Speech #850075247

Education. and Welfare. This language provides for the payment of overtime services of employees of the Foreign Quarantine Division of the United States Public Health Service without cost to the taxpayers. and will permit the clearing of ships at our ports after 6 oclock in the evening and on Sundays and holidays. In unanimously agreeing to the language contained in amendment of the Senate No. 21. the conferees were also in unanimous agreement that nothing should be done to disturb the longestablished practice affecting officers of the Customs and Immigration Services insofar as overtime services and reimbursement by the parties requesting such overtime services are concerned. The practice. as carried out by these two agencies. is one that is equitable to the Government. to the employee. and to the third party. It is the opinion of the conferees that an extension of this practice to quarantine officers of the Public Health Service would be consistent with this longestablished equitable principle that has been in effect for many years and comprises a formula that has been practical and satisfactory at great savings to the taxpayers.