'Amounts shown in 1953 column are adjusted for comparability with the new appropriation structure for 1954.

EXPENSES OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS

JULY 28 (legislative day, JULY 27), 1953.—Ordered to be printed

Mr. JENNER, from the Committee on Rules and Administration, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. Res. 141]

The Committee on Rules and Administration, to whom was reerred the resolution (S. Res. 141) increasing the limit of expenditures y the Committee on Public Works, having considered same, report avorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the esolution be agreed to by the Senate.

This resolution would increase the contingent-expense funds of he Committee on Public Works under section 134 (a) of the Legislaive Reorganization Act, approved August 2, 1946, by $25,000 for he 83d Congress.

A letter explaining the need of the increase addressed on July 21, 953, by the chairman of the Committee on Public Works to the hairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration, with ccompanying budget, is as follows:

lon WILLIAM E. JENNER,

UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS, July 21, 1953.

Chairman, Committee on Rules and Administration,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Senate Resolution 141 providing additional funds for e Committee on Public Works was referred to your committee on July 14. It is my nderstanding that this resolution may be taken up by your committee on Wednesay, July 22, and I certainly urge the committee to report favorably at that time. The need for the additional funds arises from the necessity for a study and spection of flood control, river and harbor and power projects in preparation general legislation on these subjects in the early part of the second session of is Congress. There is a large backlog of previously authorized projects in this rogram which must be reviewed carefully in order to determine what future Jurse should be followed as a result of up-to-date reappraisals. In addition there ave developed needs for additional work on comprehensive basin developments well as many individual locations in various parts of the country which must be udied in preparation for consideration in the next session. The committee plans

to review and reappraise a large portion of the water resource program and to spend a limited time in the field inspecting some of these projects.

The additional funds are also needed to cover a somewhat similar study relating to highway legislation. The Federal-aid legislation will be needed during the coming session of Congress if this program is to be continued. Development of our highways has fallen so far behind in recent years that it has become necessary to study exhaustively every possibility for speeding up this work to meet the heavily increased highway demands. The committee proposes to hold conferences and hearings with highway officials and experts in various parts of the country during the fall of this year in order to assemble the best data possible in preparation for taking up highway legislation in the second session of this Congress. The budget for these additional funds is as follows:

Water resources program (flood control, rivers and harbors and power projects):

$7.500

500

2,000

11,250

750

3,00

25.000

Total

The consideration of your committee in bringing up this resolution promptly will be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,

Very sincerely,

EDWARD MARTIN,

Chairman, Committee on Public Works.

STUDY OF CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS

JULY 28 (legislative day, JULY 27), 1953.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. JENNER, from the Committee on Rules and Administration, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. Res. 143]

The Committee on Rules and Administration, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 143) to investigate the accessibility and availability of supplies of critical raw materials, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the resolution, as amended, be agreed to by the Senate.

The general purposes of the investigation authorized by the provisions of this resolution are explained in a letter from the chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee to the chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration, dated July 21, 1953, as Follows:

JULY 21, 1953.

To: Senator William E. Jenner, chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

From: Senator Hugh Butler.

Subject: Senate Resolution 143, authorizing a full and complete investigation and study of the raw-material situation of the United States by the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

In the opinion of our committee this investigation may be one of the most mportant for its effect on American security, ever to be held by a congressional committee.

Much of our present national policy is based on the assumption that the United States is definitely a have-not nation in respect to a considerable number of vital nd strategic raw materials. This contemplation has had a direct bearing on the onduct of our foreign policy. It has led us to underwrite the fiscal systems and world policies of various foreign states whose friendship is deemed of the greatest mportance due to their possession of raw materials which we are believed to lack. The subcommittee has made a preliminary study of 38 of these minerals, as well 3 fuels and 30 essential nonmineral materials, embracing many months of esearch. The results seem to make it clear that a careful inquiry should be made to the entire question.

As the matter now stands there is every possibility that an aggressive adventure imed at the destruction of this country may become attractive to the Russians the simple score of a feasible short war. The strategic motivation would rest