FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL YEAR 1919. OCTOBER 16, 1918.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. SHERLEY, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 13086.] The Committee on Appropriations submit the following report in explanation of the accompanying bill, making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes: ESTIMATES. The estimates considered were submitted in Senate Documents Nos. 253, 254, 255, 257; House Documents Nos. 1132, 1146, 1171, 1205, 1209, 1213, 1221, 1236, 1237, 1255, 1264, 1271, 1273, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1292, 1293, 1295, 1296, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1303, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1311, 1312, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1321, 1327, and 1328, and otherwise of the present session, and were distributed as follows: Military Establishment and War Department, including fortifications.. Naval Establishment and Navy Department.. Civil services, including $134,000,000 for payment of military and naval family allowances... Total, estimates...... $8, 599, 889, 599. 38 125, 064, 601. 26 161, 177, 450. 85 8,886, 131, 651. 49 Amount of cash requested which was granted in the form of au- 3,858, 349, 776.00 2,540, 375, 985. 45 Net reduction in estimates...... The foregoing net reduction in estimates is distributed as follows: Military Establishment and War Department, including fortifi- Naval Establishment and Navy Department.. Civil services, including $64,000,000 for payment of military and Total reduction........... $2,447, 826, 894. 86 17,846, 823. 00 74, 702, 267.59 2, 540, 375, 985. 45 RECAPITULATION. The amounts recommended in the bill are distributed as follows: Quartermaster Corps: Pay of the Army, mileage, and commutation Subsistence of the Army. Incidentalexpenses, Quartermaster Corps. Clothing and camp and garrison equipage.. Military post exchanges... Construction and repair of hospitals.. Disciplinary Barracks, Leavenworth, Kans., Ohio State rifle range, purchase of. Fayetteville, N. C., acquisition of artillery West Point, Ky., acquisition of artillery Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and Total, Quartermaster Corps... Medical and Hospital Department. New York Harbor, prevention of deposits. Ordnance Department: $100,000.00 50, 000, 000.00 779,740, 505.00 65,070, 770.00 300,000.00 1,500,000.00 $45,000,000.00 15,750,000. CO Ordnance stores, ammunition.. Smallarms target practice.. Manufacture of arms.. 410,802, 430.00 $100,000.00 95,000,000,00 20,000,000.00 779,740,505.00 300,000.00 1,500,000.00 1,600,000.00 710, 274.52 1,635, 821, 562.52 95,000,000.00 410,802, 430.00 Purpose. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT, FORTIFICATIONS, AND WAR DEPARTMENT-Continued. Ordnance Corps-Continued. Field artillery, acquisition, payment of Total, Ordnance Department. Grand total, Military Establishment, including fortifications and War Department.. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department, payment of temporary employees.. Navy Department, contingent expenses.. Bureau of Navigation: Recreation of enlisted men.. Outfits on first enlistment.. Gunnery and Engineering exercises.. Bureau of Ordnance: Ordnance and ordnance stores.. New batteries for ships.. Ammunition for vessels. Reserve ordnance supplies. Public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy yard, Boston, Mass... Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Va.. Navy yard, Norfolk, Va.. Navy yard, Mare Island, Cal.. Naval training station, Cal. Ordnance stations, improvement. Training camps.. Hospital construction.. . Fuel-oil storage.. Naval Academy, maintenance.. Temporary storage. Grand total, Navy Department and Naval Establishment.... CIVIL SERVICES. Total. $280,000,000.00 350,000.00 8,866.00 1,298,000.00 3,669, 256, 642.00 250,000,000.00 6,152, 062, 704.52 556, 102.73 300,000.00 537.55 400,000.00 15,000,000.00 200,000.00 11, 185, 301.00 26, 529, 464.00 9,230,000.00 1,000,000.00 170,000.00 1,174,556.68 856, 508. 69 1,500,000.00 55,000.00 1,727,000.00 28, 560, 807.61 322,500.00 5,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 50,000.00 107, 217, 778.26 200,000.00 165,000.00 3,750.00 51,000.00 1,478.00 24,000.00 80, 228.00 2,000,000.00 136,000.00 State Department: Employees, pay of........... 136,000.00 Contingent expenses. Clerks at embassies and legations. 125,000.00 125,000.00 Transportation of diplomatic and consular 20,000.00 200,000.00 Clerks at consulates.. Contingent expenses, consulates. 175,000.00 175,000.00 100,000.00 American citizens and prisoners of war in 100,000.00 Germany...... International Bureau.... United States courts: Fees of clerks.. Fees of jurors.. Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary, improvements, farm land, machinery for manufacturing purposes.. McNeil Island, Wash., penitentiary, guards... Department of Commerce: Keepers of lighthouses, salaries. Aids to navigation and lighthouse structures, Gas buoys, fifth lighthouse district. St. Marys River, Mich., aids to navigation.... Steamboat-Inspection Service, salaries of employees and contingent expenses. Bureau of Standards, military research and test weight cars. Bureau of Fisheries, maintenance of vessels.... Total, Department of Commerce........ House of Representatives: Payment to the widow of James H. Davidson. Folding speeches.. 25,000.00 7,500.00 25,000:00 1,500.00 1,500.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 Grand total, Army, Navy, and civil services. 2, 487, 405, 890.04 $3,858, 349, 776.00 86, 475, 183. 26 6,345,755,666.04 LIMITATIONS. Limitations with respect to expenditures or legislative provisions within clause 2 of Rule XXI of the House, not heretofore enacted, are recommended as follows: On page 2: The increases in statutory salaries, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall be allowed and paid from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, if the employees otherwise are entitled to receive them: Provided, That this paragraph shall not be applicable to any employee who left the service prior to September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen. On page 3: 1. The emergency shipping fund provision of the urgent deficiency appropriation act of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as amended by the act of April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen (Public Act No. 138 of the Sixty-fifth Congress), is hereby amended as follows: (I) In subdivision (d) of paragraph one, to begin said subdivision and to precede the words "to requisition," are now inserted the words: "To acquire, construct, establish, or extend any plant, and in pursuance thereof, to purchase, requisition, or otherwise acquire title to or use of land improved or unimproved or interests therein; and." (II) In subdivision (f) of said paragraph one, after the words "or assume control of," are now inserted the words "or to extend, improve, or increase, or cause to be extended, improved, or increased." (III) After said subdivision (f) in said paragraph one, a new subdivision is now inserted as follows: (g) In pursuance of the foregoing powers, or any of them, to make advance payments or loans of such amounts and upon such terms as the President may deem necessary and proper." (IV) In paragraph eight of said provisions, after the word "shipyard," are now inserted the words "dry dock, marine railway, pier." In said paragraph the words "or other facilities connected therewith are stricken out and there are now inserted after the word "terminal," the following words: "and any facilities or improvements connected with any of the foregoing descriptions of property.' " For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding or ship maintenance or repair, or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now or may be hereafter acquired or established, authority is granted to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for not to exceed $34,662,500 in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated: Provided, That obligations incurred hereunder may be met from appropriations made or to be made for construction of ships. On page 5: The United States Shipping Board shall not require payment from the War Department for the charter hire of vessels furnished or to be furnished from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, for the use of that department when such vessels are owned by the United States Govern ment. On page 5: The amounts collected by the War Trade Board from exporters, importers, and all other sources for cable charges during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall be credited to the appropriation for the War Trade Board and be available for the purposes thereof during the said fiscal year. On page 11: The foregoing construction work under "Quarantine stations" shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Construction Division of the War Department. |