Amendment numbered 87:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 87, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: ; for the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of certain lands, within Mount Rainier National Park, $30,000; in all, $176,555; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 96:

That the House recede from disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 96, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed insert $5,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 102:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 102, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

Restore the matter stricken out by said amendment, amended to read as follows:

All appropriations for vocational educational under the Office of Education in this Act shall be used exclusively for vocational education purposes.

And the Senate agree to the same.

The committee of conference report in disagreement amendments numbered 2, 3, 20, 22, 28, 34, 46, 53, 54, 60, 61, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, and 98.

EDWARD T. TAYLOR,
JED JOHNSON,

J. G. SCRUGHAM

EMMET O'NEAL,

JAMES M. FITZPATRICK,

CHAS. H. LEAVY,

ALBERT E. CARTER,

Managers on the part of the House.

CARL HAYDEN,

KENNETH MCKELLAR,

ALVA B. ADAMS,

GERALD P. NYE,

Managers on the part of the Senate.

STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 9621) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon and recommended in the accompanying conference report as to each of such amendments, namely:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Amendment No. 1: Appropriates $280,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $285,600, as proposed by the Senate, for personal services in the office of the Solicitor.

Amendment No. 4: Provides that 25 percent of all moneys received from grazing districts shall be available for range improvements, as proposed by the Senate. Under the provisions of the House bill 25 percent of moneys received from leased lands outside of grazing districts would be made available for range improvements in such districts, which is not in accord with section 15 of the so-called Taylor Grazing Act, approved June 28, 1934, as amended.

Amendment No. 5: Appropriates $260,000 for salaries and expenses, Petroleum Conservation Division, instead of $250,000, as proposed by the House, and $275,000, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 6: Restores the language of the House providing for teletype rentals and service under the appropriation for contingent expenses, which was stricken out by the Senate.

Amendment No. 7: Perfects language in the paragraph appropriating funds for the purchase of books, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendments Nos. 8, 9, and 10, relating to printing and binding: Appropriates $253,470 for printing and binding, instead of $250,000, as proposed by the House, and $255,680, as proposed by the Senate; provides $82,790 for such purpose under the Bureau of Mines, instead of $80,580, as proposed by the House, and $85,000, as proposed by the Senate; and appropriates $52,000 for the same purpose for the Office of Education, instead of $50,740, as proposed by the House.

NATIONAL BITUMINOUS COAL COMMISSION

Amendment No. 11: Appropriates $3,000,000 for salaries and expenses of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $2,700,000, as proposed by the House.

BONNEVILLE PROJECT

Amendment No. 12: Provides that appropriations for construction in connection with this project shall be available for personal services, as proposed by the Senate.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE

Amendment No. 13: Appropriates $687,700 (including $50,000 for temporary employees) for salaries in the office of the Commissioner, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $637,700, as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 14: Appropriates $1,000,000 for surveying public lands, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $750,000, as proposed by the House.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Amendment No. 15: Appropriates $522,200, for salaries in the office of the Commissioner, as proposed by the House, instead of $528,680, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendments Nos. 16, 17, and 18: Appropriates $80,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $120,000, as proposed by the Senate, for expenses of organizing Indian chartered corporations; provides $20,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $25,000, as proposed by the Senate, for personal services in the District of Columbia; and provides that not to exceed $5,000 of such sum shall be available for expenditure in the State of New Mexico, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $15,000, as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 19: Permits the use of $200,000 from applicable funds for the purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $190,000, as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 21: Appropriates $20,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $25,000, as proposed by the Senate, for the acquisition of lands in connection with the act of June 18, 1934.

Amendment No. 23: Continues available the unexpended balances of amounts authorized to be expended for the purchase of additional lands and improvements for the Confederated Band of Ute Indians in Utah and appropriated in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 24: Continues available during the fiscal year 1939, the unexpended balance of funds appropriated for the fiscal year 1938 for the purchase of land, Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak., as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 25: Appropriates $15,000 from tribal funds for a survey of certain lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians of Oklahoma, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 26: Strikes out the proposal of the Senate that $50,000 be appropriated from tribal funds for the purchase of land on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.

