BRIDGE ACROSS ST. FRANCIS RIVER, CLAY COUNTY, ARK. JULY 29, 1911.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. SABATH, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 6098.] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 6098) to authorize the Campbell Lumber Co. to construct a bridge across the St. Francis River from a point in Dunklin County, Mo., to a point in Clay County, Ark., having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass. The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the indorsements attached, and which are made a part of this report 1. Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War. 2. The accompanying bill (H. R. 6098, 62d Cong., 1st sess.) to authorize the construction of a bridge across St. Francis River, Mo. and Ark., is in the usual form and makes ample provision for the protection of navigation interests. 3. So far as those interests are concerned, I know of no objection to its favorable consideration by Congress. EwD. BURR, Acting Chief of Engineers. [Third indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, April 25, 1911. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, inviting attention to the foregoing report of the Acting Chief of Engineers, United States Army. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, Assistant Secretary of War. 62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( 1st Session. } { REPORT TRANSPORTATION OF DUTIABLE MERCHANDISE, ETC., BROWNSVILLE, TEX. JULY 29, 1911.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. RANDELL of Texas, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 2925.] The Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred the bill (H. R. 2925) to extend the privileges of the act approved June 10, 1880, to the port of Brownsville, Tex., recommend that it do pass with the following amendment: In line 3, after the word "privileges," insert the words "of the first section," so that the bill as amended will read as follows: That the privileges of the first section of the act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Brownsville, Texas. 62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.) 1st Session. { REPORT CERTAIN EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA TIVES. JULY 31, 1911.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. FITZGERALD, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. J. Res. 130.] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 130) making appropriations for certain expenses of the House of Representatives, together with the amendments of the Senate thereto, having considered the same, beg leave to report as follows: They recommend nonconcurrence in all of the amendments of the Senate. O 62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session. REPORT MEMORIAL TO NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. AUGUST 1, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. TOWNSEND, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 1671.] The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1671) to provide a suitable memorial of the North American Indian, have considered the same and report it to the House with the following amendment: In line 5, page 2, strike out the words "National Art Commission" and insert in lieu thereof the words "the Commission of Fine Arts." As above amended the committee recommend that the bill do pass, adopting as its report thereon the following: This bill provides for no expenditure of Government funds and imposes no obligation whatever upon the Government other than its consent to have erected on some Government reservation in the harbor of New York a memorial of the North American Indian. It is the intention of Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, a citizen of New York City, if this bill passes, to erect upon a site granted for that purpose and selected by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, a statue of heroic dimensions typifying the Indian. Partly to aid the artist who may design the statue Mr. Wanamaker has twice sent expeditions to study the life and habits of western Indian tribes, securing thereby much photographic and other material of great value for its purpose. The bill, practically in its present form (the committee amendment merely corrects the title of a commission mentioned), was passed by the House near the end of the Sixty-first Congress and was favorably reported to the Senate Committee on the Library by the National Commission of Fine Arts, to whom it was referred by the Senate Library Committee for a report. This favorable report was made too late to permit a Senate committee report before the adjournment of the Sixty-first Congress, and the bill was therefore reintroduced in the House this session. Your committee believes, as there is a provision for the judgment of the Commission of Fine Arts on the design of the proposed statue, that the passage of the bill will secure for the Nation a notable work of memorial art, desirable in itself and also because of its interesting historical significance. 62D CONGRESS, 1st Session. } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT No. 94. FUNDS OF KIOWA, COMANCHE, AND APACHE INDIANS. AUGUST 1, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. FERRIS, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 13002.] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill (H. R. 13002) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the funds of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, and for other purposes, recommends that the bill be amended and as amended that it do pass. Amend the bill as follows: In line 5, after the word "States," strike out "the" and insert "so much of the trust." In line 6, after the word "Oklahoma," strike out the words "or so much thereof." In line 8, after the word "Oklahoma," insert the words "nearest the home of said Indian." In line 13, after the word "Indians," insert the following: Provided, That this shall not apply to the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche four per centum fund of approximately two million six hundred thousand dollars now on deposit in the United States Treasury under the act of June fifth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and thirteen), and subsequent acts of Congress. This bill as amended will read as follows: That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States so much of the trust funds of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apaches Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, as he may deem necessary, and deposit the same in such banks of Oklahoma nearest the home of said Indian as he may select, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and thereafter use so much of the said funds for the benefit of said Indians as he may deem proper: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior report to Congress at its next session the amount of such funds so used for the benefit of said Indians: Provided, That this shall not apply to the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche four per centum fund of approxi |