Mr. HUGHES. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE

JUSTIFICATION

Senator KILGORE. Proceed, please.

Mr. WILBER. The House allowed the $1 million which we requested. With your permission I will file in the record the justification statement (The justification referred to follows:)

EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE

Whenever any

Section 107 of title 31 of the United States Code provides as follows: "(Settlement of expenses of intercourse with foreign nations.) sum of money has been or shall be issued, from the Treasury, for the purposes of intercourse or treaty with foreign nations, in pursuance of any law, the President is authorized to cause the same to be duly settled annually with the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, by causing the same to be accounted for, specifically, if the expenditures may, in his judgment, be made public; and by making or causing the Secretary of State to make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify; and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended."

This appropriation is necessary to meet emergency requirements in connection with foreign affairs for which the granting of specific appropriations is not feasible, due to the urgency of requirements in some instances and the confidential character of the purposes for which funds are needed in others. It is essential to the furtherance and protection of the interests of the United States in foreign countries that there should be a fund from which extraordinary expenditures can be made without regard to the ordinary limitations upon the disbursement of Government funds and without the necessity of pubicly reporting the nature of the expenditure, although the expenditures from this appropriation are made with due care and are vouchered and recorded in the same manner as expenditures from other Government appropriations.