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Serial set 7231-1	Thirty-fifth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1913-1914. In Two Parts - Part 1.	1
Serial set 7231-2	Thirty-fifth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 1913-1914. In two parts--Part 2.	1
Serial set 7232	Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1915.	1
SERIAL SET 7233
Serial set 7234	David Edward Finley Memorial addresses. Delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States Sixty-fourth Congress second session. Michael F. Conry. Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States. Hunter Holmes Moss, Jr. (Late a Representative from West Virginia.) Memorial addresses, delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States. Samuel J. Tribble. (Late a Representative from Georgia.) Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States. William Gay Brown, Jr. (Late a Representative from West Virginia). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States Sixty-fourth Congress.	5
Serial set 7235	Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, with a digest of the practice. Sixty-fourth Congress, second session. By Bennett C. Clark, clerk at the Speaker's table.	1
Serial set 7236	Annual report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, South Trimble, giving names of employees of the House and their respective compensations; the expenditures from the contingent fund; the amounts drawn from the Treasury; the stationery accounts; and unexpended balances for the year ended June 30, 1916. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 7237	Journal of the Fiftieth national encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, 1916.	1
Serial set 7238	Journal of the fifty-first national encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Boston, Mass. Aug. 19 to 23, 1917.	1
Serial set 7239	The problems of neutrality when the world is at war. A history of our relations with Germany and Great Britain as detailed in the documents that passed between the United States and the two great belligerent powers, by S.D. Fess. (In two parts.)Presented by Mr. Foster.	1
Serial set 7240	Laws restricting operations of War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, inviting attention to specific details in acts of Congress which restrict operations of the War Department, and submitting tentative drafts of provisions to cure their defects. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. To amend section 411 of the revenue act of September 8, 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an amendment to section 411 of the revenue act approved September 8, 1916, which section provides for the redemption of documentary stamps issued under the emergency revenue act of October 22, 1914... February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The United States v. Littlefield, Alvord & Co. et al. Letter from the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of District of Columbia, transmitting decree of the court in the case of United States of America against Littlefield, Alvord & Co., Christian Heurich, and the Cranford Paving Co. December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. January 12, 1917. -- Committee on the District of Columbia discharged, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. The immigration Bill H.R. 10384. Message from the President of the United States transmitting his veto on the Bill (H.R. 10384) to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States. January 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Report relating to section 10 of act creating the Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of Labor, submitting report prepared in pursuance of section 10 of the act approved March 4, 1913 (37 stat., 736), entitled "An Act To Create a Department of Labor." January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Labor and ordered to be printed. Change in legislation, military service. Letter from the Secretary of War suggesting changes in existing legislation that are deemed to be in the interest of the military service. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Secret Service, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting draft of a bill intended to punish persons who falsely assume or pretend to be agents of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. New York Quarantine Station. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter stating certain facts in connection with the contemplated transfer of the New York Quarantine Station and property from the State of New York to the federal government. February 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Death of Admiral George Dewey. Message from the President of the United States, announcing the death of January 16, 1917, at Washington, D.C., of Admiral George Dewey. January 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual reports, War Department, fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. Twenty-sixth report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification to the Secretary of War, 1916. Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress December 5, 1916. December 5, 1916. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Response to House resolution. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State, with an accompanying paper, in response to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on August 18, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed, with accompanying paper. Customs collection districts and ports of entry. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting statement regarding changes in Customs collection districts and ports of entry of the United States. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Annual report of operations of the Postal Savings System. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting annual report of the operations of the Postal Savings System for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Additional land and Indian schools in Mississippi. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of John T. Reeves, special supervisor, Indian service, on need of additional land and school facilities for the Indians living in the State of Mississippi. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Data furnished by the Adjutants General of the States of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tabular statement setting forth the data asked for in House Resolution 274 as shown by reports furnished by the Adjutants General of the States of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. United States disciplinary barracks Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report of the Adjutant General of the Army relative to the financial and other affairs of the United States disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and of the Pacific and Atlantic branches thereof, situated respectively on Alcatraz Island, Cal., and Governors Island, N.Y. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Irrigation of lands of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report on irrigation of lands of the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, including the lands of said reservation in Wyoming. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Subtreasuries and their relation to the Federal Reserve banks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the United States subtreasuries and their relation to the Federal Reserve banks. December 19, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of the United States Bureau of Efficiency for the period from March 25, 1913, to October 31, 1916. December 21, 1916. -- Message and accompanying papers referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, giving details of the receipts and expenditures of the bureau from December 1, 1915, to November 30, 1916. December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. historical and legal digest of all the contested election cases in the House of Representatives of the United States from the Fifty-seventh to and including the Sixty-fourth Congress, 1901-1917, to which are added the laws of the United States relating to election contests in the House, together with other laws relating to the nomination and election of representatives in Congress... by Chester H. Rowell. Collated by Merrill Moores. Car-supply investigation. Opinion rendered by the Interstate Commerce Commission January 18, 1917, relating to the car-supply investigation. Preventing the spread of epidemic diseases. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures under appropriation "preventing the spread of epidemic diseases," for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Number of recruits, etc., without previous military service. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information as to number of... the National Guard taken into the service of the United States who are recruits without previous military service, as requested in House Resolution 326, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military affairs and ordered to be printed. Conduct of vessels in the ports and waters of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a tentative proviso for consideration in connection with H.R. 20828, to regulate the conduct of vessels in the ports and waters of the United States. February 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Federal Trade Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. Rights of way through public lands. February 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Twelfth annual report of the American National Red Cross. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting twelfth annual report of the American Red Cross for the year ended December 31, 1916. April 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Proceeds of public lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the disbursements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, under provisions of acts to endow colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Accidents caused by barges in tow. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a summary of reports transmitted by collectors of customs ... in respect of accidents sustained or caused by barges while in tow through the open sea from November 4, 1915, the date when the act took effect, to the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1916. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Ocean shipping. The basic principles of marine transportation with particular reference to the foreign trade of the United States. Cost of manufacture of guns, etc., in government arsenals. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements... of the cost of all type and experimental manufacture of guns... manufactured by the government at the several arsenals (except Springfield Armory) during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Manufacturing in penitentiaries. Report of the commission on equipping United States penitentiaries for manufacturing articles used by the government. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Wind River project, Wyoming. Letter from the Secretary of Interior transmitting report of the Reclamation Service on the Wind River, Wyoming, project. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. International High Commission. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the United States section of the International High Commission on the first general meeting of the Commission, held at Buenos Aires, April 3-12, 1916. December 20, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed.	36
Serial set 7241	Reports to be made to Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives submitting a list of reports to be made to Congress by public officers during the Sixty-fourth Congress. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Number of persons employed in meat inspection, their salaries, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the number of persons employed in meat inspection, the salary or per diem paid to each, where they have been or are employed,...[and] contingent expenses, for the period beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1916. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Proceeds of sales of old material and other public property, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material... for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Modifying estimates for the Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a recommendation by the Auditor for the Post office Department modifying the estimates of appropriations for that office for the fiscal year 1918. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Memorial to Gen. U.S. Grant. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War of the 25th ultimo submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation for inclusion in the sundry civil bill for the fiscal year 1918. December 4, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriting machines, Library of Congress. Letter from the Superintendent of Library Building and Grounds, transmitting information required by section 5 of the deficiency act approved March 4, 1915, regarding purchases of typewriting machines and exchanges made in part payment therefor by the Library of Congress during the fiscal year 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 1914, 1915, and 1916. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting detailed statements of expenditures from the appropriations "contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 1914," for the period from December 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916; ... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting a statement of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor saving devices exchanged in part payment for new machines during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates -- Philadelphia Mint. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting deficiency estimates for wages and contingent expenses of the United States Mint at Philadelphia. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, employees of the Civil Service Commission. Letter from the President of the Civil Service Commission, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers and employees of the commission have traveled on official business ... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Operations of Maritime Canal Co., Nicaragua. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a letter from Messrs. Daly, Hoyt, and Mason, counselors at law, of New York, N.Y., inclosing a report of the operations of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua, in accordance with section 6 of the act of Congress approved February 20, 1889. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters, etc., Department of Agriculture, 1916. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing the exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices in the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Excise Board, 1916. Letter from the Excise Board for the District of Columbia, transmitting annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, labor-saving devices, etc., Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Commission, transmitting a statement showing typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices purchased during the fiscal year 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase in salaries of classified employees. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a petition from the employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and also the employees of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, ... requesting an increase in salaries of the classified employees ... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses and stationery, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for contingent expenses, War Department, and stationary, War Department. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Purchase and repair of typewriters, Government Printing Office. Letter from the Public Printer, transmitting a statement relative to purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines in the Government Printing Office covering the period from July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- distinctive paper. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation, "Distinctive paper for United States Securities," for the fiscal year 1917. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, 1916, Director of the Mint. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Director of the Mint, submitting urgent estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the service of the current fiscal year. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters, Post office Department, 1916. Letter from the Postmaster-General, transmitting a statement showing the required information regarding typewriting machines purchased and exchanged by the Post Office Department during the fiscal year 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a detailed report of the publications received and distributed by this Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for the United States Court of Customs Appeals, 1916. Letter from the Acting Attorney General, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the appropriations for the United States Court of Customs Appeals for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting an itemized report of the actual expenditures during the fiscal year 1916, from the appropriations "Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 1914," ... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, 1916. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a detailed statement of the manner in which the appropriation "Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, 1916," has been expended. