Tender for the First lighthouse district... $1,998. 52 55, 985. 38 3,515. 39 3, 102. 41 3, 190. 55 10, 825.00 248.88 43. 07 2,826. 17 2, 847.59 8, 717.56 38, 504. 16 Relief light vessel, Ninth and Eleventh lighthouse districts. Tender for the Fifteenth lighthouse district. Tender for engineer, Third lighthouse district. Lighting of rivers, 1911... Total...... Grand total... 16, 141. 84 17.02 341.25 8,360.90 6.51 20, 262. 37 .61 5.69 176, 940. 87 6,051, 022.50 The following statement shows the expenditures during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, on account of all appropriations under the control of the Department of Commerce and Labor, giving the total amounts disbursed by the various disbursing officers of the Department and miscellaneous receipts for the same period: By the Disbursing Clerk, Department of Commerce and Labor, on account of salaries and expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the Bureaus of Corporations, Manufactures, Labor, Statistics, Navigation, Immigration and Naturalization, Standards, Fisheries, and Lighthouses, the Office of the Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat-Inspection Service, expenses of regulating immigration, salaries and expenses of Steamboat-Inspection Service at large, and public works of the Immigration and Fisheries Services (shown in detail in foregoing table of disbursements)....... $6, 051, 022. 50 By the authorized disbursing officers of the Lighthouse Establishment...... By the disbursing clerk, Bureau of the Census, on account of salaries By the special disbursing agent, Coast and Geodetic Survey, on account By special disbursing agents, Bureau of Fisheries... By customs officers on account of witnesses' fees in steamboat investigations...... By warrants drawn on the Treasurer of the United States to satisfy accounts settled by the Auditor for the State and other Depart ments.... Total...... 5, 130, 028. 92 7,841, 583. 69 955, 418. 36 35, 467.95 35, 516. 85 38, 961. 52 3, 449. 60 706.95 419, 182. 79 20, 511, 339. 13 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS, FISCAL YEAR 1911. Coast and Geodetic Survey: Sale of Charts, Coast Pilots, and Tide Tables......... Sale of property, outside work, etc..... Bureau of Standards: Standardizing and testing weights, etc.. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization: Head tax....... Exclusive privileges... Naturalization fees.... Fines and court costs... Telephone rentals and sale of ice... Bureau of Navigation: Navigation fees.. Transcripts of census records.... Sales of publications..... Sale of Government property... Bureau of Lighthouses: Sale of condemned property, rentals, etc..... Proceeds of sale of condemned property, exclusive of Bureau of Lighthouses.... Other receipts: Tonnage tax.. Total.. $14,037.88 2,208. 83 10, 880. 73 3,655, 721.00 13, 262. 86 288, 034. 00 37, 338. 12 1,618. 14 137, 632. 08 403, 946. 94 492.64 432.40 238.47 31, 963. 21 10, 193. 42 4,608, 000. 72 1,083, 255. 34 5,691, 256. 06 APPOINTMENT DIVISION. The accompanying table shows by bureaus the number of positions in the service of the Department on July 1, 1911, and the increase or decrease in each bureau as compared with July 1, 1910. 1 Does not include the following employees appointed for all or a part of the Thirteenth Decennial Census period, who were on duty at the close of June 30, 1911: 1,948 clerks, 52 subclerks, 14 special agents; total, 2,014. Net increase 155, against a net increase of 327 in the fiscal year 1910. The classification of positions in the Department with respect to the Civil-Service Act and Rules is shown below: PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS MADE SOLELY ON MERIT. During the incumbency of the present head of the Department (Mar. 4, 1909, to Sept. 1, 1911), 29 appointments have been made to presidential positions in this Department, some by the President alone and others, as required by law, through nomination by the President and confirmation by the Senate. No better indorsement can be given to the principle of making appointments to public office solely on merit than to refer to the fact that 15 of the 29 appointments mentioned were made by the transfer, promotion, or reinstatement of persons who by reason of training and experience possessed the qualifications required of them in their new and more important positions. Of the remaining 14 presidential appointments made under this administration, 6 were of former officials who had demonstrated their fitness and were deserving of the consideration shown; 4 were of persons outside the service because competent ones could not be found within it who would accept positions in Alaska; and 4 were of persons having well-known qualifications developed in lines of work not pertaining to Government service. THIRTEENTH DECENNIAL CENSUS. The following statement shows the number of appointments to and separations from the Thirteenth Decennial Census roll made by the Director of the Census during the fiscal year: Satisfactory results have been obtained from the appointment of the clerical force from the special examination provided for by the census act. LEGISLATION AFFECTING POSITIONS IN THE STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION AND SHIPPING SERVICES. By the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act approved March 4, 1911, Congress transferred, effective July 1, 1911, the assistant inspectors of hulls and boilers in the SteamboatInspection Service (83 in number), the shipping commissioners under the Bureau of Navigation (17 in number), and a janitor in the Shipping Service at New York City from the nonstatutory to the statutory rolls. The maximum pay allowed clerks in the Steamboat-Inspection Service was decreased from $1,600 to $1,500 per annum. This particular change did not necessitate any reductions in pay, as none of the clerks was receiving more than $1,500 per annum when the act was passed. There was, however, a decrease of $2,560 in the total amount of the appropriation for clerk hire for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, which was met by the discontinuance of two positions and a general rearrangement of the salaries. The change in the maximum compensation of clerks in the Shipping Service to $1,600 per annum, and the reduction in the appropriation for clerks for the fiscal year 1912 by $2,440, necessitated, on July 1, 1911, the reduction of 1 clerk from $1,620 to $1,600 per annum, the reduction of 11 clerks in amounts ranging from $20 to $132 per annum, and the discontinuance of 2 positions at $900 per annum. Seven thousand dollars was appropriated to enable the Department to employ such persons and means as may be necessary to enforce the act relating to the inspection of wireless apparatus on oceangoing passenger vessels. In pursuance of this authority, three wireless ship inspectors, with stations at New York, Baltimore, and San Francisco, have recently been appointed. FOREIGN-BORN EMPLOYEES IN THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICES. In connection with the complaint made during the early part of the year that aliens coming to this country were not accorded fair treatment on reaching the ports of entry, the Department made an investigation and found that of 1,571 persons employed in the Immigration and Naturalization Services 391, or 24.8 per cent, were of foreign birth, and that 17 of this number were pensioners. Not including 1 born at sea, these employees came from 41 different countries. Practically every class of positions in the services, from commissioner of immigration and chief naturalization examiner to charwoman and laborer, was represented by naturalized citizens, while their aggregate salaries (not including 16 occasionally employed and paid by the day) was $441,252.50. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS. Believing that temporary appointments are, as a rule, not conducive to the interests of good administration, the Department has adopted as a policy the reduction of such appointments to the lowest possible number. It is obvious that the Government derives more faithful and intelligent service from a continuously employed per 26321°-c & L 1911-3 |