cal development and economic growth of our country.

Federal expenditures and the national output: Direct Federal purchases of goods and services in 1965 are estimated at $69.1 billion, which is less than 11 percent of the gross national product; fivesixths of these purchases are for the defense and space programs. Total Federal purchases of goods and services have remained at approximately 11 percent to 12 percent of the gross national product throughout the last decade.

Other large portions of the budget, such as social security payments, represent transfers of purchasing power to or within other sectors of the economy. Such outlays, amounting to $52.4 billion in 1965, are estimated to fall somewhat as a percent of total national output. These include $31.8 billion for transfer payments such as old-age and survivors insurance benefits, unemployment compensation, and military and veterans pensions-which improve the recipients' standard of living by providing them with increased purchasing power. Similarly, grants-in-aid to State and local governments for such activities as highways, public assistance, and public health increase the ability of these governments to provide local public services. These Federal expenditures transferring purchasing power to other sectors of the economy have more than doubled from 1955 to 1964, while Federal purchases of goods and services have risen by about 50 percent.

In fiscal year 1965, the Federal Government will add to its direct use of total national output much less than will State and local governments. In contrast to the estimated rise of $1.3 billion in direct Federal purchases in 1965 as compared with 1964, present indications are that purchases by State and local governments will continue to rise by at least as much as the $3 billion to $4 billion by which they have been increasing in recent years.

ances for contingencies and flexibility during periods of peak requirements in March and June. The report also noted the concern of the Secretary of the Treasury that the debt could not be reduced to the $309 billion limit set by statute for June 30, 1964, without disrupting orderly management of Treasury finances.

Based on the latest estimates contained in this budget, the debt subject to limit on June 30, 1964, is now estimated to be $312 billion. Accordingly, a change in the limit is necessary before June 30, 1964, if serious difficulties in the conduct of public debt management are to be avoided. A further change will be needed to cover the anticipated, but reduced, deficit for 1965.

Debt limitations which are so restrictive or so temporary in application as to necessitate several legislative revisions in a single year-as last year-conflict with economical operation of the Government and effective financial management, and involve both the Congress and the Executive in unnecessarily repetitive discussions of the same issues. Instead, the debt ceiling should provide sufficient flexibility for sound management of the Government's finances at the lowest cost, and also permit the Treasury leeway for actively supporting the Nation's balance-of-payments position through

timely debt operations. With or without a restrictive debt ceiling, expenditures in this administration will be held to the lowest possible level.

EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT

I call upon all Government employees to observe three paramount principles of public service:

First, complete fairness in the administration of governmental powers and services;

Second, scrupulous avoidance of conflicts of interest; and

Third, a passion for efficiency and economy in every aspect of Government operations.

For its part, the Federal Government must be a good employer. It must offer challenging opportunities to its employees. It must be prompt to recognize and reward initiative. It must pay well to attract and keep its share of dedicated and resourceful workers. It must welcome fresh ideas, new approaches, and responsible criticism.

For 33 years I have been in Government service. I have known its challenge, its rewards, and its opportunities. But all these will multiply in the years to come. The time is at hand to develop the Federal service into the finest instrument of public good that our will and ingenuity can forge. Controlling

employment: Although both our population and our economy are growing and placing greater demands upon the Government for services of every kind, I believe the time has come to get our work done by improving the efficiency and productivity of our Federal work force, rather than by adding to its numbers.

This budget proposes a reduction in Federal employment in 1965-from

2,512,400 to 2,511,200 civilian employees and I have directed the heads of all departments and agencies to work toward reducing employment still further. This reversal in the trend of Federal employment results from a rigorous appraisal of personnel needs, determined measures to increase employee productivity and efficiency, and the curtailment of lower priority work. It will be accomplished despite large and unavoidable increases in workloads.

Of the 92 million civilian employees of governments in the United States today, 22 million are employed by the Federal Government and about 7 million by the State and local governments. In the decade from fiscal year 1955, Federal civilian employment in the executive branch will rise by 6 percent, while the population of the United States will increase by 17 percent. State and local employment will increase about 65 percent during the same period.

In fiscal year 1955, we had 14 Federal civilian employees in the executive branch for every 1,000 people; in fiscal year 1965, we will have fewer than 13 Federal civilian employees to serve every 1,000 people.

