The Smithsonian deposit is strong in scientific works, and includes the largest assemblage of the transactions of learned societies which exists in this country. In 1897 the main collection was removed from the Capitol to the building erected for it under the acts of Congress approved April 15, 1886, October 2, 1888, and March 2, 1889, at a cost of $6,347,000 (limit by law, $6,500,000) exclusive of the land, which costs $585,000. The architects who furnished the original designs were John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. By the act of October 2, 1888, before the foundations were laid, Thomas L. Casey, Chief of Engineers of the Army, was placed in charge of the construction of the building, and the architectural details were worked out by Paul J. Pelz and Edward P. Casey. Upon the death of Gen. Casey, in March, 1896, the entire charge of the construction devolved upon Bernard R. Green, Gen. Casey's assistant, and under his superintendence the building was completed in February, 1897; opened to the public November, 1897. The building occupies 34 acres, upon a site to acres in extent at a distance of 1,270 feet east of the Capitol, and is the largest and most magnificent library building in the world. In the decorations, some 40 painters and sculptors are represented -all American citizens. The floor space is 430,255 square feet, or nearly io acres. The book stacks, including the new stack built over the southeast interior court, contain a total of about 100 miles of shelving, with capacity for 3,540,000 octavo volumes of books and 84,000 volumes of newspapers. The Library is maintained by annual appropriations by Congress for various purposes, including the purchase of books. For the year 1912-13 these amounted to $587,905 (not including allotment for printing and binding, $202,000), as follows: $465,905 for services and contingent expenses (including the Copyright Office, and including also the care of the building); $98,000 for books and periodicals; $14,000 for fuel, supplies, and miscellaneous purposes; $10,000 for furniture, shelving, etc. The Librarian of Congress and the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds are now appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (act of 1897) The employees of the Library are appointed by the Librarian under the act of 1897, which provides that they shall be appointed solely with reference to their fitness for their particular duties." The President, Vice President, Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress are entitled by statute to draw books for home use (though no books can be given out on the orders of Members in favor of those who are not Members). The same privilege is extended by statute to Justices of the Supreme Court, the heads of the Executive Departments, and certain other officials. Inter-library loans. While not a lending library, but a reference library primarily and essentially, the Library of Congress maintains an inter-library loan system, by which special service is rendered to scholarship by the lending of books to other libraries for the use of investigators engaged in serious research which it is not within the power or duty of the library in question to supply, and which, at the time, are not needed in Washington. Library service.-Library proper, 250 employees; Copyright Office, 88; distribution of catalogue cards, 31; disbursement service and care of building and grounds, 123. Total, 492. The publications issued by the Library are numerous and include: Annual reports, showing the progress of the Library. Bibliographies, exhaustive statements of the literature of certain subjects, e. g., Philippine Islands. Reference lists, containing principal references to questions of current interest, e. g., trusts, subsidies, railroads. Catalogues, lists of special collections in the Library of Congress, e. g., Hubbard collection of engravings, Washington MSS., John Paul Jones MSS., maps of America, newspapers. Special publications on library methods, e. g., catalogue rules, classification, etc. There is but a limited free distribution of publications. The reports and other administrative documents are sent to a large number of institutions, and, on request, to such inquirers as can not be reached or adequately served by them. Publications which are costly and permanent contributions to knowledge are priced and placed on sale with the superintendent of documents. Copyright Office.-The Copyright Office is a distinct division of the Library of Congress and is located on the ground floor, south side; open 9 to 4.30. It is under the immediate charge of the Register of Copyrights, who, by the act of March 4, 1909, is authorized, "under the direction and supervision of the Librarian of Congress," to perform all the duties relating to copyrights. Copyright registration was transferred to the Librarian of Congress by the act of July 8, 1870. Of most articles copyrighted two copies, and of some one copy, must be deposited to perfect copyright. ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. Director.-C. G. Abbot, 2203 K Street. REGIONAL BUREAU FOR THE UNITED STATES, INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. Assistant in Charge.-Leonard C. Gunnell, 1518 Twenty-eighth Street. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. - (Corner North Capitol and G Streets. Phone, Main 6840.) Public Printer.-Samuel B. Donnelly, 1424 K Street. Deputy Public Printer.-Henry T. Brian, 1244 Columbia Road. Congressional Record Clerk.-William A. Smith, 3817 Jacelyn Street, Chevy Chase Superintendent of Work.-John R. Berg, 1212 Delafield Place. Assistant Superintendent of Work (night).—Charles E. Young, 75 Rhode Island Avenue. Foreman of Printing and Assistant Superintendent of Work (day).