SENATE REPORTS

79th Congress, 2d Session

(January 14-August 2, 1946)

MISCELLANEOUS

VOL. 1

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1946

CONTENTS

NOTE.-Earlier parts of Senate reports 47, 179, and 808 are reports of the 1st session of the 79th Congress

and are bound in volumes of Senate reports of that session.

No.

47. Report of Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Busi-

ness. pt. 4.

179. Investigation of petroleum resources in relation to national welfare. pt. 2.

808. Administration and use of public lands. pt. 2.

889. Missouri Valley Authority act.

890. Relief of Christopher C. Dance.

891. District court for middle district of North Carolina to hear claims of Pa-

tuxent Development Co., Inc.

,892. Creating joint committee to study matters relating to election of President

and Presidential succession.

893. Appointment of 3 additional Assistant Secretaries of Commerce.

894. Conveying certain lands now included within boundaries of National Elk
Refuge to Wyoming.

895. Readjust boundaries of Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon National
Game Preserve, Arizona Grazing District No. 1.

896. Fixing salary of solicitor of Interior Department.

897. Extending time for acquisition of lands for Cape Hatteras National Sea-

shore Recreational Area.

898. Granting title of public lands to Safford, Ariz.

899. Protecting scenic values along and tributary to Catalina Highway within

Coronado National Forest.

900. Exchange of property in Glacier National Park.

901. Transfer property in Ward County, N. Dak., to North Dakota.

902. Relief of Salvatore Carbone.

903. Investigation of martial law in Hawaii since Dec. 7, 1941, of operation of
Army and Navy court-martial systems, etc.

904. Bridge across Missouri River near Frazer, Mont.

905. Reenacting act creating City of Clinton Bridge Commission to construct
bridges across Mississippi River.

906. Bridge across Monongahela River near Star City, W. Va.

907. Bridge across Hudson River between Mechanicville and Schaghticoke,

N. Y.

908. Establishing Office of Technical Services.

909. Transferring fish hatchery in Comanche County to Lawton, Okla.

910. Municipalities and public-utility districts in Alaska to issue revenue bonds

for public-works purposes.

911. Ratifying act 33 of session laws of Hawaii, 1945, relating to issuance and
delivery of certain revenue bonds.

912. Ratifying act 32 of session laws of Hawaii, 1945, relating to franchises for

electric current.

913. Health programs for Government employees.

914. Relief of James F. Desmond.

915. Granting Virginia Electric & Power Co. perpetual easement in portions of

Norfolk Navy Yary.

916. Establishing chief of chaplains in Navy.

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917. Reimburse certain Navy personnel for losses in fires at various naval shore

activities.

918. Appointment of Earle W. Mills as chairman, Maritime Commission, and

administrator, War Shipping Administration.

919. First supplemental surplus appropriation rescission bill, 1946.

920. Amending 1st war powers act of 1941 so as to permit return of alien property
to persons not hostile to U. S.

921. Amending agricultural adjustment act of 1938 relative to tobacco.

922. Conveying lands within Fort Douglas military reservation to Shriners'

Hospitals for Crippled Children.

923. Additional district judge for northern district of California.

924. Restoring to Hawaii certains lands designated as available under Hawaiian

Homes Commission act of 1920.

925. Authorizing Interstate Commerce Committee to investigate matters rela-
ting to handling of insolvent railroads.

926. Independent offices appropriation bill, 1947.

927. Benefits for postal employees. *

928. Changing designation of Custer Battlefield National Cemetery to Custer

Battlefield National Monument.

929. Transferring functions of Defense Transportation Office rel. to transportation
of Govt. employees to departments.

930. Exchange of land at Benicia Arsenal Calif., for land of Southern Pacific Rail-
road Co.

931. Crediting service of members of Army, Navy, etc., prior to reaching 18
years of age for pay purposes.

932. Changing name of Shoshone Dam and Reservoir to Buffalo Bill Dam and

Reservoir.

