53d Congress, ) SENATE. ( Mis. Doc. 2d Session. ) ( No. 25. ANNUAL REPORT OP THB PUBLIC PEIKTEE FOE THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1893. January 8, 1894.—Kefciied to the Coinnnttee oii Printing and ordered to be printed. WASHINGTON: GOVEKN^IENT PRINTING OFFICE^ 1894, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER. Office of the Public Printer, WasMngton^ B. January 5, 1894. Sie : I have tlie honor to transmit lierewitb to Congress a report of the condition and operations of tliis office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893. Very respectfully, F. W. Palmer, Fublic Frinter, Hon. A. E. Steye^'SON, Fresidcnt of the Senate, To the Senate and Souse of Representatives : In obedience to the laws regulating the public printing, I have the honor to report to you the condition and the amount and cost of the public printing, binding, lithographing, and engraving; the amount and cost of all papers purchased for the same 5 a statement of the con- tracts entered into for the purchase of paper and other material and for lithographing and engraving; all payments made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893, including those for material and labor for the Congressional Record; the amount of work ordered and done, with a general classification thereof, for each Department; the number of per- sons employed in the Government Printing Office, and the time each has been employed and the amount each has received, and other infor- mation touching matters connected with said printing office. 3 4 REPORT OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER. The tabular statements accompanying this report are presented in the following order: ISTo. 1 is a statement of the financial business of the Government Printing Ofi&cefor the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893, and t he con dition of the appropriations July 1, 1893. 'No. 2 is a recai)itulation of statement of condition of appropriations July 1, 1893. No. 3 is a classi- fied statement of payments by appropriations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893. No. 4 is a statement showing expenditures for labor, material, paper, lithographing, and engraving during fiscal years 188G to 1893, both inclusive. No. 5 sliows the disbursements on account of salaries and contingent exi)eiises in the office of the Public Printer. No. 6, the disbursements on account of public printing and binding (excei)t Congressional Eecord). No. 7, the disbursements on account of i)aper for the public printing (except Congressional Eecord). No. 8, the disbursements on account of Congressional Eecord. No. 9, the disbursements on account of litliographing and engraving (except Congressional Eecord). No. 10, the disbursements on account of print- ing Annual Eeport (1890) of the Secretary of Agriculture. No. 11, the disbursements on account of imnting Annual Eeport (1891) of the Sec- retary of Agriculture. No. 12, the disbursements on account of print- ing Annual Eeport (1892) of the Secretary of Agriculture. No. 13, the disbursements on account of removal and storage of certain material. Government Printing Office. No. 14, the disbursements on account of printing Decisions of Department of the Interior regarding Public Lands and Pensions. No. 15, the disbursements on account of publi- cation of the Eleventh Census Eeports. No. 16, the disbursements on account of printing second edition of Growth of Industrial Art. No. 17, the documents printed by authority of law or by order of either House of Congress, the approximate cost of printing and binding them, and the manner in w^hich they were distributed. No. 18, allotments, etc., for the Executive and Judicial Departments and the approximate cost of the work executed for the same. No. 19, the distribution of the bound and unbound volumes of the Congressional Eecord for the second session of the Fifty-second Congress. No. 20, contracts made (by direction of the Joint Committee on Printing) for supplying print- ing and other paper from March 1, 1893, to February 28, 1894. No. 21, contracts made for materials, etc. (except printing paper), during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893. No. 22, contracts made for lithograph- ing and engraving for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893. No. 23, ]>roposa]s received by the 'Joint Committee on Printing for furnisliing paper for the r)ublic in-inting from March 1, 1893, to February 28, 1894. No. 24, proposals for sui)]ilying materials, etc. (except printing paper). No. 25, proposals for lithographing and engraving. No. 26, number of persons employed in the public printing and binding, the length of time each was emj^loyed, and the amount earned by eacli. No. 27, the number of persons employed in printing Annual Eeport (1890) of the g Secretary of Agriculture, the length of time each was employed, and Ij REPORT OF THE PUBLIC PRIXTER. 