—Frank C. Wallace, 135 T Street. Superintendent of Documents.-August Donath, 1409 Emerson Street. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. (1317-1319 F Street. Phone 7460.) Chairman.-Charles A. Prouty, The Portner. James S. Harlan, 1720 Rhode Island Avenue. Balthasar H. Meyer, Highlands Manor, Wisconsin Avenue. Secretary.-John H. Marble, Florence Court. Assistant Secretary.-George B. McGinty, 3921 Fourteenth Street. Assistant Solicitor.-Charles W. Needham, 1527 Corcoran Street. Disbursing Clerk.-George F. Graham, 1413 Rhode Island Avenue. Chiefs of Divisions: Appointments.—J. B. Switzer, 1126 Spring Road. Claims.—J. H. Dorman, jr., 1213 Connecticut Avenue. Correspondence.-J. H. Fishback, The Kenesaw. District Electric Railway Commission.-H. C. Eddy, 3021 Cambridge Place. Indices.-H. Talbott, 1337 Twelfth Street. Inquiry.-S. H. Smith, Patterson Street, Chevy Chase, D. C. APPENDIX EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS MISCELLANEOUS INSTITUTIONS OFFICIAL DUTIES (Executive Departments) DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRESS GALLERIES MEMBERS' ADDRESSES APARTMENT HOUSES, CLUBS, HOTELS UNOFFICIAL LIST MEMBERS-ELECT, SIXTY THIRD CONGRESS MAPS OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS INDIVIDUAL INDEX EXECUTIVE THE WHITE HOUSE. (Pennsylvania Avenue, between Fifteenth and Seventeenth Streets. Phone, Main 6.) WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, President, was born September 15, 1857, at Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of Alphonso and Louise M. (Torrey) Taft. He was married at Cincinnati, June 19, 1886, to Helen Herron, daughter of John W. Herron, of Cincinnati; they have three children-two sons and one daughter. He was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, including Woodward High School, where he graduated in 1874; at Yale University, graduating (1878) with degree B. A., being second, or salutatorian, in his class, and elected class orator. The same year he matriculated at the Cincinnati College of Law, graduating in 1880 with degree B. L., dividing first prize; was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio in May, 1880, becoming a law reporter of the Cincinnati Times, and subsequently of the Cincinnati Commercial. January, 1881, was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney, resigning in March, 1882, to become collector of internal revenue for the first district of Ohio. Resigned the following year to enter practice of the law and continued in practice until 1887, holding meantime, from January, 1885, the office of assistant county solicitor of Hamilton County. In March, 1887, Gov. Foraker appointed him judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati to succeed Judson Harmon, resigned, and the following year he was elected to succeed himself for five years. Resigned, February, 1890, to accept appointment as Solicitor General of the United States at hands of President Harrison, being, in March, 1892, appointed a judge of the United States court for the sixth judicial circuit and ex officio member of circuit court of appeals. In 1896 he became professor and dean of the law department of the University of Cincinnati, resigning both the judgeship and deanship in March, 1900, to accept appointment by President McKinley as president of the United States Philippine Commission. On July 4, 1901, President McKinley appointed him first civil governor of the Philippine Islands. In November, 1901, turned over the office of governor to Vice Governor Wright, on account of illness, and returned to the United States to testify at congressional hearings on the Philippines. In 1902 visited Rome at the direction of President Roosevelt to confer with Pope Leo XIII regarding the purchase of so-called friar lands in the Philippines; reached a general basis for agreement with a committee of cardinals, and returned to the Philippines August, 1902, to resume office of civil governor. January, 1904, returned to United States to become Secretary of War in President Roosevelt's Cabinet, being appointed February 1. NovemberDecember, 1904, visited Panama to confer with Panaman authorities relative to the government of the Canal Zone. In the summer of 1905 visited Philippine Islands on a tour of inspection, accompanied by a party of Senators and Representatives. September-October, 1906, visited Cuba in an endeavor to arrange peace, acting for short time as provisional governor. In 1907 visited Panama, Cuba, and Porto Rico to attend to various pending matters and look into conditions, and in fall of 1907 visited Philippine Islands for purpose of inaugurating the Philippine Assembly. June, 1908, was nominated by Republican national convention at Chicago for the Presidency, and elected, receiving 321 electoral votes to 162 for William J. Bryan. January-February, 1909, visited Canal Zone with a board of engineers. Received degree of LL. D. from Yale University, 1893; University of Pennsylvania, 1902; Harvard University, 1905; Miami University, 1905; University of Iowa, 1907; Wesleyan University, 1909. Has been president of the American Red Cross since 1905, and is a member of American Bar Association, National Geographic Society, Metropolitan, University, Chevy Chase, and Cosmos Clubs, of Washington, and University Club of New York City, and others. CHARLES DEWEY HILLES, Secretary to the President (2119 Connecticut Avenue), was born in Belmont County, Ohio, June 23, 1867, a son of Samuel Hilles and Elisabeth Lee Hilles; was graduated from the Barnesville High School in 1885, and entered an Academy at Oxford, Md.; appointed secretary to the superintendent of the Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1888; was city editor of the |