SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL.

FEBRUARY 4, 1915.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. FITZGERALD, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 21318.]

In presenting the bill making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 1916 the Committee on Appropriations submit the following in explanation thereof:

The estimates on which the bill is based amount to $137,616,472.89. The total appropriations for like purposes for the current year amount to $130,728,037.39.

The bill appropriates $125,927,538.29, which sum is

A reduction of $11,688,934.60 under the estimates submitted by the Executive, and

A reduction of $4,800,499.10 under the appropriations for the current fiscal year 1915.

The sum of $137,616,472.89, representing the estimates referred to and considered by the committee in the preparation of the bill, includes $111,108,822.96 contained in the regular Book of Estimates submitted to Congress at the beginning of the present session, $21,631,649.93 subsequently presented in sundry House documents, which are specifically referred to in the accompanying tabulation, and $4,876,000 for the Reclamation Service submitted in the regu lar estimates, to be appropriated out of repayments to the reclamation fund but not extended as a part of the total of all of the estimates for 1916.

The total appropriations made for the fiscal year 1915 for objects for which appropriations are provided in the accompanying bill amount to $130,728,037.39, which sum includes $110,070,227.39 in the sundry civil act, $3,067,010 in deficiency acts, $251,300 in the legislative, etc., act, $30,000 in the war revenue act, $16,309,500 estimated permanent appropriation for the Reclamation Service, and $1,000,000 in the Alaska railroad act.

The estimates submitted for the Reclamation Service, payable out of the Reclamation fund, amount to $14,776,000, of which sum the bill appropriates $13,430,000, a reduction of $1,346,000. For the

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current fiscal year the estimated amount that will be expended on the several reclamation projects is stated at $16,309,500, or $1,533,500 more than the sum submitted in the estimates for 1916 and $2,879,500 more than the whole sum recommended in the bill for the ensuing year.

Additional to the foregoing amounts for the Reclamation Service the further sum of $1,275,187.93, submitted in House Document No. 1481, for irrigation works on certain Indian Reservations, was referred to and considered by the committee without favorable action. Omitting from consideration all sums having to do with the Reclamation Service and irrigation of Indian lands that are involved in the estimates for 1916, appropriations for the current year, and total amount recommended in the accompanying bill the following

results are shown:

The bill as a whole, exclusive of the Reclamation Service, makes a reduction in the estimates of $9,067,746.67, and a reduction under the appropriations for the current year of $1,920,999.10.

REDUCTIONS AND INCREASES.

Following is a comparison of the appropriations recommended in the accompanying bill with the appropriations made for the current

year:

For public buildings within their present limit of cost, including annual repairs, heating apparatus, vaults, safes, and locks, and general expenses in the Supervising Architect's Office, $13,913,480; an increase of $3,508,360.

For pay of operating force for public buildings throughout the country, $2,750,000; an increase of $100,000.

For furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings, $900,000; an increase of $50,000.

For operating supplies for public buildings, $1,625,000; the same as the amount for the current year.

For the Coast Guard, established under the act approved January 28, 1915, there is recommended $5,342,900, that sum being an increase of $411,200 over the combined appropriations made for the ordinary expenses of the Life-Saving Service and the Revenue-Cutter Service for the current fiscal year.

For the completion of the two revenue cutters authorized by the act of June 24, 1914, there is recommended $310,000, an increase of $145,000 over the amount appropriated, to begin their construction for the current year.

For engraving and printing, $3,476,947; a decrease of $8,053.

For other miscellaneous objects under the Treasury Department, including certain expenses of the Internal-Revenue Service, contingent expenses of the Independent Treasury, and distinctive paper for United States securities and national currency, $994,300; a decrease of $62,965.

For expenses of collecting customs, $10,150,000; the same as the sum appropriated for the current year.

For compensation in lieu of moieties, $30,000; a reduction of $20,000.

For the customs service at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the $200,000 appropriated for 1915 is reappropriated for 1916.

For scales for the customs service $50,000 is reappropriated for the current year.

For the Public Health Service, including the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, and certain other activities for the service, $2,868,106; a decrease of $11,858.

For furnishing the Columbia Hospital for Women in the District of Columbia, $75,725 is recommended as a new item.

For objects under the Smithsonian Institution, including International Exchanges, International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, American Ethnology, Astrophysical Observatory, National Museum, and National Zoological Park, $589,500; a reduction of $16,500.

For the Interstate Commerce Commission, including $3,000,000 for valuation of property of carriers, $4,765,000; an increase of $1,015,000.

For the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation, $50,000; the same as for the current year.

For the Commission on Industrial Relations, $100,000, a reduction of $100,000

For the Federal Trade Commission, $355,000; an increase of $103,700 over the appropriations for the Bureau of Corporations whose functions it absorbs.

For armories and arsenals, $559,100; a decrease of $6,322.

For the construction of Infantry barracks in Hawaii, $163,000; a decrease of $87,000.

For barracks and quarters at seacoast defenses in continental United States, $25,000; a reduction of $641. ·

For necessary accommodations for Seacoast Artillery in the Philippine and Hawaiian Islands there is recommended the sum of $358,000; a reduction of $392,000.

For repairs to the sea wall at Governors Island, N. Y., the sum of $8,000 is recommended as a new item.