Management improvement and cost reduction: As substantial as are savings due to tightening up on Federal employment, even larger economies result from actions which eliminate waste and duplication, simplify unnecessarily complex systems and procedures, and introduce new and better business methods.

The emphasis on management improvement in the executive branch during the past 3 years has led to impressive economies on a very wide front. Functions have been consolidated. Automatic data processing equipment has improved efficiency and reduced operating costs. Excess property in the possession of one agency has been transferred to others, saving substantial funds budgeted for new purchases. Productivity has been increased in agencies with the heaviest volume of workloads, thus avoiding payroll increases.

In the Department of Defense, the costreduction program has achieved exceptional results. Without impairing combat strength or effectiveness, savings of over $1 billion were achieved in fiscal year 1963, and annual saving by fiscal year 1967 are expected to reach the impressive figure of $4 billion. As part of this effort, defense bases and installations no longer needed will be shut down. The number of civilian employees in the Department of Defense will decrease by 10,000 in fiscal year 1964 and by another 17,000 in 1965-to the lowest level since 1950.

I have directed all departments and agencies to continue and intensify these efforts. When the search for economy is compromised, the taxpayer is the loser. Government organization: The organization of the Government must be adjusted to cope with new and challenging problems resulting from scientific and technological advances, the development of new and the elimination of old programs, and changes in policies and program emphasis.

One of the most urgently needed improvements requiring congressional action is legislation to create a Department of Housing and Community Development to provide leadership in coordinating various Federal programs which aid the development of our urban areas. I recommend that the Congress approve establishment of this new Department during its current session.

The authority of the President to transmit reorganization plans to the Congress expired on May 31, 1963. Legislation now pending in the Congress should be enacted to renew this authority.

Salary reform and adjustment: Although this budget is deliberately restrictive, I have concluded that Government economy will be best served by an upward adjustment in salaries. In the last year and a half the Federal Government has taken far-reaching steps to improve its pay practices. The Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962 and the Uniformed Services Pay Act of 1963 established the principle of keeping military and civilian pay generally in line with pay in the private economy. This is a sound principle, and it is reinforced by the sound procedure of annual review. This principle is fair to the taxpayer, to Government employees, and to the Government as an employer.

This budget provides for the costs of such action in this session of Congress. Any pay action by the Congress should bring salary rates for top executive branch positions up to levels more nearly commensurate w ith their respective responsibilities, and increase rates for the Congress and the judiciary. Economy and efficiency in Government will come primarily from the hard and conscientious work of our top managers, who are now plainly underpaid for what is expected of them.

CONCLUSION

Approval of this budget will

Lift a major barrier to more rapid growth in the private sector of the economy by reducing tax burdens and providing investment incentives.

Meet the Nation's defense, international, and domestic requirements.

Provide generously for human needs and, with local community action, attack forcefully the pockets of human want and deprivation in our land.

Advance efficient and economical administration in the Government so that each tax dollar will be a dollar well spent.

The program proposed for 1965 should provide ample assurance of our determination to keep costs under tight control and move the tax reduction bill toward speedy approval. It should also provide ample evidence that critical national problems need not go unsolved and human wants unmet in a nation rich in moral as well as material strength.

A government that is strong, a government that is solvent, a government that is compassionate is the kind of government that endures.

There is no inconsistency in being prudent and frugal, in being alert and

BUDGET FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following message from the President of the United States; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Appropriations:

To the Congress of the United States:

I present the budget for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1964.

The District of Columbia, as the Capital of our Nation, should symbolize our civic ideals. What the National Government does, or fails to do, for the District largely determines the city's character and attributes.

A year ago, in transmitting the District of Columbia budget to the Congress, President Kennedy said "the problems of the District have become so critical as to challenge the National Governmentboth the administration and the Congress-to redouble its understanding of and interest in its Capital City." The need to meet that challenge continues. The policies and programs which President Kennedy proposed for the development and progress of the Nation's Capital remain largely unfulfilled. The budget which I am presenting will measurably advance their accomplishment.

