The Board shall select a treasurer and as many assistant | leges, or otherwise as the Board may direct, for experimentatreasurers as it deems proper, which treasurer and assistant tion, education, and introduction of the use of such products treasurers may be corporations and banking institutions and in cooperation with practical farmers so as to obtain inforshall give such security for the safekeeping of the securities mation as to the value, effect, and best methods of use of and moneys of the said Corporation as the Board may require: Provided, That any member of said Board may be removed from office at any time by a concurrent resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

same.

(f) The Board is authorized to make alterations, modifications, or improvements in existing plants and facilities, and to construct new plants.

(f) No director shall have any financial interest in any (g) To establish, maintain, and operate laboratories and public-utility corporation engaged in the business of dis- | experimental plants, and to undertake experiments for the tributing and selling power to the public nor in any cor- purpose of enabling the Corporation to furnish nitrogen poration engaged in the manufacture, selling, or distribution | products for military and agricultural purposes in the most of fixed nitrogen or fertilizer, or any ingredients thereof, economical manner and at the highest standard of efficiency. nor shall any member have any interest in any business (h) The Board shall have power to request the assistance that may be adversely affected by the success of the Cor- and advice of any officer, agent, or employee of any executive poration as a producer of concentrated fertilizers or as a department or of any independent office of the United producer of electric power. States, to enable the Corporation the better to carry out its powers successfully, and the President shall, if in his opinion, the public interest, service, or economy so require, direct that such assistance, advice, and service be rendered to the Corporation, and any individual that may be by the Presi| dent directed to render such assistance, advice, and service shall be thereafter subject to the orders, rules, and regulations of the Board.

(g) The Board shall direct the exercise of all the powers of the Corporation.

(h) All members of the Board shall be persons who profess a belief in the feasibility and wisdom of this act.

Sec. 3. The Board shall appoint such managers, assistant managers, officers, employees, attorneys, and agents, as are necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define their duties, require bonds of such of them as the Board may designate, and provide a system of organization to fix responsibility and promote efficiency. | Any appointee of the Board may be removed in the discretion of the Board.

Sec. 4. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, the Corporation

(a) Shall have succession in its corporate name.

(b) May sue and be sued in its corporate name, but only for the enforcement of contracts and the defense of property. (c) May adopt and use a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed.

(d) May make contracts as herein authorized. (e) May adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws.

(f) May purchase or lease and hold such personal property as it deems necessary or convenient in the transaction of its business, and may dispose of any such personal property held by it.

(g) Shall have such powers as may be necessary or appropriate for the exercise of the powers herein specifically conferred upon the Corporation.

(h) In the name of the United States Government to exercise the right of eminent domain, and in the purchase of any real estate or the acquisition of real estate by condemnation proceedings, the title to such real estate shall be taken in the name of the United States Government.

Sec. 5. The Board is hereby authorized and directed— (a) To contract with commercial producers for the production of such fertilizers or fertilizer materials as may be needed in the Government's program of development and introduction in excess of that produced by Government plants. Such contracts may provide either for outright purchase by the Government or only for the payment of carrying charges on special materials manufactured at the Government's request for its program.

(b) To arrange with farmers and farm organizations for large-scale practical use of the new forms of fertilizers under conditions permitting an accurate measure of the economic return they produce.

(i) Upon the requisition of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy to manufacture for and sell at cost to the United States explosives or their nitrogenous content. (j) Upon the requisition of the Secretary of War the Corporation shall allot and deliver without charge to the War Department so much power as shall be necessary in the judgment of said Department for use in operation of all locks, lifts, or other facilities in aid of navigation.

(k) To produce, distribute, and sell electric power, as herein particularly specified.

(1) No products of the Corporation shall be sold for use outside of the United States, her Territories and possessions, except to the United States Government for the use of its Army and Navy or to its allies in case of war.

Sec. 6. In the appointment of officials and the selection of employees for said Corporation, and in the promotion of any such employees or officials, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency. Any member of said Board who is guilty of a violation of this section shall be removed from office by the President of the United States, and any appointee of said Board who is guilty of a violation of this section shall be removed from office by said Board.

