installment of public buildings and by the initial appropriation for the commencement of work on the Boulder Canyon project. Additional appropriations are also included for carrying into effect new laws enacted during the present session, funds for which could not be included in the regular annual appropriation bills. Another class of items contributing considerably to the total includes the amounts for payment of judgments of courts, claims allowed by the General Accounting Office, and claims of various kinds adjudicated under statutes. and certified to the Congress for appropriation. Items in the bill which may be termed "deficiencies" are few in number and are largely of the nature of "legal deficiencies." While the amount specifically carried in the bill aggregates $66,199,384.05, there are included under the Treasury Department three paragraphs of indefinite appropriation for satisfying awards which may hereafter be allowed by the arbiter under the settlement of war claims act of 1928, for payment of claims of German and Austrian nationals on account of ships, patents, and radio stations seized during the war. The maximum amount which may be paid under these indefinite appropriations is $51,341,387.78, and such figure should be kept in mind in connection with any statement of the grand total carried by the bill. The major items of specific appropriation contained in the bill are as follows: Public buildings, including construction, sites, and administrative expenses_ Boulder Canyon project.. Porto Rican relief, roads and bridges. United States Veterans' Bureau, military and naval compensation.. Cooperative agricultural extension work Forest roads and trails.. Payment to the States of Georgia and South Carolina, flood New penitentiary, northeastern section of United States.. Construction and maintenance, prison camps New Federal jails___ Marine Corps, expenses of expeditionary forces, China and Postal Service, special delivery fees.. Contract air-mail service......... Customs Service, additional salaries and expenses_ $29, 037, 840. 00 10, 660, 000. 00 1, 000, 000. 00 New Coast Guard cutter for Lake Michigan_ Subsistence of the Army. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers_ Panama Canal, maintenance and operation____ President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Law Observ ance. George Washington Bicentennial Commission. American National Red Cross Building.. Equipment, new Department of Commerce Building- All other items in the bill, including judgments and audited 1, 700, 000. 00 898, 480. 00 450, 000. 00 500, 000. 00 773, 520. 00 500, 000. 00 The principal amounts herein before enumerated are included in the following explanation under the various departments and establishments: LEGISLATIVE The amount recommended for the legislative establishment is $455,767.85, which is $40,817.27 less than the Budget estimates. The amounts for the House of Representatives include the customary payment for beneficiaries of deceased members, approved expenses incurred in connection with contested-election cases, and several items of supplemental expenditures under the contingent fund of the House. The sum of $2,500 is recommended for the painting of an oil portrait of Speaker Longworth. For the Capitol power plant the sum of $22,054.63 is allowed to complete the purchase of equipment for the enlargement of the plant in connection with the additional load to be thrown upon it by the erection of the House Office Building annex, the new Supreme Court building, etc. The estimates contain an item of $404,190.68 to be added to the appropriation of $600,000 previously made for the acquisition of land for a new site for the United States Botanic Garden. The committee has reduced this sum to $341,378.68, or by $62,812, which represents certain fixtures of the gasoline station and the bakery which have been allowed by the commissioners of appraisement in their report. to the court. The amount included in the bill, namely, $341,378.68, consists of $326,378.68 toward the acquisition of property and $15,000 for expenses in connection with razing the buildings and clearing the site when title has been secured. In connection with the acquisition of this property the committee desires to call attention to the fact that for such of the property as is sought to be acquired by condemnation the aggregate of the asking price of the owners was $1,246,793.40, the total assessed value was $353,001, and the total amount awarded was $912,220. The amount awarded was 144.55 per cent above the assessed value. EXECUTIVE The sum of $250,000, together with unexpended balances estimated to amount to approximately $80,000, is recommended for continuance of the work of the Commission on Law Enforcement and Law Observance, established by the President under the authority granted him in the deficiency act approved March 4, 1929. The committee desires to call attention to the statements of Chairman Wickersham included on pages 832-867 of the hearings. There is included a detailed statement of expenditures of the commission and the salary list, a statement of the work already accomplished, and an outline of the subjects of the very comprehensive program of investigation which the commission hopes to carry