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Coast Guard Station on coast of Louisiana. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting detailed estimates of additional expenditures made necessary under provisions of an act making appropriations for the naval service, approved August 29, 1916, and of an act to establish a Coast Guard... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Federal Trade Commission. Letter from the Acting Chairman of Federal Trade Commission transmitting report of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices exchanged during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for travel Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting a statement showing in detail the travel, from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia, performed by officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture during the fiscal year 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Travel expenditures, Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting statement of travel performed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, by officers and employees of the Department of Labor... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the contingent expenses of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Certain items in estimates of appropriations, lighthouse service, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, calling attention to certain items in estimates... for the fiscal year 1918 which have not been authorized by Congress and requesting that the necessary authority be enacted into law. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Chemistry statement. Letter from the Secretary of the Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing the sums paid from the funds allotted to the Bureau of Chemistry for compensation of or payment to officers or other persons employed by state, county, or... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Library of Congress, traveling expenses. Letter from the Librarian of Congress transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers or employees of the Library of Congress who have traveled to points outside of the District of Columbia on official business for the fiscal year, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library, and ordered to be printed. Lease, purchase, repairs, and improvements of school and agency buildings, fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report for the fiscal year 1916, showing the amounts expended at each school, and agency from the appropriation for construction, lease, purchase, repairs... December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for protection, improvement, and management of National Parks. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed statement of all expenditures under provisions of sundry civil act approved July 1, 1916, making appropriations for protection improvement, and... December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Allowances granted, payable from appropriation for unusual conditions. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a memorandum of allowances granted payable from the appropriation for unusual conditions for the fiscal year 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, and ordered to be printed. Financial statement -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting reports of expenditures of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for stationery, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication... submitting urgent estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for "contingent expenses, Treasury Department stationery," for the current fiscal year. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Seeds purchased by Department of Agriculture, 1916. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a detailed statement showing the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the dates of purchase, as required by the agricultural appropriation act approved March 4, 1915. December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agricultural and ordered to be printed. Modification of estimates -- Auditor Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a request that the estimates of appropriations for the office of the auditor for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, be modified by striking out certain words. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement giving the requisite information as to labor-saving devices exchanged by the Navy Department, the naval service, and the United States Marine Corps, for fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures on irrigation projects in Indian reservations. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a cost account of all moneys, from whatever source derived, expended on each irrigation project on Indian reservations, allotments, and lands for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of various national parks. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed statement of all expenditures from March 1, 1916, to June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Repairs to buildings, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an itemized statement of expenditures made by this Department and charged to the appropriation "repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, 1916." December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, employees Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers or employees have traveled on official business to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Industrial work and care of timber, Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of expenditures on account of the Indian service for the fiscal year 1916, from the appropriation "Industrial Work and Care of Timber." December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Indian hostilities. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting report of hostilities by any tribe of Indians with which the United States has treaty stipulations since last report. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, employees of Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting statement in detail showing what officers or employees have traveled on official business to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Survey and allotment work on Indian reservations, fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the cost of all survey and allotment work on Indian reservations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Financial report of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of letter from the Superintendent of the St. Elizabeth's Hospital, transmitting the financial report. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Appropriation for support of Indian schools, etc., fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report for the fiscal year 1916, relating to the appropriation "Indian schools, support 1916." December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures made for encouraging industry among the Indians, fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry among the various Indians of the reservations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Diversion of Indian funds. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting report on diversions of Indians funds during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures made for encouraging industry among the Indians, fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry among the Indians on various reservations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses -- Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting at itemized statement of expenditures made by this Department and charged to the appropriation "contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1916." December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Expenses of officers and employees of the Treasury Department traveling on official business. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements showing in detail what officers and employees traveled on official business... December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Statement of fiscal affairs of Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement of the fiscal affairs of all Indian tribes for whose benefit expenditures from public or tribal funds were made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting statement showing the make, model, and serial number of each machine exchanged during the fiscal year 1916, and the period of its use. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Financial report of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives transmitting a statement of receipts and disbursements of money through his hands December 4, 1915, to December 1, 1916; and a statement of property in his charge December 1, 1916. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a statement of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ended December 2, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Motor-propelled and horse-drawn vehicles, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing, for the fiscal year 1916, the motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats purchased by the... December 6, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed.	60
Serial set 7242	Lee B. Slaten. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lee B. Slaten, son of Benjamin F. Slaten, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James Wright. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James S. Wright against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Maintenance of schools outside of incorporated towns in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation for maintenance of schools outside of incorporated towns in the Territory of Alaska. December 21, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed John D. Spragins. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John D. Spragins against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters, etc., Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, showing exchanges made by this Department and its several bureaus and offices of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Encouraging self-support among Indians of the Tongue River Reservation, Mont. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians on the Tongue River Reservation, in Montana, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Jane M. Kennedy. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jane M. Kennedy, widow of James Kennedy, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriations, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing containing urgent estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the remainder of the current fiscal year. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims of damages due to claimants... Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Commerce, reporting the following claims for damages, which have been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary to the Interior, transmitting lists of documents and files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of the Department and have no permanent value of historical interest. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of useless executive papers and ordered to be printed. Contingencies of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of expenditures of account of appropriation "Contingencies of the Army" during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Publications received and distributed by War Department, fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the publications received and distributed by the War Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, District of Columbia. Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting a statement of expenditures made from the appropriations for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Per capita payments to Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures in making per capita payments to the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Ferdinand Burch. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ferdinand Burch against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Coast Guard expenditures. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of the expenditures of the Coast Guard for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of cattle for the Northern Cheyenne Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures made for the purchase of cattle for the Northern Cheyenne Indians on the Tongue River Reservation in Montana during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs and ordered to be printed. Rank, ratings of pay, and allowances, personnel of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an analysis by ranks and ratings of the pay and allowances of the personnel of the Navy. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Tribal funds of confederate bands of Ute Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures made from the tribal funds of the confederated bands of Ute Indians. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Thomas F. Davenport. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas F. Davenport against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Harvey F. Woods. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harvey F. Wood against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah A. Cosgrove. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah A. Cosgrove, widow of Hugh J. Cosgrove, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, employees War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers and employees have traveled on official business from Washington... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, and ordered to be printed. Diversion of appropriations, Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report showing the diversion of appropriations for the pay of specified employees in the Indian service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Purchase of cattle for benefit of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures made for the purchase of cattle for the benefit of the Indians on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Superintendent of Library Building and Grounds. Letter from the Superintendent of Library Building and Grounds transmitting certain information relative to travel from Washington, D.C. in connection with the official business of this office during this fiscal year 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Library and ordered to be printed. Expenditure for prevention of disease among Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures for the relief of distress and prevention of disease among Indians, on account of the construction of hospitals. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. James H. Chaffin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James H. Chaffin against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriting machines -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report showing each exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of all moneys collected and deposited during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, under the appropriations "Determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees." December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from the permanent fund of the Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of expenditures from the permanent fund of the Sioux Indians during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Disbursements by the Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting reports of expenditures by the several bureaus and divisions of the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Daniel T. Wellington. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Daniel T. Wellington against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Indian money, proceeds of labor, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, of money carried on the books of this department under the caption, "Indian money, proceeds of labor." December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Employment under appropriation for valuation of carriers. Letter from the Chairman Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting statement showing the employment under appropriation for the valuation of carriers for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Luther S. Trowbridge. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Luther S. Trowbridge against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. DeWitt C. Alford. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of DeWitt C. Alford, administrator of Charles B. Alford, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Willison C. Hall. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Willison C. Hall against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John Spearow. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John Spearow against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William P. Bogardus. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William P. Bogardus against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Thomas C. Underwood. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas C. Underwood, administrator of William Randolph, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Vashti Crawford. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Vashti Crawford, daughter of John L. Woodward, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Harrison Berdan. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harrison Berdan against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Dott N. Hill. