Dr. WRIGHT. It is practically that. Sometimes the States actually spend more than the amount they are required to spend for matching purposes by reason of the fact that the act requires that the allotment to the States shall be made on the basis of the full amount authorized, which is $14,483,000. There is always a small unexpended balance on hand in the State treasury office at the end of the year and many years ago the precedent was set up-and it has been continued since to consider that unexpended balance in connection with the next year's appropriation. Because that unexpended balance is continually getting less year after year, we therefore have to ask for an additional amount of money here to enable us to certify to the States on the basis of the full amount authorized, which is $14,483,000.

Dr. STUDEBAKER. Mr. Chairman, in order to be perfectly clear, we actually are authorized to allot to the States $14,483,000, and we do that.

Mr. HARE. That is outright.

Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. And a number of the States match it?

Dr. STUDEBAKER. There is always a small unexpended balance at the end of the year. Whenever this appropriation is too small in comparison with what the States actually use of their own authorizations, we have to come back for a deficiency appropriation because you have already authorized us to allot the full amount. I have always felt that it would be better management if we did not have to go to the trouble to come back for the deficiency. I do not believe we came back for a deficiency in the past 2 years.

Dr. WRIGHT. Yes, sir; last year we did.

Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. Why not authorize the full amount? Dr. WRIGHT. You authorize but you do not appropriate the full amount, and if you do not appropriate enough we must come back and ask for a deficiency appropriation.

Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. Why wouldn't it be better to appropriate the full amount?

Dr. WRIGHT. It would. That would settle it and then any unexpended balance left in the State treasury would be deducted from the next year's payment to that State.

Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I do not see why we do not simply appropriate $14,483,000. Anything that they are not able to use in accordance with law will automatically revert at the end of the year.

Mr. HARE. The committee has been very careful to not appropriate any more than they can use.

AMOUNT ALLOTTED TO STATES AND TERRITORIES UNDER GEORGE-DEEN AND SMITH-HUGHES ACTS BASED ON SIXTEENTH CENSUS

Mr. TARVER. Neither of your tables here as far as I have been able to observe give the amounts matched by each State severally. Is that right?

Dr. WRIGHT. We have the information in our office. We do not have it here but we can supply it to the committee.

Mr. TARVER. You do not have it here this afternoon?

Dr. WRIGHT. We do not have it here.

Mr. TARVER. I would like to have that information for the present fiscal year.

Dr. STUDEBAKER. Do you mean for 1943?

Dr. WRIGHT. I cannot give it for 1943 but I can give it for the fiscal year 1942. We do not get the figures for the fiscal year 1943 until the beginning of September when the reports come in.

Mr. TARVER. All right, let us have the information for the fiscal year 1942.

Dr. WRIGHT. Yes, sir.

(The data referred to is as follows:)

Allotments to States and Territories of amounts authorized to be appropriated under the George-Deen Act based on Sixteenth Census (1940), amounts required by States and Territories to match these Federal allotments, the actual expenditures of Federal George-Deen funds by the States and Territories for fiscal 1941-42, and the actual expenditures of State and local funds for fiscal 1941-42

1 For the fiscal year 1942-43 the States and Territories are required to match 60 percent of the GeorgeDeen funds for the salary and travel of teachers, supervisors, and directors, with State or local moneys except that only 50 percent of Federal funds for the training of vocations teachers, supervisors and directors need be matched by State or local money. The percent of matching increases 10 percent each year until the year 1946-47 and thereafter the matching is 100 percent.

60, 506. 28 1,277, 313. 81

72, 272. 67 2, 355, 262.02 671, 442. 14 70, 335.08 841, 882. 41

407, 847. 12 120, 289. 30 1, 940, 943. 63

52, 698. 23 642, 492. 01 91, 310. 28 464.955. 44 1,955, 812.83 155, 527. 05

Dr. WRIGHT. I am just reminded that, in the total, the States are spending considerably more money than the amount required to match Federal funds.

Mr. TARVER. We would like to know what the Federal Government puts up and what each of the States puts up.

Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. We would like to have a chart made up with three columns showing what the Government has put up, what the States were supposed to put up, and what they actually put up on a 50-50 basis.

Dr. Wright. For the George-Deen funds the matching is 60 cents to the dollar for 1942-43. It was 50 cents to the dollar in 1941-42. It will be 70 cents to the dollar in 1943-44. Thereafter it increases 10 percent per year until a dollar-for-dollar basis is attained.

Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. We would like you to prepare a chart showing what the Federal Government puts up, what each State is supposed to put up to match what the Federal Government puts up, and then we would like to have you show exactly what each State puts up. Those figures would be interesting.

Mr. TARVER. Yes; we would like to have it.

Dr. WRIGHT. We will give it to you. The three tables show the facts for the George-Deen and Smith-Hughes funds separately and for the two funds combined.

Allotments to States and Territories of amounts appropriated under the Smith-Hughes Act based on the Sixteenth Census (1940), amounts required by States and Territories to match these Federal allotments, the actual expenditures of Smith-Hughes funds by the States and Territories for fiscal 1941-42, and the actual expenditures of State and local funds for fiscal 1941-42

Allotments to States and Territories of amounts appropriated under the Smith-Hughes Act based on the Sixteenth Census (1940), amounts required by States and Territories to match these Federal allotments, the actual expenditures of Smith-Hughes funds by the States and Territories for fiscal 1941-42, and the actual expenditures of State and local funds for fiscal 1941-42-Continued

Mr. TARVER. As a matter of fact, how much did the States put up? Do you know?

Dr. WRIGHT. The Smith-Hughes Act requires the States to match dollar for dollar but under the George-Deen Act they are required to put up 60 cents for each Federal dollar for the fiscal year 1942-43. Prior to 1943 it was 50 cents to each Federal dollar. In 1944 it will be 70 cents per Federal dollar.

Mr. TARVER. Will you gentlemen furnish the committee with information on the funds matched separately for the Smith-Hughes Act and for the George-Deen Act.

Actual

The two preceding tables show the facts for the funds from the two acts separately. The following table shows the matching for the two funds combined. The allotments from both funds combined for 1942-43 totaled $21,633,122.03. To match these Federal allotments for 1942-43 the States were required to put up $16,261,522. $16.261,522. expenditures for 1942-43 are not available at this time, but the figures for 1941-42 will hold approximately for 1942-43. In 1941-42 the States actually expended $38,118,045.40 of State and local moneys in comparison with $20,640,033.99 of Federal money. In other words the States, as a whole, spent $1.85 of State and local money for every dollar received from the Federal Treasury.

Allotments to States and Territories under appropriations from both Smith-Hughes and George-Deen Acts for fiscal 1942-43, amounts required by States and Territories to match these Federal allotments, the actual expenditures of Federal moneys from both funds for fiscal 1941-42, and the actual expenditures of State and local funds for fiscal 1941-42

Mr. TARVER. How many States have failed to match the Federal funds available?

Dr. WRIGHT. None.

Mr. TARVER. Then all the States have matched the funds of the Federal Government and there is no balance?

Dr. WRIGHT. Yes; but that does not mean that all of the Federal funds have been used. The money is allotted to the States and in turn the States have budgeted these funds, and so have the local com