and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Administration ex penses. Propagation Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and opera- penses tions of the fish-cultural stations of the Bureau, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. ex Maintenance of ves 2 sels. Inquiry respecting food fishes. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, Field, etc., expenses. rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish-culture; for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-five thousand dollars. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expenses in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Statistical inquiry. penditures. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous Interchangeable exexpenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. For the completion of lobster hatchery at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, including purchase of land, construction and repair of buildings, ponds, Me. and wharves, purchase of equipment, boats, and other necessary improvements, ten thousand dollars. Stations. hatchery, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. For the fish-cultural station at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, including the purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, and improvement to water supply, eleven thousand dollars. For the fish-cultural station at Leadville, Colorado, improvement of Leadville, Colo. water supply and repair of buildings and ponds, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the fish cultural station at Neosho, Missouri, purchase of land Neosho, Mo. and water rights, the construction and repair of pipe lines, and other improvements to the water supply, eleven thousand dollars. N. C. Marine biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: For completion Biological station, of the biological laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina, including the construction of wharf; piers, jetties, and buildings, and general improvement of grounds, six thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Tupelo, Mississippi: For completion of the fish-cul- Tupelo, Miss. tural station at Tupelo, Mississippi, including the purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, improvement to water supply, and purchase of equipment, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Fish hatchery, Craigs Brook, Maine: For construction and repair of Craigs Brook, Me. buildings and improvement to water supply, nine thousand three hundred dollars. Miscellaneous. Alaskan seal fishcries. Fish hatchery, Green Lake, Maine: For construction of pipe line from Rocky Pond, and other improvements to water supply, fifteen thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Gloucester, Massachusetts: For improvements to buildings, construction of pier and telephone line, five thousand five hundred dollars. Fish hatchery, Wytheville, Virginia: For improvement of water supply and repair of buildings and ponds, two thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Manchester, Iowa: For protection of the station against floods, five thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Northville, Michigan: For constructing and repairing bass ponds, improving water supply, sewage, and drainage system and protecting station against floods, five thousand dollars. Steamer Fish Hawk: For repairs to the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk, including the necessary alterations and additions to the machinery, boilers, hull, and rigging, and to the purchase and installation of an electric-light plant, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Steamer Albatross: For purchase, installation, and repairs to the scientific equipment of the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, ten thousand dollars. Launch for Battery Island Station, Maryland: For purchase or construction of launch for use at the fish-cultural station at Battery Island, Maryland, two thousand dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, including salaries of one agent, at two thousand five hundred dollars, and one assistant agent, at two thousand dollars, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be in lieu of any and all agents or inspectors now authorized by law for this purpose, seven thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. ALASKAN SEAL FISHERIES: For salaries and traveling expenses of Agents' salaries, etc. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Food for natives. Chinese exclusion. Ante, p. 428. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. ENFORCEMENT OF THE CHINESE-EXCLUSION ACT: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard Additional compen for deportation, six hundred thousand dollars, of which sum one sation. thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of Immigration as additional compensation: Provided, That so much of the amount hereby appropriated, or hereafter appropriated for similar purposes, as may be necessary shall be available for the establishment and maintenance of the Bertillon system of identification at the various ports of entry; but this proviso shall not apply to persons embraced in Article Three of the treaty with China of eighteen hundred and ninety-four. CONTINGENT EXPENSES SHIPPING SERVICE: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping com missioners' offices, seven thousand dollars; and this sum shall be in full for all such expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and shall be so disbursed as to prevent a deficiency therein. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. PUBLIC BUILDINGS Interior Depart ment. Public buildings. REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS, INTERIOR DEPARTMENT: For repairs of Repairs. For preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, buildings, Department of the Interior, five thousand dollars. RENT OF BUILDINGS: For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely: For the rent of the fifth floor of the Union Building on G street northwest, for the Patent Office models, six thousand five hundred dollars. Rent. Removing For removing from the Patent Office building and placing in posi- models, etc. tion on the fifth floor of the Union Building on G street northwest, the cases and models which are at present in the model halls of the Patent Office building, and for the construction of shelving, repairs to the space in the Patent Office building vacated, and other necessary expenses connected therewith, five thousand dollars. Capitol. Proviso. FOR THE CAPITOL: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Repairs, etc. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, thirty-two thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriation for work at Capitol and repairs thereof made by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four is hereby continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Toward the construction of a building for a heating, lighting, and power plant in connection with the office building for the House of Representatives, the installation of necessary machinery, for labor and material, construction of ducts, heating mains, subways, and traction system connecting the Capitol building, and for all other appliances, and for each and every purpose in connection with all of the foregoing, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That said building for heating, lighting, and power plant, when constructed, shall be of sufficient size and capacity to furnish the necessary heat, light, and power for the office building of the House of Representatives, the Capitol building, the Congressional Library building, and for such other public buildings which may hereafter be erected on grounds adjacent to the Capitol grounds at the east of the Capitol building and facing the same: Provided further, That when complete and ready for operation for the purpose of supplying heat, light, and power for the Capitol building, office building for the House of Representatives, and Congressional Library building, the total cost of said heating, lighting, and power plant, including building and all necessary apparatus, shall not