72D CONGRESS 1st Session SENATE { REPORT No. 279 BRIDGE ACROSS THE ROCK RIVER AT OREGON, ILL. FEBRUARY 23, 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. VANDENBERG, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8327] The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8327) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois, having considered the same, report favorably thereon, and recommend that the bill do pass without amendment. The bill has the approval of the Departments of War and Agriculture as will appear by the annexed House of Representatives Report No. 388, which is made a part of this report. [House Report No. 388, Seventy-second Congress, first session] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8327) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois, having considered and amended the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass. Amend the bill as follows: Page 1, line 9, after the word "of" strike out the word "the" and insert the word "an" in lieu thereof. Amend the title so as to read: "Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois." The bill has the approval of the War and Agriculture Departments, as will appear by the letters attached. SR-72-1-VOL 1-31 War DepartmeNT, January 29, 1932. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. So far as the interests committed to this department are concerned, I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the accompanying bill (H. R. 8324, 72d Cong., 1st sess.) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct a free highway bridge across the Rock River at Byron, in Ogle County, State of Illinois. Hon. SAM RAYBURN, PATRICK J. HURLEY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. DEAR MR. RAYBURN: Careful consideration has been given to the bill, H. R. 8324, transmitted with your letter of January 25 with request for a report thereon and such views relative thereto as the department might desire to communicate. This bill would authorize the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Rock River, at Byron, Ill., in section 32, township 25 north, range 11 east, fourth principal meridian. The location indicated for the proposed bridge is not on the system of Federal-aid highways approved for Illinois. However, the bill is without objection so far as this department is concerned. Sincerely yours, O C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary. 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } SENATE { REPORT No. 279 BRIDGE ACROSS THE ROCK RIVER AT OREGON, ILL. FEBRUARY 23, 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. VANDENBERG, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8327] The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8327) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois, having considered the same, report favorably thereon, and recommend that the bill do pass without amendment. The bill has the approval of the Departments of War and Agriculture as will appear by the annexed House of Representatives Report No. 388, which is made a part of this report. [House Report No. 388, Seventy-second Congress, first session) The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8327) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois, having considered and amended the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass. Amend the bill as follows: Page 1, line 9, after the word "of" strike out the word "the" and insert the word "an" in lieu thereof. Amend the title so as to read: "Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois." The bill has the approval of the War and Agriculture Departments, as will appear by the letters attached. SR-72-1-VOL 1—31 WAR DEPARTMENT, January 29, 1932. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. So far as the interests committed to this department are concerned, I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the accompanying bill (H. R. 8327, 72d Cong., 1st sess.) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct a free highway bridge across Rock River at Oregon, in Ogle County, State of Illinois. Hon. SAM RAYBURN, PATRICK J. HURLEY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. DEAR MR. RAYBURN: Careful consideration has been given to the bill (H. R. 8327) transmitted with your letter of January 25 with request for a report thereon and such views relative thereto as the department might desire to communicate. This bill would authorize the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Rock River, at Oregon, Ill., in section 3, township 23 north, range 10 east, fourth principal meridian. The location indicated for the proposed bridge is not on the system of Federal-aid highways approved for Illinois. However, the bill is without objection so far as this department is concerned. Sincerely yours, C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary. O 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } SENATE REPORT No. 280 AUTHORIZE BUILDING UP OF UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE STRENGTH PERMITTED BY THE WASHINGTON AND LONDON NAVAL TREATIES FEBRUARY 24, 1932-Ordered to be printed Mr. HALE, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 51] The Committee on Naval Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 51) to authorize the building up of the United States Navy to the strength permitted by the Washington and London naval treaties, having considered the same, report favorably thereon, with amendment, and as amended recommend that the bill do pass. Amend the bill as follows: Page 2, line 4, strike out the words "in the manner and to the extent" and insert in lieu thereof the words "within the limits". The purpose of the bill is to give blanket legislative authorization to build up the Navy to the strength permitted by the naval treaties on limitation of armament now in effect. The bill is purely an authorization bill; it does not appropriate. It does, however, authorize the necessary appropriations and enables the Budget, in making its annual recommendations for the allocation of expenditures of the Government, to take into consideration a future naval building program, which it can only do to the extent of the building previously authorized by the Congress. Testimony before the committee shows that our Navy is rapidly becoming a navy of obsolete ships, and will in the near future be entirely inadequate properly to protect our country, our foreign trade, our foreign possessions, and our citizens at home and abroad. Our ships, especially in the sumbarine and destroyer categories, are not of modern design and construction, and do not compare favorably with the modern ships in other navies. At the Washington conference, in 1922, the United States set an example to the world in disarmament by scrapping 29 capital ships, built and building; since that time we have further followed this |