MESSRS. MARTIN B. MADDEN (CHAIRMAN), JOSEPH G. CANNON,
DANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., PATRICK H. KELLEY, WILLIAM R. WOOD,
JOHN A. ELSTON, JOSEPH W. BYRNS, THOMAS U. SISSON,
AND JAMES A. GALLIVAN

FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, 1922.

HEARING CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. MARTIN B. MADDEN (CHAIRMAN), JOSEPH G. CANNON, DANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., PATRICK H. KELLEY, WILLIAM R. WOOD, JOHN A. ELSTON, JOSEPH W. BYRNS, THOMAS U. SISSON, AND JAMES A. GALLIVAN, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1921.

ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE COMMISSION.

STATEMENT OF LIEUT. COL. CLARENCE O. SHERRILL, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE COMMISSION.

PLANS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE.

The CHAIRMAN. In connection with the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, you have an estimate of $25,000. Will you tell the committee why this matter is urgent at this time?

Col. SHERRILL. The reason for its being presented in this deficiency bill is that the grading around the Lincoln Memorial and the road plans have now approached the point where it is necessary to have the plan for the Arlington Memorial Bridge completed, in order that there may be no money wasted or inadvisedly spent in continuing the grading around that structure. The principal reason why it should be done is because the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Lincoln Memorial are very closely connected from the architectural standpoint, or from the landscape architectural standpoint, and, therefore, this plan should be completed now in order that the bridge plans may harmonize with the plans for the Lincoln Memorial, which is practically completed. There is also another reason why the President considered it necessary to submit this estimate-not necessarily in this deficiency bill, but at this time-and that is that the Lincoln Memorial will shortly be finished. This commission was created a number of years ago, and it was only to carry out the intent of Congress that it was decided that the plans should be made in the near future.

The CHAIRMAN. So far as the completion of the landscape work around the Lincoln Memorial is concerned, it seems to have been definitely decided what that landscape work should be and how it would fit in with any possible improvement connected with the construction of the bridge. Could not that be done without any uncertainty or without making the plans for the bridge necessary at this time?

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