(9) The Library of Congress.

(10) The Government Printing Office.

APPROPRIATIONS AND ESTIMATES

The estimates upon which this bill is based were transmitted in the Budget for the fiscal year 1936 and will be found in detail in that document, pages 3 to 22, inclusive. These annual estimates have been supplemented by additional sums transmitted subsequently to the Budget. The duty of the President in transmitting the estimates for the legislative branch is purely a ministerial function, the estimates forwarded by him being in the same amount and form as they were presented to the Bureau of the Budget by the proper officers of the legislative branch.

A detailed tabulation will be found at the end of this report giving for each appropriation in this bill the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1935, the estimate for the fiscal year 1936, together with a statement of the increases or decreases in the appropriations and estimates as compared with the amounts carried in the bill.

The appropriations shown for 1935 were made on the basis of 90 percent of basic salaries and the Budget estimates for the fiscal year 1936 were submitted on the basis of 100 percent salaries; the salary amounts recommended in the bill are on the basis of 100 percent. Salaries during the fiscal year 1935 were paid from July 1, 1934, to March 31, 1935, on a 95 percent basis, and from April 1 to June 30, 1935, are on a 100 percent basis. The additional sums required to pay the difference between the 90 percent basis on which salaries were appropriated and the 95 and 100 percent bases, respectively, on which they are paid during the present fiscal year, are supplied from indefinite appropriations made for that specific purpose in the acts which restored each of the 5 percent increments of pay. In some instances the original 90 percent appropriations may prove to be sufficient to carry the restored salaries and in that event the indefinite appropriation will not need to be drawn upon.

The total of the estimates considered by the committee in the preparation of this bill is $22,946,105. This sum is composed of $19,506,870 transmitted in the Budget in January last and $3,439,235 subsequently transmitted in House Documents Nos. 96, 99, 140, 147, 150, 151, 157, and 165 of the present session.

The amount recommended to be appropriated in the accompanying bill is $20,355,965. This sum, compared with the appropriations for 1935 and the total estimates for 1936, shows the following differences: It is $1,884,934 more than the total of the appropriations for 1935; and

It is $2,590,140 less than the total of the Budget estimates.

In connection with the apparent increase of $1,884,934 over the 1935 appropriations, two important factors should be considered. The increase of $1,884,934 is a net increase arrived at through a number of increases and decreases. As the 1935 appropriations were made on a 90 percent salary basis and salaries are now paid on a 100 percent basis, it has become necessary to include in this bill the approximate sum of $1,380,000 to restore pay to the 100 percent level. The other factor is the furnishing of $1,000,000 as additional temporary working capital to the Government Printing Office to be returned

intact shortly after the close of the fiscal year. This sum is a loan and does not represent increased outlay. These two sums total $2,380,000. Taking them out of the comparison, all of the other items in the bill show a net decrease of $495,066. These various increases and decreases will be discussed in detail under each activity covered by the bill.

The following table shows in summary form the direct appropriations for 1935, the estimates for 1936, and the comparative increases and decreases:

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SENATE

The amount recommended for the Senate is $3,101,911, a net decrease of $33,800 under 1935 appropriations and $218,266 under the Budget estimates. This decrease under the Budget estimates is perfunctory and in harmony with previous practice of the House to appropriate for discretionary Senate items (those not otherwise fixed by law) on the basis of the regular current year appropriation and leave for that body the disposal of the increases submitted in the Budget estimates.

The amount of increase over 1935 appropriations required to restore salary appropriations to a 100 percent level is approximately $268,000 and due to the expiration on June 30, 1935, of the several provisions of the economy act, mileage appropriations return to a 100 percent basis, necessitating the addition of $12,750 to the Senate mileage account. These two sums, totaling approximately, $281,000, are more than offset by decreases in the amounts under contingent expenses for miscellaneous items and inquiries and investigations and in this way the net reduction of $33,800 is arrived at.

