2d Session. No. 95. APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, ETC. STATEMENTS SHOWING, I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY THIRD CONGRESS. II. OFFICES CREATED, AND THE SALARIES THEREOF. III. THE OFFICES THE SALARIES OF WHICH HAVE BEEN INCREASED. WITH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH INCREASE, DURING THE SAME PERIOD, MARCH 4, 1875. PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE AND CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SIXTH SECTION OF THE ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL PAYMASTERS, AND FOR OTHER WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-third Congress. Object of appropriation. By the act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United For Army pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, revolutionary pensions, and For Navy pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, and pensions to sailors of the war of 1812, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor, compensation to pension-agents, expenses of agencies, and fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided by the several acts of Congress applicable to pensions provided by law: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions, and the other expenditures under that head, shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension-fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose.. Total By the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the LEGISLATIVE. SENATE. Amount. $29, 500, 000 00 500, 000 00 30, 000, 000 00 For compensation of Senators. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, namely: Secretary of the Senate, $4,320; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, $576; chief clerk, $3,000, and the additional sum of $1,000 while the said office is held by the present incumbent, and no longer; principal clerk, principal executive clerk, minute and journal clerk, and financial clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, at $3,000 each; librarian and seven clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, at $2,220 each; five clerks, at $2,100 each; keeper of the stationery, $2,102.40; one messenger, $1,296; assistant keeper of the stationery, $1,800; Sergeant-atArms and Doorkeeper, $4,320: Provided, That hereafter be shall receive, directly or indirectly, no fees or other compensation or emolument whatever for performing the duties of the office, or in connection therewith, otherwise than as aforesaid; assistant doorkeeper, $2,592; acting assistant doorkeeper, $2.592; Postmaster to the Senate, $2,100; assistant postmaster and mail-carrier, $2,088; two mail-carriers, at $1,200 each; superintendent of the document-room, $2,160; two assistants in document-room, at $1,440 each; superintendent of the folding-room, $2,160; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at $1,800 each; twenty messengers, to be appointed and removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms, with the approval of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, at $1,440 each; Secretary to the Vice-President, $2,102.40; clerk to the Committee on Finance, $2,220; clerk to the Committee on Claims, $2,220; clerk of printing records, $2,220; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, $2,220; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, $2,220; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, $2,220; one laborer in charge of private passage, $864; one special policeman, $1,296; chaplain to the Senate, $900; chief engineer, $2,160; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; assistant engineer in charge of the Senate elevator, $1,440; two firemen, at $1,095 each; three laborers, at $730 each; and to pay Kate Dodson, female attendant in charge of ladies' retiring-room, $720; telegraph-operator, at the rate of $100 per month, $700; making in all For contingent expenses of the Senate, namely: For stationery and newspapers, (including $5,000 for stationery for committees and officers of For fourteen pages for the Senate chamber, two riding-pages, one page for the Vice-Presi For hire of horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails, for horses and wagons, and for one saddle-horse for messengers... For fuel and oil for the heating-apparatus, $10,000; for furniture and repairs of furniture, CAPITOL POLICE. For one captain, $2,000; three lieutenants, at $1,600 each; twenty-seven privates, at $1,400 each, $37,800; and eight watchmen, at $1,000 each, $8,000; making in all $52,600, onehalf to be paid into the contingent fund of the House of Representatives and the other half to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate: Provided, That hereafter, whenever a member of the Capitol police or watch force is suspended from duty for cause, said policeman or watchinan shall receive no compensation for the time of such suspension if he shall not be re-instated Carried forward 370,000 00 30,000 00 139,836 80 14,350 00 36,000 00 10,350 00 6,000 00 75,740 00 25, 000 00 52,600 00 759,876 80 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward.. For expenses of compiling and preparing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing....... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For compensation of members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories For mileage For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Clerk of the House of Representatives, $4,320; officer charged with disbursing the contingent fund, $576; chief clerk and journal-clerk of the House, while such positions are held by the present incumbents, and no longer, $3,600 each; two reading-clerks, assistant journal-clerk, and tally-clerk, $3,000 each; four assistant clerks, at $2,592 each; one assistant clerk, at $2,520; eight assistant clerks, including librarian and assistant librarian, at $2,160 each; four assistant clerks, at $1,800 each; one chief messenger in the office of the Clerk of the House, at $5.76 per day ; superintendent of document-room of the Clerk of the House, $1,800; three messengers, (including one messenger in the House library,) at $1,440 each; one engineer, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; six firemen, at $1,095 each per annum; for clerk to Committee on Ways and Means, $2.592; messenger to the Committee on Ways and Means, $1,314; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, $2,592; messenger to the Committee on Appropriations, $1,314; clerk to the Committee on Claims, $2, 160; clerk to the Committee on