DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL YEAR 1934-EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL YEAR 1935

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 9830

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFI-
CIENCIES IN CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1934, AND PRIOR FISCAL YEARS,
TO PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL GENERAL AND EMER-
GENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEARS END-
ING JUNE 30, 1934, AND JUNE 30, 1935, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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1934-EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL YEAR 1935

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE

SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 9830

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFI-
CIENCIES IN CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1934, AND PRIOR FISCAL YEARS,
'TO PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL GENERAL AND EMER-
GENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEARS END-
ING JUNE 30, 1934, AND JUNE 30, 1935, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

$66572

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UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1934

The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in the Committee Room of the Capitol, Senator Alva B. Adams (chairman) presiding.

Present: Senators Adams (chairman), Glass, McKellar, Hayden, Byrnes, Overton, Hale, Dickinson, and Townsend.

Senator ADAMS. The committee will please come to order.

STATEMENTS OF HON. HAROLD L. ICKES, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR; COL. HENRY M. WAITE, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION; EBERT K. BURLEW, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; F. J. C. DRESSER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR; E. H. FOLEY, JR., ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL; H. T. HUNT, GENERAL COUNSEL; C. R. CHAMBERS, DIRECTOR, ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS DIVISION

Senator ADAMS. Secretary Ickes of the Interior Department is here, and I assume that we had probably better take up title II of the bill, if that is the part that he is interested in, if it is agreeable to the other members of the committee.

Senator MCKELLAR. What page is that, Mr. Chairman?
Senator ADAMS. Page 62.

EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

GENERAL STATEMENT

Now, Mr. Secretary, we will be glad to have your views. Secretary ICKES. There are one or two suggestions, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, that I would like to make.

As the bill came over from the House, I understand that it gives the permission to the President to draw on the unobligated balance of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for relief and for P.W.A., with a limitation, however, of 500 million dollars for the P.W.A. I want to suggest respectfully that we cannot foresee at this time whether there should be a limitation of that sort. I think we should have no limitation, but it should be left to the discretion of the President to draw on these unobligated balances for P.W.A. If there should be a situation whereby the financial and economical situation should be