Clerk, $2,100, to be assistant bookkeeper.

Two bookkeepers, at $2,000, to be assistant bookkeepers.

Assorting teller, $1,800, to be clerk of class 4.

Bookkeeper, $1,800, to be clerk of class 4.

Three bookkeepers, at $1,500 each, to be clerks.

Six clerks of class 1 to be expert counters.

Six clerks, at $1,000, to be expert counters.

Postal Savings Division, Treasurer's Office: One clerk, at $1,000,

is omitted.

Comptroller of Currency's Office: Additional clerks are provided as follows: Two, at $1,800 each; 2, at $1,600 each; and 3, at $1,400 each.

Surgeon General's. Office, Public Health Service: Additional clerks are provided for as follows: One, at $1,800; 1, at $1,600; and 1, at $1,400.

MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.

Salt Lake, Utah, Assay Office: The chief clerk, at $1,200, is omitted.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Division of Militia Affairs: The following employees, paid from the permanent appropriation for the militia, are omitted: One laborer, at $600; 2 charwomen, at $240 each; and 2 watchmen, at $720 each.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

Secretary's Office: One clerk, who shall be a telegraph operator, at $1,100, is provided.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Indian Office: One irrigation engineer, at $2,000, is omitted and the salary of the forester is reduced from $3,600 to $3,000.

Pension Office: The following reduction is recommended:

3 medical examiners, at $1,800 each.

7 principal examiners, at $2,000 each.

4 assistant chiefs of division, at $1,800 each.

9 clerks of class four. 10 clerks of class three. 20 clerks of class two. 25 clerks of class one..

9 clerks at $1,000 each. 1 copyist.

88

$5,400

14, 000

7, 200

16, 200

16, 000 28,000 30, 000 9,000 900

126, 700

In addition to the foregoing reduction the force of 5 special examiners, at $1,300 each, for one year is omitted.

Patent Office: Two additional law examiners, at $2,750 each, are provided.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The clerical force of the department is reorganized, and the following detailed statement shows the increases and decreases in the number of places and salaries recommended in the bill:

Census Office: The employment of not exceeding 1,000 temporary clerks at not exceeding $1,000 each per annum for two years is authorized in connection with the census of agriculture.

Bureau of Standards: Additional employees are provided as follows: 2 clerks, at $1,200 each; 1 fireman, $720; 1 foreman of janitors and laborers, $840; 2 laborers, at $660 each.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

Secretary's Office: Two additional laborers, at $660 each, and 1 charwoman, at $240, are provided.

Bureau of Naturalization: Additional clerks are provided as follows: One, at $1,800; 1, at $1,600; and 2, at $1,400 each.

JUDICIAL.

District courts: The salary of the additional judge, at $6,000, authorized by the act of February 16, 1914, is provided.

LIMITATIONS.

Limitations with respect to expenditures or legislative provisions within clause 2 of Rule XXI of the House, not heretofore enacted, are recommended as follows:

On page 2:

Hereafter Senators, Representatives in Congress, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners shall be entitled to receive in lieu of all other allowances for mileage or expenses for attending the sessions of Congress mileage at the rate of only five cents per mile, to be estimated by the nearest route usually traveled in going to and returning from each regular session.

On page 27:

The Librarian of Congress shall hereafter perform the duties, except those of disbursing officer, required of the superintendent of the building of the Library of Congress as provided in the act approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and forty-five).

The Librarian of Congress is authorized to appoint a disbursing clerk, who shall also act as assistant superintendent of the Library building and grounds and perform the duties of disbursing clerk under the aforesaid act and the act approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-six). The disbursing clerk shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine and shall receive a salary of $2,500 per annum. On page 65:

Hereafter the accounts and vouchers relating to the expenditure of the appropriations for government in the Territories shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior for administrative examination and by him passed to the Auditor for the Interior Department for settlement.

On page 139:

That the Secretary of Labor is authorized, in his discretion, to enter into a contract for the lease for a period of not to exceed five years of a modern fireproof office building, at an annual rental not to exceed $20,000. On page 144:

That hereafter subscriptions to periodicals, which have been certified in writing by the respective heads of the executive departments or other Government establishments to be required for official use, may be paid in advance from appropriations available therefor.

RECAPITULATION.

As a part of this report there is submitted a comparative statement showing in parallel columns as to each item in the bill, including the census of agriculture, the current appropriation, if any, the amount estimated for 1916, and the sum recommended in the bill for that year, together with the number of salaries in each office or bureau and in the aggregate in each department under the three conditions mentioned.