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Serial set 8733 Proceedings of the 28th annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Providence, Rhode Island. September 4-9, 1927. 1
Serial set 8734 Claims for damages, War Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay claims for damages to or loss of privately owned property in the sum of $322.13... December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Judgments against the government under the Interior Department, and the Navy, Treasury, and War Departments. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, which have been submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury, and require an appropriation for their payment. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Cumulative sinking fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting report on the cumulative sinking fund. December 6, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Proposed legislation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation for consideration in connection with the estimates of appropriations for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, under the appropriation title "Air Corps, Army." January 12, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations for Bureau of Lighthouses; Coast and Geodetic Survey; and additional employees, Patent Office. Communication from the President of the United States, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting in all to $209,450. January 13, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Stream pollution in the United States. Monograph relating to the pollution and obstruction of navigable streams in the United States by sewage and industrial wastes.
Federal Oil Conservation Board. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation to continue available until June 30, 1928, the appropriation of $50,000 for the expenses of the Federal Oil Conservation Board for the fiscal year 1925 and 1926... January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Estimate of appropriations for Juvenile Court, District of Columbia. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for compensation of jurors, Juvenile Court $1,500. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
John Emile and Peoples Bank of Mobile, Ala. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting record of judgment rendered against the government by the United States district court for the Southern District of Florida, as submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Miscellaneous items for the District government. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $93,745, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, $28,620, in all $122,365. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Seventh annual report of the Perry's Victory Memorial Commission. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the seventh annual report of the Perry's Victory Memorial Commission for the year ending December 1, 1926. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed with illustrations.
Judgments rendered against the United States under the Department of Commerce and War Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district courts... which requires an appropriation for their payment. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Postal Savings System. Letter from the Postmaster General transmitting annual report of operations of the Board of Trustees of the Postal Savings System for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926. December 6, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Salaries, Library of Congress. Communication from President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation pertaining to the legislative establishment, Library of Congress, for the fiscal year 1928, in the sum of $10,380. January 6, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriation for export industries, Department of Commerce. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce, for export industries, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $50,000. January 6, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Livestock damaged or destroyed by hurricanes in Florida. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation approving the action taken by the Secretary of Agriculture, in using funds... to extend immediate relief to owners of crops... destroyed by hurricanes in the State of Florida... January 5, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Kate C. Rawson and Annie K. Fernald. Message from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation under the legislative establishment, United States Senate, for the fiscal year 1927, in the sum of $20,000. January 7, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Changes in the Customs Service. Message from the President of the United States transmitting list of changes in the organization of the Customs Service which have been made by executive order since the last report. December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain - International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain. Message from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928... January 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Salaries, Secret Service Division. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Treasury Department, Secret Service Division, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $766.67. December 20, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Laying water mains and enlarging Reno Reservoir. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for the laying of water mains and for an addition to Reno Reservoir... December 22, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Central Power Plant, Fort Mills, Corregidor, P.I., and annuity to Clyde L. West. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting two supplemental estimates of appropriation for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to a total of $310,193.33. December 22, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Claims allowed by the General Accounting Office. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting schedules of claims amounting to $538,199.39, allowed by the various divisions of the General Accounting Office, as covered by certificates of settlements. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Judgments against the government under the Navy Department and the United States Railroad Administration. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania... January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Petersburg National Military Park. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for commencing the establishment of a national park at the battle fields of the Siege of Petersburg, Va., $15,000. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriation for Indian supplies. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, for the fiscal years 1923, 1924, and 1926, amounting in the aggregate to $96,303.11. January 6, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed.
Expenses of loans and expenditures from repayments of foreign loans. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting reports on expenses of loans and expenditures from repayments of foreign loans through the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926. December 6, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Message of the President of the United States communicated to the two houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, 1926.
