$4,400 for study, investigation, and survey of the battle field of Saratoga, N. Y.; appropriates an additional amount of $13,500 for the fiscal year 1931 for Guilford Courthouse National Military Park; $15,000 for Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, fiscal year 1931; all as proposed by the Senate. Nos. 81 to 88, inclusive, relating to damage claims: Appropriates $26,028.31, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $19,547.17, as proposed by the House. Nos. 89 to 95, inclusive, relating to judgments, United States courts: Appropriates $169,016.65, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $11,731.73, as proposed by the House, and appropriates whatever is needed for payment of interest on a judgment in favor of Henri Gutmann Silks Corporation, as proposed by the Senate. Nos. 96 to 100, inclusive, relating to judgments, Court of Claims: Appropriates $1,007,397.51, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $80,629.24, as proposed by the House. No. 101: Appropriates $86,050 for payment of audited claims, as proposed by the Senate. Nos. 102 to 105, inclusive: Appropriates $16,820.98 for payment of sundry claims allowed by the General Accounting Office, as proposed by the Senate, instead of $6,350.72, as proposed by the House. No. 106: Corrects a section number of the bill. AMENDMENTS IN DISAGREEMENT The managers on the part of the House have agreed to recommend that the House concur in the following amendments of the Senate, with amendments where indicated: No. 13, relating to deductions from salaries of employees on account of the civil-service retirement and disability fund, with an amendment correcting the text. No. 13, relating to the Cheyenne Bottoms Migratory Bird Refuge, with an amendment clarifying the language. No. 39, relating to the construction of Bureau of Fisheries stations. The conference committee report a general disagreement upon the following Senate amendments: No. 3, relating to a payment to Henry M. Barry, an employee of the Senate. No. 11, relating to the Vollbehr collection of incunabula. No. 12, relating to an additional appropriation for continuing an investigation of the problem of enforcement of prohibition laws. No. 21, relating to an appropriation for care of free patients in the isolating wards of Garfield Memorial Hospital, Washington, D. C. No. 22, relating to an appropriation for care of free patients in the isolating wards of Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C. No. 27, relating to an appropriation for repairs and improvements to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, Washington, D. C. No. 30, relating to an appropriation for the purchase of a collection of moths and butterflies, etc., for the Department of Agriculture. No. 33, relating to an appropriation for a market news service in respect of cottonseed and cottonseed products. No. 42, relating to an appropriation for payment of claims of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux Indians. No. 43, relating to an appropriation for the construction of a fish ladder, Wapato irrigation project, Yakima Reservation, Wash. No. 47, relating to an appropriation for use in determining the lands in the State of Arizona that should be embraced within the Parker-Gila Valley reclamation project. No. 70, relating to the Helena (Mont.) Federal office building. No. 76, relating to an appropriation for a road from the Shiloh National Military Park to the Corinth National Cemetery Road. 2d Session No. 2054 SALARY OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA JULY 2, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. KVALE, from the Committee on the Territories, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 11368] The Committee on the Territories, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 11368) to fix the annual compensation of the secretary of the Territory of Alaska, having considered the same, reports it to the House, without amendment, and with the recommendation that it do pass. Favorable attitude toward this proposed legislation on the part of the Secretary of the Interior is indicated by the following letter from that official, recommending that the bill receive favorable consideration: Hon. C. F. CURRY, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Chairman Committee on the Territories, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR. CURRY: Your letter of April 26, 1930, has been received, inclosing, with request for an expression of views thereon, House bill 11368, "To fix annual compensation of the secretary of the Territory of Alaska." The salary of the secretary of the Territory of Alaska is fixed at $3,700 per annum in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, approved March 4, 1929, and the bill under consideration, should it become a law, would increase his salary to $5,800 per annum. The salary of the secretary of the Territory of Hawaii, as fixed by law, is $5,800 per annum and there is no good reason why the secretary of the Territory of Alaska should not receive a similar amount. I recommend that the bill receive favorable consideration. Very truly yours, RAY LYMAN WILBUR. O JULY 2, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. ELLIOTT, from the Committee on the Territories, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 4142] The Committee on the Territories, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4142) to fix the salary of the Governor of the Territory of Alaska, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass. The bill proposes to increase the salary of the Governor of Alaska from $7,000, as now fixed by law, to $10,000. This increase would equalize the salaries of the Governors of the Territories of Alaska and of Hawaii. This measure passed the Senate, without objection, on June 27, 1930. The Secretary of the Interior has indicated that he favors enactment of this legislation, as shown by the following letter addressed to the chairman of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs of the Senate, when the bill was before that body: Hon. HIRAM BINGHAM, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Chairman Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs, United States Senate. MY DEAR SENATOR BINGHAM: Your letter of April 24, 1930, has been received, inclosing, with request for an expression of opinion thereon, Senate bill 4142, to fix the salary of the Governor of the Territory of Alaska. The salary of the Governor of Alaska is fixed at $7,000 in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, approved March 4, 1929, and the bill under consideration proposes to increase his salary to $10,000 per annum. The salary of the Governor of Hawaii, as fixed by law, is $10,000 per annum, and there is no good reason why the Governor of Alaska should not receive a similar amount. I recommend that the bill receive favorable consideration. Very truly yours, RAY LYMAN WILBUR O TO AMEND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT OF JUNE 3, 1916, RELATIVE TO THE NATIONAL GUARD JULY 2, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. SPEAKS, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 12918] The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 12918) to amend the national defense act of June 3, 1916, as amended, introduced by Mr. Speaks, having considered the same, report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass with the following amendments: Page 9, line 17, after the word "Guard," add the following language to be numbered section 7: SEC. 7. That section 60 of said act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the same and inserting the following in lieu thereof: "SEC. 60. ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL GUARD UNITS.-Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the organization of the National Guard, including the composition of all units thereof, shall be the same as that which is or may hereafter be prescribed for the Regular Army, subject in time of peace to such general exceptions as may be authorized by the Secretary of War. And the President may prescribe the particular unit or units, as to branch or arm of the service, to be maintained in each State, Territory, or the District of Columbia in order to secure a force which, when combined shall form complete higher tactical units: Provided, That no change in allotment, branch, or arm of units or organizations wholly within a single State will be made without the approval of the governor of the State concerned." Page 9, change section 7 to 8, and change all sections thereafter accordingly. The sections of the national defense act to be amended by this bill are printed herewith. Section 1 of the national defense act with the old language struck out by the amended bill shown inclosed in black brackets and new language printed in italics reads as follows: That the Army of the United States shall consist of the Regular Army, the National Guard [while in the service] of the United States, and the Organized Reserves, including the Officers' Reserve Corps and the Enlisted Reserve Corps. |