No. 5: Appropriates $3,000,000, instead of $5,000,000, as proposed by the Senate, for the construction, etc., of main roads on unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than forest reservations, modified to make such expenditures under the terms of the act of June 24, 1930. Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 9, relating to the appropriation of $80,000,000 for the Federal-aid highway system: Appropriates $80,000,000 in the terms of the House bill instead of in the modified form proposed by the Senate amendments. The effect of the Senate amendments would have been to make an appropriation of $80,000,000 which would have to be matched by the States with their funds under the terms of the Federal highway act, instead of providing, as proposed by the House bill, for advances of funds to the States which they might use in lieu of their own funds for matching regular allotments from Federalaid apportionments made under the general law. No. 10: Strikes out the amendment, proposed by the Senate, permitting the use of any unclaimed part of the $80,000,000, above referred to, for highways over land owned by the United States, without State cooperation or approval and without reference to the Federal highway act. The committee of conference have not agreed on the following amendments: Nos. 11 and 12: Providing that the unexpended balances of appropriations of $1,660,000 and $506,067.50, heretofore granted to the States of Alabama and Georgia, respectively, for relief for damage to and destruction of roads and bridges by floods, may be paid to the authorities of such States notwithstanding the requirement of existing law which provides that expenditures under such appropriations shall be matched by the respective States. No. 13: Providing for the interchange of appropriations in the bill upon the order of the President. No. 14: Imposing residential qualifications and pay conditions for the employment of laborers and mechanics by contractors upon the public works covered by the bill, excepting the Federal aid highway appropriation. The total of the bill as passed the House was $110,000,000. The total as passed the Senate was $118,000,000. The bill as partially agreed upon appropriates $116,000,000. The Senate recedes from its amendment of the title of the bill. WILL R. WOOD, J. P. BUCHANAN, Managers on the part of the House. O CRUISER "GALVESTON" SILVER SERVICE TO ROSENBERG LIBRARY, GALVESTON, TEX. DECEMBER 16, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. VINSON of Georgia, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 13160] The Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13160) authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the Rosenberg Library, in the city of Galveston, Tex., the silver service presented to the United States for the cruiser Galveston, having had the same under consideration, report favorably thereon, without amendment, and with the recommendation that the bill do pass. The bill meets with the approval of the Navy Department, as shown by the following letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy addressed to the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, and which is hereby made a part of this report: The CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS, NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 24, 1930. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Replying further to the committee's letter of June 28, 1930, transmitting the bill (H. R. 13160) authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the Rosenberg Library, in the city of Galveston, Tex., the silver service presented to the United States for the cruiser Galveston, and requesting the views and recommendations of the Navy Department thereon, I have the honor to inform the committee that the Navy Department has no objection to the enactment of the bill H. R. 13160. Sincerely yours. C. F. ADAMS, Secretary of the Navy. O HR-71-3-VOL 1-12 ISSUANCE OF ADDITIONAL MAILING RECEIPTS DECEMBER 16, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. KELLY, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 32731 The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, having had under consideration the bill (S. 3273) to authorize the Postmaster General to issue additional receipts or certificates of mailing to senders of any class of mail matter and to fix the fees chargeable therefor, reports the same back to the House with the following amendments: In line 4, strike out the word "page" and insert "section" in lieu thereof. In line 7, strike out "is" and insert "are" in lieu thereof. So amended, the committee recommends that the bill do pass. In his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1930, which has just been submitted to Congress, the Postmaster General states as follows: Receipts showing the mailing of any class of mail were authorized by the act of February 14, 1929 (title 39, U. S. C. 260), but covered ordinary mail only. Sufficient requests for additional receipts or certificates of mailing covering registered, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail are received to justify a request for authority to charge for the additional receipts covering other than ordinary mail. Last year recommendation for legislation to permit a charge for such additional receipts was made and two bills were introduced (71st Cong., 2d sess.), one H. R. 8569 and the other S. 3273, passed by the Senate May 7, 1930, both now pending in the House of Representatives. These bills vary only slightly in wording and either bill will produce the desired result. Hearings were held on this proposed legislation by a subcommittee of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads in the last session, at which representatives of the Post Office Department were present and testified in favor of such legislation. Prior to July 1, 1929, certificates of mailing covering ordinary domestic matter were furnished for parcels of the fourth class only. Beginning July 1, 1929, such certificates were authorized to cover domestic ordinary mail of any class. Senders' receipts for ordinary mail of any class are furnished upon request and the payment of 1 cent for each piece of mail. These receipts merely furnish evidence of mailing and do not provide for indemnity or special treatment of the matter involved. During the year 8,612,649 certificates of mailing for domestic ordinary articles were issued, for which charges amounting to $86,126.49 were received, an increase of 1,739,533 receipts and $17,395.33 compared with the preceding year, or 25.31 per cent. The bill (S. 3273) proposes to extend the provisions of the present act so as to include additional receipts or certificates of mailing covering registered, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail. A comparative print of the present law and the extension proposed "in the pending legislation is given below: |