Mr. HASTINGS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 2199]

The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred S. 2199, after consideration reports the same favorably. The bill is sponsored by the United States Building and Loan League. The purpose of it is to make clear that building and loan associations do not come within the provisions of the bankruptcy act. There have been several decisions holding that a stockholder in a building and loan association is not a creditor within the meaning of the bankruptcy act, but filing of voluntary petitions for bankruptcy for building loans goes on in different parts of the country to the great inconvenience and annoyance of the loan associations.

This amendment puts building loans in the same class with municipal, railroad, insurance, and banking corporations. It is the opinion of the committee that it should be enacted into law.

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Mr. KING, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 2656]

The Committee on Immigration, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2656) to exempt from the quota husbands of American citizens, having considered the same, report the bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass, with the following amendment, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That subdivision (a) of section 4 of the immigration act of 1924, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"(a) An immigrant who is the unmarried child under twenty-one years of age or the wife, or the husband, of a citizen of the United States; ".

SEC. 2. Clause (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of section 6 of the immigration act of 1924, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"(A) Quota immigrants who are the fathers, or the mothers, of citizens of the United States, who are twenty-one years of age or over;".

The purpose of the bill is to place the alien husbands of American citizens in the same status as the alien wives of American citizens with respect to the issuance of immigration visas for permanent admission into the United States.

Under section 4 (a) of the immigration act of 1924, husbands of American citizens of the United States by a marriage which occurred prior to June 1, 1928, are nonquota immigrants. The bill provides that husbands of citizens of the United States, by marriage occurring subsequent to May 31, 1928, are also to be regarded as nonquota immigrants.

The committee believes that if the proposed measure is enacted. into law it will relieve many hardships now being experienced by citizens of the United States who married alien husbands, subsequent to May 31, 1928. The operation of the present law has, in many

instances, compelled the separation of husband from wife and children, owing to the husband's inability to secure an immigration visa for admission into the United States.

Section 2 of the bill merely strikes out provisions in section 6 inconsistent with the present bill. Under clause (A) of section 6 (a) (1) husbands by a marriage occurring after May 31, 1928, receive a preference within the quota. Accordingly, since the first section of the bill gives husbands a nonquota status, it is necessary to eliminate the inconsistent provisions in section 6 according certain husbands preference within the quota. As stated, this is accomplished by section 2 of the bill.

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REPORT No. 131

AMENDING SECTION 3, RIVERS AND HARBORS ACT, APPROVED JUNE 13, 1902

JANUARY 21, 1932.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. FLETCHER, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 2334]

The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2334) to amend section 3 of the rivers and harbors act, approved June 13, 1902, as amended and supplemented, have considered the same and report thereon with an amendment, and as so amended recommend that the bill do pass.

The amendment has been incorporated in the bill as reported, and is as follows:

Line 10, after the word "by", insert the words "seasonal passenger craft."

The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the annexed communication.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 16, 1932.

Hon. HIRAM W. JOHNSON,

Chairman Committee on Commerce,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR: Reference is made to your letter of December 21, 1931, requesting the views of this department on Senate bill No. 2334, "To amend section 3 of the rivers and harbors act, approved June 13, 1902, as amended and supplemented."

Section 3 of the rivers and harbors act of 1902, as amended, provides for the organization of a Board of Engineers to whom shall be referred, for consideration and recommendation, all reports upon examinations and surveys provided for by Congress. The section further provides:

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"And in the consideration of such works and projects the board shall have in view the amount and character of commerce existing or reasonably prospective which will be benefited by the improvement, and the relation of the ultimate

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