CONGRESS,

CONGRESS,

BRIDGE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN AITKIN COUNTY,

MINN.

APRIL 20, 1916.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Escн, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 13835.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13835) to authorize the county commissioners of Aitkin County, Minn., and the town board of Logan Township, in said county and said State, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River on the line between sections 26 and 27, township 149 north, range 25 west, fourth principal meridian, having considered the same, report thereon with amendment and as so amended recommend that it pass.

Amend the bill as follows:

Page 1, line 7, after the word "River," insert the words "at a point suitable to the interests of navigation."

The bill as amended has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report.

WAR DEPARTMENT, April 17, 1916.

Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives.

The Chief of Engineers reports that House bill No. 13835, current session of Congress, to authorize the county commissioners of Aitkin County, Minn., and the town board of Logan Township, in said county and said State, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River on the line between sections 26 and 27, township 149 north, range 25 west, fourth principal meridian, is in the usual form adopted by Congress for such measures, and with a slight amendment, which has been indicated thereon, will amply provide for the protection of the interests committed to the War Department.

So far as those interests are concerned, I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the bill by Congress. NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War.

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64TH CONGRESS, Į HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session.

REPORT No. 582.

USELESS PAPERS IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

APRIL 20, 1916.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. TALBOTT, from the Joint Select Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. Doc. 905.]

The Joint Select Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed on the part of the Senate and on the part of the House of Representatives, to which were referred the reports of the heads of departments, bureaus, etc., in respect to the accumulation therein of old and useless files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business therein, respectively, and have no permanent value or historical interest, with accompanying statements of the condition and character of such papers, respectfully report to the Senate and House of Representatives, pursuant to an act entitled "An act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the executive departments," approved February 16, 1889, as follows:

Your committee have met and, by a subcommittee appointed by your committee, carefully and fully examined the said reports so referred to your committee and the statements of the condition and the character of such files and papers therein described, and we find and report that the files and papers described in the report of the Acting Secretary of the Treasury in House Document No. 905, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, dated March 15, 1916, are not needed in the transaction of the current business of such departments and bureaus and have no permanent value or historical interest. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representa

tives.

W. L. JONES,

JAMES E. MARTINE,

Members on the part of the Senate.

J. FRED. C. TALBOTT,

WILLIAM S. BENNET,

Members on the part of the House.

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CONGRESS,

REPORT OF COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

APRIL 21.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. BARNHART, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 98.] ·

The Committee on Printing, having had under consideration the Senate joint resolution (S. J. Res. 98) providing for the printing of the final report, complete testimony, and exhibits of the Commission on Industrial Relations, reports the same back to the House with a recommendation that the resolution do pass.

The resolution provides for the printing of 100,000 copies of the final report of the Commission on Industrial Relations in one volume, as originally passed by the House of Representatives, except that the binding shall be in paper instead of cloth. In addition thereto the resolution provides for the printing of 10,000 copies of the complete testimony taken by the commission at its various hearings, together with all the exhibits submitted with such testimony, except its exhibits which are in printed form. It is intended that the printed exhibits shall be referred to in the testimony by title, author, and publisher, so that they may be properly identified and thus made available to any person who desires to obtain such printed exhibits from libraries or publishers that have copies of the same on hand. The estimated cost of the printing proposed by this resolution is as follows:

100,000 copies final report_

10,000 copies complete testimony (7 volumes of 1,008 pages each)__ 10,000 copies of exhibits, except those heretofore printed (3 volumes of 1,008 pages each)__

Total cost.

$9,729.88 54, 978. 84

27,979.53

92, 688. 25

While this committee unanimously agrees that it is a mistake to bind the reports in paper, as the publication is intended as a reference book and will doubtless be used as such for many years to come, and ought therefore to be bound in cloth, representatives of the Industrial Commission and representatives of organized labor espe

cially interested in the prompt publication of these reports signified their willingness before the Senate committee to have the publication bound in paper, and in order to expedite the matter it is the decision of this committee that the provisions of the resolution as it comes to the House shall stand unchanged.

The unencumbered balance of the allotment for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, is $177,268.26. The said Senate joint resolution is as follows:

[S. J. Res. 98, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.]

JOINT RESOLUTION To print as a public document the final report and testimony submitted to Congress by the United States Commission on Industrial Relations.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the final report of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations, including the report of Basil M. Manly, director of research and investigation, and the individual reports and statements of the several commissioners, together with all the testimony taken at its hearings, except exhibits submitted in printed form, which shall be appropriately referred to in said testimony, be printed as a Senate document under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing; and that ten thousand additional copies be printed and bound in cloth, of which two thousand five hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate and seven thousand five hundred copies for the use of the House of Representatives; and that of the final report of said commission one hundred thousand additional copies be printed, of which thirty thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate and seventy thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives: Provided, That the superintendent of documents is hereby authorized to reprint copies of the same for sale or distribution as provided by law.

1st Session.

No. 584.

TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE AN ELECTRIC RAILWAY LINE ON THE FORT BARRANCAS AND FORT MCREE RESERVATIONS, FLA.

APRIL 21, 1916.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WISE, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 3344.]

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3344) to authorize George H. Hervey, of Pensacola, Fla., to construct and operate an electric railway line on the Fort Barrancas and Fort McRee Military Reservations, Fla., and for other purposes, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

The report of the War Department to the chairman Committee on Military Affairs of the United States Senate is as follows:

The CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON MILITARY Affairs,

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 26, 1916.

United States Senate.

SIR: I have the honor to return herewith copy of Senate bill No. 3344, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, authorizing Mr. George H. Hervey, of Pensacola, Fla., to construct and operate an electric railway line on the Fort Barrancas Military Reservation, Fla., which bill was referred to this department by your indorsement of January 14, 1916, requesting that the Senate Committee on Military Affairs be furnished with any information relative to this measure in the possession of the department.

Referring thereto, I beg leave to advise you that the department will offer no objection to the passage of the proposed bill, but that it is suggested that the bill as drafted be amended by substituting for the word "reservation" in line 6, the word "reservations," and by inserting after the word "Barrancas" in the same line the words "and Fort McRee"; this for the reason that it appears from previous correspondence of record in the department that the privilege desired includes the extension of the proposed electric railway to Fort McRee.

Very respectfully,