Annual report of the Architect of the Capitol for the year ending June 30, 1926. December 6, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Survey of American battle fields for commemorative purposes. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the preliminary plan of the Secretary of War by which the investigation and survey of American battle fields for commemorative purposes, can, in his opinion, be most economically carried out. December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Miscellaneous items, House of Representatives. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting deficiency estimates of appropriations under the legislative establishment, House of Representatives, for the fiscal year 1922, and prior years, in the sum of $2,570.30. December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
National Park Service, fighting forest fires. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $235,000. December 11, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Claims for damages, Post Office Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting four communications from the Postmaster General submitting estimates of appropriations in the sum of $12,244.03, to pay claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property... December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Refunding internal revenue taxes illegally collected. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting an estimate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, for refunding internal-revenue taxes illegally collected, $175,000,000. December 11, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of an inspection of the several branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers by an officer of the Inspector General's Department. December 8, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Expenses, Commission of Fine Arts. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the Commission of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, in the amount of $1,500. December 11, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Increase of the Navy -- construction and machinery. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation for consideration in connection with the estimates of appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, under the appropriation title "increase of the Navy". December 10, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Conditions in Nicaragua. Message from the President of the United States transmitting to the Congress of the United States the conditions and the action of the government in the present disturbances in Nicaragua. January 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Legislative establishment, Architect of Capitol. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation, under the legislative establishment, Senate Office Building, for the fiscal year 1927, in the sum of $5,000. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Supervising Architect, Treasury Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, pertaining to the Office of the Supervising Architect, $32,569.28. December 20, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Proposed legislation. Message from the President of the United States transmitting herewith for the consideration of Congress, and without revision, a paragraph of legislation relative to an existing appropriation submitted by the Architect of the Capitol. January 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Utilization of waste products from the land, Bureau of Standards. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting report of a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce, for utilization of waste products from the land, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $50,000. January 15, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Claims for damages to privately owned property. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting estimates of appropriations submitted by the several executive departments to pay claims for damages to privately owned property in the sum of $14,930.24... January 13, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribal funds. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $125,000; also proposed appropriations of Indian tribal funds, $60,288.88... January 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Inland Waterways Corporation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until expended. January 4, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Records of judgments against the government under the Navy and Treasury Departments. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district courts, as submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury... January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ending December 4, 1926. Letter from the Chief Clerk, United States Court of Claims, transmitting statement of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ending December 4, 1926. December 6, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed.
Reports to be made to Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting list of reports to be made to Congress by public officers during the Sixty-ninth Congress. December 6, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed.
World War Adjusted Compensation Act. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report of the Adjutant General of the Army dated December 6, 1926, relative to the administration of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act so far as the War Department is concerned. December 7, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Claims of German nationals against the United States. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report concerning the claims against the United States presented by the German government on behalf of the heirs or representatives of the German nationals, John Adolf, Hermann Pegel, Franz Lipfert, Albert Wittenburg, Karl Behr, and Hans Dechantsreiter, for various amounts aggregating $461.59. December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Claims for damages, Department of Commerce. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay a claim for damages to privately owned property in the sum of $20... December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Repairs and furnishings of the Executive Mansion. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation to extend the availability of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 for extraordinary repairs and refurnishings of the Executive Mansion. December 11, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Administration of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy transmitting report by the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and the Major General Commandant United States Marine Corps relative to the administration of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act. December 8, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.
Conference at Honolulu, Hawaii. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting an estimate for the Department of the Interior... for expenses of a conference on education, rehabilitation, reclamation, and recreation to be held at Honolulu, Hawaii, April 11 to 16, 1927, $20,000. December 11, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed.
