PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY IN COLORADO RIVER COMMUNICATION FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOMPANYING LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, A SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1924, AMOUNTING TO $7,500, FOR THE PROMOTION OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY IN THE STATES OF THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN. FEBRUARY 28, 1923.-Read; referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 28, 1923. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, amounting to $7,500. The details of this estimate and the reason for its submission at this time are set forth in a letter from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations thereon I concur. Respectfully, WARREN G. HARDING. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for your consideration, and upon your approval for transmission to Congress, a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, amounting to $7,500: For the fostering, promoting, and developing of trade, industry, and commerce in the States of the Colorado River Basin, the study of the problems involved in its development, the compilation of all pertinent facts and data, and the payment of salaries and expenses incurred therein, including printing and binding, law books, books of reference, traveling expenses, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all other incidental expenses necessary to carry out the above provisions: Provided, That appointments of employees hereunder may be made without reference to the civil-service laws and regulations...... $7,500 The work of the commission, known as the Colorado River Commission, authorized by the act entitled "An act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes," approved August 19, 1921 (42 Stat. 171-172), and the signing of the Colorado River compact at Santa Fe, N. Mex., on November 24, 1922, have resulted in the accumulation of evidence, data, and records on the potentialities of the Colorado River Basin which it will be necessary to compile in order that they may be made available for Congress. The law provides that the compact or agreement shall not be binding or obligatory on any of the parties thereto unless and until the same shall have been approved by the legislature of each of the States involved and by the Congress of the United States. The legislatures of the States of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have already approved the compact, but the States of Colorado and Arizona have not yet acted and probably will not do so in time to present the compact for the consideration of Congress at the present session. The Colorado River Commission now has in its employ a secretary at $4,000 per annum, three typists at $1,200 per annum, and one clerk at $1,140 per annum, whose salaries and expenses are being paid from the two appropriations of $5,000 each made in the independent offices appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, approved June 12, 1922, and the third deficiency act, fiscal year 1922, approved July 1, 1922, and which expire June 30, 1923. These two appropriations, aggregating $10,000, were predicated on the act of August 19, 1921, which authorized an appropriation of $10,000. The Secretary of Commerce states that the continuation of this force during the fiscal year 1924 is most important, not only in connection with carrying on the work of the commission and the Federal representative provided for in the act of August 19, 1921, but also for the purposes mentioned in the estimate herewith. In this connection the Secretary of Commerce also states that the approval of the Colorado River compact by the States concerned and by Congress is generally believed to be a necessary step preliminary to the actual industrial and trade expansion of this great basin. Supplemental estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, by the Department of Commerce. For the fostering, promoting, and developing of trade, industry, and commerce in the States of the Colorado River Basin, the study of the problems involved in its development, the compilation of all pertinent facts and data, and the payment of salaries and expenses incurred therein, including printing and binding, law books, books of reference, traveling expenses, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all other incidental expenses necessary to carry out the above provisions: Provided, That appointments of employees hereunder may be made without reference to the civil service laws and regulations (submitted).......... $7,500 TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOMPANYING LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, A SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1923, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING THE USE OF THE AIRPLANE AS A MEANS OF DISTRIBUTING INSECTICIDES FOR THE CONTROL OF THE BOLL WEEVIL, $60,000. FEBRUARY 28, 1923.-Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 28, 1923. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, for the purpose of developing the use of the airplane as a means of distributing insecticides for the control of the boll weevil, $60,000. The details of this estimate and the reason for its submission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations. thereon I concur. Respectfully, WARREN G. HARDING. |