had to fill it by a resolution of the House Administration Committee and we never had two people there, at anyone time.

Mr. CASEY. You never had two people there?

Mr. MILLER. Two people but only one job.

Mr. CASEY. You have it budgeted at double the amount.

Mr. ANDREWS. That is on the Republican side.

Mr. CASEY. Yes. There are two snack bar attendants for the Republican cloakroom but only one for the Democratic cloakroom.

Mr. MILLER. Our man can do twice the work the two girls can do over there. Or maybe the other side have a more demanding service. Mr. CASEY. You mean they need somebody to spread their napkins or something?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. That may be.

MANICURISTS IN BARBERSHOPS

Mr. CASEY. I am also curious as to why there is no manicurist in the barbershop of the Cannon Building but there is one in the Longworth Building and in the Rayburn Building.

Mr. MILLER. It is the intention of the House Administration Committee to furnish a manicurist for the Cannon House Office Building if and when the building is completed and we have a full contingent of people working in the Cannon House Office Building. But right now we feel we do not need a manicurist as such and we are also short one barber there, you will notice.

Mr. CASEY. Is not this manicurist fairly new?

Mr. MILLER. The one we had in the Cannon Office Building, this would be her second year to work here if she stayed with us, but she quit last fall after the election and went downtown to work in a department as secretary.

Mr. CASEY. Do you have any idea how much it is costing per manicure?

Mr. MILLER. A manicure costs 75 cents. That is what she gets.
Mr. CASEY. She gets 75 cents per manicure plus her salary?
Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. CASEY. Do you have any idea how many manicures she gives in a year?

Mr. MILLER. I do not but she has to buy all her equipment after we put the initial equipment down there to work with.

Mr. ANDREWS. Would you put in the record the authorization for the employment of a manicurist in the barbershops?

Mr. MILLER. If I do not have it available I will get it from the clerk of the Committee on House Administration and I will find out how it was done. It was done by the Committee on House Administration, I

am sure.

Mr. ANDREWS. Put that in the record.

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir.

(The information follows:)

NOTE. At the request of the Doorkeeper in April 1965, the Committee on House Administration authorized the establishment of a Manicurist position in the Rayburn House Office Building identical to the one already in existence and located in the Cannon House Office Building.

When the Rayburn position was established, the Doorkeeper transferred the Cannon manicurist to the Rayburn position and then recruited a new manicurist for the vacated Cannon House Office Building position.

PERIODICAL PRESS GALLERY

Mr. CASEY. Just what does the House Periodical Press Gallery do? Mr. MILLER. Mr. Casey, the Office of the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives is, I presume, a place where all people who are employed here, as such, are put on our payrolls.

Mr. CASEY. You say service people put their payrolls?

Mr. MILLER. I mean the news media. They are all on the payroll of the House of Representatives. We pay the bill for the superintendent and his assistant.

Mr. CASEY. I do not follow you.

Mr. MILLER. We have the news media on Capitol Hill. On the other side we have the newspaper people, the radio and television people, the periodical press people such as correspondents that work for Time, Life, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, McCall's, Better Homes and Gardens, Better Business, Business Week, and all the different magazines that are printed. They have someone on their staff that is represented and entitled to gallery privileges in our Periodical Press Gallery. They are to us, just another medium of reporting. They are under the supervision of a standing committee elected out of their own people and they report to the Speaker and the Speaker lays down the rules that each gallery is guided by and they are on the payroll of the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.

Mr. CASEY. You mean these two people are?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, then you have five or six or seven in the regular Press Gallery.

Mr. JENNINGS. That was provided for in House Resolution 1055. Mr. MILLER. Then you have the regular people in the Radio and Television Gallery. We pay them an annual wage.

Mr. CASEY. I just passed that door. I have never been inside but it looks small.

Mr. MILLER. There are not too many periodicals in operation these days.

Mr. CASEY. What do we need that Periodical Press Gallery for?

Mr. MILLER. The Speaker put it in practice.

Mr. CASEY. And it just stayed?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir, and Mr. Day has been made Superintendent of that Periodical Press Gallery.

Mr. CASEY. Who else is in there?

Mr. MILLER. Mrs. Jeanne C. Hundley. She is known as Assistant Chief and her position control number is 40-27.

Mr. CASEY. What do they do?

Mr. MILLER. They answer the telephones for the queries of reporters of the periodicals. They attend all committee hearings that are open. They listen daily to the proceedings of the House. You will always find some lady or man in the gallery and two or three or four of the correspondents from the periodicals. Tomorrow when we have a joint meeting to receive General Westmoreland you will find that gallery quite crowded because they will want to come and make firsthand reports.

Mr. CASEY. You mean they have a special gallery?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir, as you face the Speaker looking south.

Mr. CASEY. As I face the Speaker looking south?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. You work so hard you have not seen the sunset.

Mr. YATES. He sees the sunrise.

Mr. CASEY. I seldom see that either. I face the Speaker?

Mr. MILLER. You are facing toward the south and right over the Speaker is the Newspaper Gallery. To the left of you is the Periodical Press Gallery.

Mr. CASEY. The same level?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. To the right of you is the Radio and Television Gallery. The Newspaper Gallery is made up of four different sections of desks, with the necessary stools to sit on. You have seen those and you have seen them loaded and you will see them loaded tomorrow when the general comes over to make his report.

(Discussion off the record.)

Mr. CASEY. As I understand you, the House Periodical Press Gallery is maintained for the convenience of the periodical press, those who put out periodical publications?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir; that is correct.

Mr. CASEY. And if we were running a boondoggle like that they would criticize you and every other officer and say they were not earning their pay, and yet we are subsidizing the operation by keeping two people there for convenience to answer the phone and give them information.