The Senate's one-half of the expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation is placed at the same amount as the onehalf provided by the House, $27,000, as contrasted to an appropriation of $25,500 under each body for the present year. The total allowance of $54,000 is based upon present pay rolls on a 100 percent basis with a suitable margin for other expenses.

No increases in salaries or additional employments are provided under the Senate.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The total recommended for expenses of the House is $8,289,932, which is a net increase of $713,674 over 1935 appropriations and $15,480 under the estimates. The amount needed to restore all salaries under the House of Representatives to a 100 percent basis is approximately $767,000, and the sum to restore mileage to the statutory allowance is $43,750, a total increase of $810,750 on account of these restorations. This sum contrasted with the net increase of $713,674 shown by all items recommended for 1936 over the 1935 appropriations, leaves a net decrease in all other items of approximately $97,000, which is arrived at by the following other items of increase and decrease:

Decreases.-The current appropriation for expenses of special and select committees is reduced from $159,500 for the present year, to $100,000, a reduction of $59,500. This sum is an approximation based upon the outstanding authorizations granted by the House for special investigations either by special committees or by standing committees. In connection with these investigations the committee recommends a continuance of the limitation on personal services placed on the current appropriation prohibiting a salary of more than $3,600 a year to any person employed.

A decrease of $43,000 is reflected in the amounts granted to the Committee on Revision of the Laws due to a special nonrecurring appropriation for revision of the United States Code and temporary personnel in connection with the work of the committee.

The amount for folding speeches is reduced from $20,000 to $11,000, a biennial occurrence in connection with this item.

The position of one official reporter of debates at $7,500 is eliminated. The statutory number of reporters is six. During the permanent disability of members of the corps, who have since died, an additional reporter was provided temporarily, first by House resolution and continued by the appropriation bill to cover the emergency. This position has been vacant for more than a year and accordingly it is eliminated, the committee feeling that in the event temporary employment is again needed it can be provided in the manner in which this position was originally supplied-by resolution from the Committee on Accounts.

Increases.-The amount for miscellaneous items is increased from $43,000 to $60,000. This is the general, catch-all item of expense of the House covering allocations for 10 general objects of miscellaneous expenditure. The increase of $17,000 is provided to permit $12,000 additional expenditure for typewriters and $5,000 for repair and replacement of kitchen equipment for the House restaurant. The current law prohibits the use of any appropriations in the bill, with the exception of the amounts available for heated and lighted space and janitor service, from being used for the operation of restaurants. This limitation is modified for the coming fiscal year so as to permit appropriated sums being used for equipment. The restriction against use of appropriated money for payment of salaries and purchase of other supplies is continued.

An appropriation of $2,500 is recommended for the procurement of an oil portrait of former Speaker Rainey to be exhibited in the Speaker's lobby. This is the amount customarily provided for this purpose and the fund is to be expended under the direction of the Committee on the Library.

The amount for the one-half provided by the House for maintenance of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation is $27,000, an increase of $1,500. The amount allowed provides for present pay lolls on a 100-percent basis with a margin for incidental and contingent expenses.

Estimates. The reduction in the Budget estimates is accounted for very largely through the denial of any new positions and the refusal of all increases in compensation. The numbers and salaries of employees of the House are fixed by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929. Since the enactment of that act there have been not more than a half dozen changes in its detailed provisions. The committee was confronted in the consideration of the estimates for the House by a few formally submitted requests for increases in pay and a few additional employments in connection with the House organization. As the hearings progressed these Budget recommendations inspired a constantly expanding list of requests for increases in pay and for additional personnel. As the number of positions and their rates of pay are specifically fixed by law, the committee has no jurisdiction other than to appropriate in accordance with the existing law and has therefore eliminated all requested increases both for pay and new personnel. Such increases must first be authorized by other law or by resolution of the House in order to qualify for inclusion in the Legislative Appropriation Bill.