In certain respects the District has needs and problems which are common to many large cities today. It is the core of the fastest growing metropolitan area in the East. Like other central cities, its population characteristics have been changing rapidly. Between 1950 and 1970 the number of school age children in the District will have increased by 46 percent; the number of older persons by 55 percent. The number of persons in the productive period of their lives, however, will have decreased by 18 percent. Negroes, whose economic and social resources taken as a whole still lag far behind, continue to be an increasing proportion--now some 57 percent-of the District's citizens. Only recently have they been enabled to start breaking through the artificial barriers which by and large have kept them within the District.

In other fundamental respects, the District is unique. It discharges not only the full range of municipal responsibilities, but also responsibilities generally undertaken by State and county governments.

These include health, welfare, and education-the very functions which expand most rapidly in areas undergoing changes in population characteristics.

Furthermore, the District has more park land, lower building heights, and little industry-all factors which severely limit potential tax revenue. Another important consideration is that the National Government holds title to 43 percent of the land area of the city-none of it revenue producing; yet the National Government is the District's only major industry.

These facts, coupled with an inadequate response to the needs of the District in years past, make imperative the adoption of programs that will increase substantially the stability, income, and resources of the city's present and future productive citizens.

The Federal Government has explicit responsibility for legislative direction of District affairs. Its implicit responsibility is even broader, since it also must assume a fair share of the District's financial needs.

Nor is it only a question of fairness. The efficiency and productivity of the Federal Establishment depend to a significant degree upon a capital city which is well planned and well run. From time to time, the Federal Government has increased its recognition of financial responsibility. Last year it enlarged the Federal payment authorization from $32 million to $50 million a year. This still falls short of enabling the Congress and the District to plan and efficiently carry out long-term commitments within a framework of sound fiscal policy.

I recommend strongly that the Congress authorize a Federal payment based on a formula which reflects the relative responsibility of the National Government and of the local taxpayers in meeting the financial needs of the District. Title I of H.R. 4592 embodies such a formula, keyed to the assessed value of real estate and personal property owned and used by the Federal Government and the amount the District could expect to receive if Federal Government activity were taxable as a private business.

Although a $54.8 million Federal payment would be authorized by H.R. 4592 in fiscal 1965, compared to $50 million already authorized, the real benefit from its enactment would be the maintenance of an equitable balance between Federal and local responsibility as conditions change. For example, by fiscal 1968 the formula would authorize an estimated further increase of $6.6 million in the Federal payment compared with increased revenues from local sources estimated at $39.8 million. True concern for the District requires that the Federal Government thus recognize its equitable share of the costs. It also requires, of course, that normally the Congress appropriate no less.

The adoption of this formula basis for the Federal payment would not establish a precedent requiring the Federal Government to make payments in lieu of taxes in other jurisdictions. For more than 125 years the Congress has recognized the Federal Government's responsibility by appropriating a share of the funds needed for the operation of the District government. The Congress

has fully accepted the fact that, because Washington is the Federal city and the seat of the National Government, its development and growth have been unusually affected by Federal Government operations. Unlike most other communities where post offices, courthouses, and the many other local and regional activities of the Federal Government serve the local citizens, Federal activities in Washington predominantly serve the whole Nation.

Moreover, the Federal Government plays a larger part in the planning and development of the District than it does anywhere else in the Nation. The location and types of buildings in certain areas are dependent upon its approval. It imposes other restrictions, such as that which limits the height of all buildings within the District. Serious limitations are thus placed on the development of private industry and businesses in a city essentially geared to functioning as headquarters of the Federal Government. Such restrictions caused by the presence of Federal activities are not nearly so far reaching in any other city in the Nation. In other words, there is already a well-established precedentthat the Federal Government should and does contribute to the expense of government in the District. The issue is only what measure can best be used to determine the fair share which the Federal Government should provide. The proposed formula will establish that measure.

I also recommend that the authority of the District to borrow from the Treasury should be related to local needs and resources. Title II of H.R. 4592 embodies the form of an appropriate debt limit; namely, 6 percent of the 10-year average of the combined assessed value of taxable real and personal property (including property owned and used by the Federal Government as specified in the Federal payment formula). This is a flexible but prudent debt limit related directly to ability to repay, and in keeping with the restrictions on borrowing common to most State and local jurisdictions. The adoption of this proposal would, for example, result in a general fund limit of outstanding indebtedness of approximately $235 million as of fiscal 1965, and of $295 million as of fiscal 1970, compared with the present limit of $175 million, which must be renewed when it is exhausted.