Sec. 7. In order to enable the Corporation to exercise the powers vested in it by this act

(a) The exclusive use, possession, and control of the United States nitrate plants numbered 1 and 2, including steam plants, located, respectively, at Sheffield, Alabama, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, together with all real estate and buildings connected therewith, all tools and machinery, equipment, accessories, and materials belonging thereto, and all laboratories and plants used as auxiliaries thereto; the fixed-nitrogen research laboratory, the Waco limestone quarry, in Alabama, and Dam Numbered 2, located at Muscle Shoals, its power house, and all hydroelectric and operating | appurtenances (except the locks), and all machinery, lands, and buildings in connection therewith, and all appurtenances thereof are hereby entrusted to the Corporation for the purposes of this act.

to the purpose president of the United States is authorized to

(c) To cooperate with National, State, district, or county experimental stations or demonstration farms, for the use of new forms of fertilizer or fertilizer practices during the initial or experimental period of their introduction.

(d) The Board shall manufacture fixed nitrogen at Muscle Shoals by the employment of existing facilities by modernizing existing plants, or by any other process or processes that in its judgment shall appear wise and profitable for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen.

provide for the transfer to the corporation of the use, possession, and control of such other real or personal property of the United States as he may from time to time deem necessary and proper for the purposes of the Corporation as herein stated.

Sec. 8. (a) The Corporation shall maintain its principal office in the immediate vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The Corporation shall be held to be an inhabitant and resident of the northern judicial district of Alabama within the meaning of the laws of the United States relating to the

(e) Under the authority of this act the Board may make donations or sales of the total product of the plant or plants operated by it to be fairly and equitably distributed through the agency of county demonstration agents, agricultural col- | venue of civil suits.

(b) The Corporation shall at all times maintain complete | construct or agree to construct a transmission line to the and accurate books of accounts.

(c) Each member of the board before entering upon the duties of his office shall subscribe to an oath (or affirmation) to support the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully and impartially perform the duties imposed upon him by this act.

Government reservation upon which is located a Government generating plant, or to a main transmission line owned by the Government and under the control of the board, the board is hereby authorized and directed to contract with such State, county, municipality, or other organization, or two or more of them, for the sale of electricity for a term not exceeding forty years, and in any such case the board shall give to such State, county, municipality, or other or

Sec. 9. (a) The board shall file with the President and with the Congress in January of each year a financial statement and a complete report as to the business of the Corpo-ganization ample time to fully comply with any local law ration covering the preceding year. This report shall include the total number of employees and the names, salaries, and duties of those receiving compensation at the rate of more than $1,500 a year.

(b) The board shall require a careful and scrutinizing audit and accounting by the General Accounting Office during each governmental fiscal year of operation under this act, and said audit shall be open to inspection to the public at all times and copies thereof shall be filed in the principal office of the Corporation at Muscle Shoals, in the State of Alabama. Once during each fiscal year the President of the United States shall have power, and it shall be his duty, upon the written request of at least two members of the board, to appoint a firm of certified public accountants of his own choice and selection, which shall have free and open access to all books, accounts, plants, warehouses, offices, and all other places, and records belonging to or under the control of or used by the corporation in connection with the business authorized by this act. And the expenses of such audit so directed by the President shall be paid by the board and charged as part of the operating expenses of the Corporation. | Sec. 10. The board is hereby empowered and authorized to sell the surplus power not used in its operations and for operation of locks and other works generated by it to States, counties, municipalities, corporations, partnerships, or individuals, according to the policies hereinafter set forth, and to carry out said authority, the board is authorized to enter into contracts for such sale for a term not exceeding thirty years and in the sale of such current by the board it shall give preference to States, counties, municipalities, and cooperative organizations of citizens or farmers, not organized or doing business for profit, but primarily for the purpose of supplying electricity to its own citizens or members: Provided, That all contracts made with private companies or individuals for the sale of power, which power is to be resold for a profit, shall contain a provision authorizing the board to cancel said contract upon two years' notice in writing, if the board needs said power to supply the demand of States, counties, or municipalities. In order to provide for the fullest possible use of electric light and power on farms, the board, in its discretion, shall have power within reasonable distance of any of its transmission lines to construct transmission lines to farms and small villages that are not otherwise supplied with electricity at reasonable rates and to make such rules and regulations governing such sale and distribution of electric power as in its judgment may be just and equitable.