Claims for damages for collision with lighthouse vessels. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay claims for damages to privately owned property in the sum of $549.79... December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Second Pan American Conference on Highways. Message from the President of the United States transmitting report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, to the end that legislation may be enacted authorizing an appropriation of $15,000 to enable the United States to participate in the second Pan American Conference on Highways... January 8, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Salaries, officers and employees, House of Representatives. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation under the legislative establishment House of Representatives, for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, in the sum of $11,652. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Forest Service, forest roads and trails -- administration of the Warehouse Act. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting estimates of appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1927 for fighting and preventing forest fires, for forest roads and trails... December 20, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for improvement of the channel and harbor at the naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $2,805,000. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Ordnance and ordnance stores; Naval Station, San Diego, Calif.; Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va.; aviation, Navy. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriation for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, consisting of five items amounting to $2,027,000. December 22, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Improving Botanic Garden. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation under the legislative establishment, Botanic Garden, for the fiscal year 1927, in the sum of $4,000. December 20, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the United States Commission of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, in the amount of $14,000. December 22, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Records of judgments against the government under the War Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district courts, submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury... January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. 		63
Serial set 8735 Department of Agriculture; appropriations and legislation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1927... in all, $88,960; also a draft of proposed legislation affecting existing appropriation. February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Regulating immigration. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Bureau of Immigration, Department of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $500,000. January 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed
For the relief of W.F. Morgareidge. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $364.30. February 12, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Relief of distress among certain Indians. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year... for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indians [i.e., Indian] Affairs, for the relief of distress among the needy patent-fee Indians of the Turtle Mountain Band... February 19, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Books and fees of commissioners, United States courts. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting deficiency estimates of appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1924 and 1925, amounting to $44.75. February 23, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed
Judgments against the United States, under the Treasury Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district court for the Northern District of California, as submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Immigration stations. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Bureau of Immigration, Department of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, amounting to $237,000. February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Tariff Commission. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the United States Tariff Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, in the amount of $49,000. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Estimate and proposed legislation, State Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting deficiency estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1926, amounting to $713.16, and supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928 amounting to $196,815.99, also two drafts of proposed legislation affecting existing appropriations. February 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Auxiliary fish-cultural station, Nebraska. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of Commerce for auxiliary fish-cultural stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $70,000. January 20, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
International Trade Exhibition. Communication from the President of the United States, transmitting an estimate for the corporation known as the International Trade Exhibition for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $150,000. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Census of agriculture, Bureau of the Census. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for the census of agriculture, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until June, 30, 1928, amounting to $100,000. February 19, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Office of Indian Affairs. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1927... for reconnaissance work on lands of several Indian pueblos in New Mexico, $50,000, and for purchase of land for the Indians of the Jicarilla Reservation... February 23, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Military posts. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until expended, for providing barracks for one regiment of infantry less one battalion, at Fort Jay, Governors Islands, N.Y. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Folding speeches and pamphlets. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment, House of Representatives, for the fiscal year 1927, in the amount of $3,000. February 24, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Preparatory Commission on Armaments. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $75,000. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Irrigation systems, Flathead Reservation, Mont. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting an item of proposed legislation affecting existing appropriations for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, for the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, for construction work on the irrigation systems... February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Meade Memorial Commission. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Meade Memorial Commission for the fiscal year 1927... to defray part of the expenses to be incurred in the dedication of the memorial to Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, $2,500. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Waterways treaty, United States and Great Britain. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $25,000. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Economic conference, Geneva, Switzerland. Communication from the President of the United States, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $15,000. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Statue of Henry Clay in Caracas, Venezuela. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $41,000; also a draft of proposed legislation affecting an existing appropriation. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Foreign missions and oil pollution. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $70,000; also a draft of proposed legislation affecting an existing appropriation. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Subsistence of the Army. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for the War Department, for the subsistence of the Army, $4,409,077. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Survey of conditions at Seattle, Wash.; San Pedro, Calif.; Malden, Mass.; and Juneau, Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster General, transmitting recommendations based on surveys made of existing conditions in Seattle, Wash.; San Pedro, Calif.; Malden, Mass.; and Juneau, Alaska. February 26, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Federal Radio Commission. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Federal Radio Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, amounting to $115,000. February 26, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Wireless communication. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerce, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928... and... continuation... of availability of the unexpended balance of the appropriation, "Enforcement of wireless communication law," fiscal year 1927. February 26, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Reclamation and rural development in the South. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a report of... reclamation and rural development in the South and a report on swamp and overflow lands in the Yazoo basin, Miss. In two parts. Part 1. Rural development in the South. February 26, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Public roads in the Virgin Islands of the United States. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year... for the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of public highways in the Virgin Islands of the United States. February 26, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Seed-grain loan for crop of 1927. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1927 for the purpose of making advances or loans to farmers in the drought and storm stricken area of the United States, $8,600,000. February 26, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Report of the Director General of Railroads, January, 1926. Message from the President of the United States transmitting report of the Director General of Railroads from January 1, 1926, to January 1, 1927. February 28, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed.
