1923-Act of January 5, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 1112-1114)—An Act

Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE Salaries: Director, $6,000; assistant directors—two at $4,000 each, one $3,500, one $3,000; private secretary, $1,800; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,500 each; assistant chief of division, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; expert on commerce and finance, $2,000; expert on commercial law in foreign countries, $4,000; commercial economist, $2,750 ; chiefs of sections—one $2,500, one $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,800, two at $1,400 each; editorial assistant, $2,000; clerks—fourteen of class four, twelve of class three, two at $1,500 each, twenty-two of class two, thirty-five of class one, twenty at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each; two messengers, at $840 each; four assistant messengers, at $720 each; laborer, $660; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $232,510.

Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for the compensation of a clerk or clerks for each commercial attaché at the rate of not to exceed $2,500 per annum for each person so employed, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers, for necessary janitor and messenger service, rent outside of the District of Columbia, purchase of reports, books of reference, and periodicals, travel to and from the United States, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $225,000: Provided, That not to exceed two commercial attachés employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned for duty in the Department of Commerce without loss of salary.

Promoting commerce, Europe and other areas: For all necessary expense, including investigations in Europe and other areas, purchase of documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, rent outside the District of Columbia, to further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, $379,100, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: Provided, That not more than $25,000 of the foregoing sum may be used for personal services in Washington, District of Columbia : Provided further, That not more than four trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce.

District and Coöperative Office Service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and coöperative offices, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, documents, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, $150,000.

Promoting commerce, South and Central America: To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment of experts and special agents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, plans, specifications, manuscripts, documents, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $200,000: Provided, That not more than two trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce.

Promoting commerce in the Far East: To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Far East, including the employment of experts and special agents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $200,000 : Provided, That not more than two trade commissioners employed under this appropriation may be recalled from their foreign posts and assigned to duty in the Department of Commerce.

Export Industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing in so far as they relate to the important export industries of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, $550,000.

Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “ China Trade Act, 1922,” including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as follows: Registrar, $7,500; assistant registrar, $5,000 ; clerks-one $3,000, one $2,000, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,000 each; rent outside the District of Columbia, travel and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $38,000.

Information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures: For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures, $50,000.

Transporting remains of officers and employees: For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment at their post or at home, $1,500.

Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees: To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, but not including any expenses incurred in connection with leave of absence of the officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $15,000: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be paid for transportation on foreign vessels without a certificate from the Secretary of Commerce that there are no American vessels on which such officers and clerks may be transported.

For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries, $25,000.

For all necessary expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of lists of foreign buyers, books of reference, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile a directory of foreign buyers, $10,000. 1923-Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 1485)-An Act for the

relief of certain disbursing agents under the Department

of Commerce. (SEC. 1.] That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the respective accounts of disbursing agents under the Department of Commerce for payments of loss by exchange on salary and per diem checks issued under appropriations respectively for the fiscal years 1917 to 1922, inclusive, containing a provision for “exchange on official checks,” the accounts of which payments may have been heretofore settled or may hereafter become the matter of settlement. 1923-Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 1536)–An Act Making

appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE Investigating sources of crude rubber: To enable the Department of Commerce to investigate and report upon the possibilities of developing

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the rubber plantation industry in the Philippine Islands and Latin-America; to investigate the conditions of production and marketing of other essential raw materials for American industries including nitrates and sisal; and to investigate related problems in the development of the foreign trade of the United in agricultural and manufactured products, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $500,000, to remain available until June 30, 1924: Provided, That of this sum such amount as the President may in his discretion direct, not exceeding $100,000, shall be made available to the Department of Agriculture for such exploration of rubber-producing regions and such studies and experiments with rubber-producting plants in the United States, the Philippine Islands, and elsewhere, as may be found advisable.

Customs statistics : For all expenses necessary for the operation of the section of customs statistics now located in the customhouse, New York, New York, transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923, and in addition to the appropriations made available by said Act, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, and drayage; tabulating cards, stationery and miscellaneous office supplies, furniture and equipment, ice, water, heat, light, and power, street-car fare, and all other. necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1924.

APPENDIX 5

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Statements showing appropriations, receipts, expenditures, and other financial data for a series of years constitute the most effective single means of exhibiting the growth and development of a service. Due to the fact that Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriations for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to present data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in others financial data are almost wholly lacking. Careful study has in all cases been made of such data as are available, and the effort has been made to present the results in such a form as will exhibit the financial operations of the services in the most effective way that circumstances permit.

The tables that follow show the appropriations for the fiscal years 1913 to 1924 (or since the creation of the Bureau) and the expenditures for the fiscal years 1913 to 1923. The appropriations include all deficiencies except those known as certified claims, which are made when the appropriation is exhausted or after it is no longer available. These, however, are generally small. The expenditures for the fiscal years 1913 to 1921 are figured on the accrual basis; that is, the amount given as expended represents the total expenditures out of that appropriation regardless of whether the money was expended during the current fiscal year or during the two succeeding fiscal years in which the money was available. The expenditures for 1922 and 1923 are figured on the cash basis, and the figures are not final.

The appropriations given below include only those made directly to the Bureau. In addition it shares in the general appropriations