IN THE SENATE. Secretary of the Vice-President, four thousand dollars. 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; assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, four thousand dollars; minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, three thousand dollars each; principal clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; reading clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant financial clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; keeper of stationary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of the document room, three thousand dollars; clerk of printing records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars; clerk to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Office and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; 36 other clerks, at $2,220 each and two at $2,100 each. Twenty clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, five thousand dollars; clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two 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-seven messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; besides assistant messengers, artificers ansd laborers ansd sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session. Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; besides assistants and four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each. For Superintendent of Folding Room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars; folders, at one thousand dollars each, and at eight hundred and forty dollars each. Thirty-two annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, Capitol Police.-Captain, one thousand six hundred dollars, and three lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two special officers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, sixty-seven privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each. UNDER THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Secretary to the Speaker, four thousand dollars; clerk to the Speaker's table, three thousand six hundred dollars, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, one thousand dollars per annum; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand two hundred dollars; Chaplain of the House, one thousand two hundred dollars. Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; Chief Clerk, four thousand dollars; Journal Clerk, four thousand dollars; two Reading Clerks, at three thousand six hundred dollars each; Tally Clerk, three thousand dollars; File Clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Printing and Bill Clerk, Disbursing Clerk, and Enrolling Clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars each; Distributing Clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Docket Clerk, Resolution and Petition Clerk, Printing and Document Clerk, Index Clerk, Stationery Clerk, two thousand dollars each; Librarian, and Superintendent Clerk's Document Room, one thousand eight hundred dollars each. Clerk to the Committee on Ways and Means, three thousand dollars; Clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars. Other clerks to committees at salaries ranging from $1,400 to $2,000, chiefly at the latter figure, with assistant clerks from $1,200 upwards. Ten clerks to committees at six dollars a day. Sergeant-at-Arms, five thousand dollars; Deputy Sergeant-atArms, two thousand dollars; Cashier, three thousand dollars; Paying Teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; Bookkeeper, two thousand two hundred dollars; Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms in charge of pairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; one Clerk in charge of pairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; Inspector of Cabs and Other Vehicles, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Doorkeeper, and Department Messenger, at two thousand dollars each; Superintendent of Reporters' Gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-five messengers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; Messenger to the Speaker's Table, one thousand dollars; fourteen messengers on the soldiers' roll, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten laborers, known as Cloakroom Men, two at seventy dollars per month each and eight at fifty dollars per month each; Female Attendant in Ladies' Retiring Room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; Superintendent of Folding Room, two thousand dollars; Foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; thirty-two Folders, at eight hundred dollars each; two Chief Pages, at nine hundred dollars each; forty-four Pages, during the session, including two Riding Pages, two Telephone Pages, Press-Gallery Page, and ten Pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; Superintendent of Document Room, two thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Superintendent of Document Room, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Postmaster, three thousand dollars; Assistant Postmaster, $2,000. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CAPITOL, The care of the Capitol building of the United States is committed to an official selected by joint action of the Senate and House with the title of Superintendent of the Capitol. He has charge of all matters relating to the heating, lighting and ventilating of the Capitol with the exception of purchasing certain supplies. His jurisdiction extends to the halls and corridors of the building, and any fittings which are permanently affixed to the building itself and he has charge of the cleaning and repair of the portions of the building outside of the interior furnishings of the committee rooms. Responsibility for the furnishing and care of the Capitol is rather oddly divided, the Superintendent of the Capitol having those portions already mentioned; the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate supervise the furnishing of the committee rooms, and the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives has charge of the janitor work within the House committee rooms, and is responsible for the furniture, fittings, typewriters, and so on, after they have been supplied by the office of the Clerk. There is also a dual superintendency over the Superintendent of the building, in that there is a strict division of the Capitol space between the House and Senate. North of the Supreme Court corridor the Superintendent of the Capitol is the official of the Senate. When he crosses the line to the south he becomes an official of the House of Representatives. As separate appropriations are made for the care of the separate wings of the Capitol, he is in charge of two distinct plants, one furnishing light, heat and ventilation for the Senate and the other performing a similar service for the House. The Superintendent of the Capitol is also in charge of the two new buildings now under construction, one to the south and east of the Capitol, for office rooms for the House of Representatives, and the other to the north and east, for rooms for Senators who cannot be accommodated in the Senate wing; these buildings containing all modern improvements, and connected with the Capitol by subways, in which run miniature railways so that the new buildings are practically a part of the Capitol building without interfering with the architectural proportions of the present structure. It has been proposed, in accordance with the plan of the former architect of the Capitol, to extend the front of the Capitol materially, but in view of the newly constructed buildings, and the opposition to any change in the present appearance of the Capitol, it is doubtful if this extension will be carried out. The policing of the Capitol and of the Capitol grounds is separated from the similar work in the city of Washington, and is done by a force of policemen appointed respectively by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, an equal division in employment of men being arranged, and the supervision of the board being undertaken jointly by the two chief officials named. The Capitol policemen maintain order in the building itself during the day and at night act as watchmen within the building and as a patrol in the grounds. The appointment being vested in the Sergeants-atArms, entirely, the tenure of office is wholly political and appointment is secured by members of either House in accordance with their influence as brought to bear upon the appointing offi er. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. From the nucleus of the Library, created by the collection of the books from Thomas Jefferson to the present collection of volumes which long ago reached the million mark is, in time, not much more than three-quarters of that of the history of the United States. In rapidity of growth the Library of Congress |