Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923—Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. NOTE.-One additional elevator conductor submitted. There are three large main passenger elevators, one of which must be in operation from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. (two shifts) and one from 8 a.m. to 4.30 p. m. The necessity of simultaneously operating all three elevators at times now requires temporary detail of unskilled operators. This is dangerous to machinery and to passengers. Sonday Opening, Building for Library of Congress For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from 2 until 10 o'clock post-meridian on Sundays and legal holidays (acts Apr. 28, 1902, vol. 32, p. 131, sec. 1; July 16, 1914, vol. 38, p. 464, sec. 1; Mar. 3, 1921, vol. 41, p. 1260, sec. i).. $1,800.00 Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923—Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Budget, page 25. Permanent Repository for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United For providing a safe, permanent repository of appropriate design, within the Library Furniture, Library of Congress For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, café equipment, and electrical work pertaining thereto (acts Feb. 19, 1897, vol. 29, p. 545, sec. 1; Mar. 3, 1921, vol. 41, p. 1260, sec. 1).... For extension of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the Card Division (increase of $1,000 submitted) (same acts) For map cases for the Division of Maps and Charts (submitted). The first of the two items above submitted for $6,000 each is to provide extension of the existing steel stack for the storage of catalogue cards in the Card Division. An average expenditure of $5,000 per annum is necessary for extension of this stack. Owing to recent high costs, the annual extensions have fallen behind the actual need, and for the current year the appropriation of $5,000 has been curtailed to an expenditure of $3,333. This curtail must be made up as soon as possible. The second of the items is to provide additional cases for the Division of Maps and Charts. Extension of the special steel map-filing cases for flat filing is important, owing to the present congestion. Many important maps and charts can now only be tied in rolls and bundles of rolls. Constant demand makes this crude system almost intolerable both to the user and to the Library. The sum requested will provide only a fraction of the equipment needed by the Map Division. Bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard, Library of Congress: Interest Account— Trust fund of $20,000, the interest on which, at 4 per cent per annum, is to be used for the purchase of engravings and etchings to be added to the "Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection" (act Aug. 20, 1912, vol. 37, p. 319)..... NOTE.-The estimate for "Printing and binding," Library of Congress, under sec. 2, act of May 8, 1872 (R. S., p. 720, sec. 3661), will be found on page 30. Total, Library of Congress.. Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923—Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Budget, page 26. Improving Botanic Garden For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel; purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the director and his assistants not to exceed $300; street car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicles; purchase of botanical books and periodicals not to exceed $100; general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, packing sheds, storerooms, and stables; painting, glazing; repairs to footwalks and roadways; repairing and putting comfort stations in sanitary condition; repairs and improvements to director's residence; reconstruction of greenhouses; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $28,000. The sum of $25 may be expended at any one time by the Botanic Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 4 of the act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments and other governmental establishments in Washington (acts May 29, 1920, vol. 41, p. 640, sec. 1; Mar. 3, 1921, vol. 41, p. 1261, sec. 1).. For constructing conduits and installing all mains, cables, apparatus, etc., including the employment of all needed services, necessary to provide the Botanic Garden with heat and light from the Capitol power plant; the work to be done under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol (submitted)......... The principal reason in asking for the item of $20,000 for providing heat and light from the Capitol power plant is that of economy. Since 1916 the price of coal has steadily increased until, at this time, not less than $6,000 a year is needed to provide the necessary quantity. In less than four years, at this rate, the total cost of installation will have been covered. In addition to this important consideration are those of dependability of the power-house service, cleanliness through absence of large quantities of coal, and the saving of storage space. Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923—Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. NOTE.-Forty-one employees transferred to printing and binding, as follows: Accountant, at $2,500; assistant accountant, at $2,250; chief timekeeper, at $2,000; 1 1; 6 clerks, at $1,000 each; 2 clerks, at $900 each; and 2 messengers, at $420 each; total.. $58, 190.00 The following places dropped: Two clerks of class 4; 1 clerk of class 1; 2 clerks at $1,000 each; 4 clerks, at $900 each; 2 $6,000.00 2,500.00 3,600.00 3,000.00 2,750.00 2,500.00 2,500.00 2,000.00 6,000.00 3. 600.00 5, 600. 00 4,800.00 7,000.00 1,000.00 1,200.00 1,200.00 3,000.00 1,200.00 4, 750.00 Captain (acts Jan. 12, 1895, vol. 28, p. 608, sec. 49; Mar. 4, 1921, vol. 41, pp. 1428–1431, Two lieutenants, at $900 each (same acts). Payment for Holidays, Government Printing Office To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office (acts Mar. 4, 1909, vol. 28, p. 1021, sec. 1; Mar. 4, 1921, vol. 41, p. 1428, sec. 1).... Leaves of Absence, Government Printing Office To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting 30 days annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office (acts Jan. 12, 1895, vol. 28, p. 608, sec. 1; Mar. 4, 1921, vol. 41, p. 1428, sec. 1).... Total, salaries, etc. Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923—Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object." Budget, page 560. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Customs Appeals, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, the United States Geographic Board, and the departments; for salaries. compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for (including the compensation of the foreman of binding, the foreman of printing, and the foreman of presswork at $3,000 each); rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph, and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work (acts Jan. 12, 1895, vol. 28, p. 608, sec. 49; Mar. 4, 1921, vol. 41, p. 1428-1431, sec. 1)................ Salaries: Superintendent of buildings..... Foreman of printing, foreman of binding, foreman of press work, assistant foreman of printing (night), superin tendent of accounts. Medical and sanitary officer. Foremen, assistant foreman of printing (day), chief of jacket writers' section, chief of estimators' section, assistant superintendent of accounts, storekeeper, chief engineer.... Linotype machinist in charge, monotype machinist in charge, clerk. Assistant foreman.. Foremen, chief computer, assistant foremen.. Assistant storekeeper, chief clectrician, chief machinist, chief carpenter, assistant foremen, allotment clerk.. Computers. Chief timekeeper, bookkeeper, chemist, foreman, assistant medical and sani tary officer. Officeman, cost clerk, clerks, draftsman.......do.... Clerks, weighmaster. Clerk, officeman.. Clerks.. Clerk.. Clerks, matron. Clerks, nurses. Clerks... Cleaner in charge.. Cleaners. Charwomen. Messenger boys... Wages: Officeman .do.... 2,000.00 do... Clerks, helpers, messengers. Skilled and unskilled laborers.. Estimators, jacket writers.. Assistant foremen, assistant machinist in charge, chief copy editor, chief revisers, electricians in charge, in charge of sections, linotype machinist in charge, machinist in charge, officemen, electrotype molders in charge, press reviser, stereotypers in charge, electrotype .do.... 90 .85 42 Exclusive of $41,702.70 (Smithsonian Institution) and $125,000 (Department of Agriculture), a total of $166,702.70, carried in deficiency act of June 16, 1921, made available 1321-22. finishers in charge... |