Miscellaneous

penses.

ex

Leavenworth, Kans.
Penitentiary.

Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. Salaries, etc.

establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes.

For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fourteen thousand dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and fifteen dollars and fifteen cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.

UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For the support of the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION: For salaries and expenses, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, namely: For expenses of taking testimony abroad, to be available until used, twenty-five thousand dollars; and said Commission may expend not exceeding two hundred dollars for the purchase of law books, maps, and books of reference. To pay the award in favor of the personal representative of Gaspar Payment topersonal A. Betancourt ten thousand dollars, at the end of sixty days from the date of said award if no new trial or rehearing shall have been had.

Gaspar A. Betancourt.

representative of.

Agricultural De

partment.

Bureau of Animal Industry.

Ante, p. 280.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY: To supply a deficiency in the approGeneral expenses. priation "General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry," including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars under this title in the "Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen_hundred and five," approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Protection of forestreserves.

William H. Lacy.
Payment to.

Department of Commerce and Labor.

Postage.

PROTECTION OF FOREST RESERVES: To meet a deficiency in the appropriation for forest reserves, including the objects mentioned and limitations and restrictions mentioned under this title of appropriation in the su dry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty thousand dollars, of which amount not exceeding one hundred dollars may be used for the purchase of law books.

To pay the account of William H. Lacy for material and labor used and employed in April, nineteen hundred and four, in plastering rooms in the building known as thirteen hundred and sixty-two В street southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, occupied as a laboratory by the Bureau of Animal Industry, under a lease duly made and executed, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Postage, Department of Commerce and Labor, bureaus transferred," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four hundred and sixtysix dollars and thirty-five cents.

Bureau of Corpora

Unexpended ance available. Ante, p. 136. Vol. 32, p. 827.

bal

BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS: The unexpended balance of the appro-tur priation of forty-six thousand dollars made in the legislative, execu- Special attorneys, tive, and judicial appropriation Act approved March eighteenth, nine. et teen hundred and four, for compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of special attorneys and others for the purpose of carrying on the work of said Bureau as provided by the Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for per diem, in lieu of subsistence to each of said special attorneys and others while absent from their homes on duty, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses, including necessary sleeping-car fares, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

Per diem.

Ante, p. 136.

Consular, etc., re

DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR, AND COMMERCIAL REPORTS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the ports. appropriation "Publication of Diplomatic, Consular, and Commercial Reports," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eight hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents.

BUREAU OF STANDARDS: For extra labor during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, necessary in connection with the installation of apparatus and equipment in the new physical laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For covering with wood the concrete floors on the ground floor of the physical laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, two thousand dollars.

Bureau of Standards. Apparatus.

Covering concrete

floors.

For painting interior walls and corridors of the physical and chem- Painting. ical laboratories of the Bureau of Standards, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, print- Fuel, etc. ing and binding, books and periodicals; traveling expenses; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures, and contingencies of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars, one hundred dollars of this amount to be available to meet deficiencies in the appropriation "General expenses, Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and four."

For the erection of a fire-proof outbuilding in connection with the Fireproof building. mechanical equipment of the Bureau of Standards, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "General expenses, National Bureau of Standards," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seventy-five dollars and thirty-three cents.

General expenses.

Light-House Estab

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of lishment. quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses Salaries, etc. of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, thirteen thousand dollars.

For seamen's wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment, and all other necessary incidental expenses of light vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light

Light vessels.

Wages, etc.

house inspectors and the light-house engineers, and at light-house depots, thirteen thousand dollars.

CENSUS OFFICE: For additional amount required to enable the Director of the Census to comply with that provision of joint resolution of Congress, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and five, directing that the Director of the Census shall make semimonthly publication of the amount of cotton ginned in lieu of the monthly reports which he now makes, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. To pay Herman Morris for services as supervisor of the census for the third supervisor's district of Kentucky from July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, until January eighth, nineteen hundred, four hundred dollars.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY: For repairs to the Coast Survey steamer Patterson during the month of April, nineteen hundred and four, made necessary by the cracking and collapse of her main furnaces at sea, repairs to the main boilers and boat davits, five thousand five hundred and three dollars.

That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for new steamer and outfit for Coast and Geodetic Survey authorized in the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, be, and is hereby, made available for the deficiency caused by the repairs to the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Pathfinder during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.

For pointing, painting, and calcimining six rooms and hallway, repairs to roof of carpenter shop, repairs to roof, valleys, and gutters of portion of building occupied by engraving division, Richards Building, and necessary glazing, together with repairs to six rooms and hallway, Butler Building, five hundred dollars.

EXPENSES OF REGULATING IMMIGRATION: For additional dredging in and about Ellis Island, New York Harbor, payable froin the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, ten thousand dollars.

For payment to Mrs. Nora Kelly, contract caterer at the Boston, Massachusetts, immigration station, cost of maintenance of the alien, Franciska Romanska, during detention as a witness in behalf of the United States in a suit at law under the immigration laws, from August seventeenth to September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, to be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, sixteen dollars and forty cents.