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Dott N. Hill, widow of George W. Hill, deceased against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John C. Porter. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John C. Porter against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William H. Rose. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William H. Rose, son and sole heir of William B. Rose, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John C. Delaney. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John C. Delaney against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William H. Angel. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the Court in the case of William H. Angel, son of Charles A. Angel, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Richard L. Allbritain. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Richard L. Allbritain against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Martha A. Boren. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Martha A. Boren, widow of Solomon V. Boren, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Martha J. Babcock. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Martha J. Babcock, widow of Edwin F. Babcock, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William M. Ware. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William M. Ware against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah J. McAleer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah J. M'Aleer, widow of Hugh M'Aleer, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William L. Mitchell. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William L. Mitchell against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Walter R. Parker. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Walter R. Parker against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Peter Thompson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Peter Thompson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Horace F. Stevens. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Horace F. Stevens, son of Benjamin F. Stevens, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry [Robert] J. Thompson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry J. Thompson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lorenzo S. Knox. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lorenzo S. Knox against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Seberiano Rivera. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Seberiano Rivera against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Enoch H. Gurney. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Enoch H. Gurney against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Clara W. Ferguson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Clara W. Ferguson, daughter of Charles W. Anderson, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edwin L. Barber. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edwin L. Barber, son of Epaphras L. Barber, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary Litherland. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary Litherland, widow (remarried) of John A. Jordan, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mabel S. Wilson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mabel S. Wilson, daughter of Charles E. Stivers, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Louise Schweizer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Louise Schweizer, widow of Gottlieb Schweitzer, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Leroy Rogers. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Leroy Rogers against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Cynthia M. Roberts. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Cynthia M. Roberts, widow of Marcus F. Roberts, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edgar L. Hendricks et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edgar L. Hendricks et al., children and sole heirs of William C. Hendricks, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary C. Turner. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary C. Turner, widow of Matthew H. Turner, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Levi L. Martz. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Levi L. Martz against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Malinda Pauley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Malinda Pauley, widow of Shadle R. Pauley, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles H. Dunihue. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles H. Dunihue against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Benjamin F. Lisk. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Benjamin F. Lisk against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James P. Wheatley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James P. Wheatley against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Jefferson White. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jefferson White against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William H. Kellison. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William H. Kellison against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edwin S. Hill. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edwin S. Hill against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Marion A. Shafer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Marion A. Shafer against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charlotte J. Husted. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charlotte J. Husted, widow of Henry Husted, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Daniel W. Turnure. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Daniel W. Turnure against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph Ray. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph Ray against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William M. Watts. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William M. Watts against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John P. Robertson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John P. Robertson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Patrick De Lacy. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Patrick De Lacy against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Frank S. Nickerson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frank S. Nickerson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Martin G. Fields. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Martin G. Fields against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ketmah E. Wood et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ketmah E. Wood el al., children and sole heirs of Stephen F. Ball, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lewis Eiler. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lewis Eiler against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John P. Decker. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John P. Decker against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William N. Peet. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William N. Peet against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Jacques Kalt. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jacques Kalt against the United States. January 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Judah Howard. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Judah Howard, widow of William G. Howard, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles D. Todd. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles D. Todd against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry F. Leib. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the court in the case of Henry F. Leib against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth Howarth. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Elizabeth Howarth, daughter of Daniel J. Cline, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Peter H. Pierson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Peter H. Pierson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John W. Patton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John W. Patton against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George W. Travers. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George W. Travers, executor of George W. Travers, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William L. McGrew. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William L. McGrew and David McGrew, sons of John B. McGrew, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Leander Ferguson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Leander Ferguson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Catherine Fleming. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Catherine Fleming, widow of John M. Fleming, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Arthur H. Humiston. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Arthur H. Humiston against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James Steele. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James Steele against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph P. Aikens. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph P. Aikens against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Jacob H. Houser. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jacob H. Houser against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George L. Gegner. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George L. Gegner against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Agnes Gillies. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Agnes Gillies, widow of Donald Gillies, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ralph H. Thompson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ralph H. Thompson, executor of George W. Thompson, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John P. Gibbs. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John P. Gibbs against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edmund H. Loughry, Josiah Loughry, and Stanard Loughry. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edmund H. Loughry, Josiah Loughry, and Stanard Loughry, sons and sole heirs of Matthew Loughry, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah F. Kessner. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah F. Kessner, widow (remarried) of Thomas J. Dugan, deceased against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Samuel H. Haynes. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Samuel H. Haynes against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Parmelia A. Jackson Roberts. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Parmelia A. Jackson Roberts, widow (remarried) of James S. Jackson, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Maria M. Gray. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Maria M. Gray, widow of Henry H. Gray, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Bourbon Bank & Trust Co. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Bourbon Bank & Trust Co., administrator of Joseph Fithian, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Florence J. Dodge. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Florence J. Dodge, widow of Jonas G. Dodge, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George W.C. Smith. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George W.C. Smith against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. C. Edgar Sutplien and John W. Osborne. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of C. Edgar Sutplien and John W. Osborne, executors of George L. Begbie, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Eugene H. Gipson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eugene H. Gipson, grandson of Cyrus B. Gipson, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edwin L. Clark. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edwin L. Clark against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Helen T. Tyler. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Helen T. Tyler, widow of Thomas E. Tyler, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George H. Ruple. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George H. Ruple against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry O. Wheeler. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry O. Wheeler against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sophy G. Clark. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sophy G. Clark, executrix of David B. McCreary, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Austin L. Abbott. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Austin L. Abbott against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Austin A. Scott. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Austin A. Scott against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John H. Wood. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John H. Wood, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Jacob R. Witmer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jacob R. Witmer against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Judea G. Davison. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Judea G. Davison, widow of Austin S. Davison, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Allison J. Pliley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Allison J. Pliley against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry Ziesing. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry Ziesing against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William Wilmington. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William Wilmington against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James A. Stinson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James A. Stinson, administrator of Tilford N. Bruner, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William E. Woodruff. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William E. Woodruff against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Rachel B. Purdy. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Rachel B. Purdy, widow of George H. Purdy, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William H. Newlin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William H. Newlin against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George W. Brown. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George W. Brown against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles M. Carter. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles M. Carter against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry Purcell. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry Purcell against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William W. Pate. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William W. Pate against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry Wiley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry Wiley against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Victor Wolf. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Victor Wolf against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. W.H. Graham. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of W.H. Graham, administrator of Milton Graham, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James B. Thomas. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James B. Thomas against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting detailed statements of expenditures under the contingent appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916... December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Sale of waste paper, House of Representatives. Letter from the Doorkeeper of House of Representatives transmitting a statement of money received from sale of waste paper from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Report of contributions and refunds, Forest Service, fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting report of contributions on account of cooperative work with the Forest Service, and the amount refunded to depositors on account of excess deposits, national forests fund, for the fiscal year 1916. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Interior Department fiscal year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement showing the documents received and distributed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting data relative to the exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices in part payment for new machines used for the same purpose ... for the period of July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916. December 11, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Commissioner of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co. Letter from the Commissioner of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co., transmitting annual report of the Commissioner (ex officio) of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. for the year ended December 14, 1916. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, Internal Revenue Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation for the service of the fiscal year 1917. December 15, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, public lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill an item for legislative authority for the use of $12,500 of the current appropriation of $700,000 for surveying public lands. December 13, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Information relative to deficiency appropriations for Philadelphia Mint. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information relative to deficiency estimate of appropriation for the United States Mint at Philadelphia. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency estimates of appropriations, Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor submitting urgent estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 20, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Hurricane at Galveston, Tex. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to reimburse officers, soldiers, and civilian employees of the Army, and their families and dependents, and military organizations, for losses sustained as a result of the hurricane which occurred in Texas on August 16... December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Exchanges of typewriter machines, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of the bureaus and offices of the War Department, showing exchanges of typewriting machines and other labor-saving devices made during the fiscal year 1916. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Postal service, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting urgent estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the postal service, payable from the postal revenues, for the fiscal year 1917. December 20, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Proceeds of public property received by War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication... dated the 12th instant, submitting statements of all money arising from proceeds of public property received by the War Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for contingent expenses of the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1917. December 20, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Plant Industry. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting a supplemental estimate...for "General expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, 1918." December 20, 1916. --... referred to the Committee on Agriculture [and]...to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Federal Horticultural Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for "General Expenses, Federal Horticultural Board." December 20, 1916. -- So much as refers to the appropriation for fiscal year 1918 referred to the Committee on Agriculture; so much as relates to making the appropriation immediately available referred to the Committee on Appropriations; and ordered to be printed. Building for post office, etc., at Oakland, Cal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to authorize the acquirement of a site and the erection and equipment of a building for use of the post office and other governmental offices at Oakland, Cal. December 19, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year 1917. December 20, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency estimate, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting urgent deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1917. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Steam Engineering. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 21, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Harrison Clark. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harrison Clark against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Alice W. Rash. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Alice W. Rash, daughter of Humphrey W. Woodyard, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Victoria J. Golden. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Victoria J. Golden, widow of William H. Golden, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Warren W. Barnes. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Warren W. Barnes against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles J. Defose. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles L. Defose against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Philander Talbot. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Philander Talbot against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Property in charge of Doorkeeper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives transmitting an inventory of all property under his charge belonging to the United States. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Thomas L. Moss. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas L. Moss, executor of John Moss, deceased against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mabel Henderson and Mary H. Fletcher. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mabel Henderson and Mary H. Fletcher, daughters and sole heirs of William F. Henderson, deceased, against the United States. December7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Milton Thompson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Milton Thompson against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lizzie Flagg. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lizzie Flagg, daughter of Henry G. Flagg, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John P. St. John. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John P. St. John against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Park W. Smith et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Park W. Smith et al., brothers and sisters of James W.C. Smith, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ernestine Deutsch. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ernestine Deutsch, widow of William Deutsch, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah J. Failor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah J. Failor, widow of Benjamin M. Failor, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Obadiah M. Knapp. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Obadiah M. Knapp against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. E. Ward Frank. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of E. Ward Frank against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Belle Palmer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Belle Palmer, widow of David C. Palmer, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edward S. Salomon. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edward S. Solomon against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Zenas B. Shipman. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Zenas B. Shipman against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Daniel Sullivan. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Daniel Sullivan against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Margaret J. Cord. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Margaret J. Cord, widow of Henry B. Cord, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph R. Putnam. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of findings of the court in the case of Joseph R. Putnam against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Francis M. Magee. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Francis M. Magee against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph H. Yundt. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph H. Hundt, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James L. Carpenter. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James L. Carpenter against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Samuel E. Tubbs. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Samuel E. Tubbs, son of Samuel S. Tubbs, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Isaac N. Taylor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Isaac N. Taylor against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah P. Jenkins. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah P. Jenkins, widow of John H.B, Jenkins, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Hobart M. Stocking. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Hobart M. Stocking against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lemuel Saviers. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lemuel Saviers against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ira E. Starks. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ira E. Starks, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Thomas C. Weaver. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas C. Weaver against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Oscar D. Williamson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Oscar D. Williamson, son and one of the heirs of Eleazer Williamson, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Alice C. Sawyer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Alice C. Sawyer, widow of Frederick A. Sawyer, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting statement showing the travel of all officials and employees... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year 1918. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Useless papers in the Agricultural Department. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting information relative to disposition of useless department files and waste paper in the Department of Agriculture. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Ordnance depot, Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year 1918. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures, Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, under the appropriations for "International Exchanges," "American Ethnology," the "Astrophysical Observatory,"... etc. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency estimates, Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting urgent deficiency estimates for the fiscal year 1917. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. December 15, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Drafting force, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a memorandum of the Chief of Staff recommending a change in the provision in the estimates under the fortification bill in regard to the rental of suitable space for the drafting force of the office of Chief of Ordnance. December 11, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Motor trucks, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation deficiency for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, Treasury Department, for the service of the fiscal year 1917. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation, Quartermaster Corps. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Quartermaster Corps for the service of the fiscal year 1918. December 15, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Aliston G. Adams. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting communication from the Commissioner of Fisheries with a copy of a letter from Aliston G. Adams, apprentice fish culturist at the Boothbay Harbor (Me.) Station of the Bureau of Fisheries. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Transfer of American insane in Canal Zone. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting an item of legislation authorizing the transfer of all American citizens legally adjudged insane in the Canal Zone whose legal state or territory residence can not be established to St. Elizabeth's Hospital,... December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Governor of Porto Rico. Letter from the President of the United States transmitting report of the Governor of Porto Rico for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed. Urgent appropriation for temporary quarters, Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for rent of temporary quarters... December 19, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Philippine Commission. Letter from the President of the United States transmitting report of the Philippine Commission for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1915. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed. Printing and binding, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation in the sum of $140,000 for printing and binding for the War Department for the fiscal year 1917. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a statement of the expenditures in the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. David R. Connard. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of David R. Connard against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph L. Thomas. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph L. Thomas against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Albert G. Lewis. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Albert G. Lewis against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Amelia King. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Amelia King, widow of Prettyman King, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency estimates, Public Health Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Surgeon General, Public Health Service, submitting an urgent estimate of deficiency for maintenance and ordinary expenses of the Quarantine Service for the fiscal year 1917. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the documents received and distributed by that department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Changes in estimates for support of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, requesting certain changes in the estimate of appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mileage of Army officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, requesting that appropriations for the payment of mileage of certain Army officers be made immediately available. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Public property in the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of the public property in the Post Office Department on November 1, 1916. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, officers and employees, Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting statement showing in detail what officers or employees of the branches of the government service under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution... December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures on account of pay patients, Freedmen's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Surgeon in Chief of the Freedmen's hospital transmitting detailed statement of receipts and expenditures on account of pay patients. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Signal Corps. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Signal Corps of the Army for the fiscal year 1918. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates, Quartermaster Corps. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates required by the Quartermaster Corps of the Army for the service of the fiscal year 1918. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate for inspection and quarantine work etc., Agricultural Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1918, in the sum of $25,000, increasing the item for inspection and quarantine work, etc., under the appropriation "General Expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry." December 13, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency appropriation, support of dependent families of enlisted men of Army and National Guard. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War transmitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation... for the support of dependent families... December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters. Letter from the President Board of Managers National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, transmitting statement showing typewriters exchanged by the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. December 20, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement showing in detail what officers or employees of the Navy Department, who... traveled on official business from Washington to points outside the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year... December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriation, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year 1918. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Motor vehicles for Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an item of legislation for incorporation in the bill providing for the sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. December 13, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Junior clerk, Lighthouse Inspection Service. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting communication from the Commissioner of Lighthouses on the subject of the pay of junior clerks in Lighthouse Inspection Service. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for expenses of collecting Customs revenue. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriations for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from Customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. December 14, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Civilian engineers on river and harbor work. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting letter from the Chief of Engineers, with a statement prepared from data received from officers in charge of the different engineering districts, showing name time employed, and compensation of civilian engineer employed between July 1, 1915, and June 30, 1916. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Lewis H. Gest. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lewis H. Gest against the United States. December 19, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Support of dependent families of enlisted men of Army and National Guard. Letter from the Secretary of War, calling attention to urgent deficiency appropriation for the support of dependent families of enlisted men of the regular Army and of the National Guard in the service of the United States. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of typewriters. Letter from Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting information regarding purchase of typewriting machines and exchanges made in part payment therefor by the government branches under the direction of this Institution during the fiscal year 1916. December 18, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Quartermaster Corps, Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Quartermaster Corps for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency appropriation -- Public Utilities Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an urgent estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for the Public Utilities Commission... December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of deficiencies, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting urgent estimate of deficiencies required by the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriations for the naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting additional estimates of appropriations for the naval establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. December 21, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Taylor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary E. Taylor, daughter and sole heir of John W. Taylor, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Simon Lyon. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Simon Lyon, administrator of William T. Chapman, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Expenditures under Surgeon in Chief of Freedmen's Hospital, 1916. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Surgeon in Chief of the Freedmen's Hospital transmitting detailed statement of expenditures for professional and other services. December 9, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Wiley S. Holland. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Wiley S. Holland against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Carl Williams. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Carl Williams, son of John M. Williams, deceased, against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Frederick Lambrecht. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frederick Lambrecht against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of expenditures on account of appropriation for contingent expenses of the War Department during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in War Department and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriters, Superintendent, State, War, and Navy Department Building. Letter from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building transmitting report concerning the purchase and exchange of typewriters during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. December 22, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Fred Von Baumbach. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Fred Von Baumbach against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Shadrach T. Harris. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Shadrach T. Harris against the United States. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed.	258
Serial set 7243	Statement of appropriations, expenditures, and balances, Department of State, 1916. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement by the Secretary of State of appropriations, expenditures, and balances of appropriations under the Department of State for the fiscal... January 16, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations for United States Military Academy. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimate of appropriations for the service of the United States Military Academy for the years 1917 and 1918. February 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Hannah G. Wainwright. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Hannah G. Wainwright, widow of William A. Wainwright, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George D. Millet. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George D. Millet, brother of John Millet, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. C.T. Wathen. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of C.T. Wathen, administrator of William H. Lawrence, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Useless papers in the Federal Trade Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Federal Trade Commission transmitting lists of documents and files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of the commission and have no permanent value ... February 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of useless executive papers and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for post office at Buena Vista, Va., etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriation, for inclusion in deficiency bill, or sundry civil appropriation bill, Buena Vista, Va., post office, Leominster, Mass., post office, and Pittsfield, Mass., post office. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of deficiencies, Department of Commerce, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cleveland Robinson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Cleveland Robinson, son of John C. Robinson, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Belle W. Morris. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Belle W. Morris, niece of John H. Benham, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, etc., Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules and lists of papers, documents, etc., on the files of this department which are not needed in the transaction of public business and have no permanent value or historical interest. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive papers and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for operation and maintenance of fire-control installations... January 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Useless papers in Department of Commerce. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting lists of documents and files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of the Department and have no permanent value or historical interest. January 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Documents and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, increase of salaries, Office Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue submitting a supplemental and additional estimate of appropriation... February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Letter from the President of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., transmitting a report on the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to the Congress of the United States for the year 1916. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Washington-Virginia Railway Co. Letter from the Treasurer of the Washington-Virginia Railway Co., transmitting report of the Washington-Virginia Railway Co. for the year ending December 31, 1916. February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Increase of limit of cost, removal of Aqueduct Bridge, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a tentative draft of a bill to increase the limit of cost of Aqueduct Bridge across the Potomac River. February 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Increase of salaries of certain messengers, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, requesting an increase of salaries of certain messengers of the War Department. February 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Aviation section of the Signal Corps in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation for incorporation in the general deficiency appropriation bill. February 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a report showing the number of documents received and distributed by the Treasury Department during the calendar year ended December 31, 1916. February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Report of the Washington & Old Dominion Ry. Co. Letter from the President of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway Co., transmitting report of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway for the 12 months ending December 31, 1916. February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Hydrographic Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a tentative draft of legislation for incorporation in the general deficiency appropriation bill. February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Washington Interurban Railroad Co. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co. transmitting report of the Washington Interurban Railroad Co. for the year ended December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Reappropriation of unexpended balance, St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate for the reappropriation of the unexpended balance on June 30, 1917, for new fence... February 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers in the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a schedule of papers and documents which are not needed in the transaction of public business and which, in the opinion of this Department, have no permanent value or historical interest. February 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for intercoastal communications. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriations, in the sum of $250,000, for intercoastal communications. January 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rent, Department of Labor. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for rent, Department of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending legislation for the continuance of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance until September 2, 1918. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. New York City post office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, referring to a letter addressed to Congress under date of April 17 last, wherein it was recommended that existing legislation... be supplemented... authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept a correctionary deed to the United States. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Machine gun target range. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting recommendation that a proviso be inserted in the Army appropriation bill authorizing the construction of a machine gun target range for the National Guard. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mississippi Centennial Exposition. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the transfer of the government exhibit, or such portion thereof as the President may determine is advisable, now at the Panama-California International Exposition at San Diego, to the Mississippi Centennial... January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reclamation Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting additional estimates for the construction of two new projects of the Reclamation Service, for the service of the fiscal year 1918. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Post office, Baltimore, Md. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, referring to a letter addressed to Congress under date of March 10 last, relative to the post office at Baltimore, Md. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Memorial to John Ericsson. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting estimate of appropriation for the erection in the City of Washington, D.C., of a suitable memorial to John Ericsson. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rents from properties on sites owned by the government. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report as to the rents received from properties located on sites of proposed public buildings purchased by the United States Government in this city. January 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings and ordered to be printed. Increase of salaries, relief light vessel "No. 53." Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting copy of petition addressed to the Commissioner of Lighthouses by the master and engineer of relief light vessel "No. 53," requesting an increase in the salaries of officers on that vessel, also an increase in the subsistence allowance... January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Damage claims against Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce transmitting claims for damages caused by agencies of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, in connection with the regular work of the survey. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed Increase of compensation in Steamboat Inspection Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a petition from the employees in the office of the local inspectors of the Steamboat Inspection Service at Cincinnati, Ohio, requesting an increase in their compensation. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an item of legislation under the appropriation "Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts." February 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Payment of $33 to Isaac R. Hitt. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an item for inclusion in the general deficiency bill. February 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriation for St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an additional estimate of appropriation for St. Elizabeth's Hospital, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation, Child Labor Division, Children's Bureau. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor, submitting an estimate of appropriation to... carry into effect... "An Act to Prevent Interstate Commerce in the Products of Child Labor." January 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Electric power plant, Yosemite National Park. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for completion of installation of a hydroelectric power plant in Yosemite National Park, Cal. January 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Josephine Glover. Letter from Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Josephine Glover, daughter and sole heir of Frank T. Foster, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Post allowances, diplomatic and consular officers in China, including Hongkong. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of State submitting an estimate of appropriation for post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers in China, including Hongkong, for the fiscal year 1918. January 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth A. Smith. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Elizabeth A. Smith, widow of Thomas J. Smith, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Cornelia Cress. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Cornelia Cress widow of Edwin Cress, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Helen Ayers. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Helen Ayers, widow of Amos T. Ayers, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sanford D. Payne Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sanford D. Payne against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Kate Hillier. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Kate Hillier, widow of David Hillier, deceased, against the United States. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency estimate, contingent expenses, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation for contingent expenses of the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1917. January 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Ellen L. Holmes. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ellen L. Holmes, widow of Theodore J. Holmes, deceased, against the United States. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Potomac River at Georgetown, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a revised estimate of appropriation in the same amount for continuing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at Georgetown, D.C., for... January 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Leases granted by Secretary of War, calendar year 1916. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a list of 55 leases granted by the Secretary of War under authority of said act during the calendar year 1916. January 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a detailed statement of the number of publications received and the number distributed by that Department during the fiscal year 1916. January 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of Potomac Electric Power Co. Letter from the President of Potomac Electric Power Co., transmitting a report of the Potomac Electric Power Co. for the year ended December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. Submarine base at the Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation to be immediately available for the establishment and equipment of a submarine base at the Panama Canal. February 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Government Printing Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Public Printer submitting increased estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, new building for Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting estimates of appropriations for salaries, mechanical, labor, and char and watch forces, and for equipment and operation of the new Interior Department building. February 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, Internal Revenue Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation required for the Internal Revenue Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, foodstuffs investigation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission submitting an estimate of appropriation to cover an investigation into the production, ownership, manufacture, storage, and distribution... February 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill, post office at Woodstock, Ill. