| Call Number (LC) | Title | Results |
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| Serial set 7566 | Bulletin of the Pan American Union. Vol. XLVII. July-December, 1918. | 1 |
| Serial set 7567 | Bulletin of the Pan American Union. Vol. XLVIII. January-June, 1919. | 1 |
| Serial set 7568 | Second annual report of the United States Shipping Board. December 1, 1918. | 1 |
| Serial set 7569 | Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1918. | 1 |
| Serial set 7570 | Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1918. Report of the U.S. National Museum. | 1 |
| Serial set 7571 | Thirty-seventh annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1915-1916. | 1 |
| Serial set 7572 | Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1917. | 1 |
| Serial set 7573 | Second annual report of the United States Tariff Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission transmitting copy of the second annual report of the United States Tariff Commission. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7574 | Constitution, Jefferson's manual, and rules of the House of Representatives of the United States with a digest of the practice. Sixty-fifth Congress, third session by Clarence A. Cannon, Clerk at the Speaker's table. | 1 |
| Serial set 7575 | Annual report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, South Trimble, giving names of employees of the House and their respective compensations; the expenditures from the contingent fund; the amounts drawn from the Treasury; the stationery accounts; and unexpended balances for the year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7576 | The Irish question. Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Sixty-fifth Congress - third session on H.J. Res. 357 requesting the... plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the International Peace Conference to present to the said conference the right of Ireland to freedom, independence, and self-determination. December 12, 1918. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7577 | Journal of the Fifty-second national encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Portland, Oreg, August 18 to 24, 1918. | 1 |
| Serial set 7578 | Journal of the fifty-third national encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Columbus, Ohio. September 7 to 13, 1919. | 1 |
| Serial set 7579 | "Made in Germany." The Hon. Joseph G. Cannon's definition of international socialism, by L. White Busbey. Saturday Evening Post, December 7, 1913 (Copyrighted). March 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7580 |
Daniel Webster Comstock (late a Representatives from Indiana). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States. Sixty-fifth Congress, third session. Proceedings in the House February 17, 1918. Proceedings in the Senate March 2, 1919. Cyrus Adams Sulloway (late a Representative from New Hampshire) memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States Sixty-fifth Congress second session. Proceedings in the House April 28, 1918. Proceedings in the Senate March 12, 1917. John H. Capstick (late a Representative from New Jersey.) Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States Sixty-fifth Congress second session. Proceedings in the House May 19, 1918. Proceedings in the Senate March 18, 1918. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. Ebenezer J. Hill (late a Representative from Connecticut). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress, second session. Proceedings in the House March 3, 1918. Proceedings in the Senate September 27, 1917. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. Charles Martin (late a Representatives from Illinois). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress. Proceedings in the House, February 2, 1919. Proceedings in the Senate December 4, 1917. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. Henry T. Helgesen (late a Representative from North Dakota). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States. Sixty-fifth Congress. Ellsworth R. Bathrick (late a Representatives from Ohio.) Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress, second session. |
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| Serial set 7581 |
William P. Borland (late a Representative from Missouri). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States. Sixty-fifth Congress, third session. March 2, 1919. Prepared under direct of the Joint Committee on Printing. Edward Everett Robbins (late a Representative from Pennsylvania.) Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress, third session. J. Fred. C. Talbott (late a Representative from Maryland). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress. Proceedings in the House, February 16, 1919. Proceedings in the Senate, October 7, 1918. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. William Atkinson Jones (late a Representative from Virginia). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Sixty-fifth Congress. Jacob Edwin Meeker (late a Congressman from Missouri) memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States Sixty-fifth Congress third session. Proceedings in the House February 2, 1919. Proceedings in the Senate October 17, 1918. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. James H. Davidson (late a Representative from Wisconsin). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States. Sixty-fifth Congress third session. Proceedings in the House February 16, 1919. Proceedings in the Senate March 2, 1919. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. John A. Sterling (late a Representative from Illinois). Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States Sixty-fifth Congress. |
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| Serial set 7582 |
Report of the Capital Issues Committee. Letter from the Secretary of the Capital Issues Committee transmitting report of the committee as of December 31, 1918. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Intoxicating liquors and prostitution within the Canal Zone. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to prohibit intoxicating liquors and prostitution within the Canal Zone, and for other purposes. December 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Advisability of purchasing lands for Alabama and Coushatta Indians, Polk County, Tex. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a report as to the necessity and advisability of purchasing lands for the Alabama and Coushatta Indians located in Polk County, Tex.... December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Retirement of members of Army Nurse Corps (female). Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a proposed bill authorizing the retirement of members of the Army Nurse Corps (female). January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Second annual report Federal Farm Loan Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting second annual report of the operations of the Federal Farm Loan Board, for the fiscal year ended November 30, 1918. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Annual reports, War Department, fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. Twenty-eighth report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification to the Secretary of War, 1918. Operations of postal saving system, fiscal year 1918. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting annual report of operations of the postal savings system for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of the two houses of Congress. December 2, 1918. -- ordered to be printed. Statutes relating to patents. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative drafts of bills amending certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to patents. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed. Limitation of time for bringing suits against the United States in certain cases. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill fixing a limitation of time for bringing suits against the United States in certain cases. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Report of Capital Issues Committee. Letter from the Chairman of the Capital Issues Committee, transmitting report of the Committee. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Report operations of the War Finance Corporation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report with respect to the operations of the War Finance Corporation. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Water terminals at cities and towns along the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Cairo. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report showing the status of water terminals at cities and towns along the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Cairo. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Disbursements for endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of disbursements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, under acts of Congress, for the endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Resale price maintenance. Letter from the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting special report dealing with the subject of resale price maintenance. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Report of the Board of Visitors to the Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting report of the Board of Visitors to the Bureau of Standards. December 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Hospital accommodations for discharged sick and disabled soldiers and sailors. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information relative to the necessity of supplying hospital accommodations for discharged sick and disabled soldiers and sailors and others entitled to treatment... December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be printed. First annual report of the War Finance Corporation. Letter from the Managing Director of War Finance Corporation transmitting report of War Finance Corporation covering operations from date of organization to November 30, 1918, inclusive. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed. Extending benefits of War-Risk Insurance Act to certain civilians employed by the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a tentative draft of a proposed bill extending the benefit of the War-Risk Insurance Act to certain civilians employed by the Army. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Cost of manufacture of guns, etc., in government arsenals. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting statement submitted by the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, of the costs of all types and experimental manufacture of guns and other articles and the average cost of the several... December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Relief of European peoples outside of Germany. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a cablegram from the President of the United States and the tentative draft of a bill appropriating$100,000,000 for the relief of European peoples outside of Germany. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Withdrawal of public lands in certain cases. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report under act authorizing the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases, covering the period of December 1, 1917, to November 30, 1918. January 20, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Pay of men discharged from the Army of Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of items of legislation for the consideration of Congress, in reference to pay on men discharged from the Army or Navy. January 11, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional taxation of life-insurance companies, etc. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from A.W. Lyman suggesting additional taxation on life-insurance companies and also federal control and operation of such companies. January 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Federal buildings and extensions. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting list of federal buildings and extensions of federal buildings which have authorized by Congress but have not so far been constructed. January 30, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. To prohibit the unauthorized use of words "navy or "naval." Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a proposed draft of a bill to prohibit the unauthorized use of the words "navy" or "naval" by any person, association, organization, agency, or corporation, and for other purposes. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Accidents to barges in tow through the open sea. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a summary of reports... and a brief statement of the action of the department both with respect to accidents sustained by barges while in tow through the open sea during the fiscal year 1918. February 22, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Administration of the so-called Overman Act. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in detail of the administration of the provisions of the so-called Overman Act, authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, etc. March 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Prohibition in the Canal Zone Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting cable message from Brig. Gen. Blatchford, in command of the Panama Canal Department, urging that everything possible be done to expedite the legislation contained in Senate Bill 5224, which passed the Senate February 25, 1919. March 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures on account of liberty loans. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of expenditures under appropriations on account of first, second, third and fourth liberty loan and war savings certificates to October 31, 1918... December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Spanish government in intimate understanding with the western powers of Europe and the United States. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting information... that the Spanish government was in intimate understanding with the western powers of Europe and the United States. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Resolution adopted by the National Assembly of Panama on signing of the armistice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a dispatch from the American minister at Panama, communicating a copy of the resolution adopted by the National Assembly of Panama on November 11... December 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Purchase and improvement of the inland waterway from Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a recommendation that an item be included in the pending river and harbor bill for the purchase of and improvement of the inland waterway from Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Importation of Porto Rican coffee free of duty, etc. Letter from the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Porto Rico transmitting petition to the Congress of the United States to include in such reciprocal commercial treaties as our nation may negotiate with Spain or any other European nation the importation of Porto Rican coffee... December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Payment to certain enlisted men. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting item of proposed legislation authorizing the War Department to make payment in full to enlisted men returning from overseas for treatment in United States hospitals. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Report of the United States Bureau of Efficiency for the period from November 1, 1917, to October 31, 1918. Analysis of pay of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting an analysis by ranks and ratings of the pay and allowances of the personnel of the Navy. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Housing of American diplomatic representatives abroad. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of State relative to housing American diplomatic representatives abroad. January 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Parkway between Rock Creek and Potomac Parks. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to provide for connecting parkway between Rock Creek and Potomac Parks. January 24, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments to appropriation bill -- Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a tentative draft of amendments desired to be incorporated in the appropriation bill for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. February 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Acquisition of the Cape Cod Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting item of tentative legislation to enable the Secretary of War to acquire and operate the Cape Cod Canal. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Port of entry at Bar Harbor, Me. Message from the President of the United States submitting information regarding the designation of Bar Harbor, Me., as a port of entry. February 26, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Interallied radio conference. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of correspondence relating generally to the subject of an interallied radio conference. March 1, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Contract for carrying mails from Seward to Anchorage, Alaska. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General, transmitting report of special contract with the Alaska Engineering Commission, for carrying the mails from Seward to Anchorage, Alaska. March 3 (calendar day, March 4), 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. National Forest Reservation Commission report. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the National Forest Reservation Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Membership of boards of selection for promotion in the naval reserve force. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to prescribe the membership of boards of selection for promotion in the naval reserve force. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Congratulations by Spanish Senate on the peace and triumph of justice over force. Letter from the Acting Secretary of State, transmitting a translation of note from the ambassador announcing that the Spanish Senate unanimously directed to be entered on its journal,... congratulations on the peace... December 17. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. |
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| Serial set 7583 |
Sales of surplus materials, Alaskan Engineering Commission. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting report showing proceeds from sale of supplies and obsolete material and equipment and collections from town-site assessments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel by officers and employees of the United States Shipping Board. Letter from the Acting Chairman United States Shipping Board, transmitting a statement of travel made by officers and employees of the United States Shipping Board from Washington, D.C., during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Employment under appropriation for valuation of carriers. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting statement showing the employment under appropriation for the valuation of carriers for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign commerce and ordered to be printed. Claims of postmasters for reimbursement of losses. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a tabular statement showing in detail the claims for postmasters for reimbursement for losses of postal, money-order, and other funds... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of the contingent expenses of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses of officers and employees of Board for Vocational Education. Letter from the Acting Chairman of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, transmitting a statement showing in detail the travel from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia performed by officers and employees... December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting statements showing, for the first four months of the current fiscal year average number of employees in... the various bureaus and offices of this department receiving increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from permanent fund of Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a report of expenditures from the permanent fund of the Sioux Indians during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses for United States Civil Service Commission. Letter from the President of United States Civil Service Commission transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers and employees of the commission have traveled on official business... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Moneys collected and deposited, deceased Indian allottees. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting report of all moneys collected and deposited during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, under the appropriation "Determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees, 1918." December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for professional services, Freedmen's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting detailed statement of expenditures for professional and other service, Freedmen's Hospital, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriters, etc., Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report relating to purchase, and exchange of typewriters and other similar, labor-saving devices during the fiscal year June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Proceeds of sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, etc., Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, and other public property for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Diversion of funds for pay of specified employees in Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a report showing the diversion of appropriations for the pay of specified employees in the Indian service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Useless executive papers -- Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting report showing condition and character of papers not needed in the transaction of business and the amount of proceeds from the sale of such papers deemed useless. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive papers and ordered to be printed. Construction of hospitals for relieving distress, etc., among Indians. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting report that no expenditures were made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, for construction of hospitals from the appropriation "Relieving distress and prevention of disease among Indians." December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Indian moneys, proceeds of labor. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, of money carried on the books of this department under the caption "Indian moneys, proceeds of labor." December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Financial report of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting financial report of St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Sales of certain war supplies, materiels, etc., under the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report showing sales of war supplies, materiel, lands, factories, or buildings and equipment, by each of the several bureaus and departments of the War Department. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase of salaries, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting estimates of appropriation for increase of salaries of officers and employees of the War Department for the fiscal year 1920. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reports to be made to Congress. Letter from the Clerk of House of Representatives, transmitting list of reports to be made to Congress by public officers during the 65th Congress. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Proceeds of public property, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, furnishing statements of moneys arising from the proceeds of public property received by the War Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses -- Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting an itemized statement of expenditures made by this department and charged to the appropriation "contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1918," for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an itemized statement of expenditures made by this department and charged to the appropriation "Repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, 1918," for the fiscal year 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting statement of typewriters and other labor-saving devices purchased and exchanged during the fiscal year 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures and allotment cost of arms, components arms, and appendages fabricated, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements submitted by the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, of the expenditures and allotment cost of arms...during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Statement of expenditures, Post Office Department. Letter from the acting Postmaster General, transmitting... a report of the amount expended in the department for the preceding fiscal year; and a report with reference to the appropriation "Increase of compensation, Post Office Department, 1919." December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for the Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting detailed statement of expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, under the appropriations for "International Exchanges," "American Ethnology,"... etc. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Admission of Antonio M. Martin Rivero to Naval Academy. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State inclosing draft of a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to permit Mr. Antonio M. Martin Rivero, a citizen of Cuba, to receive instruction... December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Travel of employees of Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of Smithsonian Institution, transmitting statement of officers and employees of the Smithsonian Institution who have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed statement of expenditures from the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase in statutory salaries of officers and employees. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communications from the heads of executive departments and other government establishments, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations... for the fiscal year 1920. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries of employees, censorship of foreign mails. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting statement showing the per annum salary of employees at each censorship station for the censorship of foreign mails as of November 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Travel in connection with official business of the United States Botanic Garden. Letter from the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden transmitting information relative to travel from Washington, D.C., in connection with official business during the fiscal year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, etc., Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, showing exchange of typewriters, adding machines, etc. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Receipts from rentals, extension of Capitol grounds. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a statement of receipts from rentals, extension of Capitol grounds for the period December 1, 1917, to October 31, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures on account of Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a statement of expenditures on account of the Indian service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation, United States Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of United States Civil Service Commission transmitting a report for the first four months of the fiscal year 1919, showing the average number of employees of the Commission receiving the increased compensation... December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Department of Justice. Letter from the 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 the fiscal year 1920. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures on account of pay patients, Freedmen's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting detailed statement of receipts and expenditures on account of pay patients, Freedmen's Hospital, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for encouraging industry among the Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry among the Indians of the various reservations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Indian tribal funds. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting estimates of receipts of Indian tribal funds; expenditures recommended therefrom by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians, and estimates of amounts required to be expended under treaty stipulations and agreements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Survey and allotment work on Indian reservations. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a statement of the cost of all survey and allotment work on Indian reservations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for purchase of cattle for Northern Cheyenne Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures made for the purchase of cattle for the Northern Cheyenne Indians on the Tongue River Reservation, Mont., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation, employees of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Letter from the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, transmitting report showing number of employees of the Committee who have received the increases of compensation at the rate of $120 per annum, for the first months of the fiscal year 1919. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the postal service, payable from postal revenues. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the postal service, and payable from postal revenues, for year 1919. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriting machines -- Library of Congress. Letter from the Secretary of Library Building and Grounds, transmitting information regarding purchases of typewriting machines, and exchanges made in part payment thereof, by Library of Congress during the fiscal year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation to employees of Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Labor, transmitting statement in relation to increased rates of compensation to employees of the Department of Labor required by section 6 of the legislative act approved July 3, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Indian Schools, support, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, relating to the appropriation "Indian Schools, support, 1918." December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for travel, Building and Grounds, Library of Congress. Letter from the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds, transmitting information relative to travel in connection with official business during the fiscal year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Subsistence for Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting report that no diversions or expenditures were made from appropriations for purchase of subsistence for the several Indians tribes during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Travel, Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, transmitting statement of all travel performed during the fiscal years ended June 30, 1917, and June 30, 1918, by officers and employees of this commission other than those who... are required to travel constantly. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures -- Bureau of Naturalization. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Labor transmitting an itemized statement of the actual expenditures during the fiscal year 1918, from the appropriations "miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 1918." December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor, and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General transmitting statement showing in detail what offices or employees have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters, etc. Letter from the President of United States Civil Service Commission, transmitting a statement showing the typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices exchanged in part payment for new machines during the fiscal year 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Recommending increases in salaries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending appropriations for certain increases in salaries of officers and employees in the Treasury Department. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries and increase of salaries -- United States Shipping Board. Letter from the Acting Chairman United States Shipping Board transmitting a statement showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation... December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from appropriation for "Unusual conditions," Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting memorandum of allowances granted payable from the appropriation for unusual conditions, for the fiscal year 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Federal Trade Commission. Letter from the Chairman of Federal Trade Commission transmitting report of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices exchanged during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees of Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting statement for first four months of the current fiscal year of average number of employees who received increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum, and average number by grades who received the same at each other rate. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from funds of Confederated Bands of Utes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of the expenditures made from tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses of officials and employees of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting a statement showing the travel of all officials and employees... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation, employees Washington office, Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement of the number of employees of the Washington office, Panama Canal, receiving increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum, etc., during first four months of the present fiscal year. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Survey of power resources by the Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the department of the fiscal year 1920. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased rates of compensation, Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting report showing number of persons, the grades and character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation under the act of June 12, 1917. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of Smithsonian Institution, transmitting information regarding purchase and exchange of typewriting machines during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees of United States Botanic Garden. Letter from the Superintendent of United States Botanic Garden, transmitting statement required by section 6, legislative act of July 3, 1918, regarding increased compensation paid employees under this office. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Commission for the fiscal year 1919. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Temporary employment in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement showing by bureaus and offices the number and designation of the persons employed temporarily in the War Department. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures on irrigation projects on Indian reservations. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting tables showing the cost and other data with respect to Indian irrigation projects as compiled to the end of the fiscal year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting statement of travel performed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, by officers and employees of the Department of Labor on official business to points outside of the District of Columbia. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Expenditures -- Court of Customs Appeals. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting a statement of expenditures of the appropriations for the United States Court of Customs Appeals for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice and ordered to be printed. Cost of operating fountains in the Union Station Plaza. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting report by the officer in charge public buildings and grounds concerning methods of reducing the cost of operating fountains in the Union Station Plaza. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for gathering naval records. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department for gathering the naval records of the war with the central powers of Europe. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Collecting revenue from customs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Per capita payments to certain Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of the expenditures made in per capita payments to the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Customhouse, New Orleans, La. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for consideration in connection with the next deficiency bill. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures, Indian School, etc., buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report fro the fiscal year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Purchase of cattle for Indians on Standing Rock Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of expenditures made for the purchase of cattle for the benefit of Indians on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from funds of Blackfeet Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement of expenditures from the tribal funds of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. New York quarantine station. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation, New York, N.Y., quarantine station, for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Auditors' statements. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting statement of expenditures in the office of the Auditor of the War Department, the office of the Auditor of the Navy Department, and the offices of the Assistant Treasurers at New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation, employees of War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements of expenditures, increase of compensation for the first four months of the fiscal year 1919. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Tariff Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the commission for the fiscal year 1919. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Encouraging industry and support among Indians, on Tongue River Reservation, Mont. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry and support among the Indians on the Tongue River Reservation, Mont., during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase in salaries of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for increase in salaries of officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1920. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees, Library Building and Grounds. Letter from the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds transmitting statement required by section 6, legislative act of July 3, 1918, regarding increased compensation paid employees under this office. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Property in charge of doorkeeper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives transmitting an inventory of all property under his charge belonging to the United States. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Report on acts of hostility by Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting report that there has been no hostilities by any tribe of Indians with which the United States has treaty stipulations during the year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Conservation of public health. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting information and recommendations relative to deficiency estimate of appropriation for the conservation of public health, transmitted October 29, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees of State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Letter from the Superintendent of State, War, and Navy Department Buildings transmitting report concerning employees of this office receiving increase of compensation. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Employees of United States Senate receiving increased compensation. Letter from the Secretary of the United States Senate transmitting report of the average number of employees of the United States Senate who receive the $120 per annum increase this year. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation employees Department of Justice. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting report of average number of employees receiving increased compensation under the act approved July 3, 1918, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees in congressional library. Letter from the Librarian of Congress transmitting statement of the average number of employees in the Library of Congress proper (including copyright office) receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum for first four months of fiscal year 1919. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement officers and employees of various bureaus of the Treasury Department, who traveled on official business to points outside of the District of Columbia, fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ended November 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Encouraging industry among the Indians. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry among the Indians of the various reservations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Library of Congress. Letter from the Librarian of Congress transmitting statement showing in detail what officers and employees have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures of the Coast Guard. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting statement of expenditures of the Coast Guard for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 1916, 1917, and 1918. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting detailed statement of expenditures from appropriations, "contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 1916,"... "1917"... and... "1918,"... December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Statement of fiscal affairs of Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement of the fiscal affairs of all Indian tribes for whose benefit expenditures from the public or tribal funds were made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation -- Ross Hazeltine. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of State, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the relief of Mr. Hazeltine, Consul at Port Antonio, Jamaica. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation required by the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required for the service of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1919. December 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriting machines. Letter from National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers transmitting statement showing typewriters exchanged, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, fiscal year 1918. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Electrical protection to subtreasury vaults. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for electrical protection to subtreasury vaults for consideration in connection with the sundry civil estimates for the fiscal year, 1920. December 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Auditing accounts abroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy a communication from the Comptroller of the Treasury submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation relating to auditing accounts abroad. December 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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Exchange of typewriters, etc. -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting annual report of typewriters, adding machines, and similar labor-saving devices exchanged during the fiscal year 1918. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Men in service of food and fuel administrations exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the President of the United States, transmitting the number of men in the service of the Food Administrator, Fuel Administrator, and all boards and commissions appointed by executive order since April 6, 1917... January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Officers of the government delinquent in their accounts. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports from accounting officers of the Treasury Department showing what officers of the government were delinquent in rendering their accounts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918... January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1920. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Correctionary deed for land of new Post Office, New York, N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting draft of proposed legislation authorizing the acceptance of a correctionary deed to the land composing the site of the new Post Office at New York City. December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers or employees have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, and ordered to be printed. Annual report Commissioner (ex officio) Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. Letter from the Commissioner (ex officio) of Freedman's Savings and Trust Co., transmitting annual report of the Freeman's Savings and Trust Co. for the year ended December 1, 1918. December 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Superintendent of State, War, and Navy Buildings. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for an assistant ... December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Employees of Department of Agriculture receiving increased compensation. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting report showing for the first four months of the fiscal year 1919... the average number, by grades, who received increased compensation at each... rate. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase in certain statutory salaries in the Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting... appropriation for increase in statutory salaries of the mechanical, laboring, watch, and messenger forces of the Interior Department for the fiscal year 1920. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed -- Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement showing the documents received and distributed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Places, quantity, and price of seeds purchased by Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting detailed statement showing the places, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the dates of purchase, as required by the Act of March 4, 1917. December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Increase of salary of bookkeeper, Office of Treasurer of United States. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for an increase in the salary of the principal bookkeeper of the Office of the Treasurer of the United States for the fiscal year 1920. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses of employees of Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers or employees...have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Additional clerical force, office of the Attorney General. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for additional clerical force in the office of the Attorney General for the fiscal year 1920. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for preventing the spread of epidemic diseases. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures under the appropriation, "Preventing the spread of epidemic diseases," for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Vehicles maintained by the Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting statement showing for the fiscal year 1918, the motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats purchased by the Department of Agriculture for use outside of the District of Columbia.... December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, a statement showing the exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices in the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1918. December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1919. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of national forest funds. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, report of contributions of account of cooperative work with the Forest Service, and the amount refunded to depositors on account of excess deposits, national forest fund, for the fiscal year 1918. December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations for the Lighthouse Service. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, inviting attention to items in the estimates of appropriations for the Lighthouse Service for the fiscal year 1920. December 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Persons employed, Bureau of Animal Industry. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a detailed report showing the names of all persons employed... for the suppression of contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases of domestic animals... fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. State and other employees paid from appropriation of Bureau of Chemistry. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting statement showing sums paid... officers or other persons employed by state, county, or municipal government. December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Employees receiving increased compensation, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting statement showing the number of employees and their compensation... who are detailed for duty in connection with clerical work of the bureau. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting detailed statement of the manner in which the appropriation "Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, 1918," has been expended. December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Distribution of official documents, regulations, manuals, publications, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Adjutant General of the Army, together with report showing distribution of official documents... pertaining to the War Department, made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the Department of Commerce. