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| Serial set 7285 | Wages and hours of labor in lumber, millwork, and furniture industries, 1915. [Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Whole Number 225. Wages and Hours of Labor Series: No. 26. February, 1918.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7286 |
Proceedings of the Employment Mangers' Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., April 2 and 3, 1917. [Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics No. 227. Employment and Unemployment Series: No. 7. October, 1917.] Proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the American Association of Public Employment Offices, Buffalo, N.Y., July 20 and 21, 1916. [Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Whole Number. 220. Employment and Unemployment Series: No. 8.] |
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| Serial set 7287 | Welfare work in British munition factories. Reprints of the memoranda of the British Health of Munition Workers Committee. [Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Whole Number 222. Miscellaneous Series: No. 14. April, 1917.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7288 | Employment of women and juveniles in Great Britain during the war. Reprints of the memoranda of the British Health of Munition Workers Committee. [Bulletin of the United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Whole number 223. Women in Industry Series: No. 11.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7289 | Decisions of courts affecting labor: 1916. [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin No. 224. Labor Laws of the United States Series: No. 11. September, 1917.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7290 | Wage-payment legislation in the United States by Robert Gildersleeve Paterson. [Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Whole Number 229. Labor Laws of the United States Series: No. 12. December, 1917.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7291 | Wholesale prices 1890 to 1916. [Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Whole number 226. Wholesale Prices Series: No. 6.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7292 | Retail prices 1907 to December, 1916. [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin No. 228. Retail Prices and Cost of Living Series: No. 18. November, 1917.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7293 | Analytical and critical bibliography of the tribes of Tierra del Fuego and adjacent territory, by John M. Cooper. [Bureau of America Ethnology Bulletin 83.] | 1 |
| Serial set 7294 | Pere Marquette Railroad Company and Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company. Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission upon the character of service, physical condition of equipment and property, financial history, transactions, and practices of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company. May 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7295 | Federal Trade Commission. Report on the beet sugar industry in the United States. May 24, 1917. | 1 |
| Serial set 7296 | Revenue laws. Public No. 271. Approved Sept. 8, 1916. Public No. 377. Approved Mar. 3, 1917. Public No. 50. Approved Oct. 3, 1917. | 1 |
| Serial set 7297 | Lake Erie-Lake Michigan waterway. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on... artificial waterway from Lake Erie at or near Toledo, Ohio, to the southerly end of Lake Michigan by way of Maumee River and the City of Fort Wayne, Ind.,... August 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. | 1 |
| Serial set 7298 |
Channel to Back Bay of Biloxi, Biloxi, Miss. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of channel to the Back Bay of Biloxi, Miss. June 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Olympia harbor, Wash. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Olympia harbor, May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Calcasieu River and Pass, La. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on reexamination of Calcasieu River and Pass, La. May 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Queens Creek, Va., Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Queens Creek, Va., with a view of securing increased depth of water at the mouth. May 31, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Trinity River, near Liberty, Tex, Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination to Trinity River, near Liberty, Tex. June 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Canal from Silver Springs to Ocala, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination for canal from silver springs to Ocala, Fla., of such width and depth as will meet the demands of commerce. May 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Aquia Creek, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Aquia Creek, Va., with a view to extending the present project. June 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Northwest River, Va. and N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Northwest River, Va., and N.C., with a view to its improvement from its mouth as far up as may be practicable. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Town Creek, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Town Creek, Brunswick County, N.C. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Barataria Bay, La., and connecting waters. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Barataria Bay, La., and connecting waters. June 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Portland Harbor, Me. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Portland Harbor, Me., including the obstruction known as Witch Rock. April 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Miakka River, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Miakka River, Fla. June 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Great Kills, Staten Island, N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Great Kills, Staten Island, N.Y. May 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Newton Creek, N.J. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Newton Creek, Camden County, N.J., from the Delaware River to Mount Ephraim turnpike on the north and south branches, respectively, and to Cuthbert Avenue, Collingswood, on the main stream. June 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Jordan River, Miss., and tributaries. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Jordan River, Miss., and its navigable tributaries. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Coquille River Oreg., from Coquille to the entrance. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Coquille River, Oreg., from Coquille to the entrance. April 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Dry straits, Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Dry Straits, Alaska. April 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with an illustration. Indian River Inlet, Del. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Indian River Inlet, Del. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Yaquina Bar, Bay, and harbor, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Yaquina Bar, Bay, and harbor, Oreg., including consideration of any proposition for cooperation of local interests. May 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Taunton River, Mass. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Taunton River, Mass.,... with a view of securing a channel of 25 feet depth, or of such depth as may be considered advisable in the interest of commerce. May 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Escambia River, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Escambia River, Fla. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Johns Pass, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of channel from the Gulf through Johns Pass to Boca Ceiga Bay, Fla. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Manatee River at Palma Sola, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Manatee River, Fla., at Palma Sola. April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Androscoggin River, Me. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Androscoggin River, Me., between Merrymeeting Bay and Lewiston and Auburn. April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Channel to Pineland, Pine Island Sound, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of channel from Pineland, on Pine Island, Lee County, Fla., running westerly to deep water at a point in Pine Island Sound..., such channel to be not less than 5 feet deep and of sufficient width. April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Pearl River below Rockport, Miss. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on reexamination of Pearl River below Rockport, Miss. May 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Connecticut River from Hartford, Conn., to Long Island Sound. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Connecticut River Hartford, Conn., to Long Island Sound. May 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Grosse Pointe Channel, Lake St. Clair, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on reexamination of Grosse Pointe Channel in Lake St. Clair, Mich. June 16, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Les Cheneaux Channels, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Law Cheneaux Channels, Mich. June 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Siuslaw River, Oreg., Acme to entrance. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Siuslaw River, Oreg., from Acme to the entrance. June 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Missouri River, Florence to Decatur, Nebr. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Missouri River from the City of Florence, Nebr., to the northern limits of Decatur, Nebr. April 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Seattle Harbor, Wash. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination... of cost of improvement of Seattle Harbor, Wash., with a view to the maintenance of the... water-ways and to deepening... the Lower Duwamish River. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Onosohatchee River, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Onosohatchee River, Fla. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Mississippi River near Deer River, Minn. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Mississippi River, near Deer River, Minn.,... by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, the purpose of said new channel being to improve navigation... April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Mattaponi River, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination on Mattaponi River, Va., with a view of removing the bars and securing increased depth of water at the mouth. June 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Muskegon River, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Muskegon River, Mich., from the head of Muskegon Lake to Newaygo, or to the Grand Rapids - Muskegon Power Co. Dam. June 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Key West Harbor, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Key West Harbor, Fla., with a view to removing the middle ground. June 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Willamette River from Corvallis to Eugene, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Willamette River from Corvallis to Eugene, Oregon. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Traverse and Big Stone Lakes, Minn. and S. Dak. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Traverse and Big Stone Lakes, on the boundary between Minnesota and South Dakota, with a view of flood control and to connecting and extending navigation on and between said lakes. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Coquille Bar and Harbor, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Coquille Bar and Harbor, Oreg., to the City of Bandon. June 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. |
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| Serial set 7299 |
