CONGRESS,

CONGRESS,

URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL.

FEBRUARY 5, 1909.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. TAWNEY, from the committee of conference, submitted the

following

CONFERENCE REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 26399.]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 26399) making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, 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 amendment numbered 5.

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8, 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 five thousand dollars; 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:

Restore the matter proposed to be stricken out amended as follows: On page 5 of the bill, in lines 10 and 11, strike out the sum "five hundred thousand dollars," and insert in lieu thereof the sum one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Senate agree to the same.

STATEMENT OF MANAGERS ON 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. 26399) making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies, submit the following written statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon and submitted in the accompanying conference report as to each of the amendments of the Senate, namely: On amendment No. 1. Appropriates $5,000 instead of $2,000 as proposed by the House and $7,000 as proposed by the Senate, for cleaning snow and ice from crosswalks and gutters in Washington, D. C. On amendment No. 2. Appropriates $5,500 as proposed by the Senate for night schools in Washington, D. C.

On amendments Nos. 3 and 4. Make a verbal correction in the text of the bill and appropriate $150,000 instead of $500,000 as proposed by the House to supply a deficiency in the appropriation "General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry."

On amendment No. 5. Appropriates $12,000 as proposed by the House for the purchase, care, and maintenance of automobiles for the use of the President.

On amendment No. 6. Appropriates $20.000 as proposed by the Senate for fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising for the heating and electrical apparatus of the Senate wing of the Capitol.

On amendments Nos. 7 and 8. Appropriate for printing and binding for the Supreme Court and for the Court of Claims, $7,000 and $5,000, respectively, as proposed by the Senate.

TO FACILITATE USE FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES OF SQUARE 328, WASHINGTON, D. C.

FEBRUARY 5, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SMITH, of Michigan, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 5429.]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 5429) to facilitate the use for manufacturing purposes of square No. 328, in the city of Washington, as authorized in the act of Congress of February 1, 1907, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass.

The act alluded to in the Senate bill herewith reported is as follows:

[Public-No. 49.]

AN ACT In relation to the Washington Market Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Washington Market Company be, and it is hereby, authorized to procure, by purchase or lease, all or part of square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight, in the city of Washington, and thereon conduct a coldstorage business and manufacture ice for use in Center Market and for sale: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be held to limit or affect in any way any of the provisions of an act to incorporate the Washington Market Company, approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act, without any liability therefor, is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, February 11, 1907.

The purpose of the Senate bill herewith reported is, therefore, to facilitate the use of square 328, as contemplated in the above act.

The Washington Market Company, which now owns the above square, intends either directly or through its agents to build upon this square a large cold-storage warehouse to be immediately available, and especially to be available if the plan of Congress for having no private buildings on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue is carried out, including the destruction of the company's market buildings.

On the west side of this square 328 is a large area owned by the railroad company, and now covered by its tracks. It is proposed to have one of these tracks extended across Twelfth street overhead into the square. There can be no possible objection to allowing this track to be thus constructed as the place is solely a business section.

In the production of ice and artificial refrigeration there is need for large quantities of water to flow over the cooling condensers. For this purpose the water of the Potomac River can be used instead of aqueduct water. Square 328 is about 300 feet from the Potomac, and a pipe from the square under Twelfth street and under the water front can reach the harbor by going about 400 feet. There is no possible objection to allowing this pipe to be laid for the purpose of obtaining the water.

A similar bill was introduced in the House and referred to this committee (H. R. 17429). The Commissioners of the District of Columbia approved that bill with an amendment, as appears by the following letter:

OFFICE COMMISSIONERS OF THE District of COLUMBIA,
Washington, March 1 1908.

SIR: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to submit the following on H. R. 17429, Sixtieth Congress, first session, "to facilitate the use for manufacturing purposes of square No. 328 in the city of Washington, as authorized in the act of Congress of February 1, 1907," which you submitted to them for examination and report touching the merits of the bill and the propriety of its passage.

The purport of this bill is to permit of the construction of a siding from the railroad yards west of Twelfth street across Twelfth street into square 328, which is bounded by Twelfth, Eleventh, E, and F streets SW., and, further, to authorize the Washington Market Company, which was authorized by act of February 1, 1907, to procure, by purchase or lease, all or a part of the said square and to conduct thereon a cold-storage business and manufacture ice, to lay a conduit and pipe from this square across and under Water street in order to pump water directly from the Potomac River for use in the said square.

The commissioners can see no objection to the construction of this crossing except at grade, nor to the laying of the pipe for the purpose of obtaining the water, providing the same can be done without expense to the District. This section is a business section. The railroad occupies the entire two squares to the west of Twelfth street for railroad purposes, and, providing the bill be amended to provide for the construction of an overhead structure with the usual clearance, the commissioners would recommend favorable action on this bill.

An amended form of bill is inclosed.

Very respectfully,

Hon. S. W. SMITH,

HENRY B. F. MACFARLAND,

President Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

Chairman of Committee on District of Columbia,

House of Representatives.

The bill and amendment approved by the commissioners in the foregoing letter are identical with the Senate bill herewith reported.

BRIDGE ACROSS TENNESSEE RIVER IN MARION COUNTY,

TENN.

FEBRUARY 6, 1909.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. RICHARDSON, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 8540.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 8540) to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee," approved May 20, 1902, as amended by an act approved February 1, 1905, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee,"" having considered the same, report thereon with amendment and as so amended recommend that it pass.

Amend the bill as follows:

Add a new section, as follows:

SEC. 2. That the bridge to be constructed under the provisions of said act shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled "An act to regulate the construction of bridges across navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report.

Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War. By an act approved May 20, 1902, Congress authorized the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tenn., one of the provisions of the act being that the bridge should be completed within three years from the date of approval. This time was afterwards extended by Congress for a further period of three years by an act approved February 1, 1905, which extension expired January 31, 1908. The plans for the structure authorized have been approved by the War