Mr. MILLER. They are also doing the same thing over in the other body.

Mr. CASEY. I do not have anything to say about what goes on in the other body. But as I understand it this is maintained for the convenience and I mean convenience of the publishers of periodicals. It is a hangover from a time when they may have been more active.

I will tell you, Mr. Chairman, I see no need or justification for the maintenance of the Periodical Press Gallery.

Mr. ANDREWS. We will take that up in executive session.
We will adjourn until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon.

MONDAY, MAY 1, 1967.

Mr. STEED. The committee will be in order.

The committee resumes consideration of the budget request for the House of Representatives being presented by the Clerk of the House.

Mr. Jennings, we shall be glad to have you present the next item of this request.

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER

Mr. JENNINGS. Mr. Chairman, the next item is on page 17 of the committee print, and pertains to the Postmaster.

For the Office of the Postmaster, $550,200, compared with $539,725 appropriated for 1967, or an increase of $10,475.

We are requesting this increase to carry out the provisions of the House Employees Position Classification Act, which allowed for the creation of new positions, longevity increases, and pay raises for the House wage schedule employees.

Mr. H. H. Morris, the Postmaster, is here to answer specific questions pertaining to his office.

NEW POSITIONS

Mr. STEED. Reference is made to new positions, but there is no schedule of the positions. Were there in fact any new positions in the Postmaster's Office this year?

Mr. MORRIS. Yes, Mr. Chairman. The House Administration Committee gave two new positions effective March 8, which as yet have not been filled by the patronage committee, but they have been authorized. Mr. STEED. Will this budget request be sufficient to meet your automatic increases, and also take care of your new positions?

Mr. MORRIS. It will, yes, sir. The two positions are mail clerks, one of which will be used to make a 7 o'clock pickup from the Rayburn Building which up until this time we have been unable to do because of insufficient manpower.

In addition, they have also given us an electric cart to be used for that purpose.

Mr. STEED. These are the only two new ones since the last budget? Mr. MORRIS. That is correct.

MAIL VOLUME

Mr. STEED. What about the mail volume? Can you give us any statistical information on how that is running?

Mr. MORRIS. The mail volume in 1966 showed about a 5-percent increase over 1965 due to its being an election year. Also, these figures seem to bear out that in the months of December and January there was a marked increase in letters in that period which possibly was due to the interest in the case of the gentleman from New York. So I have been told by Members.

Mr. STEED. We are told the expectation is about 61 Members will be moved into the renovated part of the Cannon Building around July 1. Certainly they will be there at least most of the coming fiscal year. Does your present staff enable you to take care of that situation?

Mr. MORRIS. It will, Mr. Chairman, due to the fact that while this renovation has been going on and the building was cut practically in half, we have been combining the floors over there, using other extra men on the primary shifts. When it is necessary to reopen the Cannon Building in its entirety, we will have enough men.

Mr. STEED. Have there been any other developments during the year worthy of comment that you would like to tell us?

Mr. MORRIS. Yes, sir. I believe due to your efforts and that of other Members, the problem we had last year of a traffic jam on the freight elevator created by the trash brought from the Rayburn Building, has

been alleviated with the opening of a paper press over there. We no longer have that trouble in meeting our schedule for Members in the Rayburn Building.

Mr. STEED. What constitutes the area of complaint, if any, that you have to cope with?

Mr. MORRIS. We still have some area of complaint from Members in the Rayburn Building not getting their mail prior to going to committee, as they were able to do when they were in the Longworth and Cannon Buildings. Those who have had a more serious problem have made arrangements out of their own office to send someone over to pick it up. We call them as soon as the mail has been boxed for that office. They come over usually between 9:30 and a quarter to 10.

Mr. STEED. Are you having any problems in your trucking of outgoing mail to the Main Post Office?

Mr. MORRIS. No, sir, we are not. In fact, they have been very good on that. Whenever we have an accumulation on the loading dock, by calling down at the official mail section they will dispatch an extra truck so it does not accumulate and pile up too much there.

Mr. STEED. Questions?

Mr. YATES. I have no questions.

Mr. STEED. Mr. Reifel?

Mr. REIFEL. No questions.

Mr. STEED. Thank you, Mr. Morris, for your presentation. If you would like to add any comment for the record when you correct the material, you may do so.

Mr. MORRIS. I have just a short statement to add. Thank you very much.

(The following additional statement was supplied later :)

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I thank you for letting me be here today and to give you a report of the activities of the Post Office during the past year.

When the hearings were held last year our biggest problem was getting the members in the Rayburn Building accustomed to getting their mail around 10 or later instead of from 9:15 to 9:45 as they did in the Longworth and Cannon Buildings. This situation has improved due to Mr. Steed's and others efforts in getting the paper press installed in the R.H.O.B. which relieved the traffic jams at the freight elevators in the L.H.O.B. For those members who want to see their mail before going to committee we hold it for someone to come over to pick it up as soon as it has been boxed.

If we can secure the assistance of staff members in separating inter-office mail from outgoing mail for this collection it would expedite its handling. Otherwise it goes into outgoing mail, goes to the City Post Office and then back here, this can cause at least a 12 to 16 hour delay. Also where white envelopes are lain outside the doors with large manilla envelopes this mail goes into tubs and the first class letters are delayed at the city post office. We make no sorting after it comes off the floors and letter chutes, but if it is presorted in the individual offices it is then placed in separate bags when collection is made on the 5 floor pickups.

Also, we are now using six automatic tying machines which makes a more compact package and prevents the letters from coming out on the floors on the 6:30 delivery.

In 1966 the total stamp sales for the four stations located in the House Office Buildings and the Capital station was approximately $600,000.00. 19,997 money orders with a total value of $618,651.25 were sold.