Sec. 11. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Government, so far as practical, to distribute the surplus power generated at Muscle Shoals equitably among the States, counties, and municipalities within transmission distance of Muscle Shoals.

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now in existence or hereafter enacted providing for the necessary legal authority for such State, county, municipality, or other organization to contract with the board for such power: Provided further, That all contracts entered into between the corporation and any municipality or other political subdivision shall provide that the electric power shall be sold and distributed to the ultimate consumer without discrimination as between consumers of the same class, and such contracts shall be void if a discriminatory rate, rebate, or other special concession is made or given to any consumer or user by the municipality or other political subdivision: And provided further, That any surplus power not so sold as above provided to States, counties, municipalities, or other said organizations, before the board shall sell the same to any person or corporation engaged in the distribution and resale of electricity for profit, it shall require said person or corporation to agree that any resale of such electric power by said person or corporation shall be sold to the ultimate consumer of such electric power at a price that shall not exceed an amount fixed as reasonable, just, and fair by the board; and in case of any such sale if an amount is charged the ultimate consumer which is in excess of the price so deemed to be just, reasonable, and fair by the board the contract for such sale between the board and such distributor of electricity shall be declared null and void and the same shall be canceled by the board.

Sec. 13. Five per centum of the gross proceeds received by the Board for the sale of power generated at Dam Numbered 2, or from the steam plant located in that vicinity, or from any other steam plant hereafter constructed in the State of Alabama, shall be paid to the State of Alabama; and 5 per centum of the gross proceeds from the sale of power generated at Cove Creek Dam, hereinafter provided for, or any other dam or steam plant located in the State of Tennessee, shall be paid to the State of Tennessee. Upon the completion of said Cove Creek Dam the Board shall ascertain how much excess power is thereby generated at Dam Numbered 2 and any other dam hereafter constructed by the Government of the United States on the Tennessee River, in the State of Alabama, or in the State of Tennessee and from the gross proceeds of the sale of such excess power 22 per centum shall be paid to the State of Alabama and 21⁄2 per centum to the State of Tennessee. These provisions shall apply to any other dam that may hereafter be constructed and controlled and operated by the Board on the Tennessee River or any of its tributaries, the main purpose of which is to control flood waters and where the development of electric power is only incidental in the operation of such flood-control dam. In ascertaining the gross proceeds from the sale of such power upon which a percentage is paid to the States of Alabama and Tennessee the Board shall not take into consideration the proceeds of any power sold to the Government of the United States, or any department of the Government of the United States used in the operation of any locks on the Tennessee River, or for any experimental purpose, or for the manufacture of fertilizer of any of the ingredients thereof, or for any other governmental purpose.

Sec. 12. In order to place the board upon a fair basis for making such contracts and for receiving bids for the sale of such power it is hereby expressly authorized, either from appropriations made by Congress or from funds secured from the sale of such power or from funds secured by the sale of bonds hereafter provided for, to construct, lease, or authorize Sec. 14. The Board shall make a thorough investigation as the construction of transmission lines within transmission to the present value of Dam Numbered 2 and the steam distance from the place where generated: Provided, That if plants at nitrate plant numbered 1 and nitrate plant numany State, county, municipality, or other public or coopera- bered 2, and as to the cost of Cove Creek Dam, for the purtive organization of citizens or farmers, not organized or pose of ascertaining how much of the value or the cost of doing business for profit, but primarily for the purpose of said properties shall be allocated and charged up to (1) supplying electricity to its own citizens or members, or any flood control, (2) navigation, (3) fertilizer, (4) national detwo or more of such municipalities or organizations, shall | fense, and (5) the development of power. The findings thus

project and to promote flood control and navigation in the Tennessee River.

made by the Board, when approved by the President of the | and operation in connection with the general Muscle Shoals United States, shall be final, and such findings shall thereafter be used in all allocation of value for the purpose of keeping the book value of said properties. In like manner, the cost and book value of any dams, steam plants, or other similar improvements hereafter constructed and turned over to said Board for the purpose of control and management shall be ascertained.

