DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, SIR: I have to request that you transmit the following estimate for appropriation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the requirements of the act of July 7, 1884 (23 Stats., 251): Immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York:-For dredging channels to landings at and construction of a breakwater to protect the landing on the north side of Ellis Island, New York Harbor, fifty thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. The shallowness of the new channel on the north side of the island is dangerous to vessels that must be brought to the landing on that side of the island to embark departing immigrants. April 15, 1910, the commissioner of immigration at the port of New York received the following communication from the Moore Company, which is engaged in the work of carrying immigrants to and from Ellis Island for the trans-Atlantic transportation companies: Last evening about 6 p. m. our steamboat Thomas C. Millard struck the bottom and broke her propeller wheel while entering the channel on the north side of Ellis Island leading to the new baggage room. Since February 15, when the new baggage room was opened, we have broken three propeller wheels on our oats, knocked out 15 feet of keel, and doing other damage to one of our tugs, broken the sternpost on another tug, and our two large boats, besides breaking wheels, have sucked the mud up into the condenser tubes, thereby causing considerable damage to the condensers. We estimate the damage to our boats up to the present time in the neighborhood of $2,000. We have used every effort to try and cooperate with your department in working at this point without making any complaint, but we are compelled to call your attention to these facts and state that the water is entirely indadequate. Dredging should be done at once in order to obtain a sufficient depth of water for boats to go in and out at this point with safety. Our company fears that a serious accident with the probable loss of life is liable to occur should one of our big boats strike bottom and break a plank or a steel plate while going out of this channel with a load of passengers, and we would earnestly request that something be done. It is obvious from this letter that the channel should be deepened immediately in order to avoid damage to property and possibly the loss of life. The breakwater is necessary on the north side of the island as a retaining wall after the channel has been deepened to prevent the silt in the shoal water of the Jersey coast from settling in the channel. At the point where the breakwater is needed the island is exposed to northern and northeastern storms, which are frequently very severe, making the navigation and docking of steamers difficult and dangerous. In the winter time the drifting ice from the Hudson River is blown against the island at this point, and frequently the ice gorge becomes so thick that it will probably be almost impossible to bring steamers and transfer boats to the landing on the north side of the island to embark departing aliens. Respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. CHARLES NAGEL, Secretary. O 61ST CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( DOCUMENT 2d Session. NEW REVENUE CUTTERS. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING A COPY OF A COMMUNICATION FROM THE CAPTAIN COMMANDANT, REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE, SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR NEW REVENUE CUTTERS. MAY 2, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, copy of a communication from the Captain Commandant, Revenue Cutter Service, submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $150,000 toward the construction and equipment of two vessels for the Revenue Cutter Service, $75,000 each, under the provisions of public act No. 145, approved April 21, 1910, entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide two new revenue cutters, and for other purposes," at a cost not exceeding the sum of $250,000 in each case. Respectfully, CHARLES D. NORTON, The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, DIVISION OE REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE, Washington, April 30, 1910. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith an estimate for the sum of $150,000 ($75,000 for each vessel) toward the construction of the two vessels authorized by the act of Congress approved April 21, 1910, H D-61-2-Vol 133-61 to the end that the item may be inserted in the sundry civil appropriation bill now pending in Congress. As it is understood that this bill is soon to be reported, it is respectfully requested that immediate action be taken. Respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, by the Treasury Department. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. Construction of two revenue steamers Toward the construction and equipment of two vessels for the United States Revenue-Cutter Service, authorized by act approved April 21, 1910-public, No. 145 ($75,000 for each vessel) (submitted). $150,000 A COPY OF A COMMUNICATION FROM THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF ACTS TO REGULATE COMMERCE. MAY 2, 1910.- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, copy of a communication from the Attorney-General of the 26th instant, submitting an additional estimate of appropriation in the sum of $100,000 for the enforcement of acts to regulate commerce for the fiscal year 1911. This amount is in addition to the sum of $100,000 submitted in the Book of Estimates for 1911, page 442, and a statement of the reason for the submission of the same at this time, and the imperative necessity therefor, is given by the Attorney-General in his communication herewith. Respectfully, FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Secretary. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D. C., April 26, 1910. SIR: I have the honor to request that the following additional estimate for the service of the fiscal year 1911 be reported to Congress at once for inclusion in the proposed sundry civil appropriation bill: Enforcement of acts to regulate commerce: Provided, That the balance of the appropriation entitled "Enforcement of antitrust laws, nineteen hundred and ten," shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and an additional appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby made for the same purposes and for the enforcement of acts to regulate commerce-one hundred thousand dollars. (In addition to the corresponding item of one hundred thousand dollars contained in the regular Book of Estimates.) This amount was not included in the regular annual estimates because at the time said estimates were prepared, which was just about one year ago, it was anticipated that the balance which would be carried forward under this appropriation for the use of the fiscal year 1911 would be, as it has been heretofore, quite large. It has since developed that said balance to be carried forward, as above stated, will be exceedingly small. The imperative necessity for this additional estimate will be apparent when it is considered that it will be necessary to discontinue some of the special work of enforcing the laws enacted by Congress, as indicated by the title of the appropriation, unless the funds in question are provided. Respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. GEO. W. WICKERSHAM, Attorney-General. |