ERECTION OF SHENANDOAH MEMORIAL, NEAR AVA,

OHIO

JULY 1, 1937.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. KELLER, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 7564]

The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7564) permitting the erection of the Shenandoah Memorial in or near Ava, Ohio, having considered the same, report favorably thereon and recommend that the bill do pass without amendment.

In the Seventy-fourth Congress, this committee reported favorably on H. R. 10544, which became Public 614, Seventy-fourth Congress. Under the provisions of this law the Treasury Department was directed to carry forward plans for a memorial to those who lost their lives in the Shenandoah disaster. The language of the bill stated that the memorial shall be erected "on the spot where the Shenandoah fell." It was found that the accident was of such a nature that the Shenandoah fell in many different pieces over a wide area. Therefore, the question of the exact location arose.

H. R. 7564 proposed an amendment to Public 614, Seventy-fourth Congress, to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to erect this memorial in or near Ava, Ohio, thereby removing doubt as to the legality of the expenditure, dependent upon the exact location of the "spot."

CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW

In compliance with paragraph 2a of rule XIII of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italics, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman):

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to erect in or near Ava, Ohio, [on the spot where the Shenandoah fell,] a suitable tablet or marker to commemorate the heroic services rendered by Commander Landsdowne and other members of the crew who died when the Navy dirigible Shenandoah was destroyed."

ARCH HURLEY CONSERVANCY DISTRICT IN NEW

MEXICO

JULY 1, 1937.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. GREEVER, from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 7680]

The Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7680) to authorize the construction of a Federal reclamation project to furnish a water supply for the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico, after careful consideration, report favorably thereon with the recommendation that the bill do pass.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

An identical bill (S. 2086) was passed by the Senate on June 28, 1937.

The Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico is an irrigation and reclamation project, organized to use the waters which will be stored in the Conchas reservoir now being constructed as a floodcontrol project. The Department of the Interior advises that the bill as now drawn is satisfactory, for the reason that no appropriation is made from the Treasury and any money necessary will come from the revolving fund, as will be shown by a copy of the letter from the Department, which is as follows:

Hon. CARL A. HATCH,

United States Senate.

MY DEAR SENATOR HATCH: I have received your letter of May 28, with your amended draft of S. 2086 for the construction of a Federal reclamation project to irrigate the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico.

If the bill is to be enacted, it would seem (1) that the title should be amended so as to read as follows: "A bill to authorize the construction of a Federal reclamation project to furnish a water supply for the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico" and (2) that lines 3 to 6 on page 1 of the bill should be amended so as to read as follows: "That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby

authorized to construct a Federal reclamation project for the irrigation of the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico under the Federal." The bill, if enacted, as now revised, would authorize the use of the reclamation fund for the construction of the project, and therefore the project will not increase the expenditures from the general funds in the Treasury, as was first proposed. The Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget advises that the proposed bill as now amended would not be in conflict with the financial program of the President, and its enactment is recommended.

Sincerely yours,

CHARLES WEST, Acting Secretary of the Interior.

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1st Session

No. 1177

AUTHORIZING PRESIDENT TO APPOINT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

JULY 1, 1937.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. ROBINSON of Utah, from the Select Committee on Government Organization, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 7730]

The Select Committee on Government Organization, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7730) to authorize the President to appoint administrative assistants, having considered the bill, report it back to the House without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.

The purpose of this bill is to carry out the recommendation embodied in the President's message of January 12, 1937, to the Congress, that the Congress authorize the Chief Executive to appoint six administrative assistants to assist him in the administrative work of his office. The bill will authorize the President to appoint these administrative assistants and to fix the compensation of each at not to exceed $10,000 a year. It will also authorize the President to prescribe the duties of such assistants.

Your committee believes that the purpose and necessity for this legislation cannot be better stated than in the language of the report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management which the President submitted to the Congress in his message of January 12, 1937 (S. Doc. No. 8, p. 19):

In this broad program of administrative reorganization the White House itself is involved. The President needs help. His immediate staff assistance is entirely inadequate. He should be given a small number of executive assistants who would be his direct aides in dealing with the managerial agencies and administrative departments of the Government. These assistants, probably not exceeding six in number, would be in addition to his present secretaries, who deal with the public, with the Congress, and with the press and the radio. These aides would have no power to make decisions or issue instructions in their own right. They would not be interposed between the President and the heads of his departments. They would not be assistant Presidents in any sense. Their function would be, when any matter was presented to the President for action affecting any part of the administrative work of the Government, to assist him