The District will continue, of course, as it has in the past, to finance much of its general fund capital outlays from current revenues. Nonetheless, a flex

ible, predictable, and continuing debt limit which is related to ability to repay, taken together with the formula basis for the Federal payment authorization and the tax increases proposed herein, will permit the Congress and the District to plan and meet its critical needs on an orderly basis.

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District taxpayers continue to bear the lion's share of financing the District government. This is as it should be. keeping with this view, and inasmuch as the financial needs of the District, if it

The financing of the general fund portion of this budget includes, therefore, new revenues from local taxes of $9.9 million, and a Federal payment of $54.8 million which would be authorized by the formula proposed.

These additional funds permit limited but necessary expansion of services and the acceleration of capital improvements, particularly school buildings, without excessive inroads into the District's borrowing authority.

The Congress may be assured that this budget, no less than the budget of the Federal Government, is designed to avoid waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary expenditures. At the same time, it is designed to meet urgent needs in education, health, welfare, recreation, and related fields. These are the requirements which are traditionally met by State and local governments, and which are largely responsible for an increase of 128 percent in the general expenditures of State and local governments between 1952 and 1962, in contrast to an increase of only 43 percent in general Federal expenditures during the same decade. Adequate funds for these purposes are essential to the needs of District citizens and to their hopes for improvement in employment, income, and family stability.

EDUCATION

For education programs, appropriations of $93.3 million are needed in 1965. The increase of $4.7 million for operat

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ing expenses will permit additional school staff necessary to provide teachers needed for a school population which will increase 5,000 over 1964. The system will achieve, for the first time, the pupil-teacher ratios set by the Board of Education several years ago as their standard.

Provision for these teachers is vital, yet a first-rate school system requires more than just an adequate number of teachers. The 1965 budget is also aimed at meeting critical deficiencies by providing: (1) the beginning of a library program for elementary schools—a program of special importance for children whose homes provide few if any opportunities to learn the joys of reading; (2) improved counseling and other guidance services to direct children into curriculums most suited to their individual needs; (3) an expansion of special education programs for mentally retarded children which can rescue many of them from the prospect of permanent dependency; (4) supporting administrative services which are needed to bring the District up to the level of school systems of comparable size; and (5) a continuation of the special effort to remedy the inability of culturally deprived students to speak, read, and write the English language a serious and obvious social, academic, and economic disadvantage.

Of particular importance, the budget includes $24.7 million for an accelerated school construction program. These

Much more needs to be done, however, if many of the young people now marching toward responsible adulthood are not to become instead a frustrated and embittered army of unemployed, swelling the welfare rolls and crowding the prisons.

The 1963 amendments to the Manpower Development and Training Act will enable the District to participate in an accelerated program of training in both basic literacy and specific employment skills for the hard core of unemployed youth and older workers. I am directing that programs be developed to make maximum use of this opportu

nity in the District. The Vocational Education Act of 1963 not only will permit a substantial expansion and improvement in the vocational education programs of the District schools, but also will make possible in the National Capital region a demonstration residential vocational school which will be established as a means of emphasizing the relationship between training and employment opportunities.

The Committee on Public Higher Education in the District of Columbia will shortly present to me its recommendations for meeting the needs for publicly supported post-high-school education in the District. These recommendations wil receive my careful attention. The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 will provide some assistance toward meeting the District's requirements.

We must demonstrate that we lack neither the will nor the resources to resolve the current crisis in education. We cannot afford a less than first-rate educational system in the Nation's Capital.

A comment is appropriate here on the Public Library. While its branch operations have largely kept pace with community needs, the central library at Mount Vernon Square has long been woefully inadequate. The examination of the central library problem authorized by the Congress in 1961 resulted in a recommendation for a larger and more accessible building on a new site. I am renewing last year's budget request embodying this recommendation, for the need is urgent.

WELFARE AND HEALTH

The budget recommends appropriations totaling $76.6 million for welfare and health, an increase of $4.8 million over 1964.

