SENATE Continued. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms Messenger for the minority... $2, 040. 00 Laborers (3 additional, at $1,680 each, 2 for work in Reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate (ex- Total, Senate.... Architect of the Capitol: Capital Building (unexpended balance of appropriation Senate Office Building (increase of $44,946, made up as Toward completion of the Senate Office Building--- Total, Office of Architect of the Capitol Botanic Garden: 5, 040. 00 5, 000. 00 12, 280. 00 44, 946. 00 500, 000. 00 544, 946. 00 Personal services__ Enlarging and relocating Botanic Garden (appropriation 730.00 Assistant clerk, Committee on Appropriations..... Preparation of statements of appropriations for first Total decrease... Net increase.. Amount of bill reported to Senate. 300. 00 2, 000. 00 2,300.00 555, 656. 00 26, 556, 497. 58 О MEMORIAL TO COL. BENJAMIN HAWKINS, INDIAN AGENT AND UNITED STATES SENATOR MAY 16, 1930.-Ordered to be printed Mr. FESS, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany H. R. 10579) The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 10579) to provide for a memorial to Col. Benjamin Hawkins for the part that he took in effecting a treaty with the Cherokee Indians, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass. Col. Benjamin Hawkins is one of the unique characters associated with Revolutionary history. He was a polished gentleman, a most unselfish character, one who during the Revolution served on the personal staff of General Washington, who on account of his knowledge of French became the official interpreter, and was North Carolina's first United States Senator, and later appointed Indian agent by President Washington and continued as such until his death. Through the spirit of patriotism he sacrificed home, loved ones, and civilization and penetrated to the heart of the Creek Indian Nation in Georgia, and for 16 years held them in peace and made Georgia the possible habitation of the white man. He died in Crawford County, Ga., in what is known as the Creek Agency. Mr. WALSH of Montana, from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, submitted the following SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8296] In order to carry out the views of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, as heretofore expressed, an amendment in addition to that heretofore proposed should be made, and the committee recommends the same, namely, that the word "twenty" in line 1 on page 3 should be stricken out and "forty" inserted in lieu thereof. O SENATE 71ST CONGRESS 2d Session } { REPORT No. 659 AUTHORIZE SUIT AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY THE STATE OF OREGON MAY 16, 1930.-Ordered to be printed Mr. STEIWER, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 1198] The Committee on the Judiciary, having had under consideration the bill (H. R. 1198) to authorize the United States to be made a party defendant in any suit or action which may be commenced by the State of Oregon in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, for the determination of the title to certain lands, etc., in the State of Oregon, reports the same to the Senate and recommends that the bill do pass without amendment. The purpose of this legislation is set forth in the following excerpt from the House report on this measure: This bill was favorably reported by the Judiciary Committee in the Seventieth Congress (H. R. 16394). It passed the House on February 25, 1929, but failed of action in the Senate owing to the fact that Congress adjourned on the 4th of March and it was not reached. There is printed herewith and made a part of this report the pertinent part of Report No. 2441 in the Seventieth Congress, as follows: This bill will authorize the United States to be made a party defendant in any suit or action which may be commenced by the State of Oregon in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon for the determination of the title to any of the lands constituting the beds of the Malheur and Harney Lakes in Harney County, Oreg., and lands riparian thereto, and to any or all of the waters of said lakes and their tributaries, together with the right to control the use thereof, authorizing all persons claiming to have an interest in said land, water, or the use thereof to be made parties or to intervene in said suit or action, and' conferring jurisdiction on the United States courts over such cause. "The legislation is necessary in order to settle the conflicting claims of the United States, the State of Oregon, and certain landowners. There is situated in Harney County two inland bodies of water known as Malheur and Harney Lakes, which are fed by the waters of Silvies and Blitzen Rivers. Large bodies of arable land lie along and adjacent to said streams which are largely in private ownership and the owners thereof are using certain of the waters of these streams for the irrigation and reclamation of their lands. The State of Oregon, on the other hand, in its sovereign capacity, claims to be the owner of said lakes and of certain lands riparian thereto. "The title of the land is also clouded by a proclamation issued by President Roosevelt on August 18, 1908, which set aside all of the land lying within the meandered lines of said lakes and designated the same as the Malheur Bird Reservation, and the Department of Agriculture claims the land by virtue of this proclamation. "The uncertainty with reference to the title to the land is hindering and delaying the reclamation of the lands adjacent to said streams and lakes. Numerous attempts have been made to compromise the respective rights of the United States, the State of Oregon, and the riparian owners and water appropriators, but these parties have been unable to agree upon any terms of compromise, so the committee is informed. This bill will afford an opportunity for the various claimants to have their rights litigated and determined in the United States district court and its enactment is, therefore, urged in order to bring about a settlement of the whole matter. "The bill was referred to the Attorney General who advised the committee that he knew of no objection to its enactment." The present bill is identical with the bill which was reported favorably and passed the House in the last Congress. O |