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Comparative statement of the amounts appropriated for the fiscal year 1930, the Budget estimates for the fiscal year 1931, and the amounts recommended in the accompanying bill for 1931-Continued

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ERECTION OF A RESIDENCE AT THE NATIONAL HOME FOR LEPERS, CARVILLE, LA.

FEBRUARY 5, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. ELLIOTT, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 1487]

The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to which was referred S. 1487, a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the erection of a building for the use as a residence for the Protestant chaplain at the National Leper Home at Carville, La., and for other purposes, having duly considered the same, report favorably thereon, and recommend that the bill do pass.

The following letter addressed to the chairman of the Committee on Commerce of the United States Senate by the Hon. A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, explains the facts and the needs for this building.

TREASURY Department,
Washington, July 5, 1929.

CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE,

United States Senate.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: In accordance with your letter of the 14th ultimo, referring bill S. 1487 to me with request that I furnish your committee with suggestions touching upon its merit and the propriety of its passage, please be advised as follows:

The bill in question, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the erection of a building for use as a residence for the Protestant chaplain at the National Leper Home, Carville, La., and for other purposes, would serve to provide, without cost to the Government, suitable and adequate quarters for the Protestant chaplain who now occupies a building of a temporary character of construction inadequate as to size and facilities.

The clause in the bill making provision for future donations of a like character is highly desirable in that it will permit religious, patriotic, or similar organizations to make donations that will promote the welfare of the patients unde going treatment at Carville and will put this institution on a partity with other narine hospitals of the Public Health Service, which other hospitals, because of the class of the patients hospitalized therein (seamen), come under the provisions of that portion of section 4, act of July 16, 1798 (ch. 77, 1 Stat. L. 605), which authorizes the President to receive cessions or donations of grounds or buildings for the accommodation of sick or disabled seamen.

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