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Investigating and select committees 85th Cong., Jan. 3, 1957, to Mar. 81, 1959—Con.

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Judiciary Committee (Congressman Celler, New York, chairman), H. Res. 107, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 125, Feb. 7, 1957; H. Res. 432, Jan. 29, 1958; H. Res. 619, July 9, 1958. Joint Committee to Represent Congress at the 350th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown, Va., S. Con. Res. 27, June 26, 1957.

Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee (Congressman Bonner, North Carolina, chairman), H. Res. 149, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 179, Mar. 18, 1957; H. Res. 647, Aug. 6, 1958. Post Office and Civil Service Committee (Congressman Murray, Tennessee, chairman), H. Res. 139, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 140, Feb. 7, 1957. Public Works Committee (Congressman Buckley, New York, chairman), H, Res. 113, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 114, Feb. 7, 1957; H. Res. 632, Aug. 6, 1958..

Small Business Committee (Congressman Patman,

Texas, chairman) Select Committee, H. Res. 56, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 146, Feb. 7, 1957; H. Res. 434, Jan. 29, 1958; H. Res. 601, June 25, 1958.. Un-American Activities Committee (standing) (Congressman Walter, Pennsylvania, chairman) H. Res. 117, Jan. 28, 1957; sec. 17 of rule XI, H. Res. 426, Jan. 30, 1958; H. Res. 599, fune 25, 1958.. Veterans' Affairs Committee (Congressman Teague, Texas, chairman) H. Res. 64, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 65, Feb. 7, 1957; H. Res. 143, Feb. 7, 1957; H. Res. 279, Aug. 22, 1957; H. Res. 438, Jan. 29, 1958; H. Res. 572, June 25, 1958.

Ways and Means Committee (Congressman Mills, Arkansas, chairman) H. Res. 104, Jan. 4, 1957; H. Res. 105, Feb. 7, 1957...

$365,000 $62, 402. 07 $143, 898. 42 $90, 458. 12 $296, 758. 61 $68, 241.39

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Total.

4,785,000

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2 Appropriated to Department of State and transferred to House of Representatives.

Investigating and select committees 86th Cong., Jan. 3, 1959, to Mar. 31, 1959

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A Services Committee (Congressman Vinson, Georgia,
arman) H. Res. 19, Jan. 15, 1959; H. Res. 20, Jan. 29, 1959...
Baking and Currency Committee (housing) (Congress man
Spence, Kentucky, chairman, Congressman Rains, Ala-
bama acting chairman) H. Res. 81, Jan. 27, 1959; H Res. 82,
29, 1969.

Banking and Currency Committee (Congressman Spence,
Antucky, chairman) H. Res. 198, Mar. 13, 1959.

t of Columbia Committee (Congressman McMillan,
Sth Carolina, chairman), H. Res. 143, Feb. 24, 1959.
Ention and Labor Committee (Congressman Barden,
North Carolina, chairman) H. Res. 147, Feb. 4, 1959; H. Res.
Feb. 24, 1959..

Fr Affairs Committee (Congressman Morgan, Pennsyl-
Tchairman) II. Res. 113, Jan. 29, 1959; H. Res. 114,
Feb 24. 1959
Gemment Operations Committee (Congressman Dawson,
Cs, chairman) H. Res. 108, Feb. 29, 1959, rule XI (8)....
Administration Committee (Congressman Burleson,
, chairman) H. Res. 131, Feb. 29, 1959..
Interor and Insular Affairs (Congressman Aspinall. Colorado,
aman) H. Res. 130, Jan. 29, 1959; H. Res. 146, Feb. 24,

state and Foreign Commerce Committee (Congressman
Hars, Arkansas, chairman) H. Res. 56, Jan. 27, 1959;
Rs. 181. Feb. 25, 1959..
Tatary Committee (Congressman Celler, New York, chair-
H. Res. 27, Jan. 27, 1959; H. Res. 92, Jan. 29, 1959...
Meat Marine and Fisheries Committee (Congressman
B, North Carolina, chairman) H. Res. 105, Jan. 29,
MH Res. 106, Feb. 24, 1959.

