Bureau of Animal Industry: Animal husbandry, experiment station at Havre or Fort Bureau of Plant Industry: Cereal crops and diseases, supplies, materials, and equipment, travel expenses, and other incidental items, exclusive of personnel.... $1,200 3, 700 Drug and related plants, experiments concerning the downy mildew of hops... 20. 000 Dry land agriculture, Ardmore, S. Dak., experiment station.. 19, 780 43, 480 Forest Service: Maintenance, improvement, protection, and general administration of the national forests, supplies, materials, and equipment, travel expenses and other incidental items, exclusive of personnel.. 76, 500 Planting on national forests, supplies, materials, and equipment, travel expenses and other incidental items, exclusive of personnel. 5, 800 Improvements of the national forests, supplies, materials, and equipment, travel expenses and other incidental items, exclusive of personnel.- 52, 400 Acquisition of additional forest lands. 45, 940 Total, Forest Service. 180, 640 Bureau of Agricultural Economics: Foreign competition and demand, forester in Europe. ___ 9, 000 Market News Service, supplies, materials, and equipment, 25, 412 Total, Bureau of Economics.. 34, 412 Bureau of Plant Quarantine: Control and prevention of spread of the Japanese beetle......... 25, 000 Food and Drug Administration: Supplies, materials, and equipment, travel expenses and 10, 600 Miscellaneous: Grasshopper control under the Bureau of Entomology-- 1, 450, 000 1, 000, 000 Total increase_ Amount of bill as reported to the Senate.------ 178, 192, 646 2,783, 832 CONVICT LABOR ON FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS The following House provision was stricken from the bill by the committee: Provided, That none of the money herein appropriated shall be paid to any State on account of any project on which convict labor shall be directly employed. MOTOR VEHICLES This proviso was stricken from the bill by your committee. Many amendments were proposed. In order to give the heads of departments opportunity to further study the matter this was deemed advisable. The provision is as follows: Provided further, That no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used for purchasing any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (except busses and station wagons) at a cost, delivered and completely equipped for operation, in excess of $750, including the value of a vehicle exchanged where exchange is involved; nor shall any money appropriated herein be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes, and "official purposes' employees between their domiciles and places of employment. "shall not include the transportation of officers and price shall not apply to any motor vehicle purchased for official use of the Secretary This limitation as to of Agriculture. SECTIONS 2 AND 3 These sections relating to compensation, filling of vacancies, promotions, and so forth were eliminated, without prejudice, from the bill where in conference, more information would be at hand which would be necessary to perfecting the same. Sec. 2. No appropriation under the Department of Agriculture available during the fiscal years 1932 and/or 1933 shall be used after the date of the approval of this act (1) to increase the compensation of any position within the grade to which such position has been allocated under the classification act of 1923, as amended, (2) to increase the compensation of any position in the field service the pay of which is adjustable to correspond so far as may be practicable to the rates established by such act as amended for the departmental service in the District of Columbia, (3) to increase the compensation of any position under such act through reallocation, (4) to increase the compensation of any person in any grade under such act through advancement to another position in the same grade or to a position in a higher grade at a rate in excess of the minimum rate of such higher grade unless such minimum rate would require an actual reduction in compensation, or (5) to increase the compensation of any other position of the Federal Government under such department. priations or portions of appropriations unexpended by the operation of this section The approshall not be used for any other purposes, but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury, and a report of the amounts so impounded for the period between the date of the approval of this act and October 31, 1932, shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session. Sec. 3. No appropriation under the Department of Agriculture available during the fiscal years 1932 and/or 1933 shall be used after the date of the approval of this act to pay the compensation of an incumbent appointed to any position under the Federal Government which is vacant on the date of the approval of this act or to any such position which may become vacant after such date: Provided, That this inhibition shall not apply to absolutely essential positions the filling of which may be approved in writing by the President of the United States. portions of appropriations unexpended by the operation of this section shall not be The appropriations or used for any other purposes but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury and a report of all such vacancies, the number thereof filled, and the amounts unerpended, for the period between the date of the approval of this act and October 31, 1982, shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session. 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } SENATE { REPORT No. 261 DISPOSITION OF VEHICLES, VESSELS, AND SUPPLIES SEIZED FOR VIOLATION OF LIQUOR LAWS FEBRUARY 17 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 18), 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. FRAZIER, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 3654] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3654) to authorize turning over to the Indian Service vehicles, vessels, and supplies seized and forfeited for violation of liquor laws, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with a recommendation that the bill do pass without amendment. This bill was introduced at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, as set forth in the following letter, which is appended hereto and made a part of this report: Hon. LYNN J. Frazier, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: There is inclosed herewith a draft of a bill to authorize the turning over to the Indian Service of automobiles or other vehicles and other property seized or libeled for violation of laws for the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians. Sections 246 of title 25 of the United States Code provides for the seizure and libel of vehicles and other property used in connection with the violation of the laws for the suppression of the liquor traffic among the Indians. Section 247 specifically provides for the seizure, libel, and forfeiture of automobiles under the provisions of said section 246. It is now the practice for the United States courts to order the libeled automobiles or other vehicles sold in cases where they are declared forfeited, and in such public sales the automobiles bring very little money, frequently far less than their real value, and far less than it is necessary for the Indian Service to pay for the automobiles which it must purchase in the management of Indian affairs, including the work of the special officers engaged in the suppression of the liquor traffic among Indians. Sections 41 and 42 of title 27, United States Code, and sections 522 and 523 of title 19, United States Code, provide that vessels or vehicles seized and forfeited in the enforcement of the prohibition laws or the custom laws may be utilized, under the conditions therein set forth, in the enforcement of said laws. It is desired that similar legislation be secured to provide for the utilization of vessels, vehicles, or supplies seized in the enforcement of the laws for the suppression of the liquor traffic among the Indians. Such action will save the Government large sums of money and will sometimes provide better equipment than could ordinarily be purchased with the funds available at the time a purchase becomes necessary. As quantities of sugar, grain, etc., have also been seized in connection with the seizure of plants for the illicit manufacture of intoxicating beverages in Indian country, it is also desired that specific authority be included for the utilization of such materials instead of destroying same. It is accordingly recommended that legislation embodied in the draft herewith receive favorable action by your committee and the Congress. Very truly yours, RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary. O |