Council of National Defense.. Federal Power Commission $75,000.00 Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board.... Lincoln Memorial Commission.... National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics__ _ National Zoological Park... War Department: 16, 300.00 340, 000. 00 363,000.00 200, 000.00 1,500.00 War Department-Continued. National military parks...... Engineer department, buildings and grounds in and around Total, War Department. Interior Department: Capitol buildings........... United States Geological Survey, office of the director............. Bureau of Mines...... Protection of game in Alaska... National Park Service: Salaries...... Sequoia National Park, California.. Total, Interior Department. Department of Justice: Suits affecting Pacific railroads.... Assistants to Attorney General and district attorneys to aid in special cases.. Total, Department of Justice.. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Fisheries, steamers Osprey, Gannet, and Phalarope Department of Labor: Housing Corporation........... Public printing and binding. Total decrease.. $4,000.00 11, 550.00 355, 550.00 25,000.00 6, 280.00 11, 900.00 25,000.00 3,600.00 36,000.00 107, 780. 00 5,000.00 200,000.00 205, 000. 00 17, 250.00 $40,000.00 460, 000. 00 2, 133, 095. 00 Total net increase. 28, 437, 415. 50 Amount of bill as reported to Senate...... 410, 921, 107. 91 О 3d Session. No. 756. BRIDGE ACROSS HUDSON RIVER. FEBRUAEY 5, 1921.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. CALDER, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany S. 4886.] The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4886) to extend the time of the Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation for the completion of its bridge across the Hudson River, in the State of New York, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment, and as amended, recommend its passage. The bill thus amended has the approval of the Department of War, as will appear by the annexed communication; the amendment referred to therein having been incorporated in the bill as reported. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu the following: That the act approved March 13, 1914. authorizing the Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, together with the necessary approaches thereto, across the Hudson River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation between Castleton and Schodack Landing, be, and the same is hereby, revived and reenacted: Provided, That this act shall be null and void unless the actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of approval hereof. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved. In the title, strike out all after the word "To" and insert in lieu the following: revive and reenact the act entitled "An act to authorize the Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation to construct a bridge across the Hudson River, in the State of New York," approved March 13, 1914. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Commerce, United States Senate. The accompanying bill, S. 4886, present session, proposes to extend the time for the completion, by the Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation, of a bridge across the Hudson River, in the State of New York. Authority for the construction of the bridge in question was granted by act of Congress approved March 13, 1914, as amended by act approved August 9, 1916, extending the times for commencing construction to March 30, 1918, and for completion to March 13, 1920. While the plans of the structure were approved by the War Department on May 2, 1917, under authority of the acts referred to, so far as known to the department no advantage has been taken of the authority granted, consequently, pursuant to the specific terms of the amendatory act of August 9, 1916, the franchise expired by limitation on March 13, 1920. In view of the circumstances, I am of the opinion that it would be preferable to amend the bill now under consideration so as to revive and reenact the original law in direct terms. I have amended the bill accordingly, and as thus amended no objection is known to its favorable consideration by Congress so far as the interests committed to this department are concerned. W. R. WILLIAMS, Assistant Secretary of War. O |