APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1934 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 13872 A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT 156600 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1933 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CHARLES L. McNARY, Oregon, Chairman HENRY W. KEYES, New Hampshire. ARTHUR CAPPER, Kansas. GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota. PETER NORBECK, South Dakota. L. J. DICKINSON, Iowa. E. S. GRAMMER, Washington. ELLISON D. SMITH, South Carolina. JOHN B. KENDRICK, Wyoming. CARL HAYDEN, Arizona. ROYAL S. COPELAND, New York. MILLARD E. TYDINGS, Maryland. RICHARD. B. RUSSELL, JR., Georgia. KENNEDY F. REA, Clerk. The subcommittee was called to order by Hon. Charles L. McNary, at 2 o'clock p. m. Present: Senators McNary (chairman), Keyes, Nye, Norbeck, Dickinson, Kendrick, Copeland, Russell, Capper, and Smith. Senator McNARY. The committee will come to order. I have requested the appearance and attendance of Mr. Dunlap, the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and Mr. Jump, the Budget officer of the Agricultural Department, to consider some items in the bill to which my attention has been directed. On my own initiative, I stated to the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, that in my judgment we did not need any public hearings. It may develop later that we do, but at the present time, I have asked the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Dunlap, to present to the subcommittee such items as in his mind should receive the attention of the subcommittee. STATEMENT OF HON. R. W. DUNLAP, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND W. A. JUMP, BUDGET OFFICER Mr. DUNLAP. I would like to submit for the record a statement of the appropriations for the department for the years 1932, 1933, and the Budget estimates for 1934, and the House bill for 1934. I will pass a copy of this table to each of the Senators. (The statement above referred to is as follows:) TABLE I.-Statement of appropriations, 1932 and 1933, Budget estimate for 1934, and House bill for 1934, summary by main group heads Ordinary activities.. Payments to States for agricul- Special items: Fighting forest Total, all purposes.. $70, 527, 294 $60, 404, 600 $56, 413, 063 $55, 288, 468-$1,124,595 -$5, 116, 132 188, 100, 000 241, 405, 000 46, 641, 787 39, 827, 400-6, 814, 387-201, 577,600 301, 552, 230318, 883, 236 118, 814, 909 110, 862, 207-7, 952, 702-208, 021, 029 Carried in pending first deficiency bill, 1933. M506376 1 |