No. 25: Strikes out the appropriation of $3,500, inserted by the Senate, for certain improvements in connection with the National Museum.

No. 26: Strikes out the appropriation of $13,000, inserted by the Senate, for additional equipment and expenses of schools for crippled children in the District of Columbia.

No. 28: Appropriates $6,000,000, instead of $7,000,000, as proposed by the Senate, for seed grain loans under the act approved March 3, 1930.

No. 29: Appropriates $1,660,000 for relief of the State of Alabama for damage to and destruction of roads and bridges by floods in 1929, in accordance with the act approved March 12, 1930. The appropriation is made by reference to the law instead of incorporating the law in the appropriation bill, as proposed by the Senate.

Nos. 30, 31, and 32, relating to the Department of Commerce: Appropriates $174.98, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $99.98, as proposed by the House, for damage claims under the Lighthouse Service and appropriates $65,666.67 for salaries in the Patent Office, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $70,000, as proposed by the House.

Nos. 33, 34, and 35, relating to the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Appropriates for the maintenance and operation of irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Reservation, Mont., in the language proposed by the Senate, instead of in the phraseology proposed by the House, the amount remaining the same and the change being solely in the interest of clarity of expression; appropriates $1,100,000, as proposed by the House, instead of $1,370,000, as proposed by the Senate, for support of Indian schools, the amount of $1,100,000 to be segregated as follows: Subsistence, $195,000; subsistence in boarding schools in summer months, $40,000; noonday lunches in day schools, $50,000; clothing $50,000; personnel for enlarged study program, $200,000; equipment, $175,000; furniture, $240,000; and livestock, $150,000; and strikes out the legislation providing for the use of $2,000 of the tribal funds of the Fort Berthold Indians in North Dakota for attorneys and other expenses.

No. 36: Appropriates $275,000, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $175,000, as proposed by the House, for cooperative and general investigations under the Bureau of Reclamation.

No. 37: Appropriates $1,000, as proposed by the Senate, for travel and miscellaneous expenses, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.

Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 43, relating to the Department of State: Appropriates $6,600, as proposed by the Senate, for additional expenses of the International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain; appropriates $150,000 additional, as proposed by the Senate, for expenses of the naval conference at London, as authorized by law and treaty; appropriates $50,000, as proposed by the Senate, for expenses of the inquiry into conditions in Haiti authorized by the public resolution approved February 6, 1930; appropriates $50,000, as proposed by the Senate, for the surveys in connection with an inter-American highway authorized by the public resolution approved March 4, 1929; appropriates $4,000, as proposed by the Senate, for expenses of the Inter-American Congress of Rectors, Deans, and Educators, authorized by the public resolution approved February 19,

1930; and appropriates $15,000, as proposed by the Senate, for expenses of delegates to the Fourth World's Poultry Congress authorized by the public resolution approved March 10, 1930.

Nos. 44, 45, 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, and 56, relating to the Treasury Department: Transfers, as proposed by the Senate, sums aggregating $380,000 from the appropriation for "fuel" to the appropriation for "pay and allowances" for the Coast Guard, and strikes out the proposal, inserted by the Senate, to designate the station assignments of motor boats to be acquired under an appropriation in the bill; increases, as proposed by the Senate, the limit of cost of the public building at Lynchburg, Va., so as to provide for the enlargement of the site; appropriates $5,000 for the construction of two silos at the leper hospital at Carville, La.; appropriates $9,000 for two silos and a bridge at the tuberculosis sanitarium at Fort Stanton, N. Mex.; provides $30,000 for repairs at the New York quarantine station; and appropriates $64,400 and $7,035 for additional clerical and technical personnel in the Office of the Supervising Architect in connection with the public-building program.

No. 57: Appropriates $12,000,000, as proposed by the Senate, for additional work in connection with the improvement, maintenance, and preservation of rivers and harbors.

Nos. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 64, relating to damage claims: Appropriates $55,306.74, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $44,500.56, as proposed by the House, for the payment of damage claims settled by the departments and establishments under the act of December 28, 1923, to cover claims certified to Congress after the bill had passed the House.

Nos. 65 to 77, inclusive: Appropriates for judgments of United States courts in the amounts proposed by the Senate in order to cover judgments certified to Congress after the bill had passed the House.

Nos. 78, 79, and 80, relating to judgments of the Court of Claims: Appropriates $2,456,447.31, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $2,096,368.89, as proposed by the House, in order to cover judgments certified to Congress after the bill had passed the House and eliminates the proviso inserted by the Senate directing how the judgment in favor of the Iowa Tribe of Indians shall be distributed to the members of such tribe.

Now. 81, 82, and 83, relating to audited claims: Appropriates for audited claims allowed by the General Accounting Office in the amounts provided by the Senate amendments to cover claims certified to Congress after the bill had passed the House and modified to correct an error in one of the submitted amounts.

Nos. 84 and 85: Corrects section numbers of the bill.

The managers on the part of the House have agreed to recommend that the House concur in Senate amendment No. 19 providing an additional cataloguer under the Joint Committee on Printing for indexing the Congressional Record and Senate amendment No. 27 appropriating $100,000 and making available certain other funds to satisfy a condemnation award for a school building site in the District of Columbia.

A general disagreement is reported on the following Senate amendments:

No. 23, appropriating $3,000,000 for the Porto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission.

No. 46, increasing the limit of cost of the Boston, Mass., public building from $6,000,000 to $6,750,000.

No. 47, increasing the limit of cost of the Denver, Colo., public building from $1,060,000 to $1,235,000.

Nos. 49 and 50, changing the arrangement of the limit of cost for the public building project at Richmond, Va.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION BILL, 1931

MARCH 17, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. SIMMONS, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 10813]

The Committee on Appropriations submits the following report in explanation of the accompanying bill making appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931:

SCOPE OF THE BILL

The bill embraces all regular annual appropriations chargeable partly to the Treasury of the United States and partly to the revenues of the District of Columbia, including appropriations on account of park areas under the jurisdiction of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Zoological Park, and for certain work being performed under the supervision of the Engineer Department of the Army.

APPROPRIATIONS AND ESTIMATES

The estimates of appropriations upon which this bill is based were submitted by the President in the Budget for the fiscal year 1931 and will be found in detail in that document under Chapter XIII, pages 1355 to 1479, inclusive, and in supplemental estimates submitted in House Document No. 310. There follows a summary of the regular annual appropriations for 1930, the Budget estimates for 1931, including the supplemental estimates, and the amounts proposed in the bill for 1931, separated in several funds so as to indicate in a general way the sources of revenue from which the appropriations will be met. The totals of the permanent annual and indefinite appropriations (amounts for which it is not necessary to carry in the