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CLASSIFICATION ACT

JUNE 28, 1930.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. LEHLBACH, from the committee on conference, submitted the

following

CONFERENCE REPORT

[To accompany S. 215]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the House to the bill S. 215 having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses:

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the House amendments numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and agree to the same.

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the House amendment numbered 8, and agree to the same with an amendment:

After the figure 4-B, in line 3, on page 2 of the engrossed copy of the amendments, insert a comma and the words including drafting groups,.

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the House amendment numbered 9, and agree to the same.

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the House amendment numbered 10, and agree to the same with the following amendments:

On page 2, line 13 of the engrossed copy of the amendments, in section 4, strike out the words "sole jurisdiction to determine finally the grade or subdivision thereof to which all positions which are subject to the compensation schedules of the classification act of 1923 and amendments thereto shall be allocated, and it shall have". In line 18 of section 4, on page 2, after the words "review and", insert subject to the President's approval to.

On page 3, in line 17 of the engrossed copy of the draft, in section 6, after the word "board" insert which hereafter shall consist only of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, a member of the Civil Service Commission, and the Chief of the United States Bureau of Efficiency, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be the chairman of the board.

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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 amendments of the House to the bill S. 215 submit the following written statement explaining the effect of the action agreed on by the conference committee and submitted in the accompanying conference report: Amendments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 9, insert statute and code references.

Amendments Nos. 4 and 5, make the salary rates in the bill not retroactive.

Amendment No. 8 includes in group 4-B under the Naval Establishment the drafting groups in so far as the provisions of this bill affect them.

Amendment No. 10 eliminates the provision that the Personnel Classification Board shall have sole jurisdiction to determine finally the grade to which all positions in the classification shall be allocated and subjects its authority to change allocations to the approval of the President.

It also eliminates alternates as members of the Personnel Classication Board.

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EXTEND, REMODEL, AND ENLARGE THE POST-OFFICE BUILDING AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

JUNE 30, 1930.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. ELLIOTT, from the committee of conference, submitted the

following

CONFERENCE REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 11144]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 11144) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend, remodel, and enlarge the post-office building at Washington, D. C., 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 amendment No. 1, and agree to the same.

RICHARD N. ELLIOTT,
J. WILL TAYLOR,

FRITZ G. LANHAM,

Managers on the part of the House.

HENRY W. KEYES,

SIMEON D. FESS,

HENRY F. ASHURST,

Managers on the part of the Senate.

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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 amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 11144) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend, remodel, and enlarge the post-office building at Washington, D. C., and for other purposes, submit the following written statement explaining the effect of the action agreed on by the conference committee and submitted in the accompanying conference report:

This bill as it passed the House of Representatives authorized an appropriation of $4,000,000 to erect a building authorized in said bill. The Senate amendment No. 1 reduced this amount to $3,000,000. The Senate recedes from this amendment, which leaves the amount in the bill $4,000,000.

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RICHARD N. ELLIOTT,
J. WILL TAYLOR,

FRITZ G. LANHAM,

Managers on the part of the House.

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FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF TAXICAB OWNERS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

JUNE 30, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

Mr. MCLEOD, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 3615]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3615) to amend section 8 of the act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes, approved March 4, 1913, having considered the same, report back to the House with the recommendation that the legislation do pass.

By amending the public utilities law of the District of Columbia, which is embodied in section 8 of the act mentioned in the title of this bill, the bill is intended to protect the public of the District from taxicab drivers who are financially irresponsible and unable to pay claims arising from injuries or damage done by their vehicles.

The committee believes that this necessary protection will be afforded by the terms of this measure, which provides that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia shall have authority to require taxicab owners to post with the commission bonds or insurance policies in such amounts as the commission may prescribe to satisfy damage claims.

There can be no doubt that this legislation is gravely needed in the District. There were 378 accidents in 1929 in which taxicabs were involved and up to the 1st of April of this year there were 73, and a number of these cases were brought to the attention of the Public Utilities Commission where people were damaged and it was either impossible or impracticable for them to obtain any financial redress whatever for the injuries sustained.

The taxicab business of the Nation's Capital is utterly free from municipal regulation, except in regard to license tags and free stands, while 95 of the larger cities of the country carry similar provisions in their laws for the establishment of financial responsibility.

The bill simply adds a new paragraph, 2a, to existing law and does not in any way change the language or provisions of the law now on the statute books.

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