For maintenance of national cemeteries, headstones for graves of soldiers, etc., $312,070; a reduction of $39,500.

For national military parks, $162,060; a reduction of $12,940. For improvement of Yellowstone Park, $195,000; a decrease of $60,000.

For improvement of Crater Lake National Park, $50,000; a reduction of $35,000.

For buildings and grounds in and around Washington, D. C., $215,450; a decrease of $23,500.

For expenses of the Executive Mansion, including traveling expenses of the President, $86,600; the same as the amount appropriated for the current year for similar purposes.

For lighting the public grounds, $22,320; an increase of $2,000. For the Washington Monument, $14,320; the same as the sum for the current year.

For expenses of the Commission on Fine Arts, $5,000; the same as was appropriated for the current year.

For continuing the Lincoln memorial, $600,000; an increase of $200,000.

For the Arlington memorial, $400,000; an increase of $150,000. For the improvement of rivers and harbors, under contract authorizations contained in river and harbor acts, $3,982,000; a decrease of $3,006,500.

For publishing engineer maps for use of the War Department, $7,500; the same as the amount for the current year.

For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, $125,000; the same as the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year.

For the California Débris Commission, $15,000; the same as the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year.

For protecting the harbor of New York from injurious deposits, $85,260; a decrease of $9,000.

For artificial limbs, $95,000; a decrease of $180,000.

For appliances for disabled soldiers and for trusses, $5,000; a reduction of $500.

For support and treatment of destitute patients in the Providence Hospital, $19,000; the same as the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year.

For maintenance of Garfield Hospital, $19,000; the same as the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year.

For the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,825,500; an increase of $3,900.

For continuing aid to State and Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, $1,100,000; the same as the amount for the current year.

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For payment of amounts certified to be due on account of bounty for volunteer soldiers, including volunteers in the War with Spain, $55,000; a reduction of $5,000.

For repairs of buildings, Interior Department, $10,000; an increase of $10,000.

For work at the Capitol and for general and special repairs thereto, $30,000; the same as the amount appropriated for the current fiscal

year.

For completing the pediment of the House wing, $60,000 is recommended as a new item.

For improving the Capitol and grounds, $90,000; a decrease of $1,000.

For current expenses of the public-lands service, $1,451,000; the same as the sum for the current year.

For surveying the public lands, $710,000; the same as the amount for the current year.

For the United States Geological Survey, $1,355,520; a reduction of $50,000.

For the Bureau of Mines, $757,300; an increase of $32,300.

For expenses in disbarment proceedings before the Department of the Interior, $500; the same as the sum for the current year.

For the Reclamation Service, $13,430,000; a reduction of $2,879,500 under the amount estimated to be expended out of the permanent appropriation for the current year.

For railroads in Alaska, $2,000,000; an increase of $1,000,000 over the appropriation of $1,000,000 made in the act of March 12, 1914. For the protection of Imperial Valley, Cal., $100,000 is recommended as a new item.

For care and custody of the insane of Alaska, $70,000; the same as the sum for the current year.

For education in Alaska, $200,000; the same as the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year.

For support of reindeer in Alaska, $5,000; the same as the amount for the current year.

For protection of game in Alaska, $20,000; the same as the sum for the current year.

For suppression of alcoholic liquor traffic in Alaska, $15,000; the same as the sum for the current year.

For national parks under the Interior Department, $199,550; a decrease of $81,040.

For the Government Hospital for the Insane, $345,250; an increase of $307.

For the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, $76,000; a decrease of $21,000.

For Howard University, $101,000; the same as the sum for the current year.

For Freedmen's Hospital, $60,640; a decrease of $6,000.

For repairs of courthouse at Washington, $5,000; the same as for the current year.

For continuing construction work at the United States penitentiaries at Leavenworth, Kans., and at Atlanta, Ga., $100,000 and $75,000, respectively, being the same amounts as were appropriated for the current fiscal year.

For miscellaneous objects under the Department of Justice, $982,052.50; a reduction of $47,527.50.

For expenses of United States courts, $7,239.096; a decrease of $22,230.

For the Lighthouse Service, $5,100,000; an increase of $12,400. For the Coast and Geodetic Survey, $1,365,620; an increase of $325,900.

For the Bureau of Fisheries, $1,085,820; a decrease of $52,360. For testing large scales by the Bureau of Standards, $40,000; the same as the sum for the current year.

For the Bureau of Standards for continuing the construction of a chemical laboratory building, $50,000; an increase of $25,000. For the expenses of regulating immigration, $2,450,000; a deerease of $199,500.

For salaries and expenses, Division of Naturalization, $275,000; an increase of $25,000.

For objects under legislative, $228,636; a reduction of $79,870. Under the Government Printing Office and public printing and binding, $5,417,115; a decrease of $113,180.

For continuing the construction and for maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, $16,940,000; a decrease of $3,778,000. For fortification of the Isthmian Canal, $2,639,048.30; a decrease of $1,514,523.30.

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:

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One-half of the sum of $300,000 heretofore appropriated for the construction of a modern fireproof hospital building to replace the building of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum shall be reimbursed to the United States Treasury on or before the close of the fiscal year 1915 out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.