BUREAU OF MINES

On page 490 of the Budget, under the head "Operating mine rescue cars and stations and investigation of mine accidents," increase the estimate for the item from $772,595 to $822,595 (increase).

$50,000

The purpose of this estimate of appropriation is to provide funds to inaugurate research and investigations on the ignition, explosion, and fire hazards from metal dust and from light metals.

On page 496 of the Budget, preceding the item for "Mineral mining investigations," insert the two following paragraphs as new items of appropriations:

Anthracite investigations: For all expenses necessary to conduct
inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning
the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of anthracite coals;
including purchase of special wearing apparel and equipment for
the protection of employees while engaged in their work; and other
items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation "Con-
tingent expenses. Department of the Interior"; purchase, not to
exceed $4,500, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-
carrying automobiles; and not to exceed $6,500 for personal services
in the District of Columbia, $81,000: Provided, That the Secretary,
through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is authorized to
accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public
or private sources.
Synthetic liquid fuels: For all expenses, without regard to Section
3709, Revised Statutes, necessary to carry into effect the act
authorizing the construction and operation of demonstration plants
to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shales, agricultural
and forestry products, and so forth, approved April 5, 1944 (Pub-
lic No. 290), including construction and acquirement of camp and
laboratory buildings and equipment; personal services in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and
periodicals; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for
the protection of employees while engaged in their work; purchase,
maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles;
printing and binding; and purchase in the District of Columbia and
elsewhere of items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropria-
tion "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior";
$8,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
these funds may be utilized to provide transportation between
the proposed plants and related facilities and communities that
provide adequate living accommodations, of persons engaged in
the operation and maintenance of these plants; and for transporta-
tion to and from schools of pupils who are dependents of such per-
sons, which transportation shall be by methods which the Office of
Defense Transportation shall find to be most advantageous and
efficient: Provided further, That pursuant to agreements approved
by the Secretary and the Office of Defense Transportation, the
transportation equipment available to the Bureau of Mines may be
pooled with that of school districts and other local or Federal
agencies for use in transporting persons engaged in operation and
maintenance of these plants, pupils who are dependents of such
persons, and other pupils, and in the interest of economy the
expenses of operating such equipment may be shared...

$81, 000

$8, 000, 000

The purpose of the estimate for anthracite investigations is to devise. means of increasing the production of anthracite coal through mechanical mining methods and to plan an effective program to eliminate the flooding of anthracite mines.

The estimate of $8,000,000 for synthetic liquid fuels is to inaugurate the program authorized by Public Law 290 approved April 5, 1944, providing for the construction and operation of demonstration plants to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shales, agricultural and forestry products, and other substances.

On page 496 of the Budget, under the head "Oil and gas investigations," increase the estimate for the item from $607,640 to $687,640 (increase). $80, 000 The purpose of the foregoing estimate of appropriation is to enable the Bureau of Mines to determine how the quality of base stocks for aviation gasoline can be improved by processing in highly efficient distilling equipment and to find means of treating high-sulfur crude oil and distillates so that they can be used effectively in the manufacture of gasoline.

On page 500 of the Budget, under the head "Investigation of rawmaterial resources for steel production (national defense)," in lieu of the paragraph bracketed insert the following paragraph:

Investigation of raw material resources for steel production (national defense): For all expenses, without regard to Section 3709, Revised Statutes, necessary to enable the Bureau of Mines to develop individual deposits of minerals useful in the steel industry the existence of which is known and concerning which preliminary geological or other reports are available from State mineral agencies, previous investigations of the Bureau of Mines, or other sources; to conduct geophysical surveys, surface and subsurface exploration on such deposits; to conduct laboratory, pilot plant and demonstration plant tests to establish methods for utilizing more fully the products of such deposits; including the purchase or lease of land or buildings; construction of buildings to house laboratories, pilot plants, or demonstration plants; procurement of necessary materials, ores, and equipment; travel expenses; purchase, not to exceed $40,000, operation, maintenance, and repair of passengercarrying automobiles; not to exceed $100,000 for temporary employment of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof, by contract or otherwise, without regard to civil-service and classification laws, necessary to carry out the provisions of this appropriation; printing and binding; purchase in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of furniture and equipment, books of reference, and periodicals, and purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior"; and not to exceed $60,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; $3,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources and to carry out the projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private_-

$3, 000, 000

The purpose of this estimate is to provide funds for continuing the program for the development of raw-material resources for steel production and for metallurgical research, construction, and operation of pilot and demonstration plants. Under this program the Bureau of Mines proposes to show by laboratory, pilot plant, and demonstration plants the most effective methods of utilizing locally domestic raw materials for the production of steel.

DRAFT OF PROPOSED PROVISION PERTAINING TO AN EXISTING

APPROPRIATION

On page 507 of the Budget, under the head "Development of processes for recovery of waste metals (national defense)," in lieu of the paragraph bracketed insert the following paragraph:

Development of processes for recovery of waste metals (national defense): The appropriation under this head in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1944, is hereby made available for the same purposes and under the same conditions until June 30, 1945.

The purpose of this provision is to continue during 1945 the availability of the appropriation of $75,000 included in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act approved December 23, 1943, and is made necessary by unavoidable delays in securing equipment and personnel needed to obtain data on pilot-plant scale requisite for insuring the commercial as well as technical feasibility of the processes which are being developed.

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES

TERRITORY OF HAWAII

On page 541 of the Budget, under the head "Salaries and expenses, Governor and Secretary, Territory of Hawaii," third line of the paragraph, change the figures "$3,100" to "$3,875"; in the fourth line, change the figures "$750" to "$935", and increase the estimate for the item from $21.600 to $22,560 (increase).

$960

The foregoing estimate of appropriation is submitted for the purpose of equalizing the salaries of the secretary to the Governor and the clerk in the Governor's office, who are not classified employees within the meaning of the Classification Act of 1923, with salaries paid to Federal employees in the Territories and island possessions who receive a differential of 25 percent due to increased living costs.

The foregoing items are required to meet contingencies which have arisen since the transmission of the Budget for the fiscal year 1945 and their approval is recommended.

"HARD MONEY" EXAMINED

MEMORANDUM

BY

HERBERT M. BRATTER

ON

FRANCIS H. BROWNELL'S ARGUMENTS .FOR BIMETALLISM

PRESENTED BY MR. GREEN

MAY 19 (legislative day, MAY 9), 1944.-Ordered to be printed

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1944

[Excerpt from the Congressional Record of May 19, 1944

Mr. GREEN. Mr. President, on May 8 the Senator from Nevada [Mr. McCarran] obtained permission to have printed as a Senate document an article on bimetallism written by Mr. Francis H. Brownell, of the American Smelting & Refining Co. The Honorable Sol Bloom, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, has sent to me some correspondence regarding that article by Mr. Brownell. Because this correspondence is essential to an understanding of the Brownell article, he asked me to have it also printed as a Senate document, and I make that request.

The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the matter will be printed as a Senate document.