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for inclusion in the general deficiency bill. February 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Storage stacks, General Land Office Building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $60,000 for metal storage stacks required in the General Land Office Building. February 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriations, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting additional estimates of appropriations required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1917. February 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental schedules of papers, documents, etc., on the files of the Treasury Department which are not needed or useful... and have no permanent value or historical interest. February 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Documents and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriations, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting additional and supplemental estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required by the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1917. February 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for printing charts, Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation for printing charts, Coast and Geodetic Survey. February 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriation, Immigration Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication to the Secretary of the Labor, submitting estimates of appropriations required for additional expenses in enforcing the laws regulating immigration from May 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. February 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate of appropriation, Second Pan American Scientific Congress. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of State submitting an estimate for inclusion in the general deficiency bill. February 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional law clerks, Office of Comptroller of the Treasury, Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for four additional law clerks in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury from March 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Watervliet Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Fishers of the Department of Commerce for repairing and overhauling the steamer "Fish Hawk." January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Toilet facilities, Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriations required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- deficiency appropriation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimates of additional deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1917. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that an item of $75,000 be included in the general deficiency bill for contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, 1917. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimates of appropriations, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting amended and additional estimates of appropriations for Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the fiscal year 1918. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, independent Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending amendment of estimate submitted for contingent expenses, independent Treasury, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting an item of legislation authorizing the expenditure of funds of the appropriations for the support of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. February 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Storekeeper-gaugers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an amendment to the act approved June 28, 1902 (32 Stat., 492), relative to storekeeper-gaugers. February 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Writs of lunacy, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for writs of lunacy, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year 1917. February 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting a detailed statement of the number of documents received and the number distributed by the Department of Labor during the calendar year 1916. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. F. Sidney Wade and Cathryn H. Morris. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of F. Sidney Wade, and Cathryn H. Morris, children and sole heirs of Sidney B. Wade, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Flora B. Tenney. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Flora B. Tenney, widow of William Tenney, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Philip P. Barth. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court of the case of Philip P. Barth, son of George W. Barth, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Frank M. Vowels. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frank M. Vowels against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Susan J. Hugill. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Susan J. Hugill, widow of Asa S. Hugill, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Robert E. Walpole. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Robert E. Walpole, brother and sole heir of Horace H. Walpole, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah P. Tyrer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah P. Tyrer, widow of Theodore Tyrer, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Expenditures -- Springfield Armory and Rock Island Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of expenditures and allotment costs of arms... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass., and at the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, United States Shipping Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... an estimate of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the Shipping Board, created by the act of September 7, 1916, for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public building at Springfield, Mass. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a tentative draft of legislation authorizing the acquisition of a site and the construction of a public building thereon at Springfield, Mass. January 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate of appropriations, Army and Navy pensions, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriations in the sum of $5,000,000 for Army and Navy pensions for the fiscal year 1917. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Reports of accounting officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports from the accounting officers of the department, showing what officers of the government were delinquent in rendering their accounts for the fiscal year... January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in Interior, Navy, War, State, Treasury, and Post Office Departments and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for lands for homesteads, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting supplemental estimate in the sum of $150,000 for the examination and classification of lands for homesteads... January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Georgetown Gas Light Co. Letter from the President of the Georgetown Gas Light Co. transmitting a detailed statement of the business of the Georgetown Gas Light Co., together with a list of stockholders for the year ending December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. City & Suburban Railway. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co., transmitting report of the City & Suburban Railway of Washington, for the year ended December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriation, contingent expenses, land offices. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental and additional estimate of appropriation for contingent expenses of land offices... January 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co. transmitting report of the Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co. for the year ended December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Claims for damages adjusted by Chief of Engineers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a list of claims for damages by river and harbor work, which have been adjusted and settled by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses, Tariff Commission, 1918. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment of Section 3744, Revised Statutes. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a tentative draft of amendment to Section 3744 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. February 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. John Brodie. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the relief of John Brodie, as per private Act No. 168, Sixty-fourth Congress. February 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, classification of lands, Oregon and California. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation to continue the classification of lands ... February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Veto message from the President in re H.J.Res. 230. Letter from the President of the United States, transmitting his reasons for returning to the House of Representatives, without his signature, H.J. Res. 230. February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Indian commissioners. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting at item for inclusion in the general deficiency bill, under the title of appropriation "Expenses of Indian commissioners," fiscal years 1914 and 1915. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sale of abandoned Customs stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a draft of legislation for the sale of three abandoned Customs boarding stations at New Orleans, La., known as the "Jump," Southwest Pass, and Pass a Loutre, said properties being no longer required for the needs of this Department. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Sale of subtreasury at San Francisco, Cal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that authority be given to the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the old subtreasury property at San Francisco, Cal., as said property is no longer required for the needs of the government service. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for extinguishing adverse claims of title. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for extinguishing adverse private claims of title in and to squares 612 and 613, so called, in the City of Washington, D.C. February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, maintenance, Quartermaster Department, Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an additional estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for maintenance, Quartermaster's Department, Marine Corps, for clothing... February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriation, Bureau of Steam Engineering. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental and additional estimate of appropriation for engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, for the fiscal year 1918. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, recommending amendment of estimate of appropriations under the heading "Miscellaneous Expenses, Bureau of Fisheries," for maintenance of vessels for the Bureau of Fisheries for the year ending June 30, 1918. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Printing and binding, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a draft of a bill granting authority to the Secretary of War to produce printing and binding for the military forces of the United States in case of actual or threatened hostilities. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Annual report of Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator and Railway Co. Letter from Hamilton and Hamilton, Attorneys, Washington, D.C., transmitting annual report of Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator and Railway Co. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, for the fiscal year 1917. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Aerological stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the chairman executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the establishment and maintenance of special aerological stations. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of additional legislation deemed necessary in connection with the proposed Archives Building in this city. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Gettysburg National Park. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for Gettysburg National Park for the fiscal year 1917. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the naval establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimates for claims against the United States submitted by the Chief of Engineers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates submitted by the Chief of Engineers for payment of claims against the United States. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required by the Ordnance Department to complete the service of the fiscal year 1917. January 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimates of appropriations for Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting additional estimates of appropriations required by the Navy Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of deficiency required by the Board of Managers National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the service of the fiscal year 1917. February 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claim of Hans Marcussen. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Navy reporting that the Navy Department has considered ... the claim of Hans Marcussen for damages arising out of a collision ... March 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Anna Blanch. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Anna Blanch, widow of Willis Blanch, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Maggie F. Lancaster. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court of the case of Maggie F. Lancaster, widow (remarried) of Thomas T. Fisher, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Orville T. Perkins. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Orville T. Perkins against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Hattie Reaver and Ola Baird. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Hattie Reaver and Ola Baird, daughters and sole heirs of Jacob E. Taylor, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918, for United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Botanical exploration in Central and South America. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, submitting in estimate of appropriation for botanical exploration in Central and South America for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, National Park Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of deficiency in the salaries of officers and employees, National Park Service, from March 1, 1917, to June 30, 1917. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New aquatic food supplies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1917. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Persons employed, Bureau of Animal Industry. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement of the names of all persons employed in the Bureau of Animal Industry, except those whose salaries were paid from the meat inspection appropriation... January 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Kate C. Carey. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Kate C. Carey and Fannie C. Eldridge, daughters and sole heirs of Milton Carpenter, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary J. Camp. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary J. Camp, widow of Samuel C. Camp, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Arthur C. Page. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Arthur C. Page, son of Francis M. Page, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Laura Long. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Laura Long, widow of Silas Long, deceased, against the United States. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mason Covell. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mason Covell against the United States. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Increased estimate -- operating supplies for public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting request that the estimate as originally submitted for "operating supplies for public buildings, 1918," be increased in the sum of $200,000, or from $1,760,000 to $1,960,000. January 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. William Jones. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William Jones against the United States. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriations for Army and Navy pensions, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate in the sum of $4,500,000 for Army and Navy pensions for the fiscal year 1918. January 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of Labor, transmitting list of papers having no permanent value or historical interest. January 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, and ordered to be printed. Statement of the Washington Gas Light Co. Letter from the President of the Washington Gas Light Co., transmitting a detailed statement of the business of the Washington Gas Light Co., with of its stockholders, for the year ending December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Report of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co. transmitting report of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. for the year ended December 31, 1917. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Bureau of Yards and Docks. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a tentative draft of legislation for incorporation in the general deficiency appropriation bill. February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Helen S. Hussey v. the United States. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Helen S. Hussey widow of John E. Hussey, deceased, against the United States. February 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriations, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required by the War Department to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. February 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balance of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. February 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates, United States Marshals. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting additional estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1917. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriations for public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting for inclusion in the sundry civil bill certain additional estimates for public buildings. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates, naval service, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures of contingent funds collected from nonmilitary residents of Fort Monroe, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report submitted by the Quartermaster General of the Army, of all receipts and expenditures... for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Aviation, Signal Service of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a possible reduction of the amount provided for aviation under the heading "Signal Service of the Army." February 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Court of Claims judgments -- Indian depredation cases. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Attorney General submitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases, which require an appropriation for their payment. February 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Navy yard, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation in the sum of $400,000, required for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, for contingent expenses, Executive Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses, Executive Office, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. February 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for United States Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor, submitting estimate of appropriations on account of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission ... February 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required by the District of Columbia for...fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. January 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for removal of municipal court to new quarters. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the acting president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of the Columbia, submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $4,000 ... February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for maintenance, etc., of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia. February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Federal building, Richmond, Va. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of appropriation for alteration, remodeling, etc., of the post office, courthouse, and custom house building, and for remodeling and repairing building on the site of the federal building at Richmond. Va. February 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiencies in certain public buildings appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter with statement in regard to deficiencies in certain public building appropriations. February 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for steamboat inspectors, Tampa, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of disbursing officers of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting estimates for the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army. January 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. John H. Purves. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John H. Purves against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry S. Beidler. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry S. Beidler against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah F. Campbell. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah F. Campbell, widow of Calvin D. Campbell, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriation -- Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the relief of certain civilian employees of the Ordnance Department at large, United States Army. January 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims an ordered to be printed. Albert R. Beal. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Albert R. Beal, son and sole heir of Lucius W. Beal, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriations for the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation made by the District of Columbia appropriations act... January 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eliza J. Van Deren. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eliza J. Van Deren, widow of Archibald Van Deren, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary A. Wiley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary A. Wiley, widow of Thomas C. Wiley, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph H. Bigley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph H. Bigley, administrator of Charles C. Suydam, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary S. Sheffield. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary S. Sheffield, widow of Eugene S. Sheffield, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Isora S. Cottrell. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Isora S. Cottrell, widow (remarried) of Gideon J. Stivers, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Dwight L. Bathurst. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Dwight L. Bathurst, administrator of Horace A. Russell, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Maggie M. Deisch. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Maggie M. Deisch, formerly Maggie M. Guild, widow of George H. Guild, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary E. McDowell. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary E. M'Dowell, widow of Cyrus D. M'Dowell, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William Boughan. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William Boughan, son and one of the heirs of William M. Boughan, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George H. Devol. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George H. Devol against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Jacob M. Harlem. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jacob M. Harlem, administrator of Alfred Dale Owen, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth J. Riley et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of findings of the court in the case of Elizabeth J. Riley, Imogen Stewart, and Eva J. Graham, children and sole heirs of Toland Jones, deceased, against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Coal yard in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate for the establishment of a coal yard in the District of Columbia. February 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill, additional items. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting two items for inclusion in the general deficiency bill. January 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Jacob Sheek. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jacob Sheek against the United States. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Sweisfort. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary E. Sweisfort, widow (remarried) of Benjamin M. Frank, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of an additional proviso to supplement the item "Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard," page 347, Book of Estimates, 1918. January 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Provision for consideration in Army appropriation bill. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a tentative draft of a provision for consideration in connection with the Army appropriation bill. February 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Nancy P. Crosson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Nancy P. Crosson, widow of Francis M. Crosson, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Naval emergency fund to carry out provisions of the naval act. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a proposed clause... for inclusion in the general deficiency bill,... additional expenses and temporary employees... February 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Margaret G. Augustine. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Margaret G. Augustine, administratrix of Henry Augustine, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ella C. Daniels. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ella C. Daniels, widow of Charles Daniels, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Albert Reynolds. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Albert Reynolds against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Fortifications appropriation, Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation under the title "fortifications, Panama Canal." February 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Frances D. Tenney. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frances D. Tenney, widow of Luman H. Tenney, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriation for Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1917. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. State, War, and Navy Branch Printing Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, requesting that the provision in the legislative bill abolishing the State, War, and Navy Branch Printing Office be eliminated in conference. January 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations, Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting estimates of appropriations required by the Department of State. February 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Co. Letter from the President of East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Co., transmitting report of the East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Co. for the year ending December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Danish West Indies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $25,000,000... to pay to the government of Denmark on or before April 17, 1917. January 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Capital Traction Co. Letter from the President of the Capital Traction Co., transmitting report of the Capital Traction Co. for the year ending December 31, 1916. February 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Construction and operation of railroads in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an item inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill, in connection with the appropriation for construction and operation of railroads in Alaska. January 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. William H. Whitney. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William H. Whitney against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sidney E. Harrison. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sidney E. Harrison, widow of Samuel H. Harrison, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Emma G. Harris. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Emma G. Harris, daughter of Henry Gephart, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Rowland J. Beatty. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Rowland J. Beatty against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Frank Erdelmeyer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frank Erdelmeyer against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary L. Jennings. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary L. Jennings, daughter of Benjamin F. Lee, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary L. Martin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary L. Martin, widow of Jeremiah C. Martin, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William C. Cotton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William C. Cotton, son of Joseph Cotton, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph Brinton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph Brinton against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary C. Griffin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary C. Griffin, widow of Daniel F. Griffin, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joseph B. Presdee. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joseph B. Presdee against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Emma R. Burlingame. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Emma R. Burlingame, widow of Andrew J. Burlingame, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Robert H.M. Donnelly. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Robert H.M. Donnelly against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Matilda D. Edgerton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Matilda D. Edgerton, widow of William H. Edgerton, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lillian J. Hines and Frances D. Clark. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lillian J. Hines and Frances D. Clark, nieces of Thomas Dean, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Minerva Groom. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Minerva Groom, widow of John C. Groom, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary St. C. Ferguson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary St. C. Ferguson, widow of William G. Ferguson, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Annie E. Perigo. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Annie E. Perigo. widow of Ephraim Y. Perigo, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Joshua T.C. Welborn. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Joshua T.C. Welborn against the United States. January 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John W. Yelton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John W. Yelton against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary F. Silsbee. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary F. Silsbee, widow of Eri Silsbee, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lucius H. Ives. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lucius H. Ives against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Martin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary E. Martin, widow (remarried) of Samson M. Archer, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate of appropriation, Navy Department and naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting deficiency estimates of appropriations for the service of the Navy Department and naval establishment. January 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Bureau of Mines. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the service for the fiscal year 1918. February 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Court of Claims judgments -- War, Navy, and Post Office Departments. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, which have been presented to this department and require an appropriation for their payment. February 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendment to urgent deficiency bill. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a suggested amendment to be incorporated into the urgent deficiency bill. January 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Galveston quarantine station. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriation, for inclusion in some deficiency bill, or the sundry civil appropriation bill. January 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for dock at ordnance depot, Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for necessary dredging incident to the construction of a dock... January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriation, Coast Guard. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of expenses which are in addition to the sum already appropriated for the Coast Guard for the current fiscal year. February 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Frances J. Van Tuyle. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frances J. Van Tuyle, widow (remarried) of Henry W. Jacobs, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. David Isaacs. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of David Isaacs, Jane Davis, Phoebe Isaacs, and Julia Einstein, children and sole heirs of Lyon Isaacs, deceased, against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Alonzo D. Hosmer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Alonzo D. Hosmer against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John C. Bayless. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John C. Bayless against the United States. January 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Francis Nicholson. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting certain papers in connection with the personal injuries sustained by Francis Nicholson, 1269 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, Cal., upon the discharge of the evening gun at the Presidio of San Francisco, October 4, 1916. February 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed.	238
