employees while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, rations and provisions for keepers of lighthouses, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all five thousand dollars in any fiscal year, fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses, the purchase of land sites for fog signals, the rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent, the rent of offices, depots, and wharves, traveling expenses and mileage, library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding one thousand dollars, and for all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, and for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, two million five hundred and sixty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand seven hundred and fifty lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Salaries, lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, one million seven thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Salaries, Lighthouse Service: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse inspectors and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, four hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Recapitulation. Salaries of office force... General expenses, including supplies, repairs, etc., and contingent BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SERVICE. 5,935, 360.00 1. Report of the Lighthouse Board for 1909. Department of Commerce and Labor. Washington. 1910. (A statement of work done, appropriations, expenditures, and estimates, and an appendix containing a discussion of "Lighthouse establishments in Europe." The annual reports prior to this date were in more or less stereotyped form and give little insight into the organization, cost, or methods of business of the service.) 2. Report of the Operations of the Lighthouse Board for 1910. Department of Com merce and Labor. Washington. 1910. (This report outlines the change made by the act of June 17, 1910, in the organization of the service, quotes the act, and describes the method and work of the board according to its divisions.) 3. The Organization and Duties of Lighthouse Board. 81 pp. Ğ.P.O. Washington. 1864. (Deals with organization, officers, rules of procedure, duties, methods of districting, and responsibility. Also there are listed all laws passed on the subject of lighthouses.) 4. Laws of the States ceding Jurisdiction Over and Relinquishing Title to Lighthouse Sites. 52 pp. G. P. O. Washington. 1871. 5. A Compilation of Public Documents and Extracts. 1,060 pp. Index. G. P. O. Washington. 1871. (History of establishment and its failings; the organization, laws, and costs of the board and recommendations for improvement.) 6. The Organization and Law of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Washington. 1904. (Gives a short historical sketch of the service and its organization.) 7. Letter from Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a statement of disbursements made since 1789 for lighthouses. 21st Cong. 2d sess. House Doc. 11. Washington. 1830. 32 pp. 8. Lighthouse Establishment. 24th Cong. 1st Sess. House Doc. 66. 30 pp. Washington. 1836. (Report by fifth auditor on a plan of management for the Lighthouse Establishment. Gives cost of maintenance from 1791 to 1834, names and salaries of the employees, and location of station.) 9. A report on plan for reorganizing and improving Lighthouse Establishment. 25th Cong. 2d sess. Senate Doc. 428. 21 pp. Washington. 10. Lighthouse Establishment. 27th Cong. 3d sess. House Doc. 183. Washington. 1843. (A report on conditions of lighthouses with recommendations as to appropriations and expenditures.) 11. Report of the Secretary of the Navy. 47th Cong. 2d sess. House Ex. Doc. 1, Part 3. 684 pp. (p. 27). G. P. Ŏ. Washington. 1882. (Brief description of organization of the establishment, past changes therein, and reasons.) 12. The Modern Lighthouse Service. A. B. Johnson. 51st Cong. 1st sess. Senate Ex. Doc. 56. 137 pp. Index. G. P. O. Washington. 1890. (Describes rise, growth, need, cost, construction, management, personnel of establishment, and general administration.) 13. Report of Joint Commission to Inquire into the Status of the Law Organizing the Executive Departments. Cockrell Commission. 53d Cong. 1st sess. House Report 49, etc. Washington. 1893. (Contains laws creating and appropriating for the board; data in re employees; method of accounting; and condition of business.) 14. Hamilton's Works. 7 vols. Vol. IV. New York. 1851. (In Volume IV are contained reports by the Secretary of the Treasury on number and location of lighthouses; proposals for regulation of pilots and general superintendence.) 15. The Executive Departments. W. Elmes. 557 pp. Index. Washington. 1879. (Contains law, duties, supervision, and administrative methods of the bureau.) 16. The Lighthouse Service of the United States. G. H. Claudy. World To-day; January to June, 1907. Vol. 12, pp. 536-546. New York. 1906. (Describes the history, growth, organization, and importance of the service.) 17. United States Public Documents. Elfrida Everhart. 320 pp. Minneapolis. 1910. (Brief history of the board and descriptive list of its publications.) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, SIR: I have the honor to return herewith the report of the Commission on Economy and Efficiency relating to the consolidation of the Life-Saving Service of the Treasury Department with the Bureau of Lighthouses of this department, transmitted with your letter of the 27th ultimo. After consideration of a report which I have received from the Commissioner of Lighthouses in this matter I beg to state that I concur in the conclusion that the consolidation of the Life-Saving Service with the Lighthouse Service would be in the interests of economy. In this connection I inclose herewith a copy of a memorandum from the Commissioner of Lighthouses, setting forth reasons why in the opinion of that officer the consolidation could be made with advantage to the service as a whole. Respectfully, The PRESIDENT. CHARLES NAGEL, Secretary. The SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. JANUARY 5, 1912. SIR: I have the honor to return the report to the President on the consolidation of the Bureau of Lighthouses, Department of Commerce and Labor, and the Life-Saving Service, Department of the Treasury, submitted by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency, December, 1911, which, on January 3, was sent to me for an expression of opinion. I have read with care this report and the conclusions reached by the President's commission, and beg to state that I concur in these conclusions and believe that they are well founded. My reasons for believing in the wisdom of the policy which is recommended were given in detail in the memorandum which I submitted for your information, dated November 11, 1911, particularly in the last four paragraphs of that statement. It is difficult to estimate with precision the economies that might be effected by action such as that which is proposed, but I believe the statement that there would be an annual saving of from $100,000 to $150,000 is conservative. I see no reason why the work of the Life-Saving Service can not be administered with at least as great efficiency as at present through the general organization now existing in the Lighthouse Service, with reasonable additions to the personnel and equipment. Very respectfully, G. R. PUTNAM, Commissioner. |