75TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3d Session

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REPORT No. 1906

INDEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATION BILL, 1939

MARCH 7, 1938.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. WOODRUM, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

CONFERENCE REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 8837]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 8837) making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, 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 amendments numbered 17 and 18. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 11, 12, 19, 20, 23, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35, and agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 1:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 1, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $125,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 2:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 2, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $126,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 4:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 4, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $2,450,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 5:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 5, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $88,750; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 6:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 6, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $77,457,750; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 7:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 7, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum named in said amendment insert the following: $300,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 8:

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

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $478,225; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 9:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 9, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $8,250; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 10:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 10, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $5,261,475; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 13:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 13, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment, insert the following: not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase of transportation to be used as evidence of violations of said Act; and the Senate agree to the

same.

Amendment numbered 14:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 14, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $3,250,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 15:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 15, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $8,551,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 16:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 16, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $8,726,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 29:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 29, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed, insert $26,500,000; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 36:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 36, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment, insert the following: or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who being eligible for citizenship has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States; and the Senate agree to the same.

The committee of conference report in disagreement amendments numbered 3, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, and 37.

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. 8837) making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon and recommended in the accompanying conference report, as to each of such amendments, namely:

The following amendments relate to the correction of totals, section numbers, etc.: 2, 6, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 23, 32, 33, 34, and 35. Amendment No. 1: Appropriates $125,000 for salaries and expenses of the Central Statistical Board, instead of $175,000 as proposed by the House and $100,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 4: Appropriates $2,450,000 for salaries and expenses of the Civil Service Commission, instead of $2,492,500 as proposed by the House and $2,350,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 5: Appropriates $88,750 for printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, instead of $92,500 as proposed by the House and $85,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 7, Civilian Conservation Corps: Limits the amount which may be expended for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Director to $300,000, instead of $200,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 8: Appropriates $478,225 for salaries and expenses of the Employees' Compensation Commission, instead of $490,000 as proposed by the House and $466,450 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 9: Appropriates $8,250 for printing and binding for the Employees' Compensation Commission, instead of $8,500 as proposed by the House and $8,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 11: Appropriates $15,000, as proposed by the Senate, for printing the findings of the Federal Trade Commission relating to the principal farm products under its agricultural income inquiry.

Amendment No. 13, motor-transport regulation, Interstate Commerce Commission: Inserts the following in lieu of the respective provisions proposed by the House and the Senate:

not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase of transportation to be used as evidence of violations of said Act.

Amendment No. 14, motor transport regulation, Interstate Commerce Commission: Appropriates $3,250,000 instead of $3,500,000 as proposed by the House and $3,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 17, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Appropriates $1,679,000 for salaries and expenses as proposed by the House, instead of $1,579,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 19: Appropriates $1,650,000 for salaries and expenses of the Rural Electrification Administration as proposed by the Senate, instead of $1,587,000 as proposed by the House."

Amendment No. 20: Appropriates $52,000 for printing and binding for the Rural Electrification Administration as proposed by the Senate, instead of $65,000 as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 25, Social Security Board: Authorizes payment of rentals in the District of Columbia under the appropriation for grants to States for unemployment compensation administration, as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 29, Home Owners' Loan Corporation: Appropriates $26,500,000 for salaries and expenses, instead of $28,000,000 as proposed by the House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Amendment No. 30, Reconstruction Finance Corporation: Retains the Senate provision exempting the Corporation from the requirement contained in section 4 of the bill that its administrative expenses be subject to audit by the General Accounting Office.

Amendment No. 31: Strikes from the bill the section, inserted by the House and stricken out by the Senate, authorizing the President to eliminate or reduce by Executive order, in whole or in part, any appropriation or appropriations made by this act or any act or joint resolution.

Amendment No. 36, relating to the section, inserted by the House and amended by the Senate, prohibiting the payment of the compensation of officers or employees of the Government, not citizens of the United States: Strikes out the following exceptions inserted by the Senate:

or a person owing allegiance to the United States or who is now in the service of the United States

and inserts in lieu thereof the following:

or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who being eligible for citizenship has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States.

IN DISAGREEMENT

The committee of conference report in disagreement the following amendments of the Senate:

Amendment No. 3:

Provided, That no other money appropriated in this or any other Act shall be available for the Central Statistical Board after the passage of this Act, except the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938.

Amendments Nos. 21 and 22, Rural Electrification Administration: Appropriates $40,000,000 for loans as proposed by the Senate, instead of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House.

Amendment No. 24, Social Security Board:

Provided further, That none of the funds herein appropriated under the heading "Social Security Board" shall be used to pay the salary of any expert or attorney receiving compensation of $5,000 or more per annum unless and until such expert or attorney shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Amendments Nos. 26 and 27, Tennessee Valley Authority: Restores the House cut of $2,613,000 for the beginning of the construction of a dam at or near Gilbertsville, Ky., where the House had provided $285,000 for further study of the project only; and restores the House cut of $100,000 for chemical-engineering research and experimentation, and the House cut of $50,000 for soil and fertilizer investigations-a total restoration by the Senate of $2,763,000.

H. Repts., 75-3, vol. 1-73