bill shall be sufficiently comprehensive to include the carriages and equipments, it should be recommended to the Committee on Military Affairs that for the words "condemned cannon" in line 5 of the bill there be subsituted the words "obsolete cannon, with their carriages and equipment." [Second indorsement.] WILLIAM CROZIER. Brig. Gen., Chief of Ordnance. WAR DEPARTMENT, March 21, 1906. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, inviting attention to the preceding indorsement, and to the amendment suggested by the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, whose views are concurred in. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, LOAN OF CONDEMNED FIELD PIECES TO PETOSKEY, MICH. JANUARY 15, 1907.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. KAHN, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT, [To accompany H. R. 16235.] The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 16235) authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned brass field pieces to the city of Petoskey, Mich., report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the bill be amended as follows: Add after the words "authorized to" in line 3 the words "loan and." Strike out of line 7 the following words: "with their carriages and implements." Strike out the period after the word "war" in line 9 and insert in lieu thereof a semicolon; and add at the end of line 9 the following: Frovided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of said cannon. As so amended your committee recommend that the bill do pass. The report of the War Department is as follows: [First indorsement.] OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE, Respectfully returned to the honorable the Secretary of War. The cannon referred to within are obsolete, and their value to the Government would be that of old material, worth about $360; the carriages for same have been disposed of by sale, not being considered worth the cost of transportation. It is recommended that the within bill be amended by striking out the words "with their carriages and implements," and adding thereto the provision "that no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of the cannon." [Second indorsement.] WILLIAM CROZIER, Brig. Gen., Chief of Ordnance. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1906. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, inviting attention to the foregoing report of the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, and to the amendments suggested by him. () ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, 59TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 2d Session. FURNISHING CANNON TO PRESTON, IOWA. JANUARY 15, 1907.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. KAHN, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. J. Res. 195.] The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution (H. J. Res. 195) authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned cannon to the mayor of the town of Preston, Iowa, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that said resolution be amended as follows: After the word "to," at the end of line 3, insert the words "loan and.” Strike out all after the word "Preston," in line 9, and insert in lieu thereof and to be taken care of by said city and to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: Provided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of the cannon. And that, as so amended, said bill do pass. The report of the War Department on said measure is as follows: [First indorsement.] OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE, Respectfully returned to the honorable the Secretary of War. Should the within resolution become law this Department could supply the bronze or brass cannon referred to, which are on hand and are of value to the United States as old material only. WILLIAM CROZIER, Brigadier-General, Chief of Ordnance. [Second indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, December 13, 1906. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, inviting attention to the foregoing report of the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army. ROBERT SHAW Oliver, DISPOSITION OF USELESS PAPERS IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. JANUARY 16, 1907.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. BATES, from the Joint Select Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, submitted the following REPORT. The joint select committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives, appointed on the part of the Senate and on the part of the House of Representatives, to which were referred the reports of the heads of Departments and Bureaus, etc., in respect to the accumulation therein of old and useless files of papers which are needed or useful in the transaction of the current business therein, respectively, and have no permanent value or historical interest, with the accompanying statements of the condition and character of such papers, respectfully report to the Senate and House of Representatives, pursuant to an act entitled "An act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive Departments," approved February 16, 1889, as follows: Your joint committee have met and, by a subcommittee appointed by it, carefully and fully examined the said reports referred to your committee and the statements of the condition and character of such files and papers therein described, and we find and report that the files and papers described in the report of the Secretary of War in House Document No. 535, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, dated February 16, 1906, and in House Document No. 798, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, dated May 11, 1906, and referred to in his report in House Document No. 282, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, dated December 12, 1906, are not needed in the transaction of the current business of the War Department and Bureaus, and have no permanent value or historical interest, and should be sold as waste paper, or otherwise disposed of, upon the best terms obtainable, as provided by law. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. E. W. PETTUS, J. H. GALLINGER, Members on the part of the Senate. ARTHUR L. BATES, J. M. RICHARDSON, Members on the part of the House of Representatives. bill shall be sufficiently comprehensive to include the carriages and equipments, it should be recommended to the Committee on Military Affairs that for the words "condemned cannon" in line 5 of the bill there be subsituted the words "obsolete cannon, with their carriages and equipment." [Second indorsement.] WILLIAM CROZIER. Brig. Gen., Chief of Ordnance. WAR DEPARTMENT, March 21, 1906. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, inviting attention to the preceding indorsement, and to the amendment suggested by the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, whose views are concurred in. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, |