CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF AN ANNEX TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JANUARY 28, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. LUCE, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8372] The Seventieth Congress passed a bill (H. R. 9355) which became law May 21, 1928, providing for the acquisition of land east of the Congressional Library, to be used for erecting a fireproof annex. The needs were fully explained in the report accompanying H. R. 9355, and there is occasion here only to summarize them by saying that the present building is becoming crowded; that the shelving of the stacks will be occupied within four or five years; that the accession of material other than printed books are taxing what space. remains available; and that provision against the inevitable requirement of more room should begin at once. It is the intention to meet the needs by the erection of a building mainly composed of stacks, where will be kept the bound volumes of newspapers, already more than 70,000 in number; official documents of foreign countries, rarely referred to, but that must be preserved; copyright deposit files of material that calls only for storage; a mass of volumes stored against the time when copies now in circulation will wear out; and the stock of printed cards. The building will also house the copyright office, the printing office, the bindery, and the considerable working force engaged in preparing and delivering the copies of the Library catalogue cards that are bought by other libraries throughout the country. In brief this is to be a storehouse and workshop for whatever parts of the present establishment can be transferred with advantage and without detriment. It is clear that such a building need not be so monumental and ornate as the main edifice, but there should be some degree of architectural harmony, solidity, and permanence must be kept in mind, and the stacks of which the greater part of the building will be composed, are HR-71-2-VOL. 28 costly. There must also be provision for underground connection with the main building. Experience has made possible a reasonably close estimate by the Librarian and the Architect of the Capitol, who are of the belief that about $6,500,000 will be needed. Although the work of acquiring the land, now under way, will take some time yet, it is desirable that while it is in progress the preparations for the new building in the way of working plans, detailed estimates, etc., should be made, that as little time as possible be lost. Accessions are coming into the Library at the rate of more than 200,000 a year, and unless the annex can be completed within three years the congestion will be very serious, we are informed. So it seems to your committee a matter of genuine importance that the full appropriation be at once authorized, in order that there may be speedily available the comparatively small part of it necessary for a start. 2d Session No. 549 APPROPRIATION FOR FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION JANUARY 28, 1930.-Committeed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. Wood, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. J. Res. 217] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 217) making an additional appropriation for the support of the Federal Radio Commission during the fiscal year 1930 in accordance with the act approved December 18, 1929, having considered the same, report it without amendment and with a recommendation for its immediate consideration and passage. The amount recommended in the resolution, namely, $31,000 of direct appropriation and $75,000 of reappropriated funds, totaling $106,000, is based upon an estimate transmitted by the President in House Document No. 241 of the present session. Appropriations for the Federal Radio Commission for the current fiscal year were based upon the commission assuming a status as an appellant body on January 1, 1930, and the administrative functions reverting to the Department of Commerce on that date. By the act of December 18, 1929, however, Congress has continued the commission as an administrative and regulatory body indefinitely. The commission therefore has continued to operate as an administrative agency since that date. The funds previously appropriated have been entirely exhausted due to this change in the situation and the amounts in this joint resolution are essential in order that the commission may meet its pay rolls for this month and have funds on hand with which to operate for the remainder of the current fiscal year. 71ST CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session REPORT No. 551 COMBINED SEWER AND SUBMARINE CABLE UNDER GRAND RIVER, MICH. JANUARY 29, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. MAPES, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8712] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8712) to legalize a combined sewer and submarine cable constructed under the Grand River near the pumping station on Market Avenue at Grand Rapids, Mich., having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass. The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report. WAR DEPARTMENT, January 24, 1930. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. So far as the interests committeed to this department are concerned, I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the accompanying bill, H. R. 8712, Seventy-first Congress, second session, to legalize a combined sewer and submarine cable constructed under the Grand River near the pumping station on Market Avenue at Grand Rapids, Mich. PATRICK J. HURLEY, CONSTRUCTION OF RURAL POST ROADS JANUARY 29, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. COLTON, from the Committee on Roads, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 7585] The Committee on Roads, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7585) to amend the act entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report it to the House favorably and recommend that it do pass without amendment. For a number of years Congress has been making authorizations for the construction of the roads on the Federal-aid system through the national forests. However, the Federal Government is still many years behind in its road-building program even through the national forest as compared with the States in the completion of the other roads on the Federal-aid system. The Federal-aid system in many of the States outside of the forests and public domain is practically completed but it will take the Federal Government an average of 43 years to build the roads on the Federal-aid system through the forests as the program is now being carried out. When we turn to the consideration of roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands and nontaxable Indian lands, we find the situation even worse. There has been no special provision whatever for building roads through these lands, yet there are almost 100,000 square miles of unappropriated and unreserved public lands in the Western States in excess of the square miles of forest areas. This bill amends the act approved July 11, 1916, and would make it possible for Congress in the future, after an authorization bill has been passed, to appropriate for the construction of roads across the unreserved and unappropriated public lands in the United States. This money could only be used in a State having in excess of 5 per cent of the total area of all its lands in unappropriated public lands |