72d Congress, 1st Session Senate Document No. 139 BUDGET ESTIMATES, ETC. I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE FIRST SESSION, SEVENTY-SECOND CONGRESS, CONSISTING OF REGULAR ANNUAL, DEFICIENCY, AND II.-SPECIFIC AND INDEFINITE PERMANENT ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS (pp. III.-RECAPITULATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 505 to 507). IV. CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF REGULAR AND DEFICIENCY APPROPRIA- V.—REFERENCES TO INDEFINITE APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 510 to 512). VI. AMOUNT OF CONTRACTS AUTHORIZED BY APPROPRIATION OR OTHER ACTS IN ADDITION TO APPROPRIATIONS MADE THEREIN (p. 513). VII.-AUTHORIZATIONS FOR APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 514, 515). VIII.-COMPARISON OF BUDGET ESTIMATES AND APPROPRIATIONS (pp. 516 to 571). 425133 COMPILERS' NOTE The previous volumes of this work for each session of Congress from the Fiftieth "In lieu of the data relating to offices created and omitted and salaries increased The classification act of 1923, as amended, providing a method for classification of positions in the District of Columbia, salary schedules and ratings for such posi- tions, and provision for automatic promotions, effective on July 1, 1924, makes impossible the compilation of accurate and useful statements of the character This volume, pursuant to the above-quoted authority, contains detailed state- ments showing each item of appropriation made during the session and each Budget Part II of the legislative appropriation act for the fiscal year 1933 (known as the economy act) provides reductions in compensation, furlough without pay, and other decreases applicable to the appropriations herein contained for the fiscal year 1933. The estimated savings to result from the impounding of appropriations and reduction in expenditures through the application of the provisions of the act is 2 17. Amount of contracts authorized by appropriation or other acts in addi- tion to appropriations made therein. 3 JAMES P. BUCHANAN, Texas. WILLIAM W. ARNOLD, Illinois. JOHN J. BOYLAN, New York. TILMAN B. PARKS, Arkansas. CHARLES L. ABERNETHY, North Carolina. LEWIS W. DOUGLAS, Arizona. LOUIS LUDLOW, Indiana. WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, Massachusetts. THOMAS L. BLANTON, Texas. MICHAEL J. HART, Michigan. 1 Deceased April 18, 1932. WILLIAM R. WOOD, Indiana. EDWARD W. WASON, New Hampshire. GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, Massachusetts. BURTON L. FRENCH, Idaho. MILTON W. SHREVE, Pennsylvania. FRANK MURPHY, Ohio. JOHN W. SUMMERS, Washington. JOHN TABER, New York. MAURICE H. THATCHER, Kentucky. FRANK CLAGUE, Minnesota. ROBERT G. SIMMONS, Nebraska. WILLIAM P. HOLADAY, Illinois. 2 Appointed April 28, 1932, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of William J. Harris. All members elected on Dec. 9, 1931. 4 I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE FIRST SESSION. SEVENTY-SECOND CONGRESS, CONSISTING OF REGULAR ANNUAL, DEFICIENCY, AND MISCELLANEOUS AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION ACT [PUBLIC NO. 269-72D CONGRESS] [H. R. 7912] By the act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes, approved July 7, 1932 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES For Secretary of Agriculture, $15,000; Assistant Secretary, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, including $7,294 for extra labor and emergency employments, and for personal services in the field, $806,547; in all, $821,547: Provided, That in addition thereto, this appropriation may be reimbursed for the cost of such additional employments as may be necessary for cleaning, in whole or in part, of buildings of the Department of Agriculture in the city of Washington, from the appropriations made for the bureaus or offices for which such service is performed: Provided further, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit. shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: Provided further, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923 as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land: Provided further, That not to exceed $55,000 of the appropriations available for salaries and expenses of officers |