STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE. The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 12600) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, submit the following written statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the conference committee and submitted in the accompanying conference report as to each of said amendments, namely: No. 1: Appropriates $40,000,000 for housing for war needs, instead of $50,000,000 as proposed by the House, and nothing as proposed by the Senate. No. 2: Appropriates $25,000, as proposed by the Senate, for additional for a seawall along the Delaware River, at the Frankford Arsenal, and continues during the fiscal year 1919, the appropriation of $36,000 made for that purpose, for the fiscal year 1918. No. 3: Appropriates $33,000,000, as proposed by the Senate, to fulfill contract obligations for medical supplies for the Army. No. 4: Strikes out the appropriation of $10,000, proposed by the Senate, to enable the Geological Survey to explore and make accessible water holes on arid lands in the West. Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, relating to the Senate: Appropriates for employees and expenses of the Senate in amounts proposed by the Senate. Nos. 11 and 12: Appropriates $2,000 each to Mark R. Bacon and Samuel W. Beakes, for expenses in a contested-election case determined by the Committee on Elections No. 3. No. 13: Inserts the paragraph, proposed by the Senate, increasing the pay of linotype and monotype operators, makers up, proof readers, pressmen, compositors, book binders, and bookbinding-machine operators, in the Government Printing Office. Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19: Appropriates, as proposed by the Senate, for the payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and certified to Congress after the bill had passed the House. No. 20: Strikes out the paragraph, proposed by the Senate, for payment of interest on certain items in a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims, May 18, 1905, in favor of the Cherokee Nation. No. 21: Appropriates, as proposed by the Senate, for claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department and certified to Congress for payment after the bill had passed the House. SWAGAR SHERLEY, JOHN J. EAGAN, J. G. CANNON, Managers on the part of the House, 3 O H R-65-2-vol 2- -49 DIKE ON DEPOT SLOUGH, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREG. JULY 6, 1918.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. Escн, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 7637.] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7637) to authorize the construction and maintenance of a dike on Depot Slough, Lincoln County, Oreg., having considered the same, report thereon with amendment, and as so amended recommend that it pass. The bill as amended has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report. Amend the bill as follows: Page 2, line 2, strike out the period, insert a colon, and add the words "Provided further, That no dam nor dike constructed under the consent hereby granted shall be used to develop water power nor to generate electricity." [Second indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, March 25, 1918. Respectfully returned to the chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. So far as the interests committed to this department are concerned, I know of no objection to the favorable consideration by Congress of the accompanying bill (H. R. 7637, 65th Cong., 2d sess.) for the construction and maintenance of a dike on Depot Slough, Lincoln County, Oreg. B. CROWELL, Acting Secretary of War: PENSIONS TO WIDOWS OF ENLISTED MEN WHO SERVED IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN. JULY 9, 1918.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. FOSTER, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany S. 4444.] The Committee on Rules, to whom was referred House resolution 415, having had the same under consideration, respectfully report it back to the House with recommendation that it do pass. CONGRESS, 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. No. AMENDMENT OF SECTION 53 OF JUDICIAL CODE. . JULY 12, 1918.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. WEBB, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 12697.] The Committee on the Judiciary, having had under consideration the bill (H. R. 12697) to amend section 53 of the Judicial Code, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass. The bill follows the language of the existing law, with the addition of the following sentence at the top of page 2: "Any grand jury sitting in any division of a district may present indictments for crimes or offenses committed anywhere within the district," and the substitution of the word "prosecution" for the word "trial." The reasons for the addition pointed out above is given in a letter, requesting the passage of the bill, from the Attorney General, which is as follows: Hon. EDWIN Y. WEBB, Chairman Committee on the Judiciary, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY General, House of Representatives. My Dear ConGRESSMAN: Considerable delay with resulting embarrassment has been caused in districts containing more than one division by reason of the statutory requirement that cases can be presented to the grand jury only in the particular division within which the case arose. This has resulted in many cases in delay and serious embarrassment, particularly in prosecutions under war statutes, which ought to be speedily disposed of. With a view to remedying this situation, I have caused to be prepared a bill, copy of which is herewith inclosed, amending section 53 of the Judicial Code so that any grand jury sitting in any division of a district may present indictments for crimes or offenses committed anywhere within the district itself. As above indicated, it is my opinion that this amendment is urgently needed, and I therefore have the honor to request that you will introduce the bill and urge its early consideration and passage. Respectfully, T. W. GREGORY, Attorney General. O |