Sec. 15. In the construction of any future dam, steam plant, or other facility, to be used in whole or in part for the generation of hydroelectric power, the Board, if directed so to do by the President of the United States, shall issue its bonds for the payment in part or in full of that part of said | development that is allocated to the production of hydroelectric power. Said bonds shall be in denominations and shall draw such interest and shall bear such maturity dates as shall be directed by the President, and the same shall be sold to the public in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the President may direct. The net proceeds of all moneys received for the sale of power to States, counties, municipalities, or farm organizations, as well as the net proceeds derived from any tonnage tax that may hereafter be provided for by Congress, are hereby pledged to the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon.

Sec. 16. The Secretary of War, whenever the President deems it advisable, is hereby empowered and directed to complete Dam Numbered 2 at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the steam plant at nitrate plant numbered 2, in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, by installing in Dam Numbered 2 the additional power units according to the plans and specifications of said dam, and the additional power unit in the steam plant at nitrate plant numbered 2.

Sec. 17. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Government to utilize the Muscle Shoals properties so far as may be necessary to improve and cheapen the production of fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients by carrying out the provisions of this act.

Sec. 18. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized, with appropriations hereafter to be made available by the Congress, to construct, either directly or by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, after due advertisement, a dam in and across Clinch River in the State of Tennessee, which has by long custom become known and designated as the Cove Creek Dam, together with a transmission line from Muscle Shoals, according to the latest and most approved designs of the Chief of Engineers, including power house and hydroelectric installations and equipment for the generation of at least two hundred thousand horsepower, in order that the waters of the said Clinch River may be impounded and stored above said dam for the purpose of increasing and regulating the flow of the Clinch River and the Tennessee River below, so that the maximum amount of primary power may be developed at Dam Numbered 2 and at any and all other dams below the said Cove Creek Dam.“

Sec. 19. In order to enable and empower the Secretary of War to carry out the authority hereby conferred, in the most economical and efficient manner, he is hereby authorized and empowered in the exercise of the powers of national defense in aid of navigation, and in the control of the flood waters of the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, constituting channels of interstate commerce, to exercise the right of eminent domain for all purposes of this act and to condemn all lands, easements, rights of way, and other area necessary in order to obtain a site for said Cove Creek Dam, and the flowage rights for the reservoir of water above said dam and to negotiate and conclude contracts with States, counties, municipalities, and all State agencies and with railroads, railroad corporations, common carriers, and all public utility commissions and any other person, firm, or corporation, for the relocation of railroad tracks, highways, highway bridges, mills, ferries, electric-light plants, and any and all other properties, enterprises, and projects whose removal may be necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this act. When said Cove Creek Dam, transmission line, and power house shall have been completed, the possession, use, and control thereof shall be entrusted to the Corporation for use

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Sec. 20. The Corporation, as an instrumentality and agency of the Government of the United States for the purpose of executing its constitutional powers, shall have access to the Patent Office of the United States for the purpose of studying, ascertaining, and copying all methods, formulæ, and scientific information (not including access to pending applications for patents) necessary to enable the Corporation to use and employ the most efficacious and economical process for the production of fixed nitrogen, or any essential ingredient of fertilizer, or any method of improving and cheapening the production of hydroelectric power, and any patentee whose patent rights may have been thus in any way copied, used, or employed by the exercise of this authority by the Corporation, shall have as the exclusive remedy of a cause of action to be instituted and prosecuted on the equity side of the appropriate district court of the United States for the recovery of reasonable compensation. The Commissioner of Patents shall furnish to the Corporation, at its request and without payment of fees, copies of documents on file in his office.

