Long time between these bills. Washington, D.C., June 29. Clerk of the House during the Wilson administration and now holding the same job under the present Roosevelt administration, South Trimble compares his signature on the recently passed tax bill with that of John Beckley, first Clerk of the House, on an old measure just unearthed in the archives of the United States Capitol. During his tenure as Clerk, Trimble has affixed his signature to appropriations totaling billions of dollars, more than any official of the U.S. Government, 6/29/38