The attention devoted by the Congress to the District's welfare program has resulted in major gains by way of reorganization and improved administration of the Department. Some of the programs, unfortunately, still fall far short of the minimum necessary to realize the primary objective of public assistancethe rehabilitation of persons and families by positive actions which will enable them to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency. The organization, administration, and financing of welfare programs should each be geared to this objective.

The plight of dependent children remains particularly distressing. I strongly urge that funds be provided which will permit the District to participate in the national program of aid to children of unemployed parents authorized by the Congress in 1961. I am equally concerned that other measures also be undertaken to effect a major reduction in the population of Junior Village. The budget accordingly includes funds with which to increase the rates paid for foster home care, to provide extra personnel to find and to approve foster homes, to provide assistance to families in danger of disintegration, and to increase the availability of day care.

In other areas as well, the budget reflects my belief that the District should

be a leader in effecting the improvements which the Congress made possible in the 1961 and 1962 amendments to the Social Security Act. Effective rehabilitation work is virtually impossible, for example, unless the caseload of social workers is reduced. Only 44 percent of welfare recipients who might be rehabilitated are now served by social workers with caseloads acceptable under Federal standards. The 1965 budget will increase this figure to 50 percent. Here, and in other areas, failure to take forward steps only insures that welfare aid will remain essentially a dole, and that its recipients will perpetuate their dependency.

The Department of Public Health has also been reorganized, with advantages in improved service at minimal cost which will become apparent in the future. Medical care programs for the aged now provide for greater services to this group, ranging from home care and accident prevention to rehabilitation. The budget provides funds for a continuation of these programs, as well as for more intensive efforts in areas in which District rates are alarmingly highinfant mortality and venereal disease.

The District should also play a leadership role in adopting and demonstrating the new concepts in the prevention, treatment, and care of mental illness and mental retardation. The major effort by the District in these directions, as well as a significant part of its entire health program, is the plan for community health centers. This budget provides funds to plan for two such centers, which should be brought into being as soon as possible. In addition to their other services, these centers can provide help for mentally disturbed persons who do not require long-term hospitalization, and thus reduce materially the patient load at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

PUBLIC SAFETY

The Congress has responded promptly to past needs for more policemen. The 1965 budget seeks primarily to increase the efficiency of the present force, rather than to increase its size. Police cadet programs, financed in part by Federal funds, will take boys from 17 to 20 through a training-work program, and at age 21 move those who qualify into the patrol ranks.

A substantial proportion of serious crimes, in the District as elsewhere, is committed by jueniles. The District will soon have from Washington Action for Youth, a community effort developed by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, a plan for a comprehensive attack on juvenile delinquency. That battle will not be easy, nor will success come quickly, for there are no panaceas. Law enforcement has its necessary role, but the significant efforts must come in the fields of education, recreation, health, employment, and welfare. In the District-as in the Nation-we face no more important social challenge. I fully support the effort that is being made to mount a comprehensive demonstration in the Cardozo area which will develop

programs to seek out and eliminate the basic causes of poverty which contribute to the patterns of delinquency and dependency. I shall continue to encourage the most comprehensive attack on these evils that can be devised.

RECREATION

The recreation program of the District has not kept pace with the increase in the number of younger people. The budget will permit two major advances. First, it will provide funds for the District to begin a program to bring the city's swimming pool facilities into reasonable relation to its needs, and to assume complete operation of the pools currently operated by a concessionaire under the National Park Service. Second, it will provide funds to extend the hours of supervised operation of many present recreational facilities, which now are often unavailable when they would be most useful.

The budget also will continue the roving leader program, under which men and women work in the streets and neighborhoods directly with delinquent and potentially delinquent youths on both individual and group bases. This program has proved that it is possible to reach and help the hard-to-reach youngsters. It strongly merits the modest expansion proposed in the budget.

TRANSPORTATION

The administration and the Congress have been wrestling with the transportation problems of the District for many While some progress has been years. made, I hope for further progress during the coming year.

A major barrier to the development of plans for the Interstate Highway System in the District was surmounted in November 1963, when the District Commissioners accepted the recommendations of an advisory committee drawn from all interested Federal agencies with respect to an additional central city Potomac River crossing and an interstate connection making maximum use of tunneling across the north central part of the District.