Sec. 21. The Government of the United States hereby reserves the right, in case of war or national emergency declared by Congress, to take possession of all or any part of the property described or referred to in this act for the purpose of manufacturing explosives or for other war purposes; but, if this right is exercised by the Government, it shall pay the reasonable and fair damages that may be suffered by any party whose contract for the purchase of electric power or fixed nitrogen or fertilizer ingredients is hereby violated, after the amount of damages has been fixed by the United States Court of Claims in proceedings instituted and conducted for that purpose under rules prescribed by the court. Sec. 22. (a) All general penal statutes relating to the larceny, embezzlement, conversion, or to the improper handling, retention, use, or disposal of public moneys or property of the United States, shall apply to the moneys and property of the Corporation and to moneys and properties of the United States intrusted to the Corporation.

(b) Any person who, with intent to defraud the Corporation, or to deceive any director, officer, or employee of the Corporation or any officer or employee of the Corporation (1) makes any false entry in any book of the Corporation, or (2) makes any false report or statement for the Corporation, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(c) Any person who shall receive any compensation, rebate, or reward, or shall enter into any conspiracy, collusion, or agreement, express or implied, with intent to defraud the Corporation or wrongfully and unlawfully to defeat its purposes, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Sec. 23. To aid further the proper use, conservation, and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and of such adjoining territory as may be related to or materially affected by the development consequent of this act, and to provide for the general welfare of the citizens of said areas, the President is hereby authorized by such means or methods as he may deem proper within the limits of appropriations made therefor by Congress, to make such surveys of and general plans for said Tennessee Basin and adjoining territory as may be useful to the Congress and to the several States in guiding and controlling the extent, sequence, and nature of development that may be equitably and economically advanced through the expenditure of public funds or through the guidance or control of public authority, all for the general purpose of fostering an orderly and proper physical, economic, and social developent of said areas; and the President is further authorized in making said surveys and plans to cooperate with the States affected thereby.

Sec. 24. The President shall from time to time, as the work provided in section 23 progresses, recommend to Congress such legislation as he deems proper to carry out the general

purposes stated in said section and for the especial purpose | Upon such hearings the said judges shall file their own of bringing about in said Tennessee drainage basin in con- award, fixing therein the value of the property sought to formity with said general purposes (1) the maximum amount be condemned, regardless of the award previously made by of flood control; (2) the maximum development of said Ten- the said commissioners. nessee River for navigation purposes; (3) the maximum generation of electric power consistent with flood control and navigation; (4) the proper use of marginal lands; (5) the proper method of reforestation of all lands in said drainage basin suitable for reforestation; and (6) the most practical method of improving agricultural conditions in the valleys of said drainage basin.

At any time within thirty days from the filing of the decision of the district judges upon the hearing on exceptions to the award made by the commissioners, either party may appeal from such decision of the said judges to the circuit court of appeals, and the said circuit court of appeals shall upon the hearing on said appeal dispose of the same upon the record, without regard to the awards or findings there

such circuit court of appeals shall thereupon fix the value of the said property sought to be condemned.

Sec. 27. All appropriations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act are hereby authorized.

Sec. 28. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 25. For the purpose of securing any rights of flow- | tofore made by the commissioners or the district judges, and age, or obtaining title to or possession of any property, real or personal, that may be necessary or may become necessary, in the carrying out of any of the provisions of this act, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with the owner or owners of such rights or such property, and to provide for the payment of same by delivery of hydroelectric, steam, or other power generated at any of the plants now owned or hereafter owned or constructed by the Government or by said corporation. Any such contract made by the President of the United States, or under his direction and approved by him, shall be carried out by the board.

Sec. 26. The corporation may cause proceedings to be instituted for the acquisition by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights of way which in the opinion of the corporation are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. The proceedings shall be instituted in the United States district court for the district in which the land, easement, right of way, or other interest is located, and such court shall have full jurisdiction to divest the complete title to the property sought to be acquired out of all persons or claimants and vest the same in the United States in fee simple, and to enter a decree quieting the title thereto in the United States of America.

Upon the filing of a petition for condemnation and for the purpose of ascertaining the value of the property to be acquired, and assessing the compensation to be paid, the court shall appoint three commissioners who shall be disinterested persons and who shall take and subscribe an oath that they do not own any lands, or interest or easement in any lands, which it may be desirable for the United States to acquire in the furtherance of said project, and such commissioners shall not be selected from the locality wherein the land sought to be condemned lies. Such commissioner shall receive a per diem of not to exceed $15 per day for their services, together with an additional amount of $5 per day for subsistence for time actually spent in performing their duties as commissioners.