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting statement of expenditures of Commerce, fiscal year 1918. December 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Alien Property Custodian. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Alien Property Custodian, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for salaries and expenses of his office for the fiscal year 1919. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for collecting the customs revenues. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting revised estimate of appropriation for defraying the cost of collecting the customs revenues for the fiscal year 1920. December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Chief, Division of Publications. Letter from the Secretary of the Department of Commerce transmitting a copy of the report of the Chief of the Division of Publications of this department of the fiscal year 1918, which contains a detailed statement of publications received and the number distributed by this department during the fiscal December 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Sale of three abandoned Customs boarding stations at New Orleans, La. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting draft of legislation for the sale of three abandoned Customs boarding stations at New Orleans, La., known as the Jump, Southwest Pass, and Pass a L'Outre, ... December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for office of Auditor for State and Other Departments. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the office of the Auditor for State and other Departments for the fiscal year 1919. December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of maintenance, Division of Industrial Hygiene. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, for the maintenance for the Division of Industrial Hygiene. December 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Statement of expenditures for the Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement of expenditures under the contingent appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Sale of waste paper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives transmitting a statement of money received from the sale of waste paper from December 1, 1917, to December 1, 1918. December 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Treasury Department employees receiving increased compensation. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting statements showing for the four months ending October 31, 1918, the average number of employees of the Treasury Department proper, and of the field service of the Department, receiving increased compensation... December 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Detail of a national bank examiner as Chief of Examining Division, Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of legislation for the inclusion in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for increase in salaries of officers and employees, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for increase in salaries of officers and employees of the War Department and Military Academy for the fiscal year 1920. December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimated appropriation required by Office of Auditor for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Office of the Auditor for the War Department for the fiscal year 1919. December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Precedence to permanent officers in the higher grades of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to give precedence to permanent officers in the higher grades of the Navy. December 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriters, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement showing exchanges made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices by the Navy Department and naval establishment, ... December 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Observation of the eclipse of the sun of May 28, 1919. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation, for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill, relative to the appropriation for observation of the eclipse of the sun... December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for buildings and grounds at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 1919. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations for the building and grounds at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, fiscal year 1919. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Government Printing Office employees -- increased compensation. Letter from the Public Printer, transmitting estimate of the average number of employees of the Government Printing Office to receive increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum and one employee to receive increased compensation... December 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriters, Government Printing Office. Letter from the Public Printer transmitting statement relative to purchases, exchanges, and repairs of typewriter machines in the Government Printing Office covering the period from July 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. December 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for lower Yellowstone reclamation project, Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for repairing damages to the lower Yellowstone reclamation project, Montana. December 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses of employees from office of one surveyor general to another. Letter from the Secretary of Interior, transmitting traveling expenses incident to the detail of employees from the office of one surveyor general to another during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures, contingencies of the Army, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of expenditures on account of appropriation "Contingencies of the Army" during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 2, 1919, -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for office of Treasurer of United States. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting urgent estimates of appropriation required by the office of the Treasurer of the United States for the fiscal year 1919. December 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Chief Clerk and Superintendent of Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting urgent estimate of appropriations required by the Treasury Department, Office of Chief Clerk and Superintendent, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. December 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for certain public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting items to be included in the sundry civil bill for the fiscal year 1920. December 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation, employees under governor of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the average number of employees under the governor of Alaska receiving increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claim for damages -- explosion and fire at Morgan, N.J. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of a board appointed to ascertain and determine the amounts due on claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosion and fire at the plant at the T.A. Gillespie Loading Co. at Morgan, N.J. January 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disbursements of Committee on Public Information. Letter from the Chairman of Committee on Public Information, transmitting schedule of disbursements for the fiscal year 1919. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Guarding German and Austrian vessels. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation, submitted by the assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the Customs Service, for the payment of expenses of laborers at the port of New York engaged in guarding German and Austrian vessels from February to August, 1917, inclusive. December 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reclamation of waste materials. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Department of Commerce for the reclamation of waste materials, fiscal year 1920. December 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for additional employees for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury... submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for additional employees for the fiscal year 1920, being an increase over the amount asked in the Book of Estimates... December 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Department of Agriculture for the eradication of the potato wart. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... for the eradication of the potato wart. December 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Employees of War Department exempted from military service. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting list showing the number of men in the service of the War Department at Washington for whom requests for exemption from military duty or deferred classification were asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Military exemptions allowed by the Department of Justice. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting lists of men, employees of the Department of Justice, for whom requests for exemption from military duty or deferred classification were asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Employees of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, deferred classification. Letter from the Secretary of the United States Shipping Board transmitting a statement showing all the employees of the Emergency Fleet Corporation who have been given deferred classification. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Mines -- lignite coal as fuel. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Mines for the service of the fiscal year 1920 to carry on the investigation for utilization of lignite coal as fuel. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Men in service of Department of Labor exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor transmitting a list of employees of the Department of Labor for whom requests for deferred classification were asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Exemption or deferred classification of certain employees of the Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting a statement showing the names of employees of the Department of Agriculture for whom request for exemption or deferred classification have been asked and allowed. January 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting a detailed report showing publications received and distributed by the Department of Agriculture during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture, submitting a supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Agriculture for the general expenses of the Forest Service, fiscal year 1919. December 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for General Supply Committee. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting estimate of appropriation, with the request that the same be included in the deficiency appropriation bill now pending in Congress. December 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for expenses of international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, 1920. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the expenses of international exchanges... December 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from Secretary of Commerce, transmitting statement of the expenditures in the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. December 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for certain light stations. Letter from the Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, submitting estimate of appropriation required for certain light stations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. December 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for buildings, etc., at Hot Springs Reservation, Ark. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication... submitting a paragraph of legislation extending during the fiscal year 1920 the appropriations and authorization made by the act of July 1, 1918. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation paid employees of Navy yards and naval stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing the average number of employees at the various Navy yards and naval stations paid increased compensation during the first four months of the present fiscal year. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commissioned officers and enlisted men assigned to clerical work in the War Department. Letter from Acting Secretary of War, submitting names of men in the active or reserve forces of the military establishment, commissioned or enlisted, who have been assigned to clerical work and placed in deferred classification by reason of such assignment. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. List of claims dismissed November 4, 1918, in the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of United States Court of Claims, transmitting list of claims dismissed November 4, 1918, on motion of claimants' attorney. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Men in the service of the Treasury Department exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of employees for whom requests for exemption from military duty or deferred classifications have been asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Men in service of Department of Commerce exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting list of employees of the Department of Commerce for whom exemption from military duty or deferred classification have been asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Employees of Department of the Interior exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement showing the number of employees of the Department of the Interior for whom exemption from military duty or deferred classification has been asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Men in service of Federal Trade Commission exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Federal Trade Commission transmitting a statement of the number of men in the service of the commission exempted from military duty or placed in deferred classification on request of the commission. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Employees of United States Shipping Board exempted from military duty, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the United States Shipping Board, transmitting statement of employees of the United States Shipping Board... who have been exempted from military duty or given deferred classification. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Old post office and courthouse building at El Paso, Tex. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting information relative to remodeling and repairing present post office building at El Paso, Tex. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for regulation of explosives. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a substitute estimate of appropriation for regulation of explosives by the Bureau of Mines. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Men in service of State Department exempt from military duty, etc. Letter from the President of the United States, transmitting, with a letter from the Secretary of State, the number of men in the service of the State Department for whom exemption from military duty or deferred classification has been asked and allowed. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Repairs and alterations to certain public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriation with the recommendation that they be given favorable consideration for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1920. January 6, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Health Department, District of Columbia -- contagious diseases. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Health Department of the District of Columbia, for preventing the spread of contagious diseases, fiscal year 1919. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for repairs to old Marine Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation with the recommendation that it be given favorable consideration for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1920. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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Deficiency appropriation for the District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations... February 12, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Geological Survey... for the fiscal year 1920. January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, etc., Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules and lists of papers, documents, etc., not needed in the transaction of business and of no permanent value or historical interest. January 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, and ordered to be printed. Substitute estimate of appropriations. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the executive secretary of the Interdepartmental Social Hygienic Board, submitting estimate of appropriation for 1920. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Letter from the President of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., transmitting annual report for the year 1918. February 26, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, Department of Justice. Letter from the 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 the fiscal years 1919 and 1920. February 20, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Civil Service Commission submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required for traveling expenses for the fiscal year 1918. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for construction and operation of railroads in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, report of expenditures under appropriation "Construction and operation of railroads in Alaska" to and including September 30, 1918... January 14, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Relief of officers of the Engineer Corps and others. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of claims for the relief of officers of the Engineer Corps of the Army, and for other purposes. January 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year 1920. January 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Useless papers in Department of Commerce. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting report of an accumulation of documents and files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of the department and have no permanent value or historical interest, as shown by the statement transmitted herewith. January 16, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for salaries of Joint Munitions Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Assistant Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the Joint Munitions Patent Board of the War and Navy Department, fiscal year 1920. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Heating State, War, and Navy and other buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy buildings, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required for expense of heating the buildings under his control... January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committe[e] on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation required by the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year 1920. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures from nonmilitary residents and transportation companies at Fort Moroe [i.e., Monroe], Va. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting a detailed report of all receipts and expenditures of special contingent funds which the United States collects from nonmilitary residents and transportation companies at Fort Monroe, Va. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in War Department and ordered to be printed. Extending appropriation for memorial to Gen. U.S. Grant. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War... of proposed legislation extending, for the fiscal year 1920, the appropriation made... August 1, 1914, for expenses... dedicating the memorial to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Federal Board for Vocational Education. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Chairman of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Federal Board for Vocational Education for the fiscal year 1920. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by Treasury Department for freight, telegraph, and telephone service, fiscal year 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Treasury Department for freight and telegraph and telephone service for the fiscal year 1919. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claim of owners of steamship "Esparta." Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, record of judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana regarding claim of the owners of steamship "Esparta." January 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for payment of list of judgments rendered against United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered against the government by the district courts of the United States, which require an appropriation for their payment. January 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay of enlisted men serving as field clerks. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a bill relating to the pay of retired enlisted men serving as field clerks. January 22, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for developing aquatic sources of leather. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting a paragraph of legislation providing that the unexpended balance of the appropriation for developing aquatic sources of leather ... January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Columbia Institution for the Deaf. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations, required for current expenses of the institution during the remainder of the fiscal year 1919. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Restoring and improving light station at Execution Rocks, New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1919. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Public Health Service for the fiscal year 1920. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Julius King. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Julius King, brother of Walter B. King, deceased, against the United States. January 11, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Heirs of Frederick J. Hurlbut, deceased. Letter from the Assistant Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harry R. Hurlbut, Sherman R. Hurlbut, Elizabeth J. Hurlbut, and Horace A. Hurlbut, heirs of Frederick J. Hurlbut, deceased, against the United States. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Geological Survey for topographic surveys in the United States, fiscal year 1919. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Civilian engineers employed in work of improving rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army... showing the name of each civilian engineer employed between July 1, 1917, and June 30, 1918, in the work of improving rivers and harbors. January 9, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Pay of chief pay clerks and chief pharmacists. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting proposed draft of a bill providing for readjustment of the rates of pay of chief pay clerks and chief pharmacists of the Navy. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriation, Government Printing Office, fiscal year 1919. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Public Printer, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Government Printing Office for the fiscal year 1919. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Co. Letter from the President East Washington Traction Railroad Co., transmitting report of the East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Co., for the year ending December 31, 1918. February 1, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Statement of business of the Washington Gas Light Co. Letter from the President of the Washington Gas Light Co. transmitting a detailed statement of the business of the Washington Gas Light Co., with a list of its stockholders, for the year ending December 31, 1918. February 1, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Georgetown Gas Light Co. Letter from the President of the Georgetown Gas Light Co., transmitting a detailed statement of the business of the Georgetown Gas Light Co., together with a list of stockholders, for the year ended December 31, 1918. February 1, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Capital Traction Co. Letter from the President of the Capital Traction Co. transmitting report of the Capital Traction Co. for the year ending December 31, 1918. January 31, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting report of expenditures on account of appropriation for contingent expenses of the War Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. January 30, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Supplemental statement by the War Department under urgent deficiency Act of June 15, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting supplemental statement showing balances of appropriation, total amounts withdrawn from the Treasury... since passage of the Act of June 15, 1917. January 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Metal file boxes, Bureau of Pensions. