APRIL 30 (calendar day, May 6), 1930.--Ordered to be printed Mr. PHIPPS, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany S. 3599] The Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3599) to provide for the classification of extraordinary expenditures contributing to the deficiency of postal revenues having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that, as amended, the bill do pass. The suggested changes are as follows: 'On page 2, line 3, after the word "by", insert "(1)”. On page 2, line 3, after the word “and”, insert “(2)”. As pointed out by the Postmaster General in his annual report, the department still handles a large volume of mail from which no revenue is derived. Chiefly such mail consists of letters sent free of postage by Members of Congress, by the executive departments, and establishments of the Government, and by others under the franking privilege. There are also included newspapers and periodicals mailed free in the county of publication and free matter for the blind, In other cases the postage charged does not cover the cost of the scrvice. This is true in the air-mail service and where vessels of American registry carry the ocean mail at mileage rates in excess of what would have been paid at pound rates, The purpose of this bill is to provide a method whereby the Post Office Department may be credited with an amount for postage to recompense it for handling and transporting such free or inadequately paid mail matter. Various plans for doing this have been suggested from time to time and the matter has again been urged upon Congress in view of the steadily mounting deficit in postal receipts. The bill would permit the continuation of the present simple method of mailing the various kinds of free matter, while at the same time the statement of receipts and expenditures of the department would present a more accurate picture of its finances and the results of the operations of the Postal Service. The measure has the approval of the Postmaster General, who addressed the chairman of the committee on February 21, 1930, as follows: Post OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, February 21, 1930. As you know, it is the practice of Congress to appropriate the funds necessary for the support of the Post Office Department and the Postal Service out of the postal revenues. And the annual appropriation acts uniformly carry a provision appropriating in indefinite amount so much as may be necessary to make up any deficiency of the postal revenues for this purpose. After the completion of the transactions for any fiscal year this amount is stated in one sum on the books of the Treasury Department and the General Accounting Office, respectively, simply as the “deficiency in postal revenues.” In a technical sense this classification by the Treasury and the accounting officers is of course accurate. For any year the amount stated as the “deficiency in postal revenues” is the amount by which the expenditures for the objects and purposes specified in the annual appropriation act for that year have exceeded the postal revenues. But in a wider sense this principle of classification is misleading to a large body of the public. Among the objects for which appropriations are made in the annual bill are a number which are extraneous to the primary and essential purposes of the Postal Service. Although these extraneous items are not large, relatively, if measured against the whole amount expended under the jurisdiction of the Post Office Department, they do contribute largely to the postal deficit. S. 3599 would simply authorize the Treasury Department and the General Accounting Office, respectively, to show such items separately in stating the amount of the annual postal deficiency. The measure would in no wise alter the present methods of accounting either at the Treasury or at the General Accounting Office, but would authorize the inclusion of supplemental figures in the published reports of these departments, for the better information of the public. I trust that the bill will be considered favorably. WALTER F. BROWN. nd the result } has the app SENATE 71st CONGRESS 2d Session REPORT No. 620 lan of the ow: { DEPARTMENT R, February ate the fundam istal Servies rmly carry a essary to make the complete um on the bar , respectively ADDING CERTAIN LANDS TO ZION NATIONAL PARK, UTAH APRIL 30 (calendar day, May 7), 1930.-Ordered to be printed y and the so ted as the core res for the oth t year hare e f classificatio · which appe us to the pris traneous itens ended under the : largely to the Mr. Smoot, from the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, submitted the following Department 8 separsterbo REPORT [To accompany S. 4169] Is of accounts t would sutra of these depe WALTER F. Ben The Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4169) to add certain lands to the Zion National Park in the State of Utah, and for the purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with the recommendation that the bill do pass without amendment. The facts are set forth in the favorable recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, under date of April 21, 1930, as follows: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, April 21, 1930. United States Senate. RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary. Very truly yours, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, Washington, April 19, 1930. Reference is made to letter of April 16, from the chairman Committee on This bill proposes to add lands totaling approximately 17,900 acres to the Zion boundaries of the park. reasons: The addition of these lands to the park is very desirable for the following (1) To eliminate offensive landscape conditions existing at or near the present park entrance. (2) To provide additional camping space for the accommodation of visitors to Zion Canyon, where area available for camping ground is very limited. (3) To protect the upper section of the valley of Clear Creek, through which the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway is being constructed. (4) To bring under park protection a number of excellent cliff ruins in the Parunuweap Canyon and to add to the park the unusuaily scenic upper canyon of the Parunuweap and make available additional camping ground for park visitors on the floor of the Parunuweap Valley. (5) To bring under park control lands suitable for the grazing of deer and mountain sheep, thereby enabling the restocking of the Zion area with these native animals, which have very nearly become extinct. For the most part the lands proposed for addition are unsurveyed areas of the public domain and are unused except for a relatively small amount of grazing for which, by reason of topography, they are not well adapted. In view of the above, it is recommended that S. 4169 receive favorable consideration by the department and Congress. HORACE M. ALBRIGHT, Director. rable for the Calendar No. 626 SENATE { REPORT No. 621 at or near to 71st CONGRESS 2d Session modation of TE ery limited Creek, thru lent clif res scenic uppe ing groued = grazing of the Zion atès ADDITION OF CERTAIN LANDS TO BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, UTAH unsurtered all amount de ted. receive issons APRIL 30 (calendar day, May 7), 1930.-Ordered to be printed ALBRIGET, DE Mr. Smoot, from the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, sub mitted the following REPORT (To accompany S. 4170) The Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4170) to provide for the addition of certain lands to the Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with the recommendation that the bill do pass without amendment. This proposed legislation has the favorable recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as set forth in their letters of April 21 and 24, 1930, respectively, as follows: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, April 21, 1930. United States Senate. Ray LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary. Very truly yours, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, Washington, April 19, 1930. Reference is made to letter of April 16, from the chairman Committee on |
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