JUNE 18 (calendar day, JUNE 23), 1930.-Ordered to be printed Mr. JONES, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 12902] The Committee on Appropriations, to which was referred the bill (H. R. 12902) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1930, and June 30, 1931, and for other purposes, reports the same to the Senate with various amendments, and presents herewith information relative to the changes made. Amount of bill as passed House... Increase by Senate... Amount of bill as reported to Senate... $68,185, 884. 05 1, 896, 948. 83 70, 082, 832. 88 The changes in the amounts of the House bill recommended by the committee are as follows: Executive: Investigation of enforcement of prohibition laws. $50,000. 00 Individual records, civil service retirement and disability fund.. 150, 000. 00 200, 000. 00 Total, executive.. General Accounting Office: Investigation and audit of transactions of Indians of the United States Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commis- Participation of United States in celebration.. District of Columbia: Garfield Memorial Hospital... Providence Hospital..... Supreme Court Salaries.... Bailiffs.. Repairs and improvements to courthouse-- Court of Appeals, salaries and expenses.. Columbia Hospital repairs and improvements. Total, District of Columbia__ Department of Agriculture: Bureau of Plant Industry, phony peach eradication..... Bureau of Biological Survey, Cheyenne Bottoms Migra- Bureau of Agricultural Economics, enforcement of perish- Total, Department of Agriculture. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Fisheries 25, 000. 00 8, 000. 00 2, 440. 80 4, 598. 00 25, 200. 00 6, 480. 00 22, 000. 00 40,-220. 00 20,000.00 120, 938. 80 80, 000. 00 50, 000. 00 50,000. 00 50, 000. 00 230, 000. 00 Salaries and expenses employees retirement act.... Total, Department of the Interior. Department of Justice: Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, salaries and expenses.. Navy Department: Damages by naval vessels. 100, 000. 00 28,000. 00 176, 000. 00 5, 500. 00 295. 30 Department of State: Contingent expenses, Foreign missions.. 50, 000. 00 Investigation of the Fisheries of Passamaquaddy and 22, 500. 00 Sixth Pan American Child Congress, Lima, Peru..................... 13, 000. 00 Audited claims... Special claims allowed by General Accounting Office Total judgments and audited claims.. Total increase__ $86, 050.00 10, 470. 26 1, 069, 116. 59 2, 896, 948. 83 Amount of bill as reported to Senate.--- -- 70, 082, 832.88 О Mr. HAYDEN, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following MINORITY VIEWS [To accompany H. R. 12902, the deficiency appropriation bill] On behalf of the State of Arizona, I recommend that the appropriation of $10,660,000 for the commencement of construction on the Boulder Canyon Dam and hydroelectric power plant be stricken from the bill for the following reasons: 1. A solemn promise made in order to secure the passage of the Boulder Canyon project act has not been kept. Congress was repeatedly assured that the city of Los Angeles would be the principal guarantor for the return of the money advanced by the Federal Government for the construction of the Boulder Canyon project. That city has guaranteed nothing. Something alleged to be "just as good" has been substituted. Its bureau of power and water has made a contract for lease of power privilege which it is freely confessed can not be enforced against the city of Los Angeles. There is also good reason to justify the opinion that this contract can not be enforced against the bureau. Congress should beware of substitutes and insist that no appropriation of money will be made until the original pledge is redeemed in every detail. 2. The contract for lease of power privilege is made subject to the condition that it shall not go into effect until after Congress makes an appropriation of money to commence construction of Boulder Canyon Dam. There is testimony in the committee hearings to prove that this contract is so drawn that the private power companies in California will gain control of over one-half of the firm energy produced at Boulder Dam and the major portion of the secondary energy. This requires an immediate decision as to whether it is advisable for Congress to appropriate public money collected from taxpayers |