JULY 28 (legislative day, JULY 27), 1953.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. MUNDT, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 5805]

The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5805) making appropriations for the legislative branch and the judiciary branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes, report the same to the Senate with various amendments and present herewith information relative to the changes made. Amount of bill as passed House....

Amount of increase by Senate committee..-.

Amount of bill as reported to Senate.-

Amount of appropriations, 1953_.

$80, 686, 540

15, 500, 811

96, 187, 351

105, 038, 566

Amount of regular and supplemental estimates for 1954. 113, 757, 621

The bill as reported to the Senate

Under the estimates for 1954..

17, 570, 270

Under the appropriations for 1953----

GENERAL STATEMENT

8, 851, 215

The bil! provides for the legislative branch, $70,007,831, and for the judiciary. $26,179,520 or a total of $96,187,351, which is $15 500,811 in excess of the amount proposed by the House, $17,570,270 below the budget estimates, and $8,851,215 under the appropriations for 1953. The large increase in the Senate bill over the House bill is due

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Salaries, officers and employees:

Vice President's Office: Clerical assistance..

Chaplain...

Office of the Secretary.

Committee employees..

Conference committees:

Majority, clerical salaries..

Minority, clerical salaries...

Administrative and clerical assistance to Senators.
Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, salaries...
Offices of the Secretary for the Majority, and the Secre-
tary of the Minority. salaries..

$55,410

2,946 442, 555 1,737, 045

33, 310

33,310

6, 207, 625 1,250, 520

62, 165

9, 824, 886

100,000

129,340

133, 275

188, 060

Joint Committee on Printing..

Vice President's automobile__

Automobile for the President pro tempore.

Automobiles for majority and minority leaders.

Reporting Senate proceedings..

Services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture.

Materials for furniture, etc..

Inquiries and investigations.

Folding documents

The following general provisions affecting the Senate are recommended for inclusion in the bill:

The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the State of each Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated by him: Provided. That in the event suitable space is not available in such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each Senator.

The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms are authorized and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by purchasing insurance in an amount necessary to protect said funds against loss. Premiums on such insurance shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon

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General provisions-Continued

vouchers approved by the chairman of the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration.

Salaries or wages paid out of the foregoing items
under "Contingent expenses of the Senate" shall be
computed at basic rates, plus increased and addi-
tional compensation, as authorized and provided by
law.

There is hereby created a committee consisting of six Senators, two from the Committee on Appropriations, two from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, and two from the Committee on Rules and Administration to be appointed by the respective chairmen of said committees. It shall be the duty of said committee to study the rates of compensation now being paid officers and employees of the Senate, including employees of the Senate Office Building under the Architect of the Capitol, but exc uding administrative and clerical assistants to Senators and committee employees, to determine whether such rates of compensation bear the proper relationship to each other and whether they are in line with rates now paid by the other branch of Congress, and report to the Senate at the beginning of the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, what adjustments, if any, should be made.

Total, Senate..

Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal
Expenditures..

Architect of the Capitol:

Capitol Buildings and Grounds, Capitol Buildings.
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings.
Senate Office Building maintenance, supplies, etc.-
Senate restaurants, repairs, improvements, etc.

The committee recommends that the following language be added to the bill:

PRELIMINARY PLANS AND ESTIMATES, ADDITION AL
SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the
appropriation of $850,000 provided in the Second De-
ficiency Appropriation Act, 1948, for construction and
equipment of an additional office building for the United
States Senate, is hereby made available for expenditure for
the preparation of additional preliminary plans and esti-
mates of cost for an additional office building for the use
of the United States Senate, designed primarily to provide
additional office accommodations, such expenditure to be
made by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction
and supervision of the Senate Office Building Commission
created by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of April
28, 1904 (33 Stat. 481), as amended by the Act of July
11, 1947 (61 Stat. S07), the membership of which is hereby
increased from five to seven members, such additional
members to be appointed by the President of the Senate.

Total, Architect of the Capitol..

$14,491, 768

20,000

66, 200 3,500 779, 600 4, 250

853, 550

Library of Congress:

Salaries and expenses.

Legislative Reference Service, salaries and expenses..

Distribution of catalog cards.

Under Administrative Provisions, the committee
recommends the following paragraph be added to the
House bill:

Appropriations in this Act available to the Library
of Congress shall be available, in an amount not to
exceed $10,000, when specifically authorized by the
Librarian, for expenses of attendance at meetings
concerned with the function or activity for which the
appropriation is made.

Total, Library of Congress.

General provisions, Title III:

The committee recommends the following section be deleted from the bill:

SEC. 302. No funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase, operation, maintenance, or repair of any passenger motor vehicle to be assigned for the use of the Architect of the Capitol or the Assistant Architect of the Capitol.

Total increases..

Amount of bill as reported to Senate...

$60, 27

35, 421

39, 80

135, 49

15, 500, 811 96, 187, 351

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1953 AND ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED