ENLARGE TREE-PLANTING OPERATIONS ON NATIONAL FORESTS MAY 28, 1930.-Ordered to be printed Mr. HAUGEN, from the committee of conference, submitted the following CONFERENCE REPORT [To accompany S. 3531] The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 3531) authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to enlarge tree-planting operations on national forests, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House amendment insert the following: That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish forest tree nurseries and do all other things needful in preparation for planting on national forests on the scale possible under the appropriations authorized by this act: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be deemed to restrict the authority of the said Secretary under other authority of law. SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, not to exceed $250,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, not to exceed $300,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, not to exceed $400,000; and for each fiscal year thereafter, not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young trees, to plant trees, and to do all other things necessary for reforestation by planting or seeding national forests and for the additional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth. SEC. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgment such action will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of national forest timber to make deposits of money, in addition to the payments for the timber, to cover the cost to the United States of (1) planting (including the production or purchase of young trees), (2) sowing with tree seeds (including the collection or purchase of such seeds), or (3) cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing undesirable trees or other growth, on the national-forest land cut over by the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber: Provided, That the total amount so required to be deposited by any purchaser shall not exceed, on an acreage basis, the average cost of planting (including the production or purchase of young trees) other comparable national-forest lands during the previous three years. Such deposits shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, to cover the cost to the United States of such tree planting, seed sowing, and forest improvement work, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct: Provided, That any portion of any deposit found to be in excess of the cost of doing said work shall, upon the determination that it is so in excess, be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve fund, as a national-forest receipt of the fiscal year in which such transfer is made: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, upon application of the Secretary of the Interior, to furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over areas in any national park. And the House agree to the same. G. N. HAUGEN, FRED S. PURNELL, D. H. KINCHELOE, Managers on the part of the House. Managers on the part of the Senate. STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (S. 3531) authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to enlarge tree-planting operations on national forests, and for other purposes, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the conferees and recommended in the accompanying conference report: The House amendment struck out all of the Senate bill after the enacting clause. One of the differences between the House amendment and the Senate bill was that the House amendment only authorized appropriations to be made for a period ending June 30, 1934, whereas the Senate bill provided for an appropriation of not to exceed $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, of not to exceed $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, of not to exceed $2,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and of such amounts as may be necessary for each fiscal year thereafter. The substitute agreed to by the committee of conference retains the provisions of the House amendment with an amendment authorizing a sum of not to exceed $400,000 to be appropriated for each fiscal year after the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934. REVISE AND EQUALIZE THE RATE OF PENSION TO CERTAIN SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES OF THE CIVIL WAR, TO CERTAIN WIDOWS, FORMER WIDOWS OF SUCH SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES, AND GRANTING PENSIONS AND INCREASE OF PENSIONS IN CERTAIN CASES MAY 29, 1930.-Ordered to be printed Mr. NELSON of Wisconsin, from the committee of conference, submitted the following CONFERENCE REPORT [To accompany H. R. 12013] The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 12013) to revise and equalize the rate of pension to certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War, to certain widows, former widows of such soldiers, sailors, and marines, and granting pensions and increase of pensions in certain cases, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its amendment numbered 1, and the House agree to the same. JOHN M. NELSON, RICHARD N. ELLIOTT, Managers on the part of the House. ARTHUR R. ROBINSON, PETER NORBECK, Managers on the part of the Senate. |