80TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session REPORT No. 1590 FREE ENTRY OF STANDARD NEWSPRINT PAPER MARCH 22, 1948.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. ELLIS, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5553] The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5553) to extend until July 1, 1949, the period during which 9inch newsprint may be imported free of duty, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. GENERAL STATEMENT This bill extends for one year beyond June 30, 1948, the period within which standard newsprint paper in 9-inch widths shall be accorded free entry under the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. House Joint Resolution 238, Eightieth Congress, first session (Public Law 315), provided a permanent free-entry status for such paper in 15-inch widths and a temporary free-entry status for standard newsprint paper in widths of less than 15 inches but not less than 9 inches. The acute shortage of such paper which impelled the Congress to accord temporarily a free-entry status to this paper in widths between 9 and 15 inches, still exists and will undoubetdly continue for at least a year and probably longer. The supply is as limited as a year ago and in some areas is felt even more keenly. There is little or no prospect that the supply will be sufficient to meet the demand for another year. Reports from Government agencies confirm this fact. No objection to the principles of the bill has been received. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with paragraph 2a of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, made by the bill as introduced, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets; new matter is printed in italics; existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): TARIFF ACT OF 1930 as Amended by Public Law 315, EIGHTIETH Par. 1772. Standard newsprint paper. For the purposes of this paragraph (but only until [July 1, 1948,] July 1, 1949, in the case of paper in rolls of less than 15 inches in width) paper which is in rolls not less than 9 inches in width shall be deemed to be standard newsprint paper insofar as width of rolls is concerned. O 80TH CONGRESS 2d Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT No. 1591 AUTHORIZING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, EXTENSION, AND IMPROVEMENT OF A HIGH-SCHOOL BUILDING NEAR ROOSEVELT, UTAH, FOR THE DISTRICT EMBRACING THE EAST PORTION OF DUCHESNE COUNTY AND THE WEST PORTION OF UINTAH COUNTY MARCH 22, 1948.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WELCH, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 805] The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (S. 805) authorizing an appropriation for the construction, extension, and improvement of a high-school building near Roosevelt, Utah, for the district embracing the east portion of Duchesne County and the west portion of Uintah County, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. The purpose of this bill is to provide authority for the construction, extension, and improvement of a high-school building near Roosevelt, Utah, by an appropriation of $250,000, for the education of approximately 50 Indian children of high-school age eligible for enrollment but out of school due to lack of suitable school facilities. It will also provide for school facilities for a similar number of Indian students enrolled at the Whiterocks Vocational School on the Uintah Reservation and at the Sherman Institute at Riverside, Calif. The school districts of Uintah and Duchesne Counties mentioned in the bill are prepared to assume the obligation of furnishing free highschool education to the Indian students of that area without cost to the Federal Government for tuition. If these school facilities were not built and the Federal Government were to attempt to provide educational facilities for these students, they would have to be sent to the Sherman Institute at Riverside, Calif., nearly 1,000 miles away. The construction of this proposed school would be an ultimate saving to the United States because the provision of education for these students at Government boarding school facilities necessarily entails far higher per capita costs than would be incurred if they could be educated at the proposed day school facilities and because the provision of separate Government day school facilities in the high school grades for these students would require substantial capital expenditures for buildings and equipment. Therefore, it is much more economical to make possible the education of these high school eligibles now out of school, in addition to those now enrolled at Sherman and Whiterocks boarding schools, as will be provided by the enactment of S. 805. There is attached hereto and made a part of this report a communication of the Secretary of the Interior dated March 17, 1948, recommending that the bill be favorably considered by the Congress. The letter reads as follows: Hon. RICHARD J. WELCH, THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, Chairman, Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR. WELCH: This letter is in reply to the request of your committee for a report on S. 805, a bill authorizing an appropriation for the construction, extension, and improvement of a high-school building near Roosevelt, Utah, for the district embracing the east portion of Duchesne County and the west portion of Uintah County. In the report on S. 805 submitted by this Department to the Senate Committee on Public Lands on May 10, 1947, it was recommended that this bill not be enacted at the present time. Since then further studies have been made of the fiscal justification for the appropriation of $250,000 which the bill would authorize in order to provide better school facilities for Indian children residing in the area to be served by the proposed new high-school building at Roosevelt, Utah. These studies indicate that the enactment of S. 805 would result in an ultimate net saving to the United States. Accordingly, it is now recommended by this Department that the bill be favorably considered by the Congress. There are approximately 50 Indian boys and girls of high-school age who are eligible for enrollment at the proposed Roosevelt High School. If that school is not built, and the Federal Government were to attempt to provide education for these boys and girls in its own school facilities, they would have to be sent to the Sherman Institute at Riverside, Calif., almost 1,000 miles away. In fact, some of them are now students at Sherman, but most of them are out of school, largely because of the lack of appropriate Government facilities within reasonable distance of their homes. There are also about 42 Indian children from the locality to be served by the new Roosevelt school who are now enrolled in the junior high grades at the Whiterocks Vocational School on the Uintah Reservation, Utah. If the new school is built, we propose to discontinue these grades at Whiterocks, which is, like Sherman Institute, a boarding school. Construction of the proposed high school at Roosevelt, Utah, and assumption by the local school districts of the obligation to provide free high-school education for the Indian boys and girls of the locality in return for the proposed Federal contribution of $250,000 to the cost of the new school, would be to the financial advantage of the United States. This is because the provision of education for these boys and girls at Government boarding-school facilities necessarily entails far higher per capita costs than would be incurred if they could be educated in day-school facilities, and because the provision of Government day-school facilities in the high-school grades for these boys and girls would require substantial capital expenditures for buildings and equipment. The cost analyses we have made clearly indicate that either of these alternative arrangements for making possible the education of the 40 to 50 high-school eligibles now out of school, in addition to the similar number of Indian students now enrolled at the Sherman and Whiterocks boarding schools, would be more costly, in the long run, than the enactment of S. 805. The foregoing conclusions are predicated on the understanding that the school districts of Uintah and Duchesne Counties mentioned in the bill are prepared to assume the obligation of furnishing free high-school education to the Indian children of that area, without the payment of tuition by the Federal Government. Acceptance of this obligation is made a condition to the payment of the proposed grant of $250,000 by the concluding proviso of S. 805, which stipulates that the new high school "shall be maintained by the said school districts and shall be available to all the Indian children of the said districts on the same terms as to other children of said school districts." The Bureau of the Budget has advised me that there is no objection to the submission of this report to your committee. Sincerely yours, J. A. KRUG, Secretary of the Interior. Since the Congress in the past has appropriated sums for this kind of legislation, the enactment of this bill sets no precedent, and the Committee on Public Lands is unanimous in its recommendation for enactment. O |