assistant clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $3,600 and $900 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; two assistant clerks at $3,300 each; messenger, $1,680; four clerk-stenographers, at the annual rate of $1,800 each, one for each subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations having jurisdiction over a regular annual appropriation bill as shall be designated by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and to be appointed by the chairmen of the subcommittees so designated, subject to the approval of the Chairman, $7,200. Banking and Currency—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Census—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Civil Service—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740 and $720 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; janitor, $1,260. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Disposition of Executive Papers—clerk, $2,760. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,300 assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Education—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Election of the President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk, $2,760. Elections Numbered 1—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Elections Numbered 2—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Elections Numbered 3—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Expenditures in Executive Departments—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260, Flood Control—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Foreign Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Immigration and Naturalization—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Indian Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,260. Insular Affairs—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk, $3,900; additional clerk, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Invalid Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,880; expert examiner, $2,700; stenographer, $2,640; janitor, $1,500. judiciary—clerk, $3,900; assistant clerk, $2,460; assistant clerk, $1,980; janitor, $1,560. Labor—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Library—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Military Affairs-—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Mines and Mining—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Patents—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. Pensions-—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,160; janitor, $1,260. Post Office and Post Roads—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560. Printing—clerk,$2,760; janitor, $1,560. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1560. Public Lands-—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,300; janitor, $1,260. Rivers and Harbors—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; janitor, $1,560. Roads—clerk, $2,760; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260. Rules—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1560. Territories—clerk, $2,760; janitor, $1,260. War Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,260, Ways and Means—clerk, $4,620; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,640; assistant clerk, $2,580; clerk for minority, $3,180; janitors—one, $1,560; two at $1,260 each. World War Veterans’ Legislation—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; in all, $318,880. office of sergeant at arms Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $8,000; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of mace, $3,180; cashier, $6,000; assistant cashier, $4,000; two bookkeepers, at $3,360 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of pairs, $3,600; pair clerk and messenger, $2,820; stenographer and typewriter, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,380; hire of automobile, $600; in all, $38,100. Police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,740; sergeant, $1,680; thirty-seven privates at $1,620 each; in all, $63,360. office of doorkeeper Salaries: Doorkeeper, $6,000; special employee, $2,820; superintendent of House press gallery, $3,660; assistants to the superintendent of the House press gallery—one at $2,520 and one at $2,400; chief janitor, $2,700; messengers—seventeen at $1,740 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,740 each; laborers—seventeen at $1,260 each, two (cloakroom) at $1,380 each, one (cloakroom) $1,260, and seven (cloakroom) at $1,140 each; three female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,680 each, attendant for the ladies’ reception room, $1,440; superintendent of folding room, $3,180; foreman of folding room, $2,640; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room, $2,460; three clerks at $2,160 each; janitor, $1,260; laborer, $1,260; thirty-one folders at $1,440 each; shipping clerk, $1,740; two drivers at $1,380 each; two chief pages at $1,980 each; two telephone pages at $1,680 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority) at $3,180 each; two assistant floor managers in charge of telephones (one for the minority) at $2,100 each; forty-seven pages, during the session, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $4 per day each, $34,028; superintendent of document room (Elmer A. Lewis), $3,960 and $1,040 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,760 and $420 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; clerk, $2,320; assistant clerk, $2,160; eight assistants at $1,860 each; janitor, $1,440; messenger to press room, $1,560; maintenance and repair of folding room motortruck, $500; in all, $263,308. special and minority employees For the minority employees authorized and named in the House Resolutions Numbered 51 and 53 of December 11, 1931, and Number 281 of July 21, 1937: Two at $5,000 each, three at $2,820 each; one at $3,600 (minority pair clerk, House Resolution Numbered 313 of August 7, 1935); in all, $22,060. Special employees: Assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, $1,980; laborer, authorized and named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, $1,380; laborer, $1,380; in all, $4,740. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the two preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,110; clerk, $2,530; two assistant clerks, at $1,800 each; for official expenses of the majority leader, as authorized by House Resolution Numbered 101, Seventy-first Congress, adopted December 18, 1929, $2,000; in all, $11,240. Conference minority: Clerk, $3,180: legislative clerk, $3,060; assistant clerk, $2,100; janitor, $1,560$ in all, $9,900. The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader. Two messengers, one in the majority caucus room and one in the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,740 each: in all, $3,480. post office Salaries: Postmaster, $5,000; assistant postmaster, $2,880; two registry and money-order clerks, at $2,100 each; forty messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,740 each; substitute messengers and extra services of regular employees, when required, at the rate of not to exceed $145 per month each, $1,740; laborer, $1,260; in all, $84,680. For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles for carrying the mails, $2,500. official reporters of debates Salaries: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House at $7,500 each; clerk, $4,000; assistant clerk, $2,000; six expert transcribers at $2,000 each; in all, $63,000. committee stenographers Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,360; in all, $31,360. Whenever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and eighty-one days from January 1 to June 30, 1939, both inclusive. clerk hire, members and delegates For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member and Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, 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 June 20, 1929, $2,190,000. contingent expenses of the house For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $27,500 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $41,500. For packing boxes, $2,500. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually paid out by them for transcribing hearings, and including materials for folding, $96,500, of which $18,000 shall be available immediately. For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than special and select committees, $30,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 shall be available immediately. For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $60,000. For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as authorized by law, $29,000. No part of the appropriations contained herein for the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives shall be used to defray the expenses of any committee consisting of more than six persons (not more than four from the House and not more than two from the Senate), nor to defray the expenses of any other person except the Sergeant at Arms of the House or a representative of his office and except the widow or minor children or both of the deceased, to attend the funeral rites and burial of any person who at the time of his or her death is a Representative, a Delegate from a Territory, or a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $85,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the third session of the Seventy-fifth Congress and the first session of the Seventy-sixth Congress, and for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House (not to exceed $5,000), $114,500, of which sum $54,750 shall be available immediately. For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses for the emergency room and for the attending physician and his assistants, including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month each to three assistants as provided by the House resolutions adopted July 1, 1930, and January 20, 1932, $3,500. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; Sergeant at Arms, $250; Doorkeeper, $100; in all, $950. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $25,000, to be available immediately. For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S. C., 59), $6,500, to be expended under the direction of the Committee on Revision of the Laws. For assistants in compiling lists 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 or 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 lists 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; 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 (2 U. S. C., 241–256); and for such other assistance as the Clerk of the House may deem necessary and proper in the conduct of the business of his office, $4,500: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to augment the annual salary of any employee of the House of Representatives. For exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $4,000.

CAPITOL POLICE Salaries: Captain, $2,700; three lieutenants, at $1,740 each; two special officers, at $1,740 each; three Sergeants, at $1,680 each; fifty-two privates, at $1,620 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, $100,680: Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, as an officer or member of the Capitol Police (including those, for the Senate and House Office Buildings) who does not meet the standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police Board: Provided further, That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized to detail police from the House and Senate Office Buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds. For purchasing and supplying uniforms, purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, contingent expenses, including $25 per month for extra services performed by a member of such force for the Capitol Police Board, $9,400. 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 Salaries: Clerk, $4,000 and $800 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent: inspector under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895 (44 U. S. C., 49), $2,820; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,640; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $11,860, 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, $77,500, of which $37,500 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $40,000 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 and third sessions of the Seventy-fifth 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 such committees to do the work.

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL office of the architect of the capitol Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of the Capitol, and other personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Architect; $59,100. capitol buildings and grounds Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special clothing for workmen; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art; purchase or exchange (not to exceed $1,000), maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled passenger-carrying office vehicle; not exceeding $300 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, periodicals, and city directory; $287,000. 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 $1,500. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol power plant; personal and other services: care of trees; planting; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; purchase of water-proof wearing apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709 (41 U. S. C., 5) and 3744 (41 U. S. C., 16) of the Revised Statutes, $101,000. Legislative, garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, and all necessary incidental expenses, $9,000. Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For repairs, rebuilding, and maintenance of the subway system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Senate wing of the United States Capitol and for personal and other services, including maintenance of the cars, track, and electrical equipment connected therewith, $6.000. 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, acting through the Architect of the Capitol, who shall be its executive agent; in all, $259,909. For increasing the salaries of twenty-six custodial, grade 2, employees from $1,080 to $1,140, $1,560. For metal filing units, $5,000. House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $375,240. Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buddings, Supreme Court, Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City Post. Office and for light and power therefor whenever available; personal and other services, engineering instruments, fuel, oil, materials, labor, advertising, and purchase of waterproof wearing apparel in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant, $542,930. The unexpended balance on June 30, 1938, of the allocation of $462,250 made available immediately under the appropriation for the Capitol Power Plant, contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1939. 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 (41 U. S. C. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments. The Architect of the Capitol may continue the employment under his jurisdiction of Charles R. Torbert and Harry M. Reynolds notwithstanding any provision of any other law or regulation to the contrary. The Government Printing Office and the Washington City Post Office shall reimburse the Capitol Power Plant for neat, light, and power whenever any such service is furnished during the fiscal year 1939, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be covered into the Treasury. library buildings and grounds Salaries: For chief engineer and all personal services at rates of pay provided by law, $72,000. Salaries, Sunday opening: For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the opening of the Library Buildings on Sundays and on holidays, at rates to be fixed by such Architect, $5,000. For necessary expenditures for the Library Buildings and Grounds 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 buildings and grounds, $34,500. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, $20,000. BOTANIC GARDEN Salaries: For personal services (including not exceeding $3,000 for miscellaneous temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended), $81,000; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. Maintenance, operation, repairs, and improvements: For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden, and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, and equipment pertaining thereto, including procuring fertilizers, soils, tools, 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; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; disposition of waste; traveling expenses of the director and his assistants not to exceed $250; street-car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses; the prevention and eradication of insect and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials and procurement of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of any other Act; repair, maintenance, operation, purchase, and exchange, of motor trucks and a passenger motor vehicle (the cost of such passenger vehicle not to exceed $750, including the amount allowed on any vehicle given in part payment therefor); purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to director’s residence; and all other necessary expenses; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library; $33,350. 