Pat Office and Civil Service Committee (Congressman
Marray, Tennessee, chairman) H. Res. 78 and 79, Jan. 29,

PeWorks Committee (Congressman Buckley, New York,
an, H. Res. 91, Jan. 29, 1959; H. Res. 107, Jan. 29,
Bence and Astronautics (Congressman Brooks, Louisiana,
arman) H. Res. 133, Jan. 27, 1959; H. Res. 139, Jan. 29,
Business Committee (Congressman Patman, Texas,
a) H. Res. 51, Feb. 4, 1959; H. Res. 160, Feb. 24,
American Activities Committee (Congressman Walter,
Pavaria, chairman) H. Res. 137, Jan. 29, 1959, sec. 18
XI of Rules of the House..

Affairs Committee (Congressman Teague, Texas, man) H. Res. 101, Jan. 27, 1959; H. Res. 126, Jan. 29, War and Means Committee (Congressman Mills, Arkansas, man) H. Res. 182, Mar. 9, 1959 and H. Res. 206, Mar. 13,

Total

$50,000

$778.85

$49, 221.15

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Fail year basis.

Appropriated to Department of State and transferred to House of Representatives.

Mr. ROBERTS. For the fiscal year 1954, $1,250,000 was appropriated; e the fiscal year 1955, $1,250,000; for the fiscal year 1956, $1,700,000; for the fiscal year 1957, $1,690,000; $60,000 additional was authorized to be transferred from the contingent fund by House Resolution No. 295, and for the fiscal year 1958, $2,275,000.

We are requesting $2,500,000 for 1960, as compared with $2,200,000 appropriated for 1959, or an increase of $300,000. Of the $2,200,000

appropriated for 1959, we have expended $1,763,280, leaving a balance of $621,720, on April 1, 1959.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL REVENUE TAXATION

Mr. NORRELL. If there are no questions, we will now take up the item of Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. We appropriated in the current year $264,000, and you are requesting $295,000. Mr. ROBERTS. For the payment of salaries and other expenses for the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, fiscal year 1960, $295,000, as compared with $264,000 appropriated for 1959, or an increase of $31,000.

This estimate was submitted as requested, and if your committee desires any further information regarding this particular item, I respectfully refer you to Hon. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman, and Colin F. Stamm, chief of staff, Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY POLICY

Mr. ROBERTS. For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy, $20,000; the same as that appropriated for 1959.

I do not see why that should be appropriated because the money has never been used.

Mr. NORRELL. Is there any reason why we should appropriate for this item?

Mr. ROBERTS. I do not see any reason.

Mr. NORRELL. We will check on that.

OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION

Mr. NORRELL. We will now take up the item of the Office of the Coordinator of Information.

Mr. ROBERTS. For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, our estimate for the fiscal year 1960 amounts to $98,970; the same as appropriated for 1959, there being no change in this paragraph.

TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE

Mr. NORRELL. We will now take up the "Telephone and telegraph service."

Mr. ROBERTS. For the fiscal year 1960, we estimate $1,400,000, compared with $1,300,000 appropriated for 1959, or an increase of $100,000. This increase of $100,000 is estimated to take care of, in part, the increase granted to the Western Union Telegraph Co. of approximately 7 percent, and the provisions of Public Law 289, approved September 4, 1957. The telegraph and telephone allowance was changed from a session basis to a term basis, which permitted any Members not using their allowance in the first session to carry over the balance to the second session, which would increase the amount, of course, for the fiscal year 1960.

As you know, Mr. Chairman, each Member is entitled to 6,000: minutes per term for official long-distance telephone calls and 40,000 words for official telegrams per term. Due to the change from a

session basis to a term basis, this appropriation is somewhat more difficult to estimate accurately.

This appropriation is not only used for official telegraph and telephone services for each Member of Congress, but also for committees and departments of the House of Representatives, as well as for rental of telephone equipment on the House side of the Capitol and the two House Office Buildings.

Mr. NORRELL. We appropriated on this item $1,300,000 this year. The request is for $100,000 increase. How much is left now? I do not use all of my telephone allowance.

