CONGRESS,

CONGRESS

ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR EMPLOYES OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

JUNE 24, 1890.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. BROWER, from the Committee on Expenditures in Post-Office Department, submitted the following

REPORT:

[To accompany H. R. 803.]

The Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 803) to pay employés of the PostOffice Department additional compensation for extra hours of duty in the year 1885, report as follows:

Your committee submit herewith orders from the Post-Office Department, to wit:

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January 2, 1889. DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 19th ultimo, inclosing H. R. 11819, entitled “A bill for the relief of employés and late employés of the Post-Office Department," and requesting me to furnish you with a statement showing the number of employés contemplated by the bill, the time required of them in excess of the regular official hours per day, the amount of wages paid to each during the period that the orders of the Postmaster-General of April 11. 1835, and June 18, 1885, were in force, and such other information as, in my opinion, would aid the committee in the proper consideration of said bill.

In reply I beg to hand you herewith copies of the orders above referred to, together with the record of said employés, containing all the information requested.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

Hon. C. L. ANDERSON, M. C.,

Chairman Subcommittee of Committee on

DON M. DICKINSON,

Postmaster-General.

Post-Offices and Post-Roads, House of Representatives.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL,
Washington, D. C., April 11, 1885.

Order No. 102.-Until further ordered the clerks in the appointment division, in the bond division, and such as may be required in the free delivery, and correspondence, and salary and allowance divisions of the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, are required to attend from 6.30 until 9 o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of facilitating the dispatch of applications and preparation of papers for action.

Mr. Fowler, acting personally for the First Assistant Postmaster-General, will personally direct the execution of this order.

H. Rep. 8 -29

WM. F. VILAS, Postmaster-General.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF The Postmaster-GENERAL,

Washington, D. C., June 18, 1885.

Order No. 130.-Until further ordered, the clerks of the several divisions of the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, including all detailed temporarily for work therein, are required to attend from 9 a. m. to 5.30 p. m. of each day; and the First Assistant Post master-General will assign to the appointment division such of the clerks in other divisions and during such hours as he shall deem most convenient.

Order No. 102, of April 11, is abrogated.

WM. F. VILAS, Postmaster-General.

Your committee also submit record of employés, with estimated additional compensation, etc.

Record of employés, with estimated additional compensation, etc.

[Record of employés embraced in orders of the Postmaster-General dated, respectively, April 11 and June 18, 1885, requiring extra hours of duty in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, from said April 11, over a period extending to the 18th day of November, 1885, covering one hundred and eighty-nine working days, or three hundred and forty-three and one-half hours, with estimated additional compensation computed upon a basis of 60 cents per hour for the extra time shown, with copies of the official orders of the Postmaster-General appended.]

Record of employés, with estimated additional compensation, etc.-Continued.

First Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson, under date of May

20, 1890, also indorsed the passage of the bill.

Your committee would also state that during the first session of the Fiftieth Congress a similar appropriation was made for extra work performed by the clerks in the office of the Adjutant-General and also that of the Surgeon-General, War Department.

Your committee report back the bill and recommend its passage.

Order No. 102.]

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., April 11, 1885.

Until further ordered, the clerks in the appointment division, in the bond division, and such as may be required in the free delivery and correspondence and salary and allowance divisions of the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, are required to attend from half past 6 until 9 o'clock in the evening for the purpose of facilita ting the dispatch of applications and preparation of papers for action.

Mr. Fowler, acting for the First Assistant Postmaster-General, will personally direct the execution of this order. WM. F. VILAS,

Postmaster-General.

Order No. 130.]

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., June 18, 1885.

Until further ordered, the clerks in the several divisions of the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, including all detailed temporarily for work therein, are required to attend from 9 a. m. to 5.30 p. m. of each day; and the First Assistant Postmaster-General will assign to the appointment division such of the clerks in other divisions and during such hours as he shall deem most convenient. Order No. 102 of April 11 is abrogated.

WM. F. VILAS,

(This order, No. 130, abrogated verbally November 18, 1885.)

Postmaster-General.

To the Congress of the United States :

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 7, 1889.

Your petitioners pray the passage of a bill granting them compensation at the rate of 60 cents per hour for extra hours of duty required of them from April 11 to November 18, 1885, under orders of the Postmaster-General, and respectfully ask that the sum of $13,089 be appropriated to cover the total amount required for said compensation, as shown by the accompanying tabulated statement.

J. W. F. Williams, T. F. Rea, Thos. Roach, Wm. Van Vleck, Elbert S. Maloney,
L. S. Mortimer, N. P. Aldrich, C. P. Grandfield, A. Girouard, H. A. Drury,
K. H. Bell, J. N. Dorris, Thos. B. Marche, G. M. Brumbaugh, E. C. Fowler,
C. B. Dickey, Wm G. Russell, Geo. G. Fenton, F. D. Cleary, Warner Green,
James R. Ash, J. S. McGee, C. W. Appler, representing those named in
accompanying tabulated statement.

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 7, 1889.

In presenting our bill for relief, your petitioners beg leave to submit the following statement of facts in connection therewith:

A similar bill for relief was presented by us to the Fiftieth Congress; was favorably reported to the House of Representatives by the Committee on Appropriations; passed the House by an almost unanimous vote, and only failed of becoming a law by reason of the limited time the Senate had for its consideration during the closing hours of the session ending March 4, 1889.

That, owing to our enforced long hours of duty, covering the period of an extremely warm summer, and from almost constant and close confinement, some of our number

succumbed and suffered ill health, entailing incidental expenses for medical attendance, etc. We were also deprived of the society of our families, and our households were much inconvenienced.

As a precedent, we would respectfully invite attention to the act of Congress granting compensation to clerks and other employés of the Adjutant-General's Office and of the Surgeon-General's Office, War Department, for extra hours of duty required of them in 1887, approved October 19, 1888. (25 Stats., pp. 573, 574.)

WASHINGTON, D. C. May - 1890. To the Hon. J. M. Brower, chairman, and others of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department, of the House of Representatives, United States, assembled: GENTLEMEN: Your petitioners, in behalf of ourselves and others interested in H. R. bill 803, now pending before your honorable body, earnestly pray for such early suitable action upon said measure by your committee as may be deemed equitable, just, and wise.

We, therefore, submit that the bill may be reported to the Committee of the Whole, upon the merits shown therein, at an early day.

E. S. Maloney, N. P. Aldrich, May Barlow, Jno. T. Morton, T. F. Rea, Warner
Green, Geo. G. Fenton, Helen Fowler, G. M. Brumbaugh, J. W. F. Will-
iams, C. B. Dickey, C. P. Grandfield, Philip A. Tracy, C. McKay, J. B.
Shiley, Wm. VanVleck, M. L. de Ronceray, F. F. Hodge, K. H. Bell, H.
A. Drury, Thos. E. Roach, C. C. Kimball, Chas. W. Appler, A. H. Scott,
W. V. W. Weaver, W. G. Russell, J. N. Dorris, L. S. Mortimer, Jas. R.
Ash.

A BILL to pay employees of the Post-Office Department additional compensation for extra hours of duty required of them in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Postmaster-General to pay to the employees and late employees of the Post-Office Department additional compensation for services rendered by such employees as were embraced in orders of the Postmaster-General dated April eleventh and June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, requiring extra hours of labor, said additional compensation to be regulated by the extra time said employees were actually engaged in rendering service under said orders, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand and eighty-nine dollars, less three hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty cents on account of notes marked on margin of tabular statement, page three, lines four and sixty-three, of these papers.