Provided, That the necessary expenses incident to the detention of aliens ordered deported, whose attendance as witnesses is required in behalf of the United States in prosecutions arising under the immigration laws, may be paid from the permanent. appropriation for Expenses of regulating immigration:" And provided further, That nothing contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, making appropriation for the establishment of an immigration station at Honolulu, Hawaii, shall be construed to prevent payment of the cost of the furniture and equipments required for said station from the permanent appropriation for "Expenses of regulating immigration."

The Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to pay, out of the existing appropriation for the enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion laws, to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company the sum of sixteen thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty cents, for reimbursement of cost of maintenance of alleged native-born Chinese in the years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four for the period during which, by order of the courts under habeas corpus proceedings, said Chinese were

detained in the detention station at Malone, New York, until said Chinese were delivered to said company for deportation to China.

REFUND OF FINE TO RAFAEL SUBIRA: To refund to Rafael Subira, of Ponce, Porto Rico, the sum of twenty dollars, erroneously received from him, under section fifteen of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, which sum was erroneously covered into the Treasury as a navigation fine, twenty dollars.

Rafael Subira.
Refund of fine to.

Vol. 32, p. 1217.

Payment to.

Vol. 23, p. 332.

PAYMENT TO JOSEPH C. HUDSON: To pay to Joseph C. Hudson, Joseph C. Hudson. of El Paso, Texas, for information furnished to Adam G. Malloy, inspector in the immigration service, on April second, nineteen hundred and two, which information led to the conviction of Fritz Brinck for importing aliens under contract from Mexico in violation of the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. PAYMENT TO OWNERS OF STEAM TOWBOAT CUMBERLAND: For payment Steam to the owners of the steam towboat Cumberland for services rendered April ninth and tenth, nineteen hundred and four, in the channel of the harbor at Portland, Maine, in patrolling during the night and morning, for the protection of incoming steamers, the vicinity of the wreck of the schooner Stephen Bennett, which sunk April ninth, nineteen hundred and four, through collision with the steamer Southwark, one hundred dollars.

LEGISLATIVE.

towboat

"Cumberland." Payment to owners.

Legislative.

SENATE.

To the heirs at law of Honorable George F. Hoar, late a Senator pay from the State of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of Honorable Matthew S. Quay, late a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars.

Senate.

George F. Hoar.
Payment to heirs of.

Matthew S. Quay.
Payment to widow.

ficers, etc.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in Compensation of of the service of the Senate, namely:

Clerks to Senators.

For five annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for sixteen pages for the Pages. Senate Chamber at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, from March fourth to March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and five, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.

There shall be employed in the office of the Secretary of the Senate an Assistant Secretary of the Senate (Henry M. Rose), at an annual salary of five thousand dollars, and the sum of six thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars is hereby appropriated for the balance of the present fiscal year and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

Assistant Secretary of the Senate. Office created.

tigations.

For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and inves including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twentyfive cents per printed page, twenty thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, forty thousand dollars.
For repairs of Maltby Building, five hundred dollars.

That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Charles C. Long, clerk to Honorable Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, from July first to December fifth, nineteen hundred and four, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.

Miscellaneous items.

Maltby Building.

Charles C. Long.
Services.

C. E. Richardson.
Services.

Official reporters.
Extra services.

J. H. Jones.
Payment to.

Ormsby McHarg,
Extra services.

Dennis M. Kerr.
Services.

James B. Finch, jr.
Services.

William B. Turner.
Payment to.

Lewis and Clark Exposition.

committee.

tions, p. 13.

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay C. E. Richardson for extra services rendered in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, one hundred and fifty dollars.

To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and four, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.

To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the third session of the Fifty-eighth Congress.

To pay Ormsby McHarg for indexing and for extra services as clerk to the Committee on Pensions seven hundred and fifty dollars.

To pay Dennis M.. Kerr for services as assistant clerk, by detail to the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

To pay James B. Finch, junior, assistant clerk to the Committee on Indian Affairs, for extra services in compiling and preparing indexes to committee reports, and stenographic work, two hundred and fifty dollars.

To pay William B. Turner for preparing index to the report of Robert C. Morris, agent of the United States before the United States and Venezuelan Claims Commission, two hundred and fifty dollars. To defray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of the Joint Congressional Senate and House authorized to attend and represent the Congress of Concurrent Resolu- the United States on the occasion of the formal opening ceremonies of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair, to be held at Portland, Oregon, June first, nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum four thousand dollars shall be accredited to the Senate, to be expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and six thousand dollars accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-atArms of the House of Representatives, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and by the Committee on Accounts of the House, respectively.

Private claims.

Index of Senate, 58th Congress.

Canal Zone.

Unexpended balance available.

Ante, p. 429.

Commission

tinued.

To enable the Committee on Claims to prepare a record and index of private claims introduced in the Senate during the Fifty-eighth Congress, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee; and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman, may be paid as additional compensation to any officer or employee of the United States, this amount to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. Said work shall be completed and reported to the Senate on the first day of the first regular session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, and the usual number of copies shall be printed ready for distribution on said date.

That so much of the sum appropriated by the Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, to defray the expenses of the Commission created by that Act, remaining unexpended, may be expended by said Commission under the direction of the chairman of said Commission for the further investigation of the matters for which said Act provided, but no expenditure beyond said unexpended balcon- ance shall be made; and the Commission is hereby revived and continued until the beginning of the next session of Congress.

House of Representatives.

Cong ssional employees.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Extra month's pay. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and