The "additional" appropriation for 1896 was appropriated in two sessions of Congress-(54-1 and 54-2). The "additional" appropriation for 1898 includes $50,000,000, which was appropriated for "national defense."

2d Session.

No. 1863.

EXTENDING PROVISIONS OF CAREY ACT TO NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA.

JANUARY 16, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. MONDELL, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 26216.]

The Committee on the Public Lands having had under consideration the bill (H. R. 26216) providing for the extension of the Carey Act to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, report the same back with the recommendation that the same do pass without amendment. There is attached hereto and made a part of this report a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and also one from the Acting Secretary of the Interior.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, January 11, 1909.

DEAR MR. MONDELL: In further report upon H. R. 24141, a bill to extend the Carey Act to Arizona, concerning which I reported to you January 7, 1909, I call attention to my report dated February 11, 190, giving you a table of the operation of the Carey Act throughout the public-land States, and my report of February 29, 1908, on H. R. 15850, a bill to extend the Carey Act to both Arizona and New Mexico. When your committee considers H. R. 24141, it should be amended by making it applicable to New Mexico as well as Arizona. Your report (No. 1449) on H. R. 15850 amends that bill so that it relates to New Mexico only. From my personal investigations in New Mexico and Arizona I am convinced that there are many opportunities for reclamation under the Carey Act and urge that your committee recommend favorably the enactment of a bill extending that act to both the Territories. JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD, Secr ritury.

Very truly, yours,

Hon. F. W. MONDELL,

House of Representatives.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

Washington, February 11, 1908.

SIR: I am in receipt of your letter of February 4, 1908, inclosing H. R. 15850, entitled "A bill to extend the provisions of section four of an act entitled 'An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,' approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona."

You ask to be informed as to the States which have taken advantage of the Carey Act, the number of acres in each State that have been segregated, and the number of acres in each State that have been patented under the provisions of said act.

In compliance with your request I have to state that the following table will show what States have proceeded under said act and the result of their action:

Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

SIR: I am in receipt of your letter of February 17, 1908, inclosing H. R. 15850, a bill to extend the provisions of the Carey Act to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and requesting an expression of views from this department as to the advisability of the extension of the act to said Territories, especially to New Mexico.

In reply I have to state that I know of no objection to the passage of the bill extending the provisions of said act to both Territories. There is probably a great quantity of arid land in the Territories which may not come within the projects of the Reclamation Service nor be reclaimed by private parties, but which could be selected, irrigated, and reclaimed by the Territories under the proposed law in large tracts and made to yield some revenue to them by the sale of the lands to settlers. The settling of these lands would probably increase the population of the Territories considerably, and the enhanced value of the land, by the time patent is secured, would bring a great increase in revenue in the form of taxes.

I desire to call attention, however, to the fact that the act of August 18, 1894, called the Carey Act, has twice been amended, which changes the original act in some respects, and the States which are now operating thereunder are operating in accordance with the provisions of the three acts. The amending acts are: June 11, 1896 (29 Stat., 413-434), and March 3, 1901 (31 Stat., 1133-1188), section 3.

Very respectfully,

Hon. F. W. MONDELL,

FRANK PIERCE, Acting Secretary.

URGENT DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL.

JANUARY 16, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. TAWNEY, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 26399.]

The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred House Documents 1169, 1215, 1228, 1229, 1246, 1288, 1299, and 1319, submitting urgent deficiences in certain appropriations for the fiscal year 1909, having considered the same, report the accompanying bill, making appropriations, based chiefly upon said documents, as follows:

To complete purchase of site for building for Bureau of Engraving and
Printing in Washington

For public building at Ithaca, N. Y...

For removal of snow and ice in Washington, D. C..

For continuing work on the memorial to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

For transportation of the members of the Soldiers' Home at Johnson
City, Tenn....

For repairs of Interior Department buildings.

For building for Osage Indian School, Oklahoma ($14, 000 payable from
Osage Indian trust funds).

For United States Geological Survey..

For Department of Agriculture, on account of suppressing an outbreak of contagious foot-and-mouth disease among cattle..

For Department of Agriculture, for equipping a new laboratory building....

For executive office, purchase of automobiles..

For furnishing committee rooms and offices, House of Representatives.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,
House of Representatives....

For public printing and binding.

Total...

$146, 304. 40

2,000.00

2,000.00

25,000.00

1,000.00

7,200.00

107, 810.00

400,000.00

100,000.00 12.000.00 26, 788.00

40,000.00 156,500.00

1,026, 402. 40