Mr. SMOOт, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 8397]

The Committee on Appropriations, to which was recommitted the bill (H. R. 8397) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes, reports the same to the Senate with various amendments, and presents herewith information relative to the changes made:

Amount of bill as passed House...__

Amount of reductions by Senate..

$50, 446, 432. 33

5,047, 760.00

In reporting the bill H. R. 8397, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes, your committee will state that their action has been strictly in accordance with the motion adopted by the Senate March 17, 1932, which reads as follows:

That the pending bill be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the Senate with amendments providing an aggregate reduction of 10 per centum in the amount of the appropriations contained in the bill as received from the House of Representatives.

The total of the Interior Department appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1933 as passed the House of Representatives on February 16, 1932 amounted to $50,446,432.33. Ten per cent of $50,446,432.33 is $5,044,643.23.

Your committee has made reductions amounting to $5,047,760 in the bill as passed by the House of Representatives for the purposes and in amounts as follows:

Yakima project, Washington (Kittitas division) - - - -

Riverton project, Wyoming -

Shoshone project, Wyoming...

Boulder Canyon project...----

Total, Reclamation Service....

5, 000. 00

2,500. 00

2, 000. 00 2, 000, 000. 00

2,674, 860.00

Amount of bill as reported to the Senate. 45, 398, 672. 33

MOTOR VEHICLES

Your committee has stricken from the House bill the provision contained therein concerning motor vehicles and in lieu thereof submit the following:

Provided, That no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used for purchasing any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (except busses, ambulances, and station wagons) at a cost, completely equipped for operation, in excess of $750, except where, in the judgment of the department, special requirements can not thus be efficiently met, such exceptions, however, to be limited to not to exceed ten per centum of the total expenditures for such motor vehicles purchased during the fiscal year; including the value of a vehicle exchanged where exchange