Foreign Service Retirement Disability Fund. Message from the President of the United States transmitting report by the Acting Secretary of State showing all receipts and disbursements on account of refunds, allowances, and annuities for the fiscal year... in connection with the Foreign Service retirement and disability system. March 1, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
First State Bank & Trust Co., Laredo, Tex. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1927 for the Department of Labor, for two refunds in the sum of $500 each, of amounts covered by cashier's checks Nos. 15823 and 15824 of the First State Bank & Trust Co., of Laredo, Tex., deposited as security on two bonds... February 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Supreme Court site. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the acquisition of a site for a building for the Supreme Court of the United States, $1,700,000. January 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of Commerce, for miscellaneous items of the Bureau of Fisheries, for the fiscal year ending June 30 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, amounting to $85,000. February 5, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for a new Coast and Geodetic Survey vessel for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $350,000. January 20, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Economic report on the north unit of the Deschutes project, Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting the economic report on the north unit of the Deschutes project, Oregon, dated February 19, 1926. January 24, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and ordered to be printed with illustrations.
Ventilation of the Senate Chamber. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment, for ventilation of the Senate Chamber under the Architect of the Capitol for the fiscal year 1928, in the sum of $185,000. January 26, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Proposed legislation, Treasury Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $164,901; also proposed legislation affecting the use of existing appropriations. January 29, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Raritan ordnance reserve depot, New Jersey. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the War Department, amounting in all to $2,338,233, for the removal of high explosive ammunition from the Raritan ordnance reserve depot, New Jersey. February 11, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed.
Military and naval compensation, Veterans' Bureau, 1927 and prior years. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation to extend the availability of the unexpended balance of the appropriation, "Military and naval compensation, Veterans' Bureau, 1926 and prior years,"... February 8, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations, Treasury Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $22,500, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, $25,000; in all, $47,500. February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Department of Justice. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting deficiency estimate of appropriation for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1925 and prior years amounting to $30,865.05, and supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927... February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations, Department of the Interior. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, amounting to $135,000. February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Claims for damages to privately owned property and damages in collision with naval vessels. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting estimate of appropriations submitted by the several executive departments and establishments, to pay claims for damages to privately owned property and damages by collision with naval vessels, in the sum of $12,136.42, which have been considered and adjusted under the provisions of the several acts relating thereto, and which require appropriations for their payments. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Prevention of spread of European corn borer. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1927, to remain available until June 30 1928, for preventing the spread of the European corn borer, $10,000,000. February 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Limitation of armament. Message from the President of the United States transmitting copy of a memorandum to the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, suggesting... limiting naval armament, supplementing the Washington treaty on that subject, and covering the classes of vessels not covered by that treaty. February 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Indian School, Wahpeton, N. Dak. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for enlarging and improving the plant at the Wahpeton, N. Dak., Indian School. February 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations, Department of Agriculture. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of Agriculture... for insect control on the national forests, $25,000; for investigations concerning insecticides and fungicides, $35,000; and for eradication of pink bollworm... February 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Oil shale investigations. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for oil shale investigations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, amounting to $70,000. February 10, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Appropriations, War Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the War Department, amounting in all to $210,000; also drafts of proposed legislation affecting existing appropriations of the War Department. February 11, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Hospitals, artificial limbs, and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County battlefields memorial, etc. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the War Department... also draft of proposed legislation affecting an existing appropriation... February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, amounting to $28,000, from the tribal funds of the Navajo Indians. February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
District of Columbia, appropriations and legislation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927... February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Yards and Docks, public works. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, consisting of three items amounting to $1,730,000. February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Children's Bureau. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, amounting to $10,000. February 7, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
National Forest Reservation Commission. Message from the President of the United States transmitting copies of resolutions... proposing the addition of certain public lands to the Challis, Idaho, and Sawtooth national forests in the State of Idaho, the Missoula and Helena national forests in the State of Montana, the Colville National Forest... January 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
