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The committee believes that the passage of this bill would promote the cause of arbitration and peace in giving official recognition to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, of which the American group now numbers over 200 Members of Congress, and would assist in the work of this union in helping to defray the expenses of delegates to the annual meetings of the union, and in helping this union in the preliminary work necessary to derive the best results from the next approaching Pan-American conference and the next conference at The Hague, and other work in this course.

As America is a peace nation and only has national security and international peace and justice in view in the maintenance of armaments, this committee deems it a happy provision for this practical aid to the cause of arbitration and peace to come through the Committee on Naval Affairs, and with the provision for new naval vessels.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.No

TRAVEL OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

FEBRUARY 23, 1909.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. WANGER, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. Doc. 1076.]

The Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department having duly investigated the expenditures detailed in the report of the Postmaster-General, contained in House Document No. 1076, report to the House that no instance has been discovered where there has been a manifest abuse of the authority of the Postmaster-General under the appropriation by Congress for traveling expenses.

The detail of officers of the department for the purpose of addressing conventions is being curtailed, and, we believe, will be limited hereafter to instruction of persons in the postal service. Such addresses are of unquestionable value. It goes, of course, without saying that travel for the purpose of addressing audiences for entertainment can not be at the expense of the Government, neither can it be for the purpose of promoting changes in methods of administration. The official reports to Congress are the authorized channels of communication for such purpose.

CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.3 No.

BUILDING FOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, ETC.

FEBRUARY 23, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. BARTHOLDT, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 28377.]

Mr. Bartholdt, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following report:

The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 28377) for the erection of a public building for the Geological Survey and other offices, beg to report that they have had the same under consideration, and, for the reasons assigned in a letter of the Secretary of the Interior transmitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury (House Doc. No. 1372), unanimonsly recommend its passage.

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REPORT

60TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.3 No. 2290.

FISH-CULTURAL STATION IN PENNSYLVANIA.

FEBRUARY 23, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WILSON, of Illinois, from the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 27371.]

The Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 27371) providing for the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State of Pennsylvania, having examined the same, recommend that the bill do pass in accordance with the recommendations of Hon. George W. Bowers, Fish Commissioner.

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