control panels, keys, measuring equipment, switchboards, automatic operating devices, emergency power supply, diversity receiving antennae, electric power transmission and telephone lines, control and other necessary land wires to and from the high-power transmitter station and quarters for the operating personnel, consisting of one single quarters for the officer in charge, apartments for six married operators, and a barracks for 30 single operators. The project further provides for the acquisition of the necessary land, approximately 65 acres, in a location to be selected where electrical and other manufacturing activities will not interfere with positive reception. The total estimated cost of the station is $300,000, $175,000 of which represents the projects requiring legislative authorization.

NAVAL RADIO RECEIVING STATION, OAHU, HAWAII

Radio receiving station including buildings, $165,000.-In order to provide positive communication with the fleet, it is necessary to construct an urgently needed, modern receiving station to replace the present unsatisfactory facilities which now exist, for this most important link in the Navy's communication system at Wailupe.

The Navy is now building at Lualualei, Oahu, Hawaii, a modern transmitting station.

A modern receiving station, suitably located, is necessary to complete the Navy's communication facilities in the Hawaiian Islands. The present receiving station at Wailupe, Oahu, Hawaii is too small to allow for the necessary installation of the latest diversity receiving equipment. Furthermore, the present receiving station is not located suitably. The new receiving station in Hawaii should therefore meet the following-named requirements: Location, on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, in a good receiving locality and at a reasonable distance from the transmitting station (Lualualei) to avoid interference from the transmitting station; size, sufficient acreage, approximately 65 acres for necessary buildings and diversity antennas commensurate with a modern trans-Pacific receiving station.

Diversity antenna equipment insures continuous reception by overcoming fading and is necessarily an elaborate arrangement requiring considerable ground space.

The facilities would consist of:

1. Master receiving station, including a modern operating building, receivers, operating tables, control panels, keys, measuring equipment, switchboards, automatic operating devices, emergency power supply, etc.

2. Diversity receiving antennas.

3. Electric power transmission, telephone lines, etc.

4. Control and other necessary land wires to and from the highpower transmitting station and quarters for operating personnel, consisting of a single quarters for operator in charge, apartments for six married operators and a barracks for 40 single operators.

The total estimated cost of the station is $300,000, $165,000 of which represents the cost of buildings and quarters requiring legislative authorization. It is proposed to locate the station on Government or Territorial land on the Island of Oahu.

NAVAL RADIO STATION, BALBOA, CANAL ZONE

Quarters for operators, $90,000.-This project contemplates the construction of two 6-family apartments for radio operators assigned to duty at the Balboa station. No accommodations are available in Government-owned or Panama Canal houses. These men are required to live in the native section of Panama where living conditions are not of a standard for American accommodiation. Living conditions are such that the men with their families are required to live in basements and other unsanitary quarters which are detrimental to health and morals. These men should at least be afforded quarters commensurate with their station in life and suitable for decent living.

NAVAL RADIO STATION, CAPE MALA, PANAMA

Barracks, quarters, and compass house, $50,000.-This project contemplates the provision of a direction-finder house and quarters for the operating personnel, and is necessary as the existing buildings are badly deteriorated because of the effects of the tropical climate and termites. It is estimated that within 2 or 3 years they will be beyond repair. In the interest of more economical maintenance and upkeep, it is proposed to combine the activities in a single building, and to use concrete construction for permanence.

NAVAL RADIO RECEIVING STATION, CANAL ZONE

Radio receiving station including buildings, $105,000.-In order to provide positive communication with the fleet, it is necessary to construct an urgently needed, modern receiving station to replace the present unsatisfactory facilities which now exist, for this most important link in the Navy's communication system at Balboa.

The Navy is now constructing at Summit, Canal Zone, a modern high-power transmitting station. The present receiving station at Balboa, Canal Zone, while satisfactory insofar as location is concerned, will not allow for the increased activities which would immediately result from a national emergency. The new station should be located with adequate Army protection as at present and should also provide ample space for the erection of additional diversity antenna as occasion requires.

The facilities would consist of:

1. Master receiving station, including a modern operating building, receivers, operating tables, control panels, keys, measuring equipment, switchboards, automatic operating devices, emergency power supply, etc.

2. Diversity receiving antennas.

3. Electric power transmission, telephone lines, etc.

4. Control and other necessary land wires to and from the highpower transmitting station and quarters for operating personnel, consisting of a single quarters for operator in charge, apartments for three married operators and a barracks for 20 single operators.

The total estimated cost of the station is $150,000, $105,000 of which represents the cost of buildings and quarters requiring legislative authorization. It is proposed to locate the station on the Panama Canal Zone property.

The limit of cost of the above items is $38,098,000.

The bill has the approval of the Navy Department as is indicated by the letter of the Secretary of the Navy to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which is hereby made a part of this report.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, February 12, 1935.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR MR. SPEAKER: There is transmitted herewith a draft of a proposed bill "To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes."

No general authorization for naval public-works projects has been enacted by Congress since May 14, 1930 (46 Stat. 329). The proposed bill does not appropriate any money but is simply an authorization for future appropriations for the projects named.

The Navy Department recommends that the proposed legislation be enacted.

74TH CONGRESS 1st Session

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REPORT No. 410

REIMBURSE FORT BELKNAP INDIAN TRIBAL FUNDS HERETOFORE EXPENDED ON IRRIGATION WORKS

MARCH 13 (calendar day, APRIL 3), 1935.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. WHEELER, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 1531]

The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1531) to credit the Fort Belknap Indian tribal funds with certain amounts heretofore expended from tribal funds on irrigation works of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont., having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass without amendment.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs personally appeared before the committee and manifested their approval of this legislation.

The Secretary of the Interior personally favors this proposed legislation, but he states that the Director of the Budget advises that it would not be in accord with the financial program of the President. A copy of the Secretary of the Interior's letter, dated March 5, 1935, is appended hereto and made a part of this report, as follows: INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, Washington, March 5, 1935.

Hon. ELMER THOMAS,

Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs,

United States Senate.

MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This is in further reference to your communication of January 31 requesting a report on S. 1531 relating to the repayment to the Fort Belknap Indian tribal fund of the amounts heretofore expended from that fund on irrigation works of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Mont.

This matter was given consideration by a committee appointed under the provisions of the act of July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 564), which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to adjust or eliminate reimbursable charges of the Government existing as debts against individual Indians or tribes of Indians. The committee in its report on the Fort Belknap Reservation recommended that the tribal money used in the construction of that project be reimbursed to the tribe by an act of Congress. (See H. Doc. No. 501, 72d Cong., 2d sess., pp. 38 to 48.)

As a precedent for such act on attention is invited to the provisions of the act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 123-141) relating to the Blackfeet Flathead and Fort Peck Indian Reservations in Montana which act reads in part as follows:

"That the tribal funds hereto ore covered into the Treasury of the United States in partial reimbursement of appropriations made for constructing irrigation systems on said reservations shall be placed to the credit of the tribe and be available for such expenditure for the benefit of the tribe as Congress may hereafter direct."

Should this legislation be enacted it is estimated that the eventual charge against the Federal Treasury will approximate $107,760.

While I personally favor the legislation, the Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget has advised that it would not be in accord with the financial program of the President.

Sincerely yours,

HAROLD L. ICKES,

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Secretary of the Interior.