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation, required by the Commissioner of Pensions for the purchase of metal file boxes for filing papers in pension claims, fiscal year 1919. February 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for the War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for censorship of mails, enforcement of the Trading With the Enemy and Espionage Acts... February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Bureau of Education. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Education for traveling expenses, fiscal year 1919. February 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Navy, contingent. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation for contingent, Navy, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. February 15, 1919. -- 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 communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Commerce for the Fiscal year 1919. February 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for General Land Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication to the Secretary of the Interior submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the General Land Office for classification of lands involved in the Oregon... forfeiture suit. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations required by Treasury Department, 1920, and for prior years. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1920 and for prior years. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Capt. J.S. Carpenter. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of Capt. J.S. Carpenter, pay corps, United States Navy. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. The Baltimore quarantine station. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for the purchase of the Baltimore quarantine station. February 14, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Lieut D.A. Neumann. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of Lieut D.A. Neumann, Pay Corps, United States Naval Reserve Force. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation, payable from the postal revenues for twine and tying devices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Passenger-carrying vehicles, Geological Survey. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed clause of legislation... for general expenses of the Geological Survey. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers -- Postmaster General. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting list of records, papers, and documents recommended for destruction. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Appropriation to pay a claim for damages by collision, river and harbor work. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay a claim for damages by collision, river and harbor work... February 19, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a tentative draft of suggested amendments, which provides for the relief of officers and for the settlement of certain claims. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses, State, War, and Navy buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Buildings, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required for salaries and expenses of temporary office buildings... fiscal year 1920. February 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. General expenses, Office of Supervising Architect. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of legislation for inclusion in the general deficiency appropriation bill. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Office of Treasurer of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the National Bank Redemption Agency of the Office of the Treasurer of the United States... the same to be reimbursed by the banks. February 19, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Leases granted by the Secretary of War. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting list of leases granted by the Secretary of War during the fiscal year 1918. February 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for relief of influenza sufferers of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation, required for the relief of Eskimos and other natives of Alaska suffering from influenza... February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Repeal of certain housing appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor, transmitting an item of repeal of certain appropriations for housing war needs, together with an authorization in connection therewith for incorporation in the sundry civil act. February 19, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Administration and protection of Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of appropriation... for administration and protection of the Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for national security and defense. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of State, submitting, at the request of the President, an estimate of an appropriation for the national security and defense. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Protection of timber on Oregon & California railroad lands. 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 required by the department for protecting timber on the Oregon... January 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for payment of a list of judgments rendered by Court of Claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, which have been presented to the Treasury Department and require an appropriation for their payment. January 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by Navy Department, Navy emergency fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1919. January 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures for travel, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting a statement showing in detail the travel... performed by officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture on official business during the fiscal year 1918. January 14, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for printing and binding, Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Labor, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for public printing and binding for the department... January 16, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Letter from the President of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. for the year 1918. January 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates required for the fiscal year 1919 by the Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimates of appropriations required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, by the Public Health Service. January 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Bureau of Fisheries for the employment of instructors in the Alaskan herring industry. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation... for the employment of instructors in the Alaskan herring industry. January 23, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Conserving farm labor, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Department of Agriculture for... fiscal year 1920. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Authorizing a credit in the accounts of George W. Evans. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation authorizing a credit in the accounts of George W. Evans, chief disbursing clerk. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for dedication of Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel, Va. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Commission, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for expenses of dedicating the Amphitheater and Chapel. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation required by War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year 1919. January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by Bureau of Fisheries for the fiscal year 1919. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Substitute estimate of appropriation, Department of Agriculture, fiscal year 1920. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture, submitting a substitute estimate of appropriation, required by the Department of Agriculture for farmers' cooperative demonstration work... January 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1919. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the fiscal year 1919. January 25, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, maintenance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War... submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the care... of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, Arlington National Cemetery, Va., fiscal year 1920. January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Extending unexpended appropriation, Bureau of the Census. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, submitting a paragraph of legislation extending for the fiscal year 1920 the unexpended balance of appropriation made by act of July 3, 1918, for punching machines, Fourteenth Census. January 24, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, rent of buildings, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for rent of buildings for the War Department for the fiscal year 1919. January 25, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, railroad administration. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Director General of Railroads, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the federal control of transportation systems. January 24, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Flood control of Mississippi River -- supplemental estimate. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department for flood control of the Mississippi River, in addition to the sum heretofore estimated for. January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation to reimburse certain fish packers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Fisheries to reimburse fish packers for certain losses. January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. American University Experiment Station, Bureau of Mines. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Bureau of Mines for the American University Experiment Station, fiscal year 1920. January 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for purchase of land for Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required to complete the pending purchase of land for the Bureau of Standards. January 30, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Geological Survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation...for a special investigation... power supply for the Boston-Washington industrial region... January 28, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Precedence of temporary officers in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to regulate the precedence of temporary officers in the Navy. January 29. 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Washington & Old Dominion Railway. Letter from the President of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway, transmitting report for the 12 months ending December 31, 1918. January 29, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for armament of fortifications, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the War Department for armament of fortifications and fortifications of insular possessions. February 6, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Retirement as master signal electricians of certain enlisted men of the regular Army. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting a copy of a bill providing for retirement as master signal electricians, enlisted men of the regular Army who have heretofore been discharged to accept commissions in the Army of the United States during the present emergency. February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers in the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting list of documents and papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of the department, and have no permanent value or historical interest. February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments. Estate of Capt. Belvedere Brooks et al. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a bill to relieve the estate of the late Capt. Belvedere Brooks, and Capt. Samuel I. Zeidner, Capt. C.W. Gaylord, and Lieut. John V.D. Bebell from responsibility or accountability for the sum of $173,26 lost in battle. February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation United States Shipping Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Shipping Board for ... fiscal year 1919. February 6, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. United States Shipping Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, submitting a substitute estimate of appropriation required by the United States Shipping Board for the fiscal year 1920 ... February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of Washington Interurban Railroad Co. Letter from the President of Washington Interurban Railroad Co., transmitting report of the Washington Interurban Railroad Co. for the year ended December 31, 1918. February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Appropriation to defray expenses incident to dedication of Lincoln Memorial. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the Lincoln Memorial Association, submitting an estimate of appropriation required to defray the expenses incident to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of additional land at Walter Reed General Hospital, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required for purchase of additional land at Walter Reed Hospital, District of Columbia. February 6, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. West breakwater at Kahului Harbor, Hawaii. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required for completing the west breakwater at Kahului Harbor, Hawaii. February 5, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of Potomac Electric Power Co. Letter from the President of Potomac Electric Power Co., transmitting report of the Potomac Electric Power Co. for the year ended December 31, 1918. February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Appropriation to pay claims for damages by collision in connection with river and harbor work. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay claims for damages by collision, river and harbor work... February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims for damages by naval vessels. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay claims for damages by naval vessels adjusted by the Navy Department. February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co., 1918. Letter from the President of the Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co. transmitting report of the Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co. for the year ended December 31, 1918. February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Report of Washington Railway & Electric Co. for the year 1918. Letter from the President of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., transmitting report of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. for the year ending December 31, 1918. February 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriations for National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. February 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Civil Service Commission submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the commission for additional cost of envelopes for the fiscal year 1919. February 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation -- Post Office Department and postal service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Postmaster General, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Post Office Department and postal service. February 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Substitute appropriation for administration of the National Park Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a substitute estimate of appropriation... for administration of the National Park Service, in lieu of estimate heretofore submitted. February 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General, submitting supplemental and deficiency estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Justice for the fiscal years 1920, 1919, 1918. February 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Department of Labor, fiscal year 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Labor for increased cost of envelopes, fiscal year 1919. February 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for heating Smithsonian Institution building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation to enable the institution to heat... February 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Water supply for Cape Charles Quarantine Station. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of appropriation to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide water supply for Cape Charles Quarantine Station. February 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rents from properties located on sites of proposed public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting reports as to the rents received from properties located on sites of proposed public buildings purchased by the United States government in Washington, D.C. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Estimates for relief of certain officers and others. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting copies of certain estimates for the relief of officers, and for other purposes. February 7, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency Naval establishment -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department ... February 12, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Watertown Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department of the Army for Watertown Arsenal testing machines, fiscal year 1920. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Pan American Union, fiscal year 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of State, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Pan American Union for printing and binding, fiscal year 1919. February 10, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Fisheries for a power lighter for Alaska fur-seal islands for the fiscal year 1919. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for the Coast Guard. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriation to cover amount required to complete the Coast Guard cutters authorized by act of August 29, 1916, March 4, 1917, and March 28, 1918. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for Library of Congress. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Librarian of Congress submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Library of Congress for distribution of card indexes, fiscal year 1919. February 15, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for Geological Survey. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Geological Survey for examination and classification of lands for homesteads, fiscal year 1919. February 15, 1919. -- 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 communication of the Secretary of State submitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Department of State for the fiscal year 1919. February 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate for the Government Printing Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Public Printer submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Superintendent of Documents for general expenses and distribution of documents, for the fiscal year 1919. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Fire protection for appraisers' stores, New York City. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriation with the recommendation that it be given favorable consideration for inclusion in the general deficiency appropriation bill. February 20, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Police Court, District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation... fiscal year 1919. February 20, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Accounts of Sydney E. Smith. Letter from the Secretary of the War, inviting attention to House document No. 832, Sixty-fifty Congress, second session, transmitting a recommendation for necessary legislation for a credit in the accounts of Sydney E. Smith, disbursing clerk of the War Department. February 22, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Report of Board of directors of Panama Railroad Co. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting annual report of the Board of Directors of the Panama Railroad Co. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. February 26, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs, and message ordered to be printed. Regulation of civil aerial navigation, including estimate of appropriation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the United States, inclosing with his approval a proposed draft of legislation recommended by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics... February 26, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Quartermaster Corps, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation, required by the War Department for "General appropriations, Quartermasters Corps, 1919." February 26, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Gillespie plant explosion. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting supplemental report of the claims determined to January 24 by the board appointed to consider, ascertain, and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages... explosion at the plant of the T.A. Gillespie Loading Co. at Morgan, N.J. January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriations, expenditures, and balances, Department of State, 1918. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting statement from the Acting Secretary of State... of appropriations, expenditures, and balances of appropriations under the Department of State for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. March 3, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for completion of Alaska Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the completion of the Alaska Railroad. February 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, deficiency. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, Chairman of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Commission, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required to supply a deficiency... January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mary R. Greiner, widow of Henry C. Greiner. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary R. Greiner, widow of Henry C. Greiner, deceased, against the United States. January 11, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required for expenses of executing writs of lunacy, fiscal year 1919. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional estimate of appropriations for Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting additional estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1919. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report of Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator & Railway Co. Letter from the Vice President of the Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator & Co. transmitting annual report for the year 1918. January 8, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by postal service -- purchase of twine. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the postal service for the fiscal year 1919. January 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report, City & Suburban Railway of Washington. Letter from the President of the City & Suburban Railway of Washington, transmitting report of the City & Suburban Railway of Washington for the year ended December 31, 1918. February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Additional building for Hygienic Laboratory. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a request that funds be provided for the construction of the additional buildings for laboratory purposes and research work, etc., in connection with the Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Service, Washington, D.C. January 16, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Refunds of customs duties. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a detailed statement of the refunds of customs duties, etc., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, as required by paragraph Y, section III, of the tariff Act of October 3, 1913. January 18, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for sanitary fill at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for a sanitary fill at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Refund of head tax, Bureau of Immigration. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Immigration for refund of head tax... February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed, Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting list of documents received and the number distributed by the Department of Labor during the fiscal year 1918. February 13, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor, and ordered to be printed. Salary of Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... to increase the salary of the Superintendent of the Arlington Cemetery from $1,200 to $1,800. January 21, 1919. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. |
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