NEED FOR THE BILL The bill will permit the commission, as a corporation, to engage in the necessary construction of stands, platforms, etc., for the numerous proposed bicentennial pageants and entertainments. It will give the commission authority to grant such concessions as may be desirable. Every possible safeguard has been thrown about the commission's activities in regard to stands and seats. Any such erected on public space must be approved by the commissioners or the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, depending upon which agency has jurisdiction over the land so used. The District laws requiring inspection of stands and platforms for safety of construction would govern any such structures on private property. The principal concessions which the commission has in mind at this time are for the sale of seats, and the publication and sale of official programs. Money derived from these sources will be of great assistance to the commission in carrying out the program it contemplates. In all phases of the commission's activity covered by the bill, the commission will be subject to the supervision of the commissioners or the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, as the case may be. RECOMMENDATIONS The committee discussed this bill with the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia and with Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice chairman of the District Bicentennial Commission. The District Commissioners, who requested introduction of the bill, urge its enactment in a letter appended hereto, together with an earlier communication from these officials and a letter by Doctor Havenner. COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Hon. ARTHUR CAPPER, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. SIR: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to recommend favorable action on Senate bill 1306, Seventy-second Congress, first session, entitled "A bill to provide for the incorporation of the District of Columbia Commission, George Washington Bicentennial," which you referred to them for consideration and report. This bill was introduced by you at the request of the commissioners, and the necessity for its passage is indicated in the letter of December 8, in which the draft of the bill was forwarded to you. Very truly yours, L. H. REICHElderfer, President Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Hon. ARTHUR Capper, COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Chairman Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. SIR: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to inclose herewith draft of a bill entitled "A bill to provide for the incorporation of the District of Columbia Commission, George Washington Bicentennial," and to request its introduction and enactment. There is inclosed herewith copy of a letter from the vice president of the District of Columbia George Washington Bicentennial Commission, which explains the necessity for this legislation. Very truly yours, L. H. REICHELDERFER, President, Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION, The COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT Of Columbia, Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to transmit herewith a draft of bill to incorporate the District of Columbia George Washington Bicentennial Commission for the term of the bicentennial period with the request that if the same meets with your approval it be transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of this bill is to authorize the District Bicentennial Commission to construct or contract for the construction of stands and the sale of seats for certain of the pageants and parades that will be sponsored by our commission, also to give the commission the authority to grant concessions such as may be desirable in connection with the bicentennial celebration. The bill provides that any structure, platform, or stand to be erected upon public space shall first be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or by the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks where the same are intended to be erected on public space coming under the jurisdiction of that office. The principal concessions that the commission has in mind at this time are for the sale of seats and the publication and sale of the official program. I might add in this connection that the program to be issued by our commission will include not only the activities coming under the immediate jurisdiction of our commission but all of the activities that will come under the jurisdiction of the United States commission and will bear the approval of that commission. Our commission deems this legislation to be urgently needed, as the fund appropriated by the Congress from the revenues of the District of Columbia will not be nearly enough to cover the expenses of our commission's program. Yours very truly, TO LIMIT THE APPLICATION OF SECTIONS 109 AND 113, RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OF COUNSEL BY THE GOVERNMENT DECEMBER 21, 1931.-Ordered to be printed Mr. NORRIS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 930] The Committee on the Judiciary, having had under consideration the bill (S. 930) to amend section 109 of the act entitled "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,' approved March 4, 1909, and for other purposes, having considered the same, recommend that the bill do pass with the following amend ments: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: That nothing in sections 109 and 113 of the act entitled "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March 4, 1909, as amended (U. S. C. title 18, secs. 198 and 203) or of any other act of Congress forbidding any person in the employ of the United States or acting in any official capacity under them from acting as agent or attorney for another before any department or branch of the Government or from receiving pay for so acting shall be deemed to apply to counsel serving in the case of the Appalachian Electric Power Company. George Otis Smith, et al., now pending in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia. Amend the title so as to read: A bill limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code with respect to counsel in the case of the Appalachian Electric Power Company vs. George Otis Smith et al. The committee was of the opinion that the provisions of the bill as introduced were too broad and that it should be limited to the employment of counsel in the specific case now pending in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia, entitled Appalachian Electric Power Co. v. George Otis Smith et al. |