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While insofar as the interests committed to this Department are concerned there is no objection to the favorable consideration by Congress of H. R. 5829, it is deemed proper to point out to your committee that it is understood that the Empire Lumber Co. of Empire, Oreg., which utilizes this waterway opposes the contemplated closing of the slough.

This proposed report was submitted to the Bureau of the Budget which reports that there would be no objection to its submission to Congress.

It is understood that the grantee is the North Slough diking district rather than the North Slough drainage district.

Sincerely yours,

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NATIONAL CEMETERY IN UNITED STATES MILITARY RESERVATION AT FORT BLISS, TEX.

MAY 24, 1937.-Committeed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. THOMASON of Texas, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 224]

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 224) authorizing the appropriation of $25,000 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to establish a national cemetery at Fort Bliss, Tex., having considered the same, submit the following report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass.

The Seventy-fourth Congress passed S. 4265 to authorize the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the United States Military Reservation at Fort Bliss, Tex.

This bill was approved on June 15, 1936, becoming Public, No. 681, and reads as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to set aside in the United States Military Reservation of Fort Bliss, Texas, a plot of land which shall include the existing post cemetery with such boundaries as he may prescribe therefor as a national cemetery, which hereafter shall be cared for and maintained as a national cemetery under the laws relating to the same.

It will be observed that this law "sets aside" the land for a military cemetery but some question has been raised as to whether or not there is an authorization for an appropriation.

The purpose of this authorization is to provide funds for the construction of such buildings as are necessary for the proper maintenance of the cemetery. There is no necessity to purchase any land, as a portion of the Fort Bliss Military Reservation has already been set. aside by the War Department for use as a cemetery. This land adjoins the existing cemetery, which s too small for the present needs.

There are many soldiers already buried in the old cemetery, and the local Army officers and men, together with veteran organizations, have been assuming the burden of taking care of the cemetery in spite of the lack of adequate funds for that purpose.

The Secretary of War in his report on S. 4265 said:

Due to the large number of troops stationed at Fort Bliss and vicinity, the War Department is of the opinion that there is need for a national cemetery at this point.

The War Department estimated the cost of establishment at $25,000. This will include approximately $10,500 for a superintendent's lodge, $3,500 for an outbuilding, and $11,000 for roads, walks, drives, enclosing walls, landscaping, and other miscellaneous improvements.

The estimated cost of annual maintenance after establishment is $4,500.

In view of Public Law No. 681 setting aside and designating this plot of ground as a post cemetery, clearly manifesting the intent of Congress, the Committee on Military Affairs unanimously reports this bill making certain the authorization.

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SEVENTH WORLD'S POULTRY CONGRESS

May 25, 1937.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. LONG, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany H. J. Res. 365]

The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution (H. J. Res. 365) authorizing Federal participation in the Seventh World's Poultry Congress and Exposition to be held in the United States in 1939, having considered the same, submit the following report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass with the following amendment:

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: Provided, That the Secretary of State is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act, for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes specified in this Act.

The amount of money authorized to be appropriated in this resolution is for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 2, Public Resolution No. 113, Seventy-fourth Congress (49 Stat. 1568), which is as follows:

The President is hereby authorized and requested to extend to the World's Poultry Science Association an invitation to hold the Seventh World's Poultry Congress in the United States in 1939, and to extend an invitation to foreign governments to participate in and be represented by delegates and exhibits in such Congress.

The President extended to the World's Poultry Science Association an invitation to hold the Seventh World's Poultry Congress and Exposition in the United States in 1939, which invitation was unanimously accepted by the association at the Sixth World's Poultry Congress, which was held in Germany in 1936.

For the further information of the House, there is incorporated in and made a part of this report a letter from the Secretary of Agricul

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