Helium plants, Bureau of Mines. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $1,063,000. January 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Clerk to the Official Reporters of Debates of the House. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations under the legislative establishment, House of Representatives, for the fiscal year 1927, $893.75, and for the fiscal year 1928, $2,750; in all, $3,643.75. January 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
War Department, water and sewers at military posts, Fort Douglas, Utah. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for water and sewers at military posts, amounting to $370,000. January 24, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Acquisition of Cape Cod Canal. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, to remain available until expended, for the War Department for the acquisition of the Cape Cod Canal, $5,500,000. February 15, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Expenses of regulating immigration. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Bureau of Immigration, Department of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $200,000. February 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Senate. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment, United States Senate, for the fiscal year 1927, in the sum of $10,000. February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Post Office Department appropriation and legislation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting deficiency estimate of appropriation from the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, $30,000, a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $23,000... February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Senate. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment, United States Senate, for the fiscal year 1928, in the sum of $6,000. February 12, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Civil government, Panama Canal and Canal Zone. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation affecting the appropriation under the War Department for the civil government, Panama Canal, and Canal Zone, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927. February 12, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Esmeraldo Canning Co. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting record of judgment rendered against the government by the United States District Court for the southern district of Ohio, eastern division. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation for the Department of Justice, providing... for the maintenance of the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, for the fiscal year 1927, shall be available... February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Judgments rendered against the United States under Navy, Treasury, and War Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, which have been submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury, and require an appropriation for their payment. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Judgments against the United States under the Navy Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by United States district courts under special acts of Congress, as submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Judgments against the United States under Navy, War, and Department of Commerce. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district courts as submitted by the Attorney General through the Secretary of the Treasury, which require an appropriation for their payment. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the fiscal year 1927, for the Department of the Interior, amounting to $37,211,500; also an item of proposed legislation affecting an existing appropriation. February 7, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Lighthouses; Bureau of Mines. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $61,000. February 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Supplemental estimates, Navy Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, consisting of 12 items amounting to $2,942,542.55. February 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
House of Representatives, salaries, officers and employees. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations under the legislative establishment, House of Representatives, for the fiscal year 1927, $3,776.50, and for the fiscal year 1928, $2,500; in all, $6,276.50. February 5, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Sixth annual report of the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions dated January 4, 1927, together with a report of the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. January 17, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on the Civil Service and ordered to be printed.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for salaries of the judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, amounting to $26,500. January 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Employees' Compensation Commission. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Employees' Compensation Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $2,400. January 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Pay, etc., of the Army. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for "Pay of the Army," amounting to $1,347,255, with a provision for the reappropriation for this purpose of unexpended balances of existing War Department appropriations... January 28, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Botanic Garden. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation under the legislative establishment for enlarging and relocating the United States Botanic Garden, fiscal year 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, in the sum of $820,000. January 29, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Proposed legislation canceling oil leases. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation to extend the availability of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000... to enable the chief executive to continue the litigation to cancel certain leases of oil lands and incidental contracts... February 1, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Balance due foreign countries. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, pertaining to the payment of balances due foreign countries, $3,648.41. January 28, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Architect of the Capitol. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the legislative establishment under the Architect of the Capitol, for the fiscal years 1920 and 1921, in the sum of $1,067.80. February 9, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Architect of the Capitol -- Capitol building and repairs. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment under the Architect of the Capitol for the fiscal year 1927 in the sum of $6,000. February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Proposed public buildings projects. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General transmitting report of the Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster General containing a statement of the allocation of all public buildings deemed necessary to be constructed... February 14, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed.