5 the amount earned by eacL. Xo. 28, tlie number of persons emjAojed in printing Annual Eeport (1891) of the Secretary of Agriculture, the length of time each was employed, and the amount earned by each. Xo. 29, the number of persons employed in printing Annual Eeport (1892) of the Secretary of Agriculture, the length of time each was employed, and the amount earned by each. 'No. 30, the number of persons employed in printing Decisions of Department of the Interior regarding Public Lands and Pensions, the length of time each was emi)loyed, and the amount earned by each. No. 31, the number of persons emT)loyed in publication of the Eleventh Census Eeports, the length of time each was employed, and the amount earned by each. No. 32, the number of persons employed in printing second edition of Growth of Industrial Art, the length of time each was employed, and the amount earned by each. In each annual report made by me I have recommended most urgently the necessity for a new iireproof building of enlarged dimen- sions for this office. Considerations of economy for the Government and the safety of human life have been suggested in such manner as seemed most likely to secure early action by Congress. Up to this time no plan for the extension of the present plant nor the selection of a new site has been adopted. The increase of outside storage room, as hereinafter indicated, has helped to diminish the danger of collapse in the weaker portions of this building, but the risk of destruction by fire is an ever present menace. The loss of property and consecpient embarrassment to the Government by such a calamity can not well be overestimated, but even under the most favorable condi- tions the loss of human life would in all probability be large. Every safeguard has been provided by my predecessors and myself with which to meet such an emergency, but in those portions of the build- ing constructed of combustible materials, filled as they necessarily are by inflammable material, such as books, paper, ink, oils, etc., the most careful precautions furnish no adequate guaranty against the destruc- tion of the building in case fire should get under headway. Under these circumstances I appeal most earnestly to Congress for such leg- islation at the earliest possible day as will provide relief from the present ill-ventilated, circumscribed, unsafe condition of the Govern- ment Printing Office. Immediately following the collapse of the Ford's Theater building, on Tenth street in this city, and the loss of many human lives, the emi)loyes of the Government Printing Office expressed grave apprehen- sion of a like disaster to themselves unless measures should be adopted at once to relieve the H street and the ]S"orth Capitol street wings from a portion of their weight. After a careful investigation of buildings suitable for the storage of printed matter awaiting completion, the one-story fireproof building owned by the Washington and George- town Kailroad Company, on B street near 1st, southwest, formerly 6 REPORT OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER. occupied as a street-car slied, was rented temporarily, and is now used for storage purposes for this office. Four buildings outside of tlie Government Printing Office, at an annual rental of $9,120, are now occupied for this purpose. The loading, unloading, transportation, and storage of this uncompleted printed matter involve unavoidably much labor, delay, and expense. In three of the buildings thus used there is the same liability to loss by fire that there is in the H street and North Capitol street wings of the Government Printing Office. EespectfuUy submitted. F. W. Palmer, Public Printer. APPENDIX. — :: : Xo. 1. Financial .^{(iff -men ( ofilip business of the Gorernyiiriit T'r'in^inii <^)mre fur fne fiscal year ended Junt : - and the condition of tlu- ap[}ropriatiuns July 1, 1S93. Salaries, office of the Piiljlic Prinicr. 1893: Appropriation, act July 16. 1S92 $15_ 100. 00 Disbursed for salaries during fiscal year 15. loo. 00 Contingent expenses, office of the Public Printer. Balance July 1, ls92 , i, 254. 39 Disbursed during fiscal year ... 707. 11 Balance JtUy 1. 1893 547. 28 Contingent expenses, office of the Public Printer. 1S93: Appropriations, act Jtily 16. 1892 3, OOO. 00 Disbursed dtiring fiscal year 2, 441. IS Balance July 1, 1893 558. 82 Printing and binding. 1891 Balance July 1, 1892 $34,082.56 Transferred on boots of Treasurv for priutinir. etc 5. 610. G4 39,693.20 Disbursed for lithographing and engraving 4, 977. 50 Balance July 1. 1893 34, 715. 50 Printing and binding, 1892 and 1893 Appropriation, act July 28, 1892 383. 40 Disbursed for labor during fiscal year 344. 92 Balance July 1. 1893 38.48 Printing and binding, 1892 Balance July 1. 1892 321. 466. 37 Received from sales waste paper, extra documents, ami printing' 2.