No.

86. Bridge across St. Croix River, Wis. and Minn.

87. Bridge across St. Croix River, Wis. and Minn.

88. Bridge across St. Croix River, Wis. and Minn.

89. Bridge across St. Francis River in Clay County, Ark.

90. Transportation of dutiable merchandise, etc., Brownsville, Tex.

92. Certain expenses of House of Representatives, etc.

93. Memorial to North American Indian in New York Harbor.

94. Funds of Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians.

95. Bridge across Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wis.

96. Bridge across Calumet River, Ind.

97. Bridge across St. Francis River, Ark.

98. Bridge across Missouri River near Weldon Springs Landing, Mo.

99. Bridge across Palmers or Warren River, R. I.

100. Bridge across Arkansas River.

101. To legalize bridge across Pend Oreille River, Wash.

102. Bridge across St. Croix River, Wis. and Minn.

103. Amendment of code of law for District of Columbia regarding insurance.

104. Amendment of act relating to Metropolitan police force, D. C.

105. To provide for support and maintenance of bastards in District of Columbia.

106. Right of appeal of District of Columbia to Supreme Court of U. S.

108. Regulation of practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons in D. C.

109. Regulation of assignment of wages in District of Columbia.

110. Preservation of public peace and property in District of Columbia.

111. Punishment for larceny of public property in District of Columbia.

112. To regulate business of loaning money in District of Columbia.

113. To confirm name of Commodore Barney circle in District of Columbia.

114. Conference report on bill to pay certain expenses of House and Senate.

115. Extending time of payment to certain homestead settlers.

116. Granting leave of absence to certain homesteaders.

119. Bridge over Weymouth Back River, Mass.

120. Additional lands for Colorado under provisions of Carey act.

122. Washington Improvement and Development Company.

123. Bridge across Petit Jean River, Ark.

124. Drainage of swamp lands in Arkansas.

125. Per capita payment to enrollment members of Five Civilized Tribes.

126. Transfer of part of Fort Clark military reservation to Texas.

127. Federal building site at Newark, Ohio.

128. Federal building at Charleston, W. Va.

130. Public building at Bangor, Me.

131. Panama-California Exposition, 1915, at San Diego, Cal.

132. Conference report on bill to correct enrollment of appropriation acts.

133. To improve navigation on Black Warrior River, Ala.

134. New building for Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

135. Member of board of managers of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

136. Extension of time for payment of land sold by act of Congress, 1910.

137. To amend act to protect watershed of navigable streams.

138. Public building at Gettysburg, Pa.

141. Public building at Lynchburg, Va.

144. Conference report on bill for reduction of duties on wool, etc.

146. Conference report on farmers' free list bill.

147. Conference report on bill for publicity of campaign contributions.

148. Compensation for injured employees of Mines Bureau.

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150. To incorporate American numismatic association.

155. Sale of burnt timber on public lands.

156. To reduce duties on manufactures of cotton, etc.

158. Preservation of Niagara Falls.

160. Service pensions for certain soldiers of Civil War.

161. Conference report on bill to improve navigation on Black Warrior River, Ala.

162. Admission of New Mexico and Arizona.

163. Legislative assembly for Alaska.

165. Eight-hour law.

166. Additional statistics on tobacco.

62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT 1st Session.

PUBLICITY OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INFLUENCING ELECTIONS.

APRIL 12, 1911.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. RUCKER of Missouri, from the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 2958.]

The Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 2958) to amend an act entitled "An act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected," having considered the same, beg to report it back to the House with the recommendation that the bill be amended as hereinafter stated and, as amended, that the bill do pass.

The publicity law which this bill seeks to amend was enacted by the Sixty-first Congress, and was known in that Congress as H. R. 2250. As the bill passed the House it contained provisions requiring publicity of campaign contributions and expenditures to be made before as well as after election. Before the bill became law section 5 as it passed the House was so amended as to only require publicity after election.

The purpose of the pending bill is to so amend existing law as to require publicity before election as well as after election. In accomplishing this your committee has retained all the valuable provisions of sections 5 and 6 as they passed the House in the last Congress and have injected new language into said sections which it is confidently believed will more perfectly express the will of the House and more fully meet the demands of the public for legislation to purify elections. This demand is not sectional, nor is it partisan. Good men of all sections and of all political parties have enlisted in the commendable work of aiding and encouraging the enactment of a fair but rigid statute requiring publicity of moneys received and disbursed by great political committees.

Your committee recommends that the bill be amended by striking out the word "the" in line 13, page 2, and inserting the word "said." Amend by adding "s" to the word "statement" at the end of line 16, page 2.

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