out under the appropriations granted herein. The estimated distribution of the appropriation is set forth in the following table submitted by the commission: Proposed budget for 1930-31 General office expenses (including rent, about $10,000) Estimated commissioners' per diems.. Estimated commissioners' travel expenses_ Prohibition.. Cost of crime... Causes of crime, economic factors- A reappropriation of funds totaling approximately $140,000 is recommended for continuance of the work in connection with the protection of the interests of the United States in leases on oil lands in former naval reserves. Considerable remains to be done in connection with litigation still pending and payment must be made to counsel for services rendered. The total amount appropriated for this purpose has been $400,000 and in this connection there is set forth the following statement of Hon. Atlee Pomerene, of Government counsel, showing what has been accomplished for the United States: Mr. CRAMTON. What recoveries have there been, as a result of this litigation, in addition to the approximately $3,000,000 you have just indicated? Mr. POMERENE. I am glad you asked that question, and I will be glad to give you that information. I appeared before this committee, you will perhaps remember a year ago, on or about February 14, 1929, and my testimony appears on pages 287 to 293 of the hearings before this committee, I believe. That testimony contains an extract from a report which was made to some committee by former Secretary Wilbur, on March 6, 1928. He prepared and submitted this statement in re bill for "the conservation, care, custody, protection, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves, and for other purposes.' In the Pan American case we won in the district court, in the court of appeals, and in the Supreme Court, the receivers in that case paid into the Treasury $11,108,835.13; the Pan American Co., $13,013,151.70; cost of improvements on the reserve, $1,407,151.99; tanks at Pearl Harbor and 151,500,000 barrels of fuel oil, $9,336,956.58, making a total for improvements, cash, and oil that we secured in that litigation of $34,864,095.46. The Supreme Court held that the Government could not be required to reimburse the defendants for their expenses or improvements as the contracts and losses were the result of that fraud. In the Teapot Dome case our information was that the improvements cost approximately $5,000,000, and cash and bonds were paid into the Treasury by the receiver to the amount of $3,282,031. In addition, they built tanks at Portsmouth, N. 'H., at the estimated value of $1,100,000. The decree against the Mammoth Oil Co., under the accounting, was for $3,054,890.41. As a result of this decree, and the suit against the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co., we got on Friday the cash, $2,906,504.32. The total recoveries in cash, improvements, and property values in the Tea pot Dome case amounted to $12,436,921.41. We also got back in the Pan American case reserve No. 1, which contains approximately 31,000 acres. At the time the leases and contracts were made. which later were set aside, both the Government and Doheny acted on the theory that there were 250,000,000 barrels of recoverable oil in that reserve. After the Supreme Court had decided the case, Secretary Wilbur had a resurvey made of the reserve by the best oil engineers in the country, as he told us, and as this report will show, to which I have referred. At that time they had additional logs of wells which had been drilled between the date of the leases and contracts and the date on which the receiver was appointed, and their estimate was that there was not less than 600,000,000 barrels of recoverable oil in that reserve. Now, then, as to the Teapot Dome reserve. It contains 9,321 acres. It was believed to be very rich in oil, but it proved to be not so rich as was anticipated. There was said to be four oil-bearing sands in that field, and one of them, the name of which I have now forgotten, had very little oil. There were two Wall Creek sands, one of which produced nothing, but the second Wall Creek sand was shown to be very rich in oil. Then, there is the fourth sand, known as the Lakota sand, and this has not been pierced by any drill within the reserve. However, there was one well outside of the reserve which entered into this sand. The drillers struck oil there. However, it has not been sufficiently developed to justify a guess as to the amount of oil in that reserve. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION The sum of $180,000 is recommended as a supplemental appropriation for salaries and expenses of the Civil Service Commission to provide 36 additional employees in the Washington force and 45 additional employees for the field organization. The Civil Service Commission, because of the rapidly increasing volume of work thrown upon it, has fallen in arrears so that at the present time there are unrated in the commission's offices approximately 60,000 sets of examination papers and more than 1,000 character examinations awaiting investigation. In point of time it is estimated that the commission now is about three months in arrears. GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION The sum of $362,075 is recommended for expenses of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission in preparation for the nationwide celebration to be held in 1932, commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. The amount recommended includes salaries and administrative expenses and also expenses of printing and binding and preparation of the writings of George Washington as authorized by the act approved February 21, 1930. PERSONNEL CLASSIFICATION BOARD Sums totaling $187,870 are recommended to be transferred from other departments of the Government to the Personnel Classification Board for salaries and expenses in performing the duties required of such board by the classification act of 1923, as amended. Under such act the duties of the board were presumed to be performed by personnel authorized to be detailed to the board from the various departments and establishments of the Government. ruling of the Comptroller General such details must be terminated, and the board would be seriously handicapped with only such personnel as might be furnished by the Civil Service Commission, the Bureau of the Budget, and the Bureau of Efficiency. Under an agreement with the various departments of the Government, from which persons have heretofore been detailed to the board, an arrangement has been reached by which there may be transferred to the board, if approved by Congress, sufficient sums to furnish an adequate working organization. The committee has gone into the situation and recommends these transfers, believing that the personnel work of the Government will be more satisfactorily handled in this manner. PORTO RICAN RELIEF An estimate of $3,000,000 composed of $1,000,000 for making loans to agriculturists in the island and $2,000,000 for the construction of roads and schoolhouses to repair devastation wrought by the hurricane was considered and rejected by the committee in connection with the first deficiency bill at this session. The information received. by the committee at that time was such as to lead them to believe that the policy proposed in the expenditure of such sums was the furnishing of employment. The item was accordingly disallowed and the committee's action was sustained by the House. The Governor of Porto Rico, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, subsequently requested reconsideration of this item in connection with the present bill and a hearing was granted him, at which information was obtained which gave a different understanding of the situation in Porto Rico than the committee had theretofore received. The hurricane damage made a substantial reduction in the revenues of the island, and the present budget of Porto Rico was framed upon the basis of receiving aid from the United States for its road work and diverting the insular funds customarily devoted to road work to other pressing problems of insular reconstruction. If the Federal Government should not assist Porto Rico through this road program, it would necessitate a readjustment of the budget and a reduction in many of the very worthy projects which Governor Roosevelt has initiated for reconstruction and development. The committee therefore, on reconsideration, has recommended the appropriation of $1,000,000 toward repairing and constructing insular roads during the next fiscal year, and while urged to appropriate the full $2,000,000 at this time for roads, has not done so, preferring to reserve decision on any further contribution to Porto Rico until it has been advised of the results of the expenditure of the amount herein allowed. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL The sum of $697,404 is recommended for the office of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital. Of this amount, $350,000 represents a contribution of the United States toward the erection of a permanent building for the use of the American National Red Cross as authorized by the act approved February 7, 1930. Such contribution on the part of the United States was contingent upon a like amount being provided out of funds of the American National Red Cross and such condition has been met. For salaries for maintenance and care of buildings, the sum of $166,940 is allowed, which includes $141,920 for the operation and maintenance of the central portion of the new building for the Department of Commerce to be ready for occupance about January 1, 1931, and $25,020 for personnel for operation, maintenance, and care of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the draw span which will be available during the next year for use in connection with construction work on the approaches to the bridge. For general expenses for maintenance and care of buildings, the sum of $6,000 is included for operating expenses other than salaries for the Arlington Memorial Bridge, $166,217 for fuel, electric current, etc., for the new commerce building, $40,000 for rent of the Walker-Johnson Building for use of the War Department, $10,000 for rental of additional space for the Department of Justice to accommodate activities now in a temporary building to be removed so that the site may be made available to the Pan American Union in accordance with an act of Congress, and $58,247 to rent space for |