Construction.

High bridge.

navigation of said river beyond what is necessary to carry out effec-
tually the rights and privileges hereby granted, and in order to secure
that object, the said parties shall submit to the Secretary of War, for
his examinatiou and approval, a design of and drawings for said bridge
and accessory works and a map of the proposed location, giving for the
space of one mile above and one mile below such proposed location the
topography of the banks of the river, with shore lines and soundings
and direction of currents at medium high water, and such other infor-
mation as may be required for a full understanding of the subject; and
until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Sec-
retary of War, the construction of said bridge shall not be commenced.
SEC. 3. That said bridge may be built either as a high bridge, with
unbroken and continuous spans, or as a low bridge containing a suffi-
cient pivot drawspan. If built as a high bridge, the spans thereof shall
not be less than four hundred feet in the clear over the main channel
of the river, and the lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge
shall be at least fifty-five feet in the clear above the established high-
water grade line, and the bridge shall be at right angles to and its
piers parallel with the current of the river; and if built as a low bridge Drawbridge.
with pivot drawspan, it shall have one drawspan, affording two clear
openings of not less than two hundred feet each, which drawspan shall
be maintained over the main channel of the river at an accessible and
navigable point, and with a fixed span or spans not less than three
hundred feet in length in the clear, and the headroom under each span
shall not be less than ten feet above the standard high-water grade
line, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with and the bridge
itself at right angles to the current of the river: Provided also, That
said drawspan shall be opened promptly by said parties or their suc-
cessors and assigns, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats
and rafts: And provided further, That the said parties or their succes-
sors and assigns shall, at their own expense, build and maintain, under
the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War, when so required,
such wing dams, booms, and other necessary work to maintain the
channel within the drawspan of said bridge, and shall, at their own
expense, maintain a depth of water through said drawspan not less
than now existing, as shown by the records of the War Department. at
the point where said bridge may be located: And provided further,
That said parties or their successors and assigns shall maintain at their
own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on
such bridge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe.

Provisos.
Opening draw.

Aids to navigation.

Lights, etc.

Notification of ap

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed, upon receiving such plan and other information, and upon being satis proval. fied that a bridge so built will conform to the requirements of this Act, to notify the said parties authorized to build the same that he approves of the same; and upon receiving such notification the said parties may proceed to erect said bridge, conforming strictly to the approved plan and location, and should any change be made in the plan of the bridge or accessory works, during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall be subject likewise to the approval of the Secretary of War.

Lawful structure and post route.

SEC. 5. That any bridge built under this Act and subject to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the public highways leading to the said bridge, and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post roads in the United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies, and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal Postal telegraph. telegraph purposes.

SEC. 6. That all street railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges

Use by street railroad companies.

Compensation.

Proviso.
Charges.

Amendment, etc.

Commencement and completion.

relative to the passage of street railroad trains or cars over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railway companies, or any one of them, desiring such use fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon the rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War, upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties: Provided, That nothing in this Act in regard to charges for passengers and freight across said bridge shall govern the Secretary of War in determining any question arising as to the sum or sums to be paid to the owners of said bridge by said companies for the use of said bridge. SEC. 7. That Congress shall have the power at any time to alter, amend, or repeal this Act, and the Secretary of War, whenever he shall deem it necessary, may cause the owners of said bridge to remove all material and substantial obstructions to the navigation of said river by the construction of said bridge and its accessory works, or to prevent such obstruction; and the expense of altering said bridge or removing such obstruction shall be at the expense of the owners of the bridge.

SEC. 8. That this Act shall be null and void if construction of said bridge shall not be commenced within two years and finished within five years from its passage.

Received by the President, May 13, 1896.

[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

May 28, 1896.

tive, and judicial ex

CHAP. 252. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Legislative execu. States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, penses appropria. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas ury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. seven, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

tions.

Legislative.

LEGISLATIVE.

SENATE.

Senate.

Pay of Senators.

Mileage. Compensation, officers, etc.

Vice-President's of

fice.

Chaplain.

