62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session. { DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL. JULY 15, 1911.-Ordered to be printed. REPORT Mr. FITZGERALD, from the committee of conference, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 12109.] The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 12109) to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year 1911, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 6 and 8. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, and agree to the same. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 2, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In line 5 of said amendment, after the word "Congress," insert the following: being for the fiscal year 1912; and the Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 3, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: At the end of line 6 of said amendment strike out the word "herewith" and insert in lieu thereof the word hereby; and the Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 7, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: For compiling and editing the edition of the Congressional Directory for the first session of the Sixty-second Congress, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, $800; and the Senate agree to the same. JOHN J. FITZGERALD, J. G. CANNON, Managers on the part of the House. F. E. WARREN, ROBERT J. GAMBLE, C. A. CULBERSON, Managers on the part of the Senate. STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE. The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the bill (H. R. 12109) to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1911, submit the following written statement in explanation of the action recommended in the accompanying report upon each of the Senate amendments: On amendments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5: Appropriates for certain expenditures of the Senate, as follows: For compensation of session employees from July 1, 1911, during the remainder of the present session, $3,680; For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $15,000; For additional amount for the assistant clerk to the Committee on Immigration during the fiscal year 1912, $420; Makes the unexpended balance of the appropriation for inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate for the fiscal year 1911 available during the fiscal year 1912. On amendment No. 6: Strikes out the appropriation of $250 proposed by the Senate to pay for extra services for compiling eulogies and statuary proceedings for the Sixty-first Congress. On amendment No. 7: Makes a specific appropriation of $800 for compiling the Congressional Directory for the present session of Congress, instead of authorizing the payment of an indefinite sum out of the contingent fund, as proposed by the Senate. On amendment No. 8: Strikes out the provision for an attorney at $3,000 for the Government Printing Office. On amendment No. 9: Inserts the provision, proposed by the Senate, re-ceding to the State of Georgia jurisdiction over the site on which is located the old Federal building recently sold to the city of Atlanta. On amendments Nos. 10, 11, and 12: Authorizes the payment of existing indebtedness for the completion of a chapel building at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., in the sum of not exceeding $5,000; and appropriates $150,000 to complete the construction of an Army supply depot at Fort Mason, Cal. On amendment No. 13: Inserts the provision, proposed by the Senate, amending legislation of the last session of Congress on the naval appropriation act, concerning clerks to general storekeepers of the Navy. On amendments Nos. 14, 15, and 16: Appropriates, as proposed by the Senate, $1,750 for work at the Capitol and repairs thereof on account of the fiscal year 1911, and $7,000 for the care and improvement of the grounds surrounding the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings, to continue available during the fiscal year 1912. On amendment No. 17: Appropriates $281 for special emergency repairs to the Court of Claims Building. 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES No. 65 REPORT SUBMITTED BY MR. UNDERWOOD, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS ON THE BILL H. R. 12812 TO REDUCE THE DUTIES ON JULY 26, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed WASHINGTON 4 |