APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1938 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 6523 A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT 141560 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1937 Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met pursuant to call at 10:30 a. m., in the committee room, Capitol, Hon. Richard B. Russell, Jr., presiding. Present: Senators Russell (chairman), Hayden, Copeland, Bankhead, O'Mahoney, Truman, and Townsend. The subcommittee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 6523) making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes. Senator RUSSELL. We have here a rather detailed statement from the Secretary of Agriculture, explaining the items which have been approved by the Budget but which do not appear in the House bill. I think it would be well to have incorporated in the record this letter of the Secretary and the explanation of these items. (The letter and statement are as follows:) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Hon. RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Jr., Chairman, Subcommittee on Agricultural Appropriations, United States Senate. DEAR SENATOR RUSSELL: In response to your letter of April 20, I am submitting herewith for the information and consideration of your committee a statement of the items which were included in the Budget for 1938 as submitted to Congress but which are omitted from the appropriation bill as passed by the House. I These items are listed by bureaus so that in discussing them with departmental representatives, who will be available to your committee for hearings beginning Wednesday, you may obtain testimony on their relative urgency. have discussed these items with Mr. Jump, budget officer for the Department, and in my absence he is authorized to speak fully and specifically for me in indicating most compelling needs. Sincerely, H. A. WALLACE. Secretary. 1 M144488 Items in the Budget estimates disallowed in the House bill, 1938 ORDINARY ACTIVITIES Amount Extension Service; General administrative expenses.. Weather Bureau: Installation of international figure code to replace present word code for trans- Expansion of river and flood service to provide additional and more accurate For qualified personnel to make weather observations along the airways. For continuance of vital upper-air observations now made by Army planes but For strengthening weather service to commercial airways (H. Doc. 206) $9,000 20, 285 8,700 56, 090 35,000 57,771 445,000 Studies to evaluate wood for pulp when from various sources and grown under Forest economics, range economics investigations in the Intermountain Region Milk and butterfat production of dairy cows, including breeding investiga- Development of commercial sources for utilization of skim milk, buttermilk, Plant Industry: To increase designation of amount to be allotted in 1938 for work on native Nematology, to develop and perfect methods of treating imported bulbs to Rubber and other tropical plants, cut below 1937 appropriation. For necessary additional work on enforcement of Federal Seed Act due to Forest Service: National forest administration: Timber-sales work. Forest-fire prevention and preparedness. Recreation and land use. Maintenance of improvements other than roads and trails. Management of pinon-juniper and other woodland types in Southwestern 10 10 10 10 11 11 12 Range investigations, studies in the control of shrub invasion on semiarid 13 13 Reforestation investigations in California and the central States.. 20, 301 6, 600 5,000 6, 749 5,000 10,000 30,000 10,000 50,000 9,909 30,000 10,000 10,000 10.000 15,000 Research in more general utilization of agricultural by-products.... Sweet potato weevil control (H. Doc. 179 recommends $100,000, House bill 50,000 20 Forest insects, Budget increases reduced one-half. 39, 738 Dutch elm disease eradication, Budget Increase for removal of diseased, dead, 78, 280 22 Development of equipment to facilitate plant-quarantine and pest-control 7,482 Half of $15,000 Budget increase for strengthening transit inspection service by 7,500 Half of Budget increase of $71,544 for strengthening foreign plant-quarantine Biological Survey: Half of Budget increase of $15,000 for cooperation in food-habits Public Roads: To restore Budget provision authorizing use of an additional Agricultural Engineering: Research to develop economical means of furnishing small supplies of irriga- 10,000 5,000 15,000 Commodity Exchange Administration: Enforcement of Commodity Exchange 190, 000 Agricultural Economics: Marketing studies of regulations affecting trade in agri- 35, 772 7,500 |