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 (41 U. S. C. 5). No part of the appropriations contained herein for the Botanic Garden shall be used for the distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or other nursery stock. The purchase of supplies and equipment and the procurement of services at the Botanic Garden may be made in the open market without compliance with sections 3709 and 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in the manner common among businessmen, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the services does not exceed $50 in any instance.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS salaries For the Librarian, Chief Assistant Librarian, Chief Reference Librarian, and other personal services, including special and temporary services and extra special services of regular employees (not exceeding $2,000) at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $1,054,200. For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other personal services, $255,400. 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, and for printing and binding the digests of public general bills, and 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, $99,500. 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 $58,500 for employees engaged in piecework and work by the day or hour and for extra special services of regular employees at rates to be fixed by the Librarian; in all, $210,000. 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 (2 U. S. C. 164, 165), including personal and other services within and without the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $2,500 for special and temporary services at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, travel, necessary material and apparatus, and for printing and binding the indexes and digests of State legislation for official distribution only, and other printing and binding incident to the work of compilation, stationery, and incidentals, $32,000. 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, $22,000. union catalogues To continue the development and maintenance of the Union Catalogues, including personal services within and without the District of Columbia (and not to exceed $700 for special and temporary services, including extra special services of regular employees, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian), travel, necessary material and apparatus, stationery, photostat supplies, and incidentals, $23,300. 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, $112,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1940. For the purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, including payment for legal society publications and for freight, commissions, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of law books, $70,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1940. For the purchase of books and periodicals 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, $8,000. books for adult blind To enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $275,000, including not exceeding $500 for necessary traveling expenses connected with such service and for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian. 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, $258,500. For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office and the decisions of the United States courts involving copyright, $50.000. For the printing of catalog cards, $155.000. contingent expenses of the library For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, office 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, $9,000. For paper, chemicals, and miscellaneous supplies necessary for the operation of the photoduplicating machines of the Library and the making of photoduplicate prints, $5,000. library buildings Salaries: For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other personal services, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, including special and temporary services and special services of regular employees in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Buildings, in the discretion of the Librarian (not exceeding $750), at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $268,600. For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Librarian to provide for the opening of the Library Buildings on Sundays and on holidays, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $9,000. For mail, delivery, including purchase or exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and telephone services, rubber boots, rubber coats, and other special clothing for workmen, uniforms for guards and elevator conductors, medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses for the emergency room, stationery, miscellaneous supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Buildings, $16,700. 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 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 and Deputy Public Printer; 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 half 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 leave to employees with pay, said pay to be at the rate for their regular positions at the time the leave is granted; rental of buildings and equipment, 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 operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and the purchase or exchange of two such passenger vehicles (at a cost, including the allowance on any vehicle given in part payment therefor, of not to exceed $1,000 and $750, respectively), for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; 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); adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; rubber boots, coats, and gloves; machinery (not exceeding $300,000); 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; 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 $3,480, one cataloguer at $3,180, two cataloguers at $2,460 each, and one cataloguer at $2,100); for the printing and distribution of the Federal Register in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved July 26, 1935; and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work; in all, $3,820,000; to which sum shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress including supplemental and deficiency estimates of appropriations, the printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (not exceeding $120,000), 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 upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate, in all to an amount not exceeding $2,820,000: Provided, That not less than $1,000,000 of such working capital shall be returned to the Treasury as an unexpended balance not later than six months after the close of the fiscal year 1939. 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 1939 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 1940 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, including the total cost, of work produced on the multilith, multigraph, and other similar equipment 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 the executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law.

office of superintendent of documents Salaries: For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, 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 (44 U. S. C. 40), $630,000: Provided, That for the purpose of conforming to section 3 of this Act this appropriation shall be considered a separate appropriation unit. General expenses: For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference; 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 buildings, elevators, and machinery; rental of equipment; preserving sanitary condition of building; light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, bibliographies, catalogues and indexes; for supplying books to depository libraries; in all, $227,430: 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, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents: Provided further, That the appropriations for construction of Annex Buildings, Government Printing Office, Washington, District of Columbia, shall be available for rental and repair of temporary quarters, and the heating and ventilation (including operating personnel) thereof, commencing July 1, 1937, and continuing until the completion of such project. In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1939 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 appropriation 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 (41 U. S. C. 7), concerning purchases for executive departments.

Approved, May 17, 1938.