War-Claims, $2,160; clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, $2,160; clerk at Speaker's table, at $5.76 per day; private secretary to the Speaker, $2,102.40; Sergeant-at-Arms, $4,320: Provided, That hereafter he shall receive, directly or indirectly, no fees or other compensation or emolument whatever for performing the duties of the office, or in connection therewith, otherwise than as aforesaid; clerk to the Sergeant-at-Arms, $2,500; payingteller for the Sergeant-at-Arms, $1,800; messenger to the Sergeant-at-Arms, $1,440; Doorkeeper, $2.592; first assistant doorkeeper, $2,592: Postmaster, $2,592; first assistant postmaster, $2,088; fourteen messengers, seven at $1,500 each, and seven at $1,200 each; Chaplain of the House, $900; five official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; two stenographers for committees, $4,200 each; superintendent of the folding room, $2,160; superintendent and assistant superintendent of the documentroom, at $2,160 each; document-file clerk, $1,800; eleven messengers, five at $1,800, and six at $1,440 each; twelve messengers during the session, at the rate of $1,440 each per annum, $10,080; one telegraph-operator, at $100 per month during the sessions of Congress; fifteen laborers, at $720 each; seven laborers during the session, at the rate of $720 each per annum; one laborer, at $820; and Henry Douglas, laborer's pay, as fixed by act of March 3, 1873, $917.50; and for one female attendant in ladies' retiring-room, $600; making, in all, the sum of.. For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, namely: For clerks to committees For folding documents, including pay of folders in the folding-rooms and materials: Provided, For hire of horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails, and for one saddle-horse for mes. senger.... For furniture, and repairs of the same.. For postage stamps for the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Clerk, and the Postmaster of the House of For packing-boxes. For newspapers and stationery for members of the House of Representatives, officers of the House, and committees of the House, including $6,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House For twenty-eight pages, (including three riding-pages,) at $2.50 per day. PUBLIC PRINTING. For compensation of the Congressional Printer, and the clerks and messengers in his office.... For contingent expenses of his office, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, traveling. expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items It shall be lawful for the Congressional Printer to print and deliver, upon the order of any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or Delegate, extracts from the Congressional Record, the person ordering the same paying the cost thereof. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. For compensation of the Librarian, $4,000; and for sixteen assistant librarians, three at $2,500 For purchase of books for the Library, $9.000; for purchase of law-books for the Library, For expenses of the copyright-business... For Botanic Garden, for improving the garden, procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, and purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress. Carried forward 15, 117 60 2,500 00 Appropriations, Sc.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward.. For pay of superintendent and assistant in Botanic Garden and green-houses, and laborers, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress... $2,873, 510 10 12, 146 00 For the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol.. For furnace-keeper in charge of heating-apparatus under the old hall of the House of Repre 1,400 00 840 00 1,440 00 1,800 00 720 00 21,456 00 2,880 00 sentatives 864 00 For the following employés at the Executive Mansion, namely: For furnace-keeper, $864; two policemen, $2,640; one night-watchman, $900; one night-usher, $1,200; and two doorkeepers, at $1,200 each; in all... For two draw-keepers for Navy-Yard and Upper bridges, and for fuel, oil, and lamps. 8,004 00 1,600 00 720 00 For the person in charge of the heating-apparatus of the Library of Congress, and other steam-heating apparatus in the central building 864 00 For four watchmen in reservation numbered two, (being the Smithsonian grounds). For watchman in Lincoln Square... For watchman at Lafayette Square.. For watchinan in Washington Circle. For one bridge-keeper at Chain Bridge. 2,880 00 540 00 720 00 540 00 720 00 540 00 For watchman for circle at intersection of Massachusetts and Vermont avenues. For contingent and incidental expenses 1,080 00 720 00 2,000 00 EXECUTIVE. For compensation of the President of the United States For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States For compensation to private secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary, $2,500; two executive clerks, at $2,300 each, steward at $2,000, and messenger at $1,200, of the President of the United States: in all. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor. For official postage stamps DEPARTMENT OF STATE. For compensation of the Secretary of State, $8,000; three assistant secretaries of state, at $3.500 each; for chief clerk, $2,500; twelve clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class one; and thirteen clerks, at $900 each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; nine laborers; and four watchmen; in all.. For six chiefs of bureaus, (consular, diplomatic, accounts, rolls and library, statistics, and indexes and archives,) and one translator, at $2,400 each. And the chief of the Bureau of Accounts may be appointed by the head of the Department disbursing-clerk of the Department of State. For additional force required for the new building to be occupied by the Department, viz: For proof-reading, and packing the laws and documents for the various legations and consu For rent of stable and wagon-shed for the new State Department building For expense of editing, printing, binding, and distributing the laws enacted by the Forty- 50,000 00 8,000 00 13,800 00 6,000 00 600 00 88,020 00 16, 200 00 16, 160 00 16,500 00 71,570 00 1,000 00 2,500 00 For expense of editing, printing, binding, and distributing the Statutes at Large of the Fortythird Congress.. 10, 000 00 20, 000 00 25,000 00 For purchase of official postage-stamps.. For rent of building on Fourteenth street to time of expiration of the lease, $4,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Secretary's Office: For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, $8,000; two Assistant Carried forward 4,000 00 3,287, 934 10 |