Amendment No. 27: Appropriates $660,000 for the purpose of developing agriculture and stock raising, instead of $650,000, as proposed by the House, and $670,000, with a limitation of $20,000 to be available for the Five Civilized Tribes, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendments Nos. 29, 30, and 31: Appropriates $28,000 from tribal funds for industrial assistance, as proposed by the House, instead of $206,000, as proposed by the Senate; strikes out $125,000 for the Blackfeet Indians in Montana, $25,000 for the Fort Apache Indians in Arizona, $25,000 for the Navajo Indians, Arizona and New Mexico, and $3,000 for the Papago Indians, Arizona, inserted by the Senate; and makes available for loans to Indian-chartered corporations appropriations from tribal funds for industrial assistance, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendments Nos. 32 and 33: Appropriates $42,500, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $41,000, as proposed by the House, for Indian arts and crafts; and provides that no salary shall be in excess of $7,500 per annum, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $6,000, as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 35: Appropriates $11,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $26,000, as proposed by the Senate, for irrigation construction work on the Klamath Reservation, Oreg.

Amendment No. 36: Corrects a total.

Amendment No. 37: Provides that no part of appropriations for the Indian Bureau shall be available for travel in connection with a study of educational systems outside the continental limits of the United States and the Territory of Alaska, as proposed by the House, instead of limiting such expenditure to $1,000, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 38: Strikes out the proposal of the Senate appropriating $29,000 for the purchase of land and improvements adjacent to the boarding school at Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Amendment No. 39: Corrects a total.

Amendments Nos. 40 and 41: Corrects two totals.

Amendments Nos. 42 and 43: Appropriates $90,000, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $65,000, as proposed by the House, for the William W. Hastings Hospital; and continues available the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1938 for the Sioux Sanatorium, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 44: Appropriates $2,675,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $2,700,000, as proposed by the Senate, for general support and administration.

Amendment No. 45: Strikes out, as proposed by the Senate, the provision of the House providing for a survey of the reindeer industry in Alaska.

Amendments Nos. 47 and 48: Appropriates from tribal funds, as proposed by the Senate, $55,000, including the construction of quarters and other facilities near McNary in the State of Arizona, instead of an appropriation of $50,000, as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 49: Appropriates $3,000, from tribal funds, for the Western Shoshone Indians in Nevada, as proposed by the Senate. Amendments Nos. 50 and 51: Appropriates $104,260 for the Klamath Indians, Oregon, from tribal funds, of which $10,000 shall be available for repairs and maintenance, instead of $94,260, as proposed by the House and $108,760, of which $4,500 shall be available for expenses of attorneys, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 52: Corrects a total.

Amendment No. 55: Appropriates $15,000 for infirmary quarters, Jones Academy, Oklahoma, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 56: Appropriates $75,000 for dormitory facilities, at Fort Sill, Okla., as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 57: Makes available $5,000 of an unexpended balance of $20,000 contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, for use during the fiscal year 1939 for improvements to the water system, Rosebud, S. Dak., as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 58: Appropriates $35,000 for repairs and improvements at the Shawnee Sanitorium, Oklahoma, as proposed by the

Senate, and strikes out the proposal of the Senate appropriating $80,000 for an infirmary and equipment at the same institution. Amendment No. 59: Corrects a total.

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Amendment No. 63: Strikes out the proposal of the Senate inserting the words "and for general investigations" under the items for construction from the reclamation fund.

Amendment No. 65: Appropriates $750,000 for the Twin Springs Dam and Snake River pumping plant on the Boise project, Idaho, instead of $1,000,000, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 66: Appropriates $100,000 for construction in connection with the Ogden River project, Utah, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 67: Appropriates $1,000,000, for construction in connection with the Kendrick project, Wyoming, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $750,000, as proposed by the House.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Amendments Nos. 73 and 74: Appropriates $1,050,000 for gaging streams and makes $130,000 available for personal services in the District of Columbia for such purpose, as proposed by the Senate, instead of an appropriation of $1,000,000 with a limitation of $100,000 on the amount available for personal services in the District of Columbia, as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 75: Provides that not to exceed $65,000 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia for mineral leasing, instead of $60,000, as proposed by the House, and $70,000, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 76: Corrects a total.

BUREAU OF MINES

Amendment No. 77: Appropriates $64,000 for salaries and expenses in the office of the Director, as proposed by the House, instead of $66,000, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 78: Appropriates $635,000 for operating mine rescue cars and stations and investigation of mine accidents, instead of $624,000, as proposed by the House, and $647,560, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 79: Appropriates $250,400 for testing fuel, instead of $240,400, as proposed by the House, and $260,400, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 80: Appropriates $365,000 for mining experiment stations, instead of $359,000, as proposed by the House, and $375,540, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendments Nos. 81 and 82, relating to economics of mineral industries: Appropriates $324,500, of which $230,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, instead of providing $312,000 of which $225,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, as proposed by the House, and $342,500, of which $248,000 may be expended in the District of Columbia, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 83: Corrects a total.