Legislative Establishment Appropriation BillU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Courts |
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... question involved is one of policy . There is a very considerable and a rather mortifying discrepancy between the Library service and that of other departments of the Government in the pay of these minor positions . I think that the ...
... question involved is one of policy . There is a very considerable and a rather mortifying discrepancy between the Library service and that of other departments of the Government in the pay of these minor positions . I think that the ...
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... question as to the con- trol of water power may come up this year , and also the questions of marine subsidies and a budget . LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE . The staff for this work has barely been organized . The appropriation became available ...
... question as to the con- trol of water power may come up this year , and also the questions of marine subsidies and a budget . LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE . The staff for this work has barely been organized . The appropriation became available ...
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... questions which you desire to ask the Postmaster General ? Mr. BYRNS . No , sir . I want to amend your suggestion in thank ... question : You remember that in former hearings there developed a great difference in the purchase price of ...
... questions which you desire to ask the Postmaster General ? Mr. BYRNS . No , sir . I want to amend your suggestion in thank ... question : You remember that in former hearings there developed a great difference in the purchase price of ...
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... question having arisen there whether a man should be sent to Japan or Australia . Mr. JOHNSON . What is the character of the men employed ? Are they men noted for their scholarship or for their previous business activities ? Secretary ...
... question having arisen there whether a man should be sent to Japan or Australia . Mr. JOHNSON . What is the character of the men employed ? Are they men noted for their scholarship or for their previous business activities ? Secretary ...
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... question was how to take the impurities out of the clay so that they can make white wares ; furthermore these white laboratory wares must stand a high tem- perature . Our industries are very backward in many cases , but with a little ...
... question was how to take the impurities out of the clay so that they can make white wares ; furthermore these white laboratory wares must stand a high tem- perature . Our industries are very backward in many cases , but with a little ...
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additional clerks Admiral McGOWAN amount appointed asking assistant AVERILL AYERS banks bill BUCHANAN building bureau Bureau of Navigation BYRNS census cent chief clerk Civil Service clerk of class commission commissioner Congress cost course DAVIS detailed District District of Columbia duties efficiency division eligibles employees estimate examination fair standard field filing fiscal fund Government increase Indian inspectors investigation JOHNSON June 30 KRAM laborers law clerks LELAND STANFORD Library machines MALBURN matter McILHENNY ment MERITT messenger months Naval Navy Navy Department necessary OSBORN paid Pension position Post Office Department present purchase question received record reduced reference roll salary SALTZGABER Secretary REDFIELD Secretary's SISSON solicitor STAFFORD standard of efficiency statement subtreasuries survey TALLMAN thing tion Treasurer's office Treasury Department typewriters vacancies War Department Washington watchmen WETMORE WILMETH
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Page 312 - That the heads of executive departments and other Government establishments are authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty when not otherwise fixed by law.
Page 651 - GOVERNOR'S OFFICE Mr. TAYLOR. The next item is : For contingent expenses, to be expended by the Governor for stationery, postage, and Incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the Governor, $3,100; temporary clerk hire, $500; for traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business, $1,250; in all, $5,850.
Page 390 - June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Page 606 - For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents...
Page 390 - And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors...
Page 401 - ... for the benefit of the people, and not for the benefit of the officer, that removal is proper.
Page 11 - I go to work knowing my child is somewhere safe from 8 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 588 - For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.
Page 19 - ... directory, stationery, mail and delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, $14,000. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, including not exceeding $7,000 for the extension and completion of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the card section, $17,000. Provisions in "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government...
Page 209 - For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department...