MEMORIAL TO JAMES BUCHANAN.

MARCH 20, 1916.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SLAYDEN, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. J. Res. 145.]

The Committee on the Library having had under consideration the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 145), report it back to the House with the following amendment:

After the word "Columbia," in line 9, page 1, of the resolution, strike out all the words following down to and including the word "northwest," in line 11.

As amended the committee recommend that the bill do pass.

The resolution grants permission to the trustees named in the will of Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston to erect in the city of Washington a memorial to James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States.

Mrs. Johnston was a niece of President Buchanan and was social mistress of the White House during his administration. She continued to reside in Washington until her death in 1903. The following extract from her will explains the purpose of the resolution:

To William A. Fisher, of the city of Baltimore; Calderon Carlisle and E. Francis Riggs, of the city of Washington; and Lawrason Riggs, of the city of Baltimore, and the survivors and survivor of the them, his executors, administrators, and assigns, I give and bequeath the sum of $100,000, to be known as the "James Buchanan Monument fund," in trust to hold the same and keep the same invested until disposed of as hereinafter provided; that is to say: In trust first: To secure for the purpose of a site for a monument, either by private negotiations or under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, an acre or more of ground at Stony Batter, near Mercersburg, Pa., the birthplace of my uncle, James Buchanan, and thereon to erect a suitable monument with proper inscriptions, and I suggest as appropriate to the place and purpose of this monument a huge rock or bowlder in its natural state, except that proper surfaces or tablets should be prepared or provided for necessary inscriptions, and I direct that the monument shall be surrounded by a high iron railin for its protection, but the remainder of the ground shall be left uninclose.l for the free use and enjoyment of the people of the State of Pennsylvania, to whose care I commit this memorial of my uncle, and upon the completion of the H R-64-1-vol 28

said monument I authorize and direct my trustees to secure the ownership of and control of said site and monument to the State of Pennsylvania, to be preserved as a memorial of her distinguished citizen:

In trust second: To secure from the Congress of the United States the designation of a suitable site in the city of Washington, to be approved and accepted by them, the trustees aforesaid, and the permission and consent of Congress to erect on said site a statue in bronze or marble of my uncle, James Buchanan, the said statue to be paid for by my said trustees out of the fund hereinbefore provided. And the said trustees are hereby authorized forthwith to procure proper designs or models for said statue with a view to selection of a suitable design and the submission of the same to Congress in connection with their application for the necessary authority and permission in regard to the site. And I direct that on the pedestal of the statue the trustees aforesaid shall place, in addition to other appropriate inscriptions, the noble and truthful words applied to my uncle by the Hon. Jeremiah S. Black: "The incorruptible statesman whose walk was upon the mountain ranges of the law."

The monument to President Buchanan at Stony Batter, near Mercersburg, Pa., provided for in trust first of Mrs. Johnston's will, has been erected and the property turned over to the State of Pennsylvania for perpetual care. This was done out of the income of the fund, so that the original amount of $100,000 is still available for the erection of the memorial in Washington.

The committee hopes its recommendation will be adopted by the House, that there may be no further delay in the erection of. the memorial to James Buchanan, President and statesman.

WATER-POWER BILL.

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

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

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 3331.]

The committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3331) to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters," approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, and to provide for the improvement and development of waterways for the uses of interstate and foreign commerce, having considered the same, report thereon with amendment and as so amended recommend that it pass.

Amend the bill as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That when consent or authority has been or may hereafter be granted by Congress, either directly or indirectly, through any duly authorized official or officials of the United States, to any persons to construct and maintain a dam for water power or other purpose across or in any of the navigable waters of the United States, such dam shall not be built or commenced until the plans and specifications for such dam and all accessory works, together with such drawings of the proposed construction and such map of the proposed location as may be required for a full understanding of the subject, have been submitted to the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers for their approval, nor until they shall have approved such plans and specifications and the location of such dam and accessory works; and after such approval it shall not be lawful to deviate from such plans or specifications either before or after completion of the structure unless the modification of such plans or specifications has previously been submitted to and received the approval of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers. Such plans, specifications, and drawings shall be submitted within two years after the date of approval of the act authorizing the construction.

SEC. 2. That as a part of such approval such conditions and stipulations may be imposed as the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may deem necessary to protect the present and future interests of the United States

which may include the condition that the persons constructing or maintaining such dam shall construct, maintain, and operate in connection therewith, without expense to the United States, a lock or locks, booms, sluices, or any other structure or structures which the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers or Congress may deem necessary in the interests of navigation, in accordance with such plans as they may approve; and also that the persons owning such dam shall convey to the United States, free of cost, title to such land as may be required for such constructions and approaches and shall grant to the United States free water power or power generated from water power for building and operating such constructions; and in such original approval, at the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers, may be required to maintain and operate such lock without expense to the United States. The Secretary of War shall provide, as a condition of such approval, for the diligent, orderly, and reasonable development and continuous operation of the water power, subject to market conditions, and may provide that the grantee shall at no time contract for the delivery to any one consumer of electrical energy in excess of fifty per centum of the total output, except upon the written consent of the Secretary of War.

SEC. 3. That as a part of said approval, the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers shall require that the project adopted and the plans, specifications, and location for any dam shall be such as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers, shall be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for the improvement of the waterway in question for the uses of navigation and for the full development of its water power and for other beneficial public purposes and best adapted to conserve and utilize in the interests of navigation and water-power development the water resources of the region. As between contesting applicants for approval of plans and specifications hereunder, preference shall be given to that applicant whose plans are best qualified to expedite such development; and as between such contesting applicants, which appear equally well qualified in such respect, preference shall be given to that applicant which has first complied with the laws of the State or States in which such dam is to be constructed.

SEC. 4. That in case of the development, generation, transmission, and use of power or energy under such approval in a Territory, or in two or more States, including leases under section nineteen hereof, the rates, charges, and service for the same to the consumers thereof shall be reasonable and just; and all unjust, unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory charges, rates, or services are prohibited and declared to be unlawful, and the regulation and control of so much of the service and of charges for service to consumers as constitutes commerce between the States or in such Territory and of the issuance of stock and bonds by the grantee is hereby conferred upon the Secretary of War or committed to such body as may be provided by Federal statute; that in the valuation for rate-making purposes of the property existing under said approval of the project there may be considered any lock or locks or other aids to navigation, and all other capital expenditures required by the United States, but no value shall be claimed or allowed for the rights hereby granted, for good will, or any other intangible value: Provided, That the physical connection of plants or lines for the generation, distribution, and use of power or energy under this act or under approval made hereunder may be permitted, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, but combinations, agreements, arrangements, or understandings, express or implied, to limit the output of electrical energy, to restrain trade, or to fix, maintain, or increase prices for electrical energy or service, are hereby pohibited.

SEC. 5. That as a part of the conditions and stipulations such approval shall provide

(a) For reimbursement to the United States of all expenses incurred by the United States with reference to the projects, including the cost of any investigation necessary for the approval of the plans as heretofore provided, and for such supervision of construction as may be necessary in the interest of the United States.

(b) For the payment to the United States of reasonable charges for the benefits which may accrue to such project through the construction, operation, and maintenance, in and about such streams, by the United States of headwater improvements of every kind, nature, and description, including storage reservoirs or forested watersheds or land owned, located, or reserved by the United States at the headwaters of any navigable stream for the development, improvement, or preservation of navigation in such stream in which such dam