933. Granting World War II veterans same preference on Boulder Canyon
project as given veterans of prior wars, etc.

934. Amend Hatch act, to prevent pernicious political activities, rel. to penalty
provisions concerning Govt. employees.

935. Terms and conditions governing utilization by freight forwarders of services

of common carriers by motor vehicle.

936. Report of Agriculture and Forestry Committee rel. to buying, selling, and

handling of grain.

937. Relief of Isabel Carlson.

938. Relief of Leonard C. Hutchings.

939. Relief of estate of William N. Therriault and Millicent Therriault.

940. Relief of Benny Pendino.

941. Relief of Max Hirsch.

942. Relief of Harry C. Westover.

943. Relief of legal guardian of Forest E. Powell.

944. Relief of R. H. Sindle.

945. Relief of William Phillips.

946. Relief of legal guardian of Olga Stanik.

947. Relief of Lucy Delgado and Irma M. Delgado.

948. Relief of A. F. Crawford.

949. Relief of Alice Condon.

950. Relief of Alfred Osterhoff, doing business as Illini Reefer Transit.

951. Relief of estate of Michael J. McDonough.

952. Relief of Sam Kalak.

953. Relief of Thomas A. Butler.

954. Relief of A. L. Clem and Ida M. Bryant.

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955. Relief of Charles Zucker.

956. Relief of Solomon Schtierman.

957. Relief of Arnold S. Mecham.

958. Relief of Walter D. Jones and Ethel S. Jones.

959. Referees in bankruptcy salary bill. **

960. Constitutional amendment as to counting of aliens and Indians for repre-

sentation in House of Representatives.

961. District court of California to hear claims for losses by flood in levee district

no. 10, Yuba County, Calif.

962. Relief of Elsie Peter.

963. Relief of estate of Bobby Messick.

964. Relief of Mrs. Henry H. Hay.

965. Providing Coast Guard, when returned to Treasury Department, with
system of laws for settlement of claims, etc.

966. Relief of Thomas Sumner.

967. Relief of legal guardian of Kathleen L. McGuire.

968. Relief of Florence Mersman.

969. Relief of Saunders Wholesale, Inc.

970. Relief of Herbert C. Rockwell.

971. Relief of Harold B. Alden and Walter E. Strohm.

972. Relief of C. Frank James.

973. Relief of Gordon C. Hart.

974. Relief of legal guardians of John Buchan and Lawrence Gillingham.

975. Relief of C. H. Brumfield.

976. Setting aside certain lands of Rainy Mountain School reserve for Kiowa,

Comanche, and Apache Indians.

977. To provide for travel and other expenses of tribal organizations of Osage

tribe, Oklahoma.

978. Relating to status of Keetoowah Indians of Cherokee Nation, etc.

979. Sale of allotment of LeRoy Milliken on Crow Indian Reservation.

980. Issuance of patent in fee to Alice Y. Other medicine.

981. Issuance of patent in fee to Wilbert Keiser.

982. Amending Alaska game law relative to compensation of members of

Alaska Game Commission.

983. Tendering thanks of Congress to General Marshall and Admiral King and
members of armed forces under them.

984. Distribution of war trophies and devices.

985. Establishing Optometry Corps in Medical Department of Army.

986. Temporary housing for families of servicemen and for veterans and their

families.

987. Progress of plant disposal.

988. Relief of H. H. Ashbrook and others.

989. Preserving citizenship of infant children born abroad to servicemen under
21 years of age at birth of child.

990. Urgent deficiency appropriation bill, 1946.

991. Permitting subsidy payments on 1946 Puerto Rican and Hawaiian sugar
crops, etc.

992. Designating Apr. 19, 1946, as Students and Teachers Day.

993. Establishing office of Under Secretary of Labor and 3 offices of Assistant

Secretary of Labor.

994. Permitting use of gasoline pumps with decimal machinery in D. C.

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