It shall be the duty of such commissioners to examine into the value of the lands sought to be condemned, to conduct hearings and receive evidence, and generally to take such appropriate steps as may be proper for the determinetion of the value of the said lands sought to be condemned, and for such purpose the commissioners are authorized to administer oaths and subpena witnesses, which said witnesses shall receive the same fees as are provided for witnesses in the Federal courts. The said commissioners shall thereupon file a report setting forth their conclusions as to the value of the said property sought to be condemned, making a separate award and valuation in the premises with respect to each separate parcel involved. Upon the filing of such award in court, the clerk of said court shall give notice of the filing of such award to the parties to said proceeding in manner and form as directed by the judge of said court.

Either or both parties may file exceptions to the award of said commissioners within twenty days from the date of the filing of said award in court. Exceptions filed to such award shall be heard before three Federal district judges unless the parties, in writing, in person, or by their attorneys, stipulate that the exceptions may be heard before a lesser number of judges. On such hearing such judges shall pass de novo upon the proceedings had before the commissioners, may view the property, and may take additional evidence.

Sec. 29. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly declared and reserved.

Mr. MCSWAIN reserved all points of order on the motion to recommit.

Pending further consideration of said bill,

LEAVE OF ABSENCE

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted—
To Mr. GLOVER, indefinitely;

To Mr. FIESINGER, indefinitely; and

To Mr. LINDSAY, for the balance of the week.
And then,

ADJOURNMENT

On motion of Mr. McSWAIN, at 4 o'clock and 42 minutes p.m., the House adjourned.

CHANGE OF REFERENCE

Under clause 2 of rule XXII, committees were discharged from the consideration of the following bills, which were referred as follows:

A bill (H.R. 4512) granting a pension to Harry C. Spring; Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Committee on Pensions.

A bill (H.R. 4509) for the relief of George Henry Clayberger; Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the Committee on Pensions.

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows:

By Mr. LOZIER: A bill (H.R. 5203) to reduce to $500 the maximum amount which may stand for the credit of any one person in a Postal-Savings account, and to reduce the rate of interest on such accounts; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. WHITE: A bill (H.R. 5204) to preserve and protect the gold standard through the establishment of an auxiliary monetary reserve of silver and the issuance of silver certificates payable in their gold value equivalent and under such regulations as will provide protection to the gold standard and operate to restore and stabilize commodity prices; to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Meas

ures.

By Mr. DIMOND: A bill (H.R. 5205) transferring the jurisdiction, supervision, administration, and control over the salmon and other fisheries of Alaska, except the furseal and sea-otto fisheries, from the Department of Commerce to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries. By Mr. RUDD: A bill (H.R. 5206) to amend the act entitled "An act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. WOOD of Missouri: A bill (H.R. 5207) to reduce from 16 hours to 12 hours the number of hours that em

660. Also, petition of Southwestern Coal Co., Fort Smith; By Mr. DRIVER: A bill (H.R. 5218) for the relief of Felix Logan County Marketing Co., Paris; Arkansas-Oklahoma Maupin; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Coal Operators' Association and R. A. Young & Son Coal Co., By Mr. FORD: A bill (H.R. 5219) for the relief of Elijah Fort Smith; Paris Purity Coal Co., Paris; 12 coal operators C. LeCount; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

in Clarksville field; other Fort Smith mining and manufacAlso, a bill (H.R. 5220) for the relief of Squire Estes; to turing interests; Hon. Henry Moore, Jr., Texarkana, all of the Committee on Military Affairs. the State of Arkansas; and Continental Gin Co., of Memphis, Also, a bill (H.R. 5221) for the relief of George A. Gundel- Tenn., protesting against passage in the House of the Black finger; to the Committee on Military Affairs. bill, S. 158; to the Committee on Labor.

Also, a bill (H.R. 5223) for the relief of Barney E. Wells; at Sawtelle, Calif.; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on Military Affairs.