Records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district courts under Navy, War, and Treasury departments. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting records of judgments rendered against the government by the United States district courts, as submitted by the Attorney General... February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Payment to Agnes W. Wilcox, widow of Henry T. Wilcox. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, amounting to $4,500. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
United States Senate. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment, United States Senate, for the fiscal year 1927, in the sum of $6,500. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Ventilation -- House of Representatives. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the legislative establishment under the Architect of the Capitol, in the sum of $245,000. February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Claims allowed by the General Accounting Office. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting schedules of claims amounting to $123,827.03, allowed by various divisions of the General Accounting Office, as covered by certificates of settlement... under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted... February 16, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Public buildings, construction, etc. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for public buildings authorized under the provisions of the act approved May 25, 1926, $19,878,700. February 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Estimates and proposed legislation, War Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the War Department, amounting in all to $5,917,975; also drafts of proposed legislation affecting existing appropriations of the War Department. February 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Contingent expenses, United States Senate, stationery and mail transportation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations under the legislative establishment, United States Senate, for the fiscal year 1927, in the sum of $6,000. February 5, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Proposed legislation, increase of the Navy. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation for consideration in connection with the estimates of appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, under the appropriation title "Increase of the Navy". January 20, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Salaries of certain judges of the United States. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for salaries of certain judges of the United States, amounting to $560,000. January 21, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for miscellaneous expenses, propagation of food fishes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $60,000. January 22, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Architect of the Capitol. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations under the legislative establishment for enlarging the Capitol grounds and for the Capitol power plant, fiscal year 1928, in the sum of $230,000. January 29, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting a report of a deficiency estimate of appropriation for the fiscal years 1924 and 1925... and three items of legislation affecting existing appropriations for the Department of the Interior. January 28, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Children's Bureau, Department of Labor. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, in amount of $1,090,976. February 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Lower Rio Grande and lower Colorado Rivers. Message from the President of the United States transmitting report from the Secretary of State... to extend the authority of the Commission on the Equitable Use of the Waters of the Lower Rio Grande to enable it to deal with the waters of the lower Colorado River... February 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Temporary city delivery carriers -- special-delivery fees. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting deficiency estimates of appropriation for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, $310.63; and for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1925, $200.06; in all, $510.69. February 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Vehicle service, 1927; proposed legislation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, pertaining to the vehicle service, $965,000; also proposed legislation affecting the use of existing appropriations. February 15, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Supplemental estimates, Treasury Department. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, $5,000, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, $150,000; in all, $155,000. February 15, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Bureau of Plant Industry. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1927, to remain available until June 30, 1928, for the enlargement of investigations relating to potential rubber-producing plants, $200,000. February 19, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Buildings, Columbia Hospital for Women. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for the construction and equipment of the nurses' home for the Columbia Hospital for Women Lying-in Asylum, $350,000. February 19, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Export industries. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for export industries for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, amounting to $65,000. January 18, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
District of Columbia appropriations. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, and supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1927, and June 30, 1928... February 9, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
Preparation of index to state legislation. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the legislative establishment, Library of Congress, for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928 in the sum of $40,000. February 12, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. 		107
Serial set 8736 Survey of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, Pa. and N.Y. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on survey of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, Pa. and N.Y., with a view to the control of the floods. January 13, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, with 21 illustrations.
Sundusky Harbor, Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Sandusky Harbor, Ohio. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Holland Harbor and Black Lake, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Holland Harbor and Black Lake, Mich. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Crescent City Harbor, Calif. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination of Crescent City Harbor, Calif. December 18, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Lorain Harbor, Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Inner Harbor at Lorain, Ohio. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Willapa Harbor, Wash. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers of preliminary examination and survey of Willapa Harbor, Wash. December 9, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of the outer harbor of Fairport Harbor, Ohio, with a view to extending the breakwater and making other improvements. December 15, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations.
Missouri River, between Kansas City, Kans., and Pierre, S. Dak. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination of Missouri River, between Kansas City, Kans., from the upper end of Quindaro Bend, and Pierre, S. Dak. December 17, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Green Bay Harbor, Wis. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Green Bay Harbor, Wis. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Mississippi River from Minneapolis to Lake Pepin. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Mississippi River from Minneapolis to Lake Pepin, with a view to improvement by the construction of lock and dams. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Intracoastal waterway from Jacksonville, Fla. to Miami, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of intracoastal waterway from Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami, Fla. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Grays Harbor, Wash. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Grays Harbor, Wash. December 14, 1926. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. 		12
Serial set 8737 Gulfport Harbor, Miss. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers, on preliminary examination and survey of Gulfport Harbor, Miss. February 7, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with two illustrations.
