LEGISLATIVE-JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS, 1955 JUN 2 S HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 9203 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1955, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 9203 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH FOR OTHER PURPOSES 21.5, Congress. Senate. Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room F-37, the Capitol, Senator Karl E. Mundt (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Mundt, Bridges, and Dworshak. THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES CUSTOMs Court STATEMENT OF HON. IRVIN C. MOLLISON, JUDGE, UNITED AMENDMENT AND JUSTIFICATION Senator MUNDT. The committee will come to order. We will make the amendment requested and the justification a part of the record. (The material referred to follows:) DEAR SENATOR MUNDT: I would respectfully request that the following changes be made in the appropriations for the judiciary contained in the bill for the Legislative-Judiciary Appropriation Act for 1955 (H. R. 9203) as printed in the House, and that your subcommittee grant a hearing on the provisions involved. CUSTOMS COURT The United States Customs Court like the two other special courts, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and the United States Court of Claims, is empowered to approve its estimates (28 U. S. C. 605). That court requests an increase in the appropriation for salaries and expenses of the court contained in the bill as passed by the House and submits the following justification which I trust your subcommittee will consider. Page 25, line 14, strike out "$500,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$572,030", or an increase of $72,030. 1 |