Amendment numbered 28: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 28, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed insert $58,618,406; 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 $19,126,894; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 43: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 43, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: That the subappropriation for expenses, camps of instruction, and so forth, may be increased not to exceed $625,000 by transfer from other sums appropriated in this Act under the heading "National Guard", exclusive of pay for armory drills:; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 44: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 44, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed insert $9,837,883; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 45: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 45, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed insert $4,119,570; and the Senate agree to the same. The committee of conference report in disagreement amendments nos. 2, 5, 16, 24, 26, and 79. Amendments nos. 1, 47 to 77, inclusive, and 80, and the title of bill are reported in disagreement as they were not considered by conferees. J. BUELL SNYDER, Managers on the part of the House. ROYAL S. COPELAND, CARL HAYDEN, ELMER THOMAS, JOHN H. OVERTON, MORRIS SHEPPARD, JOHN G. TOWNSEND, Jr., WARREN R. AUSTIN, Managers on the part of the Senate. 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. 6692) making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, 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: Amendments nos. 3, 4, and 6 to 14, both inclusive, relating to "Pay and so forth, of the Army": Appropriates $34,532,895 for pay of 12,350 commissioned officers, instead of $34,329,995 for pay of 12,175 commissioned officers, as proposed by the House, and $34,843,745 for pay of 12,653 commissioned officers, as proposed by the Senate; limits the number of medical officers to be in a flying pay status to 5, as proposed by the House, instead of 36, as proposed by the Senate; limits expenditures for flying pay of officers to $2,270,900, as proposed by the House, instead of $2,398,304, as proposed by the Senate; appropriates for pay of enlisted men $67,042,594, as proposed by the House, instead of $67,798,594, as proposed by the Senate; provides for the employment of 12 instead of 11 retired officers on active duty, as proposed by the Senate; adds $74,164 for rental and subsistence allowances of officers because of additional 175 officers agreed upon, instead of $145,893, added by the Senate; and excepts Filipinos in Army Transport Service from proviso prohibiting employment of aliens, as proposed by the Senate. Amendment no. 15: Appropriates for travel of the Army $2,463,350, instead of $2,250,000 as proposed by the House and $2,486,150 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment no. 17: Appropriates for subsistence of the Army $29,329,150, as proposed by the House, instead of $29,601,900, as proposed by the Senate. Amendments nos. 18 and 19, relating to clothing and equipage: Appropriates. $11,901,320, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $11,851,320, as proposed by the House, and restores the proviso designed to make laundries and dry-cleaning plants self-sustaining, excepting, however, from being assessed against laundry users $50,000 approved by the House and Senate for increasing the pay of laundry employees in low-wage brackets. Amendment no. 20: Increases from $819,520 to $829,520, as proposed by the Senate, the amount that might be expended from the appropriation "Army transportation, 1937," for the purchase or construction of vessels. Amendments nos. 21, 22, and 23, relating to military posts: Appropriates, as proposed by the Senate, $54,000 for authorized work at Fort Niagara, N. Y., and $578,050 for authorized work at Camp Stanley, Tex.; appropriates $338,000 for authorized work at Langley Field, Va., as proposed by the House, instead of $258,000, as proposed by the Senate, and strikes out the appropriations proposed by the Senate of $854,000 and $861,190 for authorized work at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and Savanna Ordnance Depot, Ill., respectively. Amendment no. 25: Appropriates $952,000 for acquisition of land, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $1,202,000, as proposed by the House. Amendment no. 27: Appropriates for Signal Service of the Army $5,894,520, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $5,702,920, as proposed by the House. Amendments nos. 28 and 29, relating to the Air Corps: Appropriates $58,618,406 instead of $60,500,000, as proposed by the House, and $57,745,300, as proposed by the Senate, and fixes the maximum of contractual authority at $19,126,894, instead of $17,245,300, as proposed by the House, and $20,000,000, as proposed by the Senate. Amendments nos. 30 and 31: Strikes out, as proposed by the Senate, the reappropriation of $144,000 proposed by the House under "Ordnance service and supplies, Army." Amendments nos. 32, 33, 34, and 35, relating to the Chemical Warfare Service: Restores the title and text to the title, and text proposed by the House. Amendments nos. 36 to 41, both inclusive, relating to seacoast defenses: Appropriates $800,000 specifically for the procurement of mobile antiaircraft guns and mounts, as proposed by the House, instead of $400,000, as proposed by the Senate. Amendments nos. 42 and 43, relating to the National Guard: Includes motorcycles among procurable equipment, as proposed by the Senate; permits employment of additional $625,000 for expenses, camps of instruction, to be transferred from subappropriations for other National Guard expenses, except the subappropriation for armory drills, as proposed by the Senate, and strikes out the provision proposed by the Senate making the National Guard subappropriation "Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard", available for extending the concurrent camp at Fort Sill, Okla. Amendment no. 44: Appropriates $9,837,883 for the Organized Reserves, instead of $10,297,906, as proposed by the House, and $9,355,506, as proposed by the Senate. Amendment no. 45: Appropriates $4,119,570 for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, instead of $3,601,720, as proposed by the House, and $4,219,570, as proposed by the Senate. Amendment no. 46: Appropriates $645,726 for the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $700,000, as proposed by the House. Amendment no. 78: Allows a section number to remain as proposed by the House. AMENDMENTS REPORTED IN DISAGREEMENT IN CONSEQUENCE OF CLAUSE 2 OF RULE XXI The committee of conference report in disagreement the following amendments of the Senate: Amendment no. 2: Clothing the Secretary of War with exclusive discretion as to the propriety of expenditures under the appropriation "Contingencies of the Army." Amendment no. 5: Increasing the authorized number of officers of the Medical Corps and Dental Corps. Amendment no. 16: Prescribing the annual appropriation chargeable with traveling expenses incurred under change-of-station orders. Amendments nos. 24 and 26: Relating to the acquisition of land in the vicinity of Mitchel Field, N. Y., and West Point, N. Y., respectively. Amendment no. 79: Relating to the conduct, operation, or management of post exchanges. AMENDMENTS REPORTED IN DISAGREEMENT IN CONSEQUENCE OF INSTRUCTIONS OF HOUSE Amendments nos. 1, 47 to 77, both inclusive, and 80, and the proposal of the Senate to amend the title of the bill, were not considered by the committee of conference pursuant to instructions of the House to its managers. J. BUELL SNYDER, Managers on the part of the House. о EXTENSION OF APPROPRIATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 1938 JUNE 30, 1937.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. CANNON of Missouri, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 7726] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7726) making appropriations for the first half of the month of July 1937 for certain operations of the Federal Government which remain unprovided for on July 1, 1937, through the failure of enactment of the supply bills customarily providing for such operations, report the bill favorably without amendment and with a recommendation for its immediate consideration and passage by the House. July 1, 1937 is the commencement of the new fiscal year and three of the regular annual appropriation bills, namely, the Interior Department appropriation bill, the military appropriation bill, and the War Department civil functions appropriation bill, all for the fiscal year 1938, have not reached the final stages of enactment. The bill reported herewith makes provision for appropriations for the operation of the activities, customarily covered by these bills, for the first half of the month of July by making available for the respective activities a sum equal to one twenty-fourth of the appropriations available for like purposes during the fiscal year 1937. The bill will cease to be operative as to any activity when the regular annual appropriation for that activity becomes a law. It also will not be operative as to any activity in the event the appropriations for that activity become law on or before July 1. The terms and purpose of the bill follow the precedents heretofore established with respect to similar measures under similar circumstances. The committee recommend early action in order that there may be no lapse in the authority of the respective Government agencies in carrying on their normal work. |