exceed. the sum of seven hundred and fiftyseven thousand eight hundred dollars, and that of the subway system art. patent Reappropriation. Flags. Cleaning works of Heating, lighting, and power plant. Provisos. Limit of cost. Contracts. Vol. 32, p. 1114. Location. Siding. Easements. Washington Terminal Company. Vol. 32, p. 1113. Vol. 32, p. 909. connecting the Capitol building, the sum of one hundred and sixtyeight thousand five hundred dollars; and contracts for any part or the whole of the work herein provided for are authorized to be entered into by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, who shall have charge of the construction of said building and equipment and subway system, and the employment of skilled and other services, subject to the direction and supervision of the House Commission appointed to direct and supervise the construction of the office building for the House of Representatives: Provided further, That the said building and its appurtenant constructions shall be located in that portion of reservation seventeen bounded by Virginia avenue as extended through said reservation, South Capitol street, E street south, and New Jersey avenue, and in such manner that the main building shall not project beyond the building lines of any of the streets or avenues named; and a siding from the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad for the use of said building, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to cross, at grade or otherwise, the proposed extension of Virginia avenue through the reservation: And provided further, That such ducts, heating mains, subways, and appliances may be constructed in and across any public street, avenue, alley, or reservation where pecessary to carry out the purpose of this provision; and when same shall be constructed in or under any street, avenue, or alley they shall be located under plans approved by the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia. Upon payment into the Treasury of the United States by The Washington Terminal Company of the sum of forty thousand dollars, and the Subsurface ease- undertaking of said company at its expense to construct and maintain ment through square a siding from a connection with the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company to a heat, light, and power building intended to be established and maintained at a point on Government Reservation numbered seventeen, near the line of New Jersey avenue extended, in connection with and appurtenant to the fireproof building for committee rooms, folding room, and other offices for the House of Representatives, authorized by Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes," the said The Washington Terminal Company, its successors and assigns, shall have and be possessed of the right and easement to occupy and use for the location, construction, and operation of its railroad authorized by Act of Congress, approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," a subsurface parcel of land through and beneath square six hundred and ninety in the city of Washington, recently acquired by the United States as the site for said fireproof building, of such width, not exceeding seventy feet, as shall be required for the location, construction, and operation of said company's railroad on the route thereof as located conformably to the requirements of said last-mentioned Act. The said railroad to be located and operated in a tunnel, which shall be constructed in such manner and of such structural strength as to assure the safe and convenient use of said square six hundred and ninety for the purposes of said building site, in accordance with plan of construction to be approved in duplicate original by the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, and also by the chief engineer of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and one of such duplicates shall be filed with said superintendent and the other delivered to said The Washington Terminal Company. Construction. for Senate. Location. Construction. Commission. Limit of cost. To acquire a site for and toward the construction of a fireproof New office building building for committee rooms, folding rooms, and other offices for the United States Senate and for necessary office rooms for Senators, to be erected on square numbered six hundred and eighty-six, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, bounded by B street northeast, First street northeast, C street northeast, and Delaware avenue northeast, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said site shall be acquired and said building constructed under the direction and supervision of a commission, which is hereby created, to be composed of three Senators, namely: Honorable Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, Honorable Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and Honorable Francis M. Cockrell, of Missouri, and said building shall be constructed in accordance with architectural plans to be secured by said commission in such way as they may deem advisable. The cost of said building, exclusive of site, shall not exceed two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the construction thereof and letting of contracts therefor, including employment of skilled and other services, shall be under the control of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the direction and supervision of said Acquiring site. commission. The said commission may acquire said site or any portion thereof by direct purchase, if the prices are reasonable; such portion of said site as can not be so purchased shall be acquired by condemnation, as follows: The said commission shall notify the Secretary of the Interior in writing of such failure, whereupon the said Secretary of the Interior shall, within thirty days after the receipt of said notice, proceed to acquire such portion of said site in the manier prescribed for providing a site for an addition to the Government Printing Office in so much of the Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as is set forth on pages six hundred and forty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine of volume thirty of the Statutes at Large, and for the purpose of such acquisition the Secretary of the Interior shall have and exercise all powers conferred upon the Public Printer in said Act. The appropriations herein and hereafter made for said site and building may be used for the payment of necessary expenses not compensation or salaries of the commission hereinafter provided for, and shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Interior. Any vacancy occurring by resignation or otherwise in the membership of the said commission shall be filled by the presiding officer of the Senate. A joint commission composed of three Senators, namely, Honorable George P. Wetmore, of Rhode Island, Honorable Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, and Honorable Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, and three members of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth Congress, namely, Honorable Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, Honorable William P. Hepburn, of Iowa, and Honorable James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, which is hereby created, is authorized to inquire and report to Congress at its next session plans in detail and estimates of cost for the extension and completion of the Capitol building, in accordance with the original plans therefor by the late Thomas U. Walter, with such modifications thereof as they may deem advantageous or necessary, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the employment of such professional and other services as they may deem requisite, and for such other expenses as said joint commission may authorize or incur, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the direction and supervision of said commission, or such commission as shall be authorized by Congress, shall conduct the making of all contracts for said construction, whenever and not before the same shall be authorized by Congress, after VOL XXXIII, PT 1-31 Vol. 30, p. 648. Disbursement of appropriations. Vacancies. Capitol extension. Joint commission to report on plans for. |