Secretary of the Senate, clerks, etc.

For compensation of Senators, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For mileage of Senators, forty-five thousand dollars.

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

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT: For Secretary to the Vice-President, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.

CHAPLAIN: For Chaplain of the Senate, nine hundred dollars. OFFICE OF SECRETARY: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary's office, seven hundred dollars; chief clerk, and financial clerk, at three thousand dollars each, and five

hundred dollars additional to the financial clerk, while the office is held by the present incumbent; principal clerk, minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; assistant financial clerk, and reading clerk, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, and two hundred and eighty dollars additional, while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; keeper of stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars, and two hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; two messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; page, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; in all, sixty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety cents.

gers to committees.

CLERKS AND MESSENGERS TO COMMITTEES: For clerk of printing Clerks and messenrecords, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the committees on Naval Affairs, Census, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, and clerk to Conference Minority of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.

For clerks to Committees on Woman Suffrage, Mines and Mining, and Construction of the Nicaragua Canal, at two thousand one hundred dollars each, six thousand three hundred dollars.

For twenty-five clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.

Clerks to committees at $2,100 a year.

At $1,800 a year.

Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants.

Messengers.

Laborers.

Pages.

Postmaster, etc.

Document room.
Superintendent, etc.

Folding room.
Superintendent, etc.

Chief engineer, etc.

Clerks to Senators.

Contingentexpenses. Stat onery and newspapers.

Postage stamps.

Horses and wagons.

OFFICE OF SERGEANT-AT-ARMS AND DOORKEEPER: For Sergeantat-Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; horse and wagon for his use, four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninetytwo dollars, acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-six messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; assistant messenger on the floor of the Senate, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger to official reporter's room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand two hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two carpenters to assist him, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; two janitors, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; two female attendants in charge of ladies' retiring room, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; telephone page, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars.

POST-OFFICE: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eightyeight dollars; seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

DOCUMENT ROOM: For superintendent of the document room (Amzi Smith), three thousand dollars; three assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

FOLDING ROOM: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; nine folders, at one thousand dollars each; and nine folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

UNDER ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL: For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; three conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; machinist and assistant conductor of elevators, one thousand dollars; two firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; four laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For thirty-eight annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-seven thousand dollars.

FOR CONTINGENT EXPENSES, NAMELY: For stationery and newspapers, including five thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate, two hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred dollars.

For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For materials for folding, four thousand dollars.

Folding.

For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, eight thousand dollars.

For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating Fuel, oil, etc. apparatus, exclusive of labor, nine thousand dollars.

For purchase of furniture, four thousand dollars.

For material for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, one thousand dollars.

For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, one thousand dollars.

For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollars.

For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, sixteen thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.

For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, 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 twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Furniture.

Packing boxes.
Miscellaneous items.

Maltby Building.

Investigations.

For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, twenty-five Reporting debates. thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments.

For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars; three lieutenants, at Pay. one thousand two hundred dollars each; thirty privates, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; seven privates at uine hundred and sixty dollars each; and eight watchmen, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be To police Capitol disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. And here- grounds. after the Capitol police, under the direction of the Sergeants-at-Arms of the Senate and of the House of Representatives and of the Architect of the Capitol, shall police the Capitol building and the Capitol grounds.

For contingent expenses, three hundred dollars.

CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.

For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, one million eight hundred and three thousand dollars.

For mileage, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the House of Representatives, namely:

OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER: For private secretary to the Speaker, two thousand three bundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the Speaker's table, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars.

CHAPLAIN: For Chaplain of the House, nine hundred dollars. OFFICE OF THE CLERK: For Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; for hire of horses and wagons and cartage for the use of the Clerk's office, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for chief clerk, journal clerk, and two reading clerks,

Contingent expenses.

Congressional Di.

rectory.

House of Represent atives

Pay of Members and Delegates.

Mileage.

Compensation, offi

cers, etc.

Speaker's office.

Chaplain.

Clerk of the House, etc.