DOCUMENT SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION DIVISION Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1959 27544 HEARINGS BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1958 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts DON MAGNUSON, Washington WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, North Carolina ALFRED E. SANTANGELO, New York JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota GORDON CANFIELD, New Jersey FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York EARL WILSON, Indiana GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York FRANK T. BOW, Ohio HAMER H. BUDGE, Idaho CHARLES RAPER JONAS, North Carolina ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director (II) J. VAUGHAN GARY, Virginia, Chairman OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana GORDON CANFIELD, New Jersey ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey EARL WILSON, Indiana TOM STEED, Oklahoma TREASURY DEPARTMENT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1958. WITNESSES EDWIN L. KILBY, COMMISSIONER, BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT FRANK B. GATCHELL, JR., BUDGET OFFICER, BUREAU OF CUSTOMS STATES COAST GUARD COMDR. E. D. SCHEIDERER, BUDGET OFFICER, UNITED STATES COAST GUARD Mr. GARY. The committee will please come to order. bers of this committee is the chairman of the Foreign Aid SubcomI desire to report that Mr. Passman, one of the distinguished memmittee and is holding a hearing of that committee this morning which prevents his attendance at this committee. RESIGNATION OF HON. BENJAMIN F. JAMES mittee on June 11, 1958, of Mr. James, one of our very valuable At the outset, I want to announce the resignation from the commembers. Although he is still a Member of the Congress, he had a Very serious operation and on account of his health he had previously his health, he resigned his committee work. Mr. James has been an announced that he would not run for reelection this year. ceptionally valuable member of this subcommittee. He was elected to the committee on January 15, 1951, and has served on it since that Bureau of Printing and Engraving and some of the other bureaus particularly helpful in reviewing the budget of the is one of the finest gentlemen that I ever knew and I want to take this where printing and engraving were involved. In addition to that, he opportunity to express my very sincere regrets that we will no longer have the pleasure of his membership on the committee. time. He was (1) |