Serial set 7244	Index to the reports and documents of the 64th Congress, 2d session, December 4, 1916--March 4, 1917, with numerical lists and schedule of volumes, being No. 24 of the "Consolidated Index" provided for by the act of January 12, 1895.	1
Serial set 7245	Catalogue of the public documents of the Sixty-fourth Congress and of all departments of the government of the United States for the period from July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1917. (No. 13 of the "comprehensive index" provided for by the act of January 12, 1895.) Prepared under the supervision of the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office.	1
Serial set 7246	Inaugural address of President Woodrow Wilson. Addresses of the President of the United States, delivered at the inaugural exercises held on March 5, 1917. Newsprint paper industry. Letter from the Federal Trade Commission transmitting in response to a Senate resolution of April 24, 1916, a report relative to an investigation of the newsprint paper industry of the United States. Inaugural address of Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. Address of the Vice President of the United States, delivered at the inaugural ceremonies held in the Senate of the United States on March 5, 1917. Registry of seagoing vessels. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting... a report of the Secretary of Commerce of all seagoing vessels for which application has been made for registry under the laws of the United States, and also the vessels for which such application has been made have been in fact granted registration... March 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed.	4
Serial set 7247	Journal of the Senate of the United States of America. Sixty-fifth Congress first session. Begun and held at the City of Washington: April 2, 1917 in the one hundred and forty-first year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 7248	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States Sixty-fifth Congress first session. Begun and held at the City of Washington: April 2, 1917 in the one hundred and forty-first year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 7249	Extend time for constructing bridge across Missouri River near Kansas City, Mo. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Minority enlistments in naval reserve. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Bemidji, Minn. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Two condemned cannon to Murfreesboro, Tenn. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Military Academy appropriation bill. April 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enrollment in the Naval Reserve. May 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. American Academy of Engineers. July 18 (Calendar Day, July 21), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To stimulate the production of food supplies. May 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Fort Smith, Ark. July 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Chaplains at large in the Army. July 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of Northgate, N. Dak., as a port of entry. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Transfer of certain lands to the City of New York, N.Y. June 8, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. National prohibition amendment to the constitution. June 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To stimulate the production of food upon private and public lands within reclamation projects. June 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Cape May air station site. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Okla. August 13, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Motor-truck delivery. August 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Revenues to defray war expenses. August 4 (calendar day August 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Woman suffrage in Hawaii. August 13, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Restoration to Army of certain former officers of the Regular Army. August 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. An Act To Define, Regulate, and Punish Trading with the Enemy, and for Other Purposes. August 15 (calendar day, August 23), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Classification of lands under stock-grazing homestead act. August 15 (calendar day, September 7), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Waccamaw River, N.C. September 20, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. For improving Willapa Harbor and River, Wash. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mobile Bay, Ala. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Promotion of first lieutenants in the medical corps. September 20, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tug River, W. Va. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Woman suffrage. September 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red River. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Flint River, Ga. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Rio Grande River, Tex. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Changing the name of steamship "Caldera" to "A.T. Kinney." July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Stock-watering privileges on unallotted lands, Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of entrymen on the Huntley irrigation project, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Reclamation of certain arid lands in Nevada. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Publication of land office notices. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Improvements on homestead entries in lieu of residence. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Suspension of payments on public lands by entrymen in the military or naval service of the United States. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Measurement of vessels for imposing tolls, Panama Canal. April 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Sundry civil appropriation bill, 1918. April 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Fleet Naval Reserve. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Two brass cannon to Nashville, Tenn. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Three brass cannon to Lewisburg, Tenn. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enlargement of Interstate Commerce Commission. April 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To authorize the President in time of war to give direction to exports from the United States so as to insure their wise, economical, and profitable distribution to other countries. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Manipulation of prices of foodstuffs and necessaries. May 28, 1917. Podiatry in the District of Columbia. May 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Daylight saving. May 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of a reserve for the Public Health Service. June 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aircraft board. August 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To permit American citizens to wear medals. August 15 (calendar day, September 5), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of migratory birds. April 20, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase or condemnation of Great Piece Meadows. April 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. War-risk insurance. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal building at Moultrie, Ga. October 2 (Calendar day, October 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amend the naturalization laws. September 26, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Homestead and other public land affidavits. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, in Poinsett County, Ark. October 2 (calendar day October 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Allotment of pay in the Army. September 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To control and regulate the manufacture and use of explosives in time of war. July 16 (calendar day, July 17), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Oregon & California Railroad land grants. July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Conveying land to City of Bozeman, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. May 2 (calendar Day, May 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed Agricultural entries on coal lands in Alaska. October 5 (calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Metalliferous minerals on Indian reservations. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Disposition of certain lands in Montana ceded by the Crow Indians. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendments to the National Defense Act. April 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Residence -- military service. April 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River, Near Vincennes, Ind. May 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Car-service shortage. May 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River. May 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To increase the enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps. May 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Encouragement of production of foodstuffs. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Eradication of the southern cattle tick. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in the military and naval establishments on account of war expenses, fiscal year 1917. May 11 (calendar day, May 15), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Priorities in transportation -- amending the act to regulate commerce, as amended. May 31, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Bayou Macon, La. July 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Little River, Ark. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of desert-land entrants who enter military or naval service. July 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Condemnation of lands for military purposes. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Number and recording of undocumented vessels. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Investment of Indians funds in government bonds. June 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aids to navigation in the Lighthouse Service. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed Products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Status of officers and members of the Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, etc. June 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Salaries of keepers of lighthouses. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Preventing the publication of inventions by the grant of patents. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase enlisted strength of Navy and Marine Corps. April 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing the County of Morrison, Minn., to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said county. April 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River in Itasca and Cass counties, Minn. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Little Kanawha River, W. Va. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Fox River at Elgin, Ill. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the Judicial Code. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. National Army and Reserve Corps commissions. October 2 (Calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Provisional organization of field artillery and infantry regiments. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River, in Aitkin County, Minn. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Certain lands to Port Angeles, Washington. July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Settlers on reclamation projects. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Export trade. April 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase age limit officers Naval Reserve. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Emergency bond issue. April 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Permitting certain enlistments under foreign nations. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Requisition of ships, etc. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendments to federal reserve act. April 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional officers to Hydrographic Office. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. War with the Imperial German Government. April 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Selective draft of aliens. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. bill to amend section 5 of the motor-boat law approved June 9, 1910. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Retirement of officers and employees of Bureau of Lighthouses and Lighthouse Service. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Appeals from decisions of boards of local inspectors of steam vessels. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Foodstuffs in the manufacture of intoxicants. June 12 (calendar day, June 14), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increasing the area of the Botanic Garden. June 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Exploration for and disposition of potassium. August 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. The Joint Committee on Expenditures in the Conduct of the War. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Mining of coal, phosphate, oil, gas, potassium, and sodium on the public domain. August 15 (calendar day, September 8), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. An act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes. August 15 (calendar day, August 31), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Lock and dam in Mermentau River, La. August 15 (calendar day, August 23), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Export trade. August 15 (calendar day, August 20), 1917. To defray expenses incurred by officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the Army of the United States. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River between the counties of Cass and Itasca, Minn. June 28, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Service of persons drafted into the military service of the United States. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Universal liability to military service. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Revenue to defray war expenses. June 28 (calendar day, June 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Commutation price of Navy ration. June 27, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Suspending mining assessment work on mining claims during the war with Germany under certain conditions. June 28 (calendar day, June 30), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes. September 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Saline River at or near Suttons Ferry, Ark. September 27, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending section 3 of the Stock-raising Homestead Act. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Building for the use of the Treasury Department. July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aviation stations for Army and Navy. July 12 (calendar day, July 14), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Government control and regulation of print-paper industry. October 5 (calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Nonmineral entries on coal lands in Alaska. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Timber for mining purposes. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Cutting of timber on the Coconino and Tusayan National Forests, Ariz. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enlarged-homestead entries, Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Granting certain coal lands to the Town of Kaycee, Wyo. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To consolidate national forest lands. October 5 (Calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Two additional assistant secretaries of Agriculture. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Modification of the design of the current quarter dollar. April 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. September 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Medals of honor and distinguished-service medals. June 28 (calendar day, June 29), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill, 1917. April 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Army appropriation bill. April 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Ark. -- Extending time. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional midshipmen. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protecting persons in the military or naval service from the forfeiture provisions of the land laws. October 2 (calendar day, October 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Post Office Department appropriations. August 15 (calendar day, August 21), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Election of President and Vice President without the Electoral College and fixing commencement of terms of President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. District land offices. October 5 (Calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Production and conservation of food supplies. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Granting to the State of Nevada land for educational purposes. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aurelio Collazo. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed.	156