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Kennedy accepted the recommendations, and they likewise have my approval. Although problems of specific location and of design remain to be worked out with the help of the advisory committee, the progress which has been made permits inclusion in the budget of funds for major additional segments of the urgently needed Interstate System in the District.

The financing of the construction of this Interstate System requires immediate attention. The system must be completed by 1972. The District also faces increasing requirements for funds to maintain the system and to construct, improve, and maintain other highways and streets. The resources of the highway fund are entirely earmarked revenues. The most equitable method of financing a street and highway network is taxation based upon use. There is warrant, also, for meeting a part of the cost of highways by borrowing which will be repaid by taxes on later users,

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since highways have a long useful life. I am proposing, therefore, a loan authorization for the highway fund of $35 million in addition to the $50.2 million already authorized. The Commissioners will propose an increase of 1 cent in the present 6 cents per gallon gasoline tax, which will provide $2 million annually, a sum sufficient to retire the $35 million loan in 30 years. These measures will meet the needs of the highway fund for several years, although other tax sources contributing to that fund may thereafter also have to be increased.

The resolution of the problems of providing a rapid rail transit system for the National Capital region is not yet in hand. Ten years and more of study, however, have made it abundantly clear that such a system is a critical necessity if intolerable traffic congestion is to be avoided. The recent recommittal of H.R. 8929 to the House District Committee demands a redoubling of efforts to find an acceptable program which will permit a transit development plan to proceed. I have instructed the National Capital Transportation Agency, together with other Federal agencies, to work with affected local jurisdictions to that end. I am confident that the Congress agrees on the need, and I trust that an acceptable program can be formulated at this session of the Congress.

A comprehensive transportation system must, of course, be the result of joint efforts between the District and Indeed, its neighboring jurisdictions. the Congress has conditioned continuing Federal assistance to highway development in urban areas after mid-1965 on the existence of such cooperation. Many other local problems, too, extend beyond the District's boundaries, just as many problems in the suburbs cannot be efficiently and economically solved without the full cooperation of the District. I intend to give my full support to the development of cooperative efforts to meet these regional problems and to provide for the orderly development of the National Capital region.

CONCLUSION

The Congress will be required to consider many other matters of concern to the District during this year. Some pending bills are of particular urgency. S. 628, passed by the Senate, would permit the District to act, as other cities have done, to revitalize the downtown area. S. 1024, also passed by the Senate, would authorize relocation assistance to those displaced by District government action, and would provide a central relocation service which would greatly increase the success of relocation efforts. I urge the Congress to enact these measures.

A bill (H.R. 5794 and S. 1650) which would both provide home rule for District citizens and protect Federal interests was transmitted to the Congress by President Kennedy. As long as District citizens are denied the basic rights to vote and to govern themselves, they will remain less than full citizens, and

will be less effective in assuming their proper share of responsibility for District problems. I urge strongly that the Congress enact home rule legislation at this session.

This budget, the programs which it funds, and the legislation which is recommended, will promote, in my opinion, the District's best interests. They will also serve the Nation's best interests by providing the means by which our Nation's Capital can become a living symbol of the political, social, and economic vitality of the United States in the last half of the 20th century.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON.

JANUARY 21, 1964. REPORT OF PUERTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF LOANS

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of collections by the Farmers Home Administration of the Department of Agriculture on Puerto Rican hurricane relief loans since the transfer of the authority on July 11, 1956; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

REAPPORTIONMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the reapportionment of appropriations to meet certain pay increases for certain departments and agencies of the Government, fiscal year 1964, which indicate the necessity for supplemental estimates of appropriations; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. REPORT OF PLAN FOR ACCOUNTING OF WATER, SAN JUAN-CHAMA PROJECT, COLORADONEW MEXICO

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on a plan for accounting of water, San Juan-Chama project, Colorado-New Mexico; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

REPORT ON TORT CLAIMS PAID BY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEVELOPMENT LAND AGENCY

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of Labor, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of tort claims paid by the Department for the calendar year 1963; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the District of Columbia Development Land Agency, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of a tort claim paid by the Agency for the calendar year 1963; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIAL Mrs. SMITH (for herself and Mr. MUSKIE) presented the following concurrent resolutions of the Legislature