Mr. ROBERTS. We appropriated $1,300,000. We have a balance of $578,407 at the present time. We have to use about $72,288 a month. That is about the average. We estimate that it may take the other $100,000.

Mr. STEED. In that connection I do not use all of mine, either. What do the other years show? Do you ever have any surplus in this fund?

Mr. ROBERTS. It is an arbitrary allocation with the contingent fund, and if it is not used it is transferred to some other fund. It is usually used, all of it.

Mr. NORRELL. I did not use all of my money for telephone, and stamps, long distance calls or stamps. We might be able to cut a little here. I do not know.

Mr. ROBERTS. Yes.

STATIONERY REVOLVING FUND

Mr. NORRELL. We will now take up the stationery revolving fund. Mr. ROBERTS. For stationery, an allowance of $1,800, for each Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, for the 2d session of the 86th Congress, $788,400. While this is the same as appropriated for the fiscal year 1959, you will recall at the last session, an additional $600 stationery allowance was made available by House Resolution No. 628, approved July 10, 1958, and appropriated for in the supplemental bill 85-766, 1959. However, for the 1st session of the 86th Congress, only $1,200 has been made available.

Mr. NORRELL. Last year we had some discussion of the accumulation of profits from the stationery room. We made some comments in the report about prices and so forth. What have you done about

the situation?

Mr. ROBERTS. Since every Member of Congress has such close contact with the House stationery room, it usually comes up for discussion during our annual appropriation hearings.

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It is my firm conviction that, in spite of some difficulties in the past, we now have an economical, efficient, and properly operated The stationery room is operated under the jurisdiction of the Clerk of the House of Representatives pursuant to law and House resolution of July 24, 1868, for the purpose of supplying the Members, committees, and officers of the House with stationery. The operation of the stationery room is financed through a revolving fund established by the act of July 17, 1947 (2 U.S.C. 46b-11).

Funds for the authorized stationery allowances are provided from amounts appropriated by the annual legislative appropriation act for the contingent expense of the House and are paid into and administered through the stationery revolving fund.

Funds for stationery for the use of committees and officers of the House are provided from amounts appropriated by the annual legislative branch appropriation act for the contingent miscellaneous items of the House and are furnished upon approval of the Committee on House Administration.

Approximately 12 employees are required to carry on the function of the stationery room and their salaries are paid from appropriated funds, and are not treated as an expense of the stationery room.

During fiscal year ended June 30, 1958, total sales were $392,563. Currently sales are running ahead of the previous year. This is due primarily to the new Members setting up their offices and also because of the additional allowances last year.

The stationery room maintains a stock inventory of the most frequently used stationery items. Articles not carried in stock are obtained, when requested by a Member, on special orders and are sold at actual cost prices. In years past, regularly stocked items were priced at a fraction above cost to cover breakage; however, the policy of establishing sales prices of regularly stocked items above cost was discontinued on June 13, 1958.

When we find that an item not carried regularly in stock is the subject of repeated special orders, consideration is then given to placing it in stock.

The practice of not placing a profit on stocked items is possible because of the very strict control and supervision of all the activities of the operation. The only coverage for depreciation is derived from small discounts obtained on the majority of the items purchased.

As of March 31, 1959, there was a surplus of $142,615.84 in the revolving fund. Sales during March of this year were $42,610.19 which showed a profit of $189.05.

We strive always to obtain merchandise at the very lowest possible prices consistent with quality standards. Many articles are purchased from General Services Administration contract sources; some are purchased from suppliers under other Government contracts; and the remainder, in the large majority of cases, through open competitive bidding.

The accounts are regularly subjected to audit by the General Accounting Office. Their latest report to me dated December 8, 1958 states that

the accounts were in conformity to generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year and with applicable Federal laws.

The few complaints we have are from persons who desire to purchase through the stationery room articles other than stationery items. It is my policy to limit purchases to stationery items because I feel that it is consistent with the intent of the act creating the facility and directions by the Committee on House Administration. Request for articles not in this category run the full gaumet of unrelated items. I am informed that the National Association of Stationers lists more than 34,000 separate articles as stationery items. While we stock over 1,800 items, I am sure it can be readily seen that it would

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