White River, Ark., above Batesville. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of White River above Batesville, Ark., with a view to year-round navigation by the construction of additional lock and dams. August 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Pearl River, Miss., between Jackson and Edinburg. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Pearl River, Miss., between Jackson and Edinburg. August 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Cape Vincent Harbor, N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Cape Vincent Harbor, N.Y. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Willis River, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Willis River, Va. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Floods in Kansas. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of floods in the State of Kansas: investigation of the flood periods of the Kansas River and its tributaries... by the Board of Engineers... to devise some general plan which will best guard against the recurrence of floods... upon the lower valleys of the Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi Rivers. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. North branch Susquehanna River, Pa. and N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineer, report on preliminary examination of north branch of the Susquehanna River, Pa. and N.Y., including flood prevention and consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local or state interests. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Flood Control and ordered to be printed. Savannah River at North Augusta, S.C. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Savannah River at North Augusta (Augustus), S.C., with a view to ascertaining what, if any, revetment work is necessary in the interest of navigation. August 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Obey (Obed) River, Tenn. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Obey (Obed) River, Tenn., from its mouth to its fork at Eastport, or Spurrier, Tenn. August 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Delaware River from Trenton, N.J., to. Easton, Pa. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Delaware River from Trenton, N.J., to Easton, Pa. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Channel from Apalachicola, Fla., through St. George Sound to Gulf of Mexico. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of channel from the docks at Apalachicola, Fla., through St. George Sound to the Gulf of Mexico, on such route as may be most desirable for the demands of commerce. August 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Savannah River, Ga., from Kings Island to point 5 miles above. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Savannah River, Ga., from the foot of Kings Island to a point 5 miles above. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Little Wicomico River, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Little Wicomico River, Va. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on River and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Saugatuck Harbor and Kalamazoo River, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on reexamination of Saugatuck Harbor and Kalamazoo River, Mich. July 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Waterway from Sarasota Bay to Miakka River, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of preliminary examination for waterway between Sarasota Bay, near Venice, and Miakka River, Fla., with a view of giving such channel dimensions ... August 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Hereford Inlet, N.J. Letter from Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Hereford Inlet, Cape May County, N.J. August 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Beach Creek, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Beach Creek, Va., with a view to increasing the dimensions of the channel to a depth of 6 feet and a width of 60 feet. August 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Indian Bayou, Miss. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Indian Bayou from Sunflower River, Miss., to Indianola, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation by local interests. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Flint River, above Albany, Ga. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Flint River, Ga. from Albany to the limit of practicable navigation above said city. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Channel from York River to Back Creek, Va. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letters from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of channel connecting York River, Va., with Back Creek to Slaight's Wharf, with a view to securing a depth of 10 feet and widths of 200 and 100 feet,... July 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Columbia Slough, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination and survey of Columbia Slough Oreg., with a view to the improvement of the same in cooperation with local interests. July 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Kelso Bayou, La. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Kelso Bayou, La. August 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. San Joaquin River, Cal., up to Herndon. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineer, reports on... examination and survey of San Joaquin River, Cal., with a view to its improvement up to a point at or near Hendon by means of locks and dams or otherwise. August 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Livingstone Channel, Detroit River, Mich., with a view to securing increased width. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Front River, Ga. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Front River, Ga., near Clark's Dock, Sapelo Harbor. August 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. St. Lucie Inlet, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on reexamination of St. Lucie Inlet, Fla. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Little River, S.C. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Little River, S.C. July 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Inland waterway, St. George Sound to Tampa Bay, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of inland waterway on the Gulf Coast of Florida, connecting St. George Sound with Tampa Bay. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Coos Bay Harbor, Oreg. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examination and survey of Coos Bay Harbor, Oreg., from the entrance to Smiths Mill. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. |
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| Serial set 7300 |
Estimate of appropriations, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War, submitting estimate of appropriations required by the War Department during the fiscal year 1918. September 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, repairs of buildings at Gulf forts. 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 repairs to buildings, etc. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Austin P. Wilson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Austin P. Wilson, brother of William C. Wilson, deceased, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for national defense, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting a special estimate of appropriation for national defense, War Department, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Auditor for the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Auditor for the War Department requesting that the additional force provided for his office for the fiscal year 1918, to be made available May 1, 1917, to June 30, 1917, inclusive. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Republic of Cuba and the German Empire. Message transmitted to the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cuba, through the legation of Cuba at Washington, D.C. April 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. John T. McKnight. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John T. M'Knight against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations, Office of Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Superintendent State War, and Navy Department Buildings, submitting additional estimates of appropriations ... April 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations 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. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Semira E. Perry. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Semira E. Perry, daughter and sole heir of Frank T. Barker, deceased, against the United States. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Cases dismissed by Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in a certified list of cases, dismissed by the court on January 29, 1917, for want of sufficient evidence, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations -- mints. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of additional appropriations for wages of workmen and contingent expenses for the assay office at New York, and the mints of Philadelphia and New Orleans, for the fiscal year 1917. April 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for extraordinary expenses, naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation immediately required to defray extraordinary expenses of the naval establishment and the Navy Department. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for additional watchmen and guards, Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $23,000 for additional watchmen and guards ... April 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Coast Guard telephone system. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriations, to enable the Coast Guard to bring its present... system of coastal communication to a high state of efficiency, to extend such system... and to include the... light stations... for rapid communication. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Address of the President of the United States. Delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress. April 2, 1917. Additional force for Patent Office, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, not heretofore submitted, for additional force the Patent Office, fiscal year 1918. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New building, Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting facts regarding the need of a proper building for the Bureau of Fisheries, May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. W.H. Pierce. 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. Pierce, son and sole heir of Edward R. Pierce, deceased, against the United States. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Authorizing rank of Admiral and Vice Admiral. Letter the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to authorize the designation by the president of six officers of the Navy for the command of Fleets or subdivisions thereof with the rank of admiral and Vice Admiral, and for other purposes. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amendments to urgent deficiency bill -- commandeering of tugs. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting tentative drafts of amendments, with the recommendation that they be inserted in H.R. 3971, making appropriation to supply... the military... establishments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. File cases for General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of appropriations for the purchase or construction, including necessary labor, of filing cases for... copies of township plats for the General Land Office. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Acting President, Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1918 and for prior years. May 31, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eighth Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of the acts and resolutions enacted by the Eighth Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico during its third session (February 12 to April 18, 1917, inclusive). May 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriations of additional sum for rent of stables, Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Postmaster General... estimate... for rent of stables for use of Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. May 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation -- employees public buildings and grounds. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting additional estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. June 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Internal waterways of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation for promoting the development and use of the internal waterways of the United States. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Equipping gun factory, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting estimates of appropriations urgently required for extending and equipping the gun factory at the Washington Navy Yard. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional employees, Office of Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, submitting estimate ... covering additional employees and funds required .... July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Absence of officers and enlisted men of Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of bill to amend an act entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1917, and for Other Purposes," approved August 24, 1916. June 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Naval base at Hampton Roads, Va. Letter from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Navy recommending the acquirement of an adequate naval base at Hampton Roads, Va. June 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New rating in United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of legislation to establish certain new ratings in the United States Navy, and for other purposes. June 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriation, "Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts." Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting an additional estimate of appropriation for maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. June 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Urgent appropriation -- War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting estimates of additional appropriations urgently required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Naval Reserve officers, etc., to act as members of courts-martial. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a proposed draft of bill to render it lawful for officers of the Naval Reserve force and other kindred auxiliary forces now serving with the Navy to act as members of courts-martial or as deck court officers. August 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Registration and selection for military service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation additional to the amount provided for this purpose by the act of June 15, 1917. August 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Frank S. Bowker. 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. Bowker against the United States. August 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations, War Department. 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 the fiscal year 1918. August 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Remodeling interior of New York customhouse. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue relative to an appropriation for remodeling the interior of the New York customhouse to meet the requirements of the Internal-Revenue force. September 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commission on Navy Yards and Naval Stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copy of the Commission of Navy Yards and Naval Stations with reference to expenses of said commission. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Removal and storage of Patent Office models. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation for removal and storage of Patent Office models. June 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Removing limitation on travel expenses during continuance of war. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of provision of legislation removing the limitation on travel and subsistence expenses during the continuance of the war. August 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional Interstate Commerce Commissioners. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission of two additional commissioners. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Submarine base at the Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the establishment and equipment of a submarine base of the Panama Canal. June 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Harriet E. Norton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harriet E. Norton, widow of Sequester R. Norton, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Nelson N. Boydston. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Nelson N. Boydston against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Contested election -- Beakes v. Bacon. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, submitting the contested election case of Samuel W. Beakes against Mark R. Bacon for a seat as representative for the Second District of the State of Michigan. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections No. 3 and ordered to be printed. George F. Knowlton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George F. Knowlton against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Candelario Martinez. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Candelario Martinez against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Aaron L. Abbey. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Aaron L. Abbey against the United States. June 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. State of Massachusetts against the United States. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting findings of fact, conclusion of law, and opinion of the court in the case of the State of Massachusetts against the United States. September 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Care and custody of insane of Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations, required by the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1918, for the care and custody of the insane of Alaska. September 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Transfer of Frederick W. Cobb. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of suggested amendments to S. 82, to transfer Frederick W. Cobb from list of Machinists to list of Chief Pay Clerks, United States Navy. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase of clothing allowance for enlisted men of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of bill to increase the amount of clothing allowance in the case of enlisted men of the Navy on first enlistment. September 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations for the service of the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. September 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Boy Scouts of America. Letter from the attorney for the Boy Scouts of America transmitting copies of the report of the Boys Scouts of America of its proceedings for the year ending December 31, 1916. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. William J. Berry. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William J. Berry, son of Joseph G. Berry, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Levi S. Warren. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Levi S. Warren against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John C. Black. 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. Black against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations -- relief of officers of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Secretary of War submitting estimate of appropriations and estimates for relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for aviation purposes. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation immediately required by the naval establishment for aviation purposes. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Semipermanent buildings, St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation for the construction, equipment, and furnishing of semipermanent buildings at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Commissary Department, Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending an authorization for the use of the appropriation of $30,000 for equipment for the Commissary Department, United States Naval Academy, contained in urgent deficiency appropriation act approved June 15, 1917, for pay of additional employees in that Department. June [i.e., July] 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Thomas Derry. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas Derry against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Naval emergency fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for the Naval emergency fund, 1917, and 1918. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. High-power radio station, Island of Porto Rico. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for the establishment of a high-power radio station on the Island of Porto Rico. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations -- Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. International Parliamentary Conference of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting letter in reference to the meeting of the International Parliamentary Conference of Commerce to be held in Rome, Italy, 11th to 14th October, 1917. October 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. To study political, social, and economic conditions in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a dispatch from the American Charge d'Affaires at Tokyo, Japan...the Japanese Diet would sail from Yokohama for the United States for purpose of studying political, social, and economic conditions in the United States. October 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation of $150,000 for emergencies, diplomatic and consular service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of State submitting an estimate of appropriation of the additional sum of $150,000 for emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year 1918. April 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase in Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation required to provide for an increase in the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps to 150,000 men and 30,000 men, respectively. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Louis H. Waters. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Louis H. Waters against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Urgent estimate of appropriations, naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting urgent estimates of appropriations required for the naval establishment for the fiscal year 1918, and to be immediately available. April 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Alice Scott Warner. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Alice Scott Warner, daughter of Robert Scott, deceased, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Cornelius D. Croley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Cornelius D. Croley deceased, against the United States. April 13, 1917. -- 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. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Amending Section 1570, Revised Statues. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of legislation to amend Section 1570 of the Revised Statues of the United States. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. June 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimates of appropriations, postal service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Postmaster General submitting additional estimates of appropriations for the postal service, payable from the postal revenues for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. May 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for protection of American seamen. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of State submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for relief and protection of American seamen for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, $20,000. May 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for recreation purposes for enlisted men of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for recreation purposes for enlisted men of the Navy at training stations and camps... June 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Adjutant General's Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the temporary appointment of additional clerks and other employees in the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Anthracite and bituminous coal situation. Letter from the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting report on anthracite and bituminous coal situation and the relation of rail and water transportation to the present fuel problem. June 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting an additional estimate of appropriation for pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. June 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, War Department. 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 the fiscal year 1918. August 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments by Court of Claims requiring appropriation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims which have been presented to this department and require an appropriation for their payment. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Republican River at Fort Riley, Kans. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting a clause for inclusion in the pending deficiency appropriation bill. August 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerical force, etc., General Land Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting estimates of appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. August 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Isaac R. Hitt. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting an item for inclusion in the pending deficiency bill. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. District of Columbia. 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 Columbia submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required for the service of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. United States Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the commission for the service of the fiscal year 1918. September 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Sarah A. Robertson. 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. Robertson, widow (remarried) of George W. Bolt, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Construction of emergency hospital buildings. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation urgently requested for the construction of emergency hospital buildings. June 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cullen E. Cline. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Cullen E. Cline against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- New York customhouse. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for changes, remodeling, repairs, new vaults, etc., New York customhouse. June 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Decoration of Minister Whitlock. Letter from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of State recommending that the Belgian ministers note with reference to the acceptance by Mr. Whitlock of a decoration of the Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold ... June 29, 1917. -- Message and accompanying papers ordered printed and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Appropriations for Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $22,000, required by the Panama Canal. April 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Lucinda Shanks. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lucinda Shanks, widow of Quintus C. Shanks, deceased, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Legislation for division of public moneys, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication of the Chief of the Division of Public Moneys, office of Secretary of the Treasury, submitting proposed clause of legislation for incorporation in a deficiency bill. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations -- Superintendent of Documents. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the public printer, submitting additional estimates of appropriations for salaries and general expenses, Office of the Superintendent of Documents, for the fiscal year 1918, and deficiencies for the fiscal year 1917. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. April 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimation of appropriation for introduction of new fish and other aquatic foods. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, for the introduction of new fish and other aquatic foods. April 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Chief special mechanic and special mechanic, first class, United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a proposed draft of a bill to establish the new rates of chief special mechanic and special mechanic, first class, in the artificer branch of the United States Navy. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting recommendations relative to clerical force of the War Department. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. State institutions for the care and treatment of the insane. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a bill, to authorize the Secretary of War to contract for the care and treatment, at any public hospital under the control of any state or territory of the Union, of certain insane patients. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amendment to Sundry Civil Act. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a proposed amendment to the Sundry Civil Act approved March 3, 1915. September 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Provision for Army bill. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a provision to be included in one of the Army bills. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Jane T. [i.e., F.] Hawkins. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jane T. [i.e., F.] Hawkins, sister of Michael T. Hall, deceased, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations, Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce submitting estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918. April 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriations, ordnance and ordnance stores. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation under "Ordnance and ordnance stores," special naval appropriation bill. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Picatinny Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of provision for incorporation in sundry civil appropriation bill. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Naval ammunition depot, St. Juliens Creek, VA. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting draft of proposed joint resolution relative to suspension of provision of section 355 of the Revised Statutes requiring cession of jurisdiction by a state over lands acquired therein by the United States. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Hannah. G. Wainwright 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 Hannah. G. Wainwright against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriation, Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Labor submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Department of Labor. April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Promoting the efficiency of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill "To promote the efficiency of the United States Navy." September 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriations -- District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Acting President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations.... for the fiscal year 1917 and 1918. July 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Extending revenue laws to Virgin Islands. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting draft of bill to provide rates of duty on merchandise imported into the Virgin Islands of the United States, and for the administration of custom in these islands. July 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Transferring vessels of Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, to the Navy Department in time of war. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation transferring the vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries, Commerce Department, to the jurisdiction of the Navy Department in time of war, May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates, Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting changes in certain deficiency estimates of appropriations for the service of the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, and prior years. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Claim of the government of Norway. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to a claim presented by the government of Norway against this government on account of the detention of three members of the crew of the Norwegian ship "Ingrid." April 28, 1917. -- Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriations, office of naval operations, Navy Department, fiscal years 1917 and 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an additional estimates of appropriation required for salaries, office of chief of Naval operations, Navy Department, for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918. May 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates of appropriations, 1917, and supplemental estimates of appropriation, 1918, for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War, submitting estimates of appropriations... May 1, 1917. ... deficiency estimates referred to Committee on Appropriations... supplemental estimates, referred to Committee on Military Affairs; and ordered to be printed. Furloughs to enlisted men in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a tentative draft of a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant furloughs without pay to enlisted men of the Navy. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Sections 1538 and 1539, Revised Statues. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending that Sections 1538 and 1539 of the Revised Statues, requiring inspection and estimates by a Navy board before major work can be undertaken on a vessel of the Navy, be repealed. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the price of gasoline in 1915. Letter from the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting report of the Federal Trade Commission on the price of gasoline in 1915. April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Naval Hospitals. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending the repeal or suspension during the war of the proviso amendment of the Act of March 4, 1913, regarding the procuring of sites and erection of naval hospitals. April 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Martin N. Wren. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Martin N. Wren against the United States. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Tentative draft of bill, six months' gratuity to widows, etc., of retired officers and enlisted men. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a tentative draft of a bill to provide for the payment of six months' gratuity to the widows and children or dependent relatives of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Isaac C. Enloe. 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. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Additional watchmen, State, War, and Navy Department Building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Building submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required for additional watchmen for the State, War, and Navy Department Building from April 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates, Department of Commerce. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Commerce, the same to be made available and to remain available until expended. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations 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. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for national security and defense, to be expended at discretion of the President. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriations for the national security and defense... and to be made available and to remain available until December 31, 1917, $100,000,000. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. M. Fillmore Brown. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of M. Fillmore Brown, administrator of Robert Brown, deceased, against the United States. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ella C. Tremble. 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. Tremble, widow of David Tremble, deceased, against the United States. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Transferring subtreasury property at San Francisco, Cal., to War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer the old subtreasury property at San Francisco, Cal., to the War Department for use of the Engineer Corps, etc. May 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Congratulations from Roumania. Congratulatory message, by cablegram, from the Roumanian Chamber of Deputies to the United States government upon its entrance into war. May 5, 1917. -- Referred, with translation, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation in deficiency bill, post office, Millersburg, Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for inclusion in some deficiency bill. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tentative draft of bill, authorizing additional pay for enlisted men beyond their terms of enlistment. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to authorize additional pay for enlisted men detained beyond the expiration of their terms of enlistment. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. River and harbor improvements required for defense. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report on estimates and plans for works or river and harbor improvement that will provide adequate facilities for operations of the fleet for defense of the harbors on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts of the United States. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Tentative draft of bill for relief of certain enlisted men of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of certain enlisted men of the United States Navy. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The National Guard in federal service. Letter from Brig. Gen. William A. Mann, on the organization and entry into federal service of the National Guard. May 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, to begin the establishment of a national military park... May 8, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased rations for certain enlisted men in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of proposed legislation requesting increased rations for certain enlisted men in the Navy. May 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annie C. Manchester v. the United States and Henry J. Thompson v. The United States. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting order of dismissal by the court in the cases of Annie C. Manchester and Henry J. Thompson. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Tentative draft of bill, public quarters for officers of Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to determine where and when there are no public quarters available officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- disposition of remains of officers, civilians, and employees. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, for disposition of remains... May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Clarence J. Dorr 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 Clarence J. Door et al., children and heirs of Joseph B. Dorr, deceased, against the United States. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Increase of civilian pay, Military Academy. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter recommending an increase in the pay of certain civilian employees of the Military Academy. May 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Action on proceedings of examining boards for promotion in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a recommendation that records of proceedings of examining boards for promotion of officers of the Navy may be finally acted on by the Secretary of the Navy instead of the President. May 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Examination of staff officers only when promoted in rank. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to provide for the examination of staff officers only when promoted in rank. May 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Tentative legislation to drop from rolls of the Navy any officer under certain conditions. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation authorizing the President to drop from the rolls of the Navy or Marine Corps any officer under certain conditions. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolutions passed by British Parliament. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State submitting resolutions passed by the British Parliament relative to the entry of the United States into the war. May 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Purchase or lease of land for coastal air stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting estimate of appropriation for purchase or lease of land for establishing of coastal air stations. May 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Postmaster General submitting an estimate of deficiency... for shipment of supplies, postal service, payable from the postal revenues, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. June 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations, War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. May 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Preliminary report by the Federal Trade Commission on the production and distribution of bituminous coal. Letter from the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission transmitting preliminary report by the Federal Trade Commission on the production and distribution of bituminous coal. May 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Naval establishment. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting further estimates of appropriations urgently required by the naval establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Shelving in Patent Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Patents calling attention to the fact that the appropriation for wooden shelving for storage of patents in the General Land Office building cannot be used because that building has been assigned to the use of the War Department, and recommending that the law be amended... July 31, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Loss of documentary stamps. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting result of investigation relative to loss of documentary stamps in the office of the collector of internal revenue, second district of New York, and tentative draft of legislation for relief. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Benjamin S. Chamberlin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Benjamin S. Chamberlin, son of John C. Chamberlin, deceased, against the United States. July 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Naval establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting additional estimates of appropriations required for the naval establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rent of fireproof warehouse for Medical Department, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the rental of a two story fireproof warehouse at Washington, D.C., for the use of the Medical Department, from October 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. June 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Journal of the Executive Council of Porto Rico, Eighth Legislative Assembly. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the Journal of the Executive Council of Porto Rico for the third session of the Eighth Legislative Assembly (Feb. 14 to Apr. 12, 1917). June 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs and message ordered printed. Stationing of troops of the Regular Army in national parks. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a letter from Ex-Secretary Garrison in regard to stationing troops of the Regular Army in national parks. June 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, storehouse and dredging at Corozal, Canal Zone. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the service of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. June 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public printing and binding, International Union of American Republics. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of State submitting an urgent estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding for the International Union of American Republics... June 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pink boll worm in Texas. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for preventing establishment and spread of pink boll worm in Texas. June 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- rifle machinery. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, for machinery for the manufacture of rifles. June 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Standardizing cost-accounting methods. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation under the title, "Cost accounting, Department Commerce, fiscal year 1918." August 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Payment of rent in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, submitting a tentative provision for insertion in the urgent deficiency bill to authorize the payment of rent in the District of Columbia. August 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Admission to St. Elizabeths Hospital. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital submitting a tentative provision of legislation for insertion in the pending deficiency bill. August 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Department of State. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of State for the service of the fiscal year 1918. August 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Attorney General submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1917. September 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department for the purpose of acquiring and providing facilities for the expeditious construction of additional torpedo-boat destroyers for the fiscal year 1918. September 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Benjamin P. Blodgett and Fred S. Blodgett, executors of George Blodgett, deceased. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Benjamin P. Blodgett and Fred S. Blodgett, executors of George Blodgett, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John Getchey. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John Getchey against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William R. Carlton. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William R. Carlton against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ellen A. Beer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ellen A. Beer, widow of Simon B. Beer, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Benjamin D. Gallino. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Benjamin D. Gallino against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- regulation of commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation for special Regulation of Commerce, Department of Commerce, for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Ynchausti & Co. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ynchausti & Co. against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ralph Rahm. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ralph Rahm, son of William Rahm, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lydia F. Taylor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lydia F. Taylor, daughter of John G. Wilson, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ralph H. Osborne. 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. Osborne against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Precedence of officers in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation relating to the precedence of officers of the Navy. April 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual leave of employees in Navy yards. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of legislation relating to annual leave of employees of Navy yards, gun factories, and Naval stations. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Salaries, mechanical labor, etc., new Interior Department building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of appropriations for salaries, mechanical labor, char and watch forces,... from April 15 to June 30, 1917, inclusive. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures from the appropriation for contingent expenses for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. September 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for examination and classification of lands for homesteads. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for examination and classification of lands for homesteads, required by the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1918. October 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations -- Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank, executor of Elijah S. Watts, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Rent of temporary quarters, Evansville, Ind. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for inclusion in some deficiency bill an item for rent of temporary quarters and moving expenses incident thereto for government officials at Evansville, Ind. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Neora Thompson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Neora Thompson, widow (remarried) of William R. Brazee, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- railroads in Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of additional appropriation for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Submarine base at New London, Conn. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the submarine base at New London, Conn. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Urgent estimate of appropriation, additional clerical force, Auditor for Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Auditor for the Navy Department submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for an additional clerical force for his office, to be immediately available. April 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Acquisition of land for fleet operating base. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the acquisition of land and equipment of the same for a fleet operating base, Hampton Roads, Va., to be immediately available. April 16, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional guards at subtreasuries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations for additional guards at the subtreasuries at New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, from May 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. April 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eliza A. McIntire. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eliza A. M'Intire, widow of Horatio M'Intire, deceased, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Silas A. Carpenter. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Silas A. Carpenter against the United States. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edwin Goodrich. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edwin Goodrich against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- 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. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Additional employees, printing, etc., Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the President, United States Civil Service Commission, submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for necessary additional employees... April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contested-election case of Samuel W. Beakes v. Mark R. Bacon second congressional district State of Michigan. Hearing before elections Committee No. 3 House of Representatives August 8, 1917. Tentative draft of legislation to increase pay of men in Navy during the war. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a tentative draft of legislation to increase the pay of enlisted men of the Navy during the continuance of the war. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Christopher T. Cheek. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Christopher T. Cheek against the United States. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. International Parliamentary Conference on Commerce at Rome. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting information relative to an invitation for the Congress of the United States to participate in the International Parliamentary Conference of Commerce at Rome May 17, 1917. May 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Carrie M. Cleveland. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Carrie M. Cleveland, widow of Albert C. Cleveland, deceased, against the United States. April 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Postal service deficiency. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Postmaster General submitting the following estimate of deficiency appropriation for the postal service, payable from the postal revenues, for the fiscal year 1917. July 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the United States Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Secretary of Commerce submitting an additional estimate of appropriation for protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. May 31, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- relief and protection of American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Acting Secretary of the State, submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for relief and protection of American Seamen for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay for North Carolina Cavalry. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting tentative draft of provisions for insertion in the next deficiency appropriation bill. July 31, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Appropriation, radio laboratory, Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of Commerce, submitting an estimate of appropriation for construction of a fireproof radio laboratory building, Bureau of Standards. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. William D. Mann. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William D. Mann against the United States. July 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John W. Canary. 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. Canary against the United States. July 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency and supplemental estimates -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting deficiency and supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tentative provision relating to vocational education. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting draft of tentative provision to be inserted in the urgent deficiency bill relating to vocational education. July 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered in Indian depredation cases. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Attorney General, submitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. List of judgments. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered against the United States, as submitted by the Attorney General and which require an appropriation for their payment. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for emergency hospital construction. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting letter in regard to appropriation for emergency hospital construction. June 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional pay for gun pointers and gun captains. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to provide additional pay for gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from the place where required to perform duty under such detail. August 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Cases dismissed by Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of Court of Claims transmitting a list of cases dismissed by the court for want of prosecution, on motion of the defendants, which cases were referred to this court for adjudication by the House of Representatives. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Motor vehicles for Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of legislation for inclusion in bill to supply deficiency for sundry civil expenses of the governments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. August 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Shipping Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Shipping Board for the service of the fiscal year 1918. August 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Lighthouse depot, fifth lighthouse district, Portsmouth, Va. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year, 1918... August 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency bill -- aeronautics. Letter from the Chairman of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics transmitting tentative draft of legislation for insertion in pending urgent deficiency bill. September 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Selective service parade. Letter from the Chairman of the Citizens' Committee, extending an invitation to the members of the House of Representatives to participate in the selective service parade. August 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amending H.R. 292, coal and fuel for the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending that H.R. 292 be amended so as to exclude the purchase of the special character coal necessary for the Navy and fuel-burning equipment for the Navy. June 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Advance of public moneys under certain contracts. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of resolution authorizing the advance of public moneys under certain contracts. June 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. To amend Section 1585 of the Revised Statutes. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting draft of tentative legislation to amend Section 1585 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to Navy rations. June 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting estimate of appropriations required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. September 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Erastus Guy. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Erastus Guy against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James S. 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, guardian of Maude M. Bolster, insane daughter of Horace N. Bolster, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriation, service of the Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, resubmitting certain estimates of appropriation for the service of the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Morgan L. Martin, 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 Morgan L. Martin, Sarah G. Martin, and Deborah R. Martin, children of Morgan L. Martin, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Comptroller of the Treasury, Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention of Congress to the estimate of appropriation for an increase of force in the office of Comptroller of Treasury as set forth in Senate documents Nos. 14 and 38 and House Document No. 2079. June 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Owners of steamship "Esparta." Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Owners of the steamship "Esparta" against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Luetta J. Myers. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Luetta J. Myers, widow of William P. Myers, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Clinton C. Brown. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Clinton C. Brown against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Cases dismissed by Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting list of cases dismissed by the Court. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Francisco Bale. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Francisco Bale, widow of Hoard T. Bale, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for rent of additional quarters for the Navy Department. June 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Philo J. Beveridge. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Philo J. Beveridge, son of John L. Beveridge, deceased, against the United States. April 19, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Machinery and equipment for shops, Atlanta (Ga.), penitentiary. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the attorney general submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Justice for machinery and equipment for shops, United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga. October 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Albert H. Johnson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Albert H. Johnson against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Recreation for enlisted men. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a provision amendatory to House document No. 186, estimate of appropriation for "recreation for enlisted men." August 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sarah J. Grayson. 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. Grayson, widow of James W.M. Grayson, deceased, against the United States. July 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Wages of workmen in mint at New Orleans. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Director of the Mint submitting an estimate of appropriation required for wages of workmen, mint at New Orleans, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates, Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Attorney General, submitting supplemental and deficiency estimates required by the Department of Justice for the service of the fiscal years 1917 and 1918. April 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of tests of the Wooding train-control system. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting report of tests of the Wooding train-control system conducted by the Division of Safety of the Interstate Commerce Commission ... June 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Filtration plant, Rock Island Arsenal. 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 the fiscal year 1918. August 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reimbursement for personal property lost in naval service. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting draft of a bill to provide for the reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others in the naval service of the United States for property lost or destroyed in such service. July 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Draft of bill to promote efficiency of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to promote the efficiency of the United States Navy. May 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Defense roads and trails, Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation to provide for the construction of... roads and trails..., for the service of the fiscal year 1918 (H. Doc. No. 350). August 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- aids to navigation in the Potomac River. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Commerce for aids to navigation in the Potomac River. September 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries of additional employees and furniture for office of Treasurer of the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Treasurer of the United States submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations ... for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Invitation to the Congress to take part in Interallied Parliament. Letter from the Ambassador of France, transmitting a telegram from the Vice President of the Interallied Parliament announcing his arrival in the... future bearing an invitation to the... deliberations of the British, Italian, and French sections of the... Parliament. August 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Special estimate of appropriation, temporary clerks and other employees, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... submitting a special estimate of appropriation required immediately for the employment of a temporary force of clerks and other employees in the War Department and its bureaus. April 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tentative draft of bill, disposition of effects of deceased persons in the naval service. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service. May 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for an additional force of one clerk of class 4, and one clerk class 3, in the Office of Disbursing Clerk, Treasury Department, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appreciation of reception to Italian mission. Letter from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, relative to a cablegram from the American Chamber of Commerce of Italy expressing appreciation for reception to Italian mission. June 16, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed Operation of electrical substation, new Interior Building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate... to operate the electrical substation in the new building for Interior Department offices during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Lillian A. Green. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lillian A. Green, daughter, and Jordan Philip, guardian of the minor grandchildren of John S. Atwood, deceased, against the United States. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. The cause of high prices. Article on the cause of high prices by Hon. George E. Adams, Ex-Member of Congress from Illinois. June 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Tatsuji Saito, a Japanese subject. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending that the sum of $2,000 be paid to the family of Tatsuji Saito, killed presumably by American soldiers at Camp Geronimo, Mexico. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. George D. McKinney. 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. M'Kinney against the United States. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Proposed legislation for protection to revenues from distilled spirits. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation to be inserted in some appropriation bill, to afford more adequate protection to the revenues derived from distilled spirits, fermented liquors, etc. May 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 7302 | Journal of the Senate of the United States of America Sixty-fifth Congress second session. Begun and held at the City of Washington: December 3, 1917 in the one hundred and forty-second year of the independence of the United States. | 1 |
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Relief of certain ex-paymasters' clerks. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Calling into service of United States armed forces in Philippine Islands. January 16, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Lands for military purposes. March 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Sibley Island, N. Dak. March 29, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. War against Austria-Hungary. December 7, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply of Salt Lake City, Utah. January 28, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To establish a fog signal at the Port Washington Pierhead Light Station, Wis. December 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo. January 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Validating certain homestead entries. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army officers' uniforms. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed Army buglers. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Gratuity to families of deceased officers and soldiers. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Agricultural appropriation bill. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Officers of the Philippine Scouts. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Oregon & California Railroad Co. February 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses of enlisted men of the Army. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Registration for military service. February 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Leave of absence for homestead entrymen. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal control of transportation systems during the war. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Private property destroyed in the military service. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army Nurse Corps. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional district judge, Northern California. February 26, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. War finance corporation bill. February 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Payment to Benson County, N. Dak., for care of Indians. February 26, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. February 25. -- Ordered to be printed. To amend an act approved May 27, 1908, Thirty-fifth Statutes, pages 417 and 418, and for other purposes. February 27, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Permitting continued use of plates of rechartered banking associations. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing Indian tribes in the State of Washington to submit claims to the Court of Claims. April 5, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing the Cowlitz Tribe of Indians to submit claims to the Court of Claims. April 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Disposition of improved land under reclamation projects. April 5, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill. April 6 (calendar day April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Defrauding national banks by false statements. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Removal of directors and officers of national banking associations convicted of violating the national banking laws. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulating the allowance of overdrafts by national banking associations. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Post office appropriation bill. April 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Oath of directors of national banking associations. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Homing pigeons. March 2 (Calendar Day, March 4), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Manufacture and importation of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Hawaii. March 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Uniforms and equipment lost on board the Tuscania. March 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Spur track across First Street NE., District of Columbia. March 8, (calendar day, March 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Assistant Secretaries of War. March 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed Lots for school purposes, Sun River project, Montana. March 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Importation of tick-infested cattle. March 25, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Disposition of effects of deceased persons in the naval service. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Port Angeles, Wash. March 29, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridges across the Big Sandy River. April 1, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Lands for school purposes in government town sites on reclamation projects. April 1, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply for miscellaneous purposes in connection with reclamation projects. March 29, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To temporarily reduce the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Statue of James Buchanan. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Temporary promotion of retired officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Director of Munitions. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Granting the consent of Congress to the Forsyth special road district of Tanney County. Mo., to construct a bridge across White River at Forsyth, Mo. April 1, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Removal of stumps from certain Oregon and California lands. March 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Aids to navigation, Lighthouse Service. May 31, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase the military establishment of the United States. May 25, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army Mine Planter Service. May 23, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing the Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents. January 16, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional district judge in Arizona. February 4, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Take over certain transportation system. January 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Claims of the Sioux Tribes of Indians. January 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Homestead entries by minors. January 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Farm-loan act. December 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Lincoln Highway right of way. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. War risk insurance. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Calling into military service of certain classes of persons liable thereto. February 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Patents to missionary or religious organizations. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase in productive agricultural area of United States by reclamation of arid and swamp lands. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Appointment of officers of the Army. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Indian appropriation bill. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional assistants to the Secretary of War, February 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase of military stores and supplies. March 2 (calendar day, March 4), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Wisconsin band of Pottawatomie Indians. March 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply of San Diego, Cal. March 5 (calendar day, March 6), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Fox River, Ill. March 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Timber for war purposes. March 2 (Calendar Day, March 4), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Registration of aliens for military service. March 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Loss of pay for enlisted men absent from duty. March 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Timber for military purposes. March 16, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing the Town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds. March 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Restoration to former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions. March 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Traffic in opium. March 23, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Distinctive buttons or badges for men exempted from draft. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Wyoming National Forest. March 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Payment of gun pointers and gun captains. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Pay of retired chief warrant officers on active duty. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase of arms, clothing, etc., from persons in Military and Naval Service. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of coal and asphalt deposits in segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of private owners of lands within the Bitter Root National Forest, Mont. June 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Commission to standardize screw threads. May 31, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Return of government publications by depositaries. June 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. United States land office at Springfield, Mo. June 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Improvement and development of waterways. December 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Reservation of certain lands as part of the Oregon National Forest. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Consolidation of government lands within reservations, or withdrawals. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Frieze in rotunda of Capitol. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. For the relief of certain desert-land entrymen and assignees. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the Carey Act. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Osage Indian School, Oklahoma. January 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Military zones around shipyards. January 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Lands within former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. January 16, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Empower United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to acquire property. January 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Restoration to former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Desecration of the flag. February 15 (Calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Military instructors at educational institutions. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Officers' allowances in the field. February 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increased guaranteed minimum price for wheat for 1918. February 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase of land from appropriations which do not give specific authority therefor. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of war supplies. February 15 (calendar day, February 16), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of certain homestead entrymen. February 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bonding of cashiers and other officers of national banking associations, and prohibiting erasures on books of such associations. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Third liberty-bond bill. April 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Relieving shares of national banks from taxation. April 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Limitations upon loans by national banking associations. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho. April 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing Coos Bay, Umpqua, and Siuslaw tribes of Oregon Indians to submit their claims to the Court of Claims. April 5, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Medals for Mexican border service. March 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Officers of the Philippine Scouts. March 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Statue of James Buchanan. March 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Construction of bridge across the Osage River. March 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Grand Canyon National Park. March 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Exchange of lands between State of Wyoming and the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial to Francis Asbury. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authority for officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Government of the Dominican Republic. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to determine where and when there are no public quarters available for officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Island in the Coosa River, Ala. March 29, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Agriculture entries on coal lands. April 1, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Furloughs without pay to enlisted men of the Army. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional bands for Corps of Engineers. January 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Clark Fork River, in Bonner County, Idaho. April 1, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To drop from the rolls Naval or Marine Corps officers absent without leave. January 22, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Exchange of lands in certain reservoir sites in Montana. June 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of the Philippine Scouts. May 31, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Retirement of school teachers. June 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Survey of public lands in Florida. June 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Diversion of waters on Niagara River. June 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Granting pensions to certain members of the former life-saving service. December 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Extending the benefits of care and treatment by the Public Health Service to seamen on vessels used in the service of the United States. December 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To establish aids to navigation at Fond Du Lac Harbor, Wis. December 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Fox River, in Illinois. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional pay for detained enlisted men. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Auxiliary reclamation project, Yuma project, Arizona. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tug River. January 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Punishment for obstructing bond sales and loans. January 31, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Teachers' retirement. February 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Logging of timber on Red Lake Indian Forest, Minnesota. February 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Removal of snow and ice, District of Columbia. February 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of settlers on certain railroad lands in Montana. January 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the headwaters of Mobile Bay, Ala. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Building for the Public Health Service at Washington, D.C. October 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. War risk insurance. May 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Statistics of commerce and navigation. September 24 (calendar day, September 26), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, fiscal year 1918 and prior fiscal years. March 2 (calendar day March 4), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Susquehanna River, Pa. September 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Probation system in the District of Columbia. June 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase of land by City of McMinnville, Oreg. January 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Supplementary bond legislation. September 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Monongahela River at Fairmont, W. Va. January 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply of San Diego, Cal. January 31, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authority to the President to prescribe charter rates and freight rates and to requisition vessels, and for other purposes. June 27 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Requiring insurance companies to accept official reports as satisfactory proof of death. April 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Load lines for vessels in foreign trades. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Condemnation of lands for electric power purposes. June 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Create a Department of Aeronautics. September 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. School district No. 9, Sanders County, Mont. March 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Blackfeet Indian Reservation. May 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Merchandise donated to the Red Cross. August 22 (calendar day, August 26), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Control of street parking. June 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Exchange of public coal lands for private coal lands. June 10 (calendar day, June 13), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. District of Columbia appropriation bill. June 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Mount Desert National Park, Me. June 14, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Safety of employees and travelers upon railroads. June 10 (Calendar Day, June 13), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. National highway connecting national monuments in the States of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. June 10 (calendar day, June 13), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Regulating hours of firemen. June 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing corporations to change their names. June 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge waterway between Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Ala. August 30, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions. June 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase of wages for printers, pressmen, and bookbinders. June 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Claim of the Japanese Government. June 20, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Assessment work on mining claims. June 24 (calendar day, June 25), 1918. Sundry civil appropriation bill, 1919. June 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Claim of Government of France. June 20, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Repealing a portion of the act to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. October 14, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Daylight saving. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Extending time for payment of lands within the former Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont. October 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Contributions to united war work campaign by national banks. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Roads in National Parks. October 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Method of settlement for materials transferred between departments of the government. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the one hundred and eighteenth article of war. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Fortifications appropriations. June 27 (calendar day, June 29), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Investigation of lignite coal. June 24 (calendar day, June 25), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn. June 27 (calendar day, June 28), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Donation of jail at Guthrie, Okla., to Logan County, Okla. October 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Pearl River, Miss. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Civil rights of members of the military and naval establishments of the United States. October 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. First deficiency appropriation bill, fiscal year 1919. October 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Little Calumet River, Cook County, Ill. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Pearl River, Miss. and La. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Red River of the North, Minn and N. Dak. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Dike on Depot Slough, Oreg. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Prison-made goods. July 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase credit allowed to the Director of the Mint for the purchase of metal, etc. November 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. S.J. Res. 186. November 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Penalty for embezzlement by vice president, receiver, or other officer of national banking association. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Engraving signatures on bank notes. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the naturalization laws. April 12, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Acceptance of foreign decorations by members of the military or naval forces. April 16, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Silver coinage. April 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations. April 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To increase facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes. April 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of the uniform of friendly nations. April 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Public housing for war needs. April 16, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Cache National Forest, Utah. April 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply of Los Angeles, Cal. April 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. National German-American Alliance. April 30, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Consolidation of national banking associations. April 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Disposal of garbage in the District of Columbia. April 30, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Postage rates on aeroplane mail. April 24 (calendar day, April 29), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army field clerks. April 26, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Guaranty fund for bank deposits. April 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Alley houses in District of Columbia. April 30, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing the Town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds. April 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. River and harbor appropriation bill. May 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Castle Peak irrigation project, Utah. May 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed Abandonment of Piney Branch Road, District of Columbia. May 2 (calendar day, May 3), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Control of travel from and into the United States. May 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Corrupt practices in elections. May 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional land at Leon Springs Military Reservation. May 2 (calendar day, May 4), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army chaplains. May 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Moral protection of soldiers and sailors. May 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Military academy appropriation bill. May 22, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of isolated tracts in Minnesota. May 23, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Naval appropriation bill for year ending June 30, 1919. May 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Ark. May 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Cache National Forest, Utah. May 22, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Manuscript on unveiling of McClellan statue. May 23, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To validate certain public-land entries. May 23, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increasing rates of pensions of soldiers and sailors of the Civil War. May 22, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Reappointing three members of Board of Managers, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. May 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Minimum wage. June 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Monongahela River. June 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mahoning River. June 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Civil War volunteer officers' retired list. June 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions to widows and minor children of officers and enlisted men who served during the war with Spain, Philippine Insurrection, or in China. June 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Medical Society of the District of Columbia. June 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Aids to navigation and for other works in the lighthouse service. June 14 (calendar day, June 15), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Minam National Forest, Oreg. June 14, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of Bar Harbor, Me., as a port of entry and delivery for immediate transportation. July 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Lighthouse and life-saving stations. July 5, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. War-risk insurance. July 5, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Tennessee River bridge. July 25, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Changes of draft age. August 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Minerals and metals for war purposes. September 4 (calendar day, September 5), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Minimum Wage Board in the District of Columbia. September 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Craney Island and Fishermans Island. September 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Appointment of certain Army officers as Chief of Staff Corps and Departments. September 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing resurvey of certain public lands. September 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increasing the pay of a chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps. September 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Readmission of certain aliens. June 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Payment of indemnities. June 19, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army appropriation bill. June 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Exchange of lands in the State of Oregon. June 20, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Retirement of classified civil service employees. September 23, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Claim for loss of private property. October 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Readmission of certain conscripted and volunteer aliens. October 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Lafayette National Park. October 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of kitchen by-products, waste, etc. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Homes for returning soldiers and sailors. October 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Site for public building at Nogales, Ariz. October 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Fourth liberty-bond authorization. June 27 (calendar day, June 29), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Increasing the powers of the United States Shipping Board. June 27 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Outstanding interest-bearing obligations of the United States. June 27 (calendar day June 28), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Certifications of discharge. June 27 (calendar day, June 28), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Salary of the collector of Customs for the District of North Carolina. June 27 (calendar day, June 29), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Red Pipestone Quarries, South Dakota. June 27, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Transferring jurisdiction of the Lighthouse Reservation at North Point, Md. October 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Transferring jurisdiction and control for the period of the war over the Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Hampton, Va. October 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Removal of Choctaw Indians. July 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill, 1918. July 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Army account of advances. October 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment of fiftieth article of war. October 17, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Rock River, Ill. October 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy. November 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Cherokee Nation v. The United States. November 21, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bonds securing circulation of national bank notes to be sold within 30 days of liquidation. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Investigation of the War Department -- aircraft production. April 6 (calendar day, April 10), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To give indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad. April 6 (calendar day, April 10), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Prohibition in the District of Columbia. April 6 (calendar day, April 11), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Limitation upon expenditures for the housing of banks. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Penalties for usury. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Civil-service examinations. April 6 (calendar day, April 11), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Branch banks. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Supervision of building associations in the District of Columbia. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Punishment of crimes committed upon the person of members of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. May 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Care of persons discharged from forces of the United States. May 3, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge, Little Peedee River, S.C. May 13, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Right of way for transportation of water in the development of the livestock industry in Arizona. May 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal district courts in Oklahoma. May 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. District of Columbia National Guard. May 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. To amend sections 4402, 4404, and 4414 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. March 22, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Determination of heirship, etc., Five Civilized Tribes. March 25, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending section 1570, Revised Statutes. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Donation of condemned naval guns. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Payment of interest of Cherokee judgment. March 28, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Artesian wells. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of Oswego, N.Y., as a port of entry for immediate transportation. July 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Colville Indian Reservation, Wash. February 7, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Supervision of savings banks in the District of Columbia. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Consolidation of national banks. April 6 (calendar day, April 9), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Age limits for admission to naval academy. January 24, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. |
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This is the test environment. The production environment is at libcat.colorado.edu