Honolulu Harbor, Kalihi Harbor, and connecting channels, Hawaii. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Honolulu Harbor, Kalihi Harbor, and connecting channels, Hawaii. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Humboldt Harbor and Bay, Calif. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Humboldt Harbor and Bay, Calif. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Biloxi harbor, Miss. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Biloxi harbor, Miss. February 25, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Chicago River and its branches -- fixed bridges. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination of Chicago River and its branches to determine whether fixed bridges shall be permitted and if permitted what clearance for navigation... March 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Beaufort harbor and Gallants Channel, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of channels from the Inland Waterway, Beaufort, N.C., beginning at a point where Gallants Channel connects with the Inland Waterway (PS to BI channel) and via Gallants Channel and in front of the Town of Beaufort through Bulkhead Shoal to the main inlet, with a view to providing a depth of 12 feet with suitable width. March 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations
Edenton Harbor, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers of preliminary examination and survey of Edenton Harbor, N.C. March 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Mackay Creek, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of the mouth of Mackay Creek, N.C. March 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustrations.
Cashie River, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Cashie River, N.C., below Windsor. March 4, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed.
Belhaven Harbor, N.C. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Acting Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Belhaven Harbor, Belhaven, N.C. March 4, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Caloosahatchee River, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination of Caloosahatchee River, Fla., with a view to the control of the floods. February 7, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Bear Creek, Ky. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Bear Creek, Ky. February 4, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed
St. Johns River, Jacksonville to Sanford, Fla. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers of preliminary examination and survey of St. Johns River, Jacksonville to Sanford, Fla. February 7, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
Quinnipiac River, Conn. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of Quinnipiac River, Conn., from the New Tomlinson Bridge up to Lewis Bridge. February 4, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with two illustrations.
San Diego Harbor, Calif. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination and survey of San Diego Harbor, Calif. March 2, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed, with illustration. 		15
Serial set 8738 Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1916. Supplement. The World War. 1
Serial set 8739-1 Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1926. (In two volumes.) Volume I. 1
Serial set 8739-2 Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1926. (In two volumes.) Volume II. 1
Serial set 8740 Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, with appendices. 1
Serial set 8741 Combined statement of the receipts and disbursements balances, etc., of the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926. 1
Serial set 8742 Message of the President of the United States transmitting the budget for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928. 1
Serial set 8743 Annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency. December 10, 1926. 1
Serial set 8744 Annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926. 1
Serial set 8745 Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the fiscal year 1926. 1
Serial set 8746 Nomenclature for man, the chimpanzee, the orangutan, and the Barbary ape, by Ch. Wardell Stiles and Mabelle B. Orleman. [U.S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 145. March 1927.].
Experimental bacterial and chemical pollution of wells via ground water, and the factors involved, by C.W. Stiles, H.R. Crohurst, and Gordon E. Thomson. Report on the geology and ground water hydrology of the experimental area of the United States Public Health Service at Fort Caswell, N.C. by Norah Dowell Stearns. [U.S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 147. June 1927.].
Compendium of the parasites of mosquitoes (Culicidae) by Alma Jane Speer, M.A. [U.S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 146. March 1927.]. 		3
Serial set 8747 I. A method for estimating the potency of smallpox vaccine, by John N. Force and James P. Leake. II. The immunological relationship of alastrim and mild smallpox, by James P. Leake and John N. Force. [U.S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 149. April 1927.].
Key-catalogue of the crustacea and arachnoids of importance in public health, by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall. [U.S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 148. April 1927.]. 		2
Serial set 8748 Official Army Register. January 1, 1927. 1
Serial set 8749 Annual reports, War Department fiscal year ended June 30, 1926. Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1926. In two parts. Part I. 1
Serial set 8750 Annual reports, War Department, fiscal year ended June 30, 1926. Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1926. In two parts. Part 2. Waterborne commerce of the United States for the calendar year 1925. 1
Serial set 8751 Annual report of the Attorney General of the United States for the fiscal year 1926. 1