Supplemental estimates of appropriation required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, by departments, establishments, and agencies-Continued For DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-continued "Health Department, inspections, District of Columbia, 1944”. 1944" "Juvenile Court, salaries, District of Columbia, 1944". "Board of Public Welfare, salaries, District of Columbia, "Division of Child Welfare, detention of children, District of Columbia, 1944". "Jail, salaries, District of Columbia, 1944". "Workhouse and Reformatory, salaries, District of Columbia, 1944" "National Training School for Girls, District of Columbia, 1944". "Industrial Home School for Colored Children, salaries, District of Columbia, 1944". "Industrial Home School, salaries, District of Columbia, 1944" "Municipal Lodging House, District of Columbia, 1944". "Public parks, salaries, District of Columbia, 1944". "National Capital Park and Planning Commission, salaries and expenses, District of Columbia, 1944". "National Zoological Park, District of Columbia, 1944"-----. For HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX, AND MOTOR-VEHICLE FEES "Department of Vehicles and Traffic, salaries, highway fund, District of Columbia, 1944”. "Trees and parkings, salaries, highway fund, District of Columbia, 1944" "Highway Department, salaries, highway fund, District of Columbia, 1944”. 19, 500 13, 600 1, 900 Total, District of Columbia, exclusive of highway and water For Total, District of Columbia, highway fund, to be paid WATER FUND "Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, 1944," to be paid wholly out of revenues of the Water Department of the District of Columbia.. Total, District of Columbia, including highway and water 35, 000 25, 200 2, 117, 100 Supplemental estimates of appropriation required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, by departments, establishments, and agencies Continued DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-continued DIVISION OF EXPENSES The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise provided, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1944. Grand total__. $139, 719, 249 SEC. 202. The restrictions contained in appropriations or affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1944, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services or for other purposes, are hereby waived to the extent necessary to meet the cost of overtime and additional compensation authorized by the Act of April 1, 1943 (Public Law 22), the Act of May 7, 1943 (Public Law 49), and by other legislation enacted during or applicable to the fiscal year 1944 authorizing overtime and additional compensation for civilian employees of the Government: Provided, That the head of any department, establishment, or agency is hereby authorized to allocate from the sum herein appropriated under any appropriation title administered by him to any subappropriation under such title such amount as may be necessary for the purposes of the section. CONTINUING THE COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RETURNING WITHOUT HIS SIGNATURE THE BILL (H. R. 3477 (S. 1458)) TO CONTINUE THE COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION AS AN AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO REVISE THE BASIS OF ANNUAL APPRAISAL OF ITS ASSETS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES FEBRUARY 18, 1944.-Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed To the House of Representatives: I received yesterday afternoon, February 17, 1944, H. R. 3477 (S. 1458), a bill which extends the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation until June 30, 1945, but which by its restrictive provisions would compel an increase in the cost of food and the cost of living to the people of the United States. I promptly return the bill, without my signature, and urgently recommend that the Congress take action as soon as possible to extend without hampering restrictions the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation. Farmers could thereby make plans for the planting of crops and know the support prices on which they can rely. The reasons for my disapproval of H. R. 3477-my most emphatic and vigorous disapproval must already be known to every Senator and every Representative. The issue of using Government funds to hold down the cost of living is not a new issue and my views on it have been expressed before and at some length, particularly in my message vetoing a similar bill (H. R. 2869) on July 2, 1943. This bill, like that bill, is an inflation measure, a high cost of living measure, a food-shortage measure. 69140 O-45- 2 2 CONTINUING COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION This bill will raise the cost of food in the Bureau of Labor Statistics index not less than 7 percent and will raise the whole cost of living materially. If this bill were to become law, the housewife would soon have to pay Ten cents a pound more for butter. Nearly 8 cents more a pound for cheese. Seven cents more for a 10-pound bag of flour. The cost of many other necessities would increase materially. While increasing the cost of living, the prohibition of consumers' subsidies will not add one dollar to the income of the farmers. This bill would in effect reverse the policy of the Congress; in effect, it repeals the Stabilization Act of October 2, 1942. It is clear that we cannot hold the wage line if the Congress deprives us of the means necessary to hold the cost of living line. No major country at war today has been able to stabilize the cost of living without the use of subsidies. If the wage line breaks-and I do not see how it can be held if this bill becomes law-not only will food costs rise still further but all other costs will rise, including the cost of all munitions and supplies for the Army and Navy, by many billions. Not only will it cost every American family more to buy the necessities of life, not only will it cost more to run our factories and our farms, but also the costs of conducting the war will rise proportionately day by day. The weight of the increased burden will fall on all of us, but most of all on the unorganized workers and others who live on small and relatively fixed incomes, among whom are most of the dependents of our fighting men. The bill presented to me would destroy the stabilization program. THE WHITE HOUSE, February 18, 1944. H. R. 3477 SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; AT THE SECOND SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON ON MONDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR AN ACT To continue the Commodity Credit Corporation as an agency of the United States, to revise the basis of annual appraisal of its assets, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act approved March 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 107), as amended, is hereby amended by deleting from the first sentence thereof the term "31st of March" where that term first appears therein and substituting in lieu thereof the term "30th of June", and by deleting from |