collector shall assign sufficient customs officers or employees if available to perform any such services which may lawfully be performed by them during regular hours of business, but only if the person requesting such services gives a bond in a penal sum to be fixed by the collector, conditioned to pay the compensation and expenses of such customs officers and employees, who shall be entitled to rates of compensation fixed on the same basis and payable in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as in the case of customs officers and employees assigned to duty in connection with lading or unlading at night or on Sunday or a holiday. Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the existing authority of the Treasury Department to assign customs officers or employees to regular tours of duty at nights or on Sundays or holidays when such assignments are in the public interest. Provided, That the provisions of this section, sections 450 and 452 of this Act, and the provisions of section 5 of the Act of February 13, 1911, as amended (U. S. C., title 19, sec. 267), insofar as such section 5 requires payment of compensation by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of a vessel or conveyance, shall not apply to the owner, operator, or agent of a bridge, tunnel, or ferry between the United States and Canada or between the United States and Mexico, nor to the lading or unlading of merchandise, baggage, or persons arriving in or departing from the United States by motor vehicle, trolley car, on foot, or by other means upon, over, or through any such bridge, tunnel, or ferry. At ports of entry and customs stations where any merchandise, baggage, or persons shall arrive in or depart from the United States by motor vehicle, trolley car, on foot, or by other means upon, over, or through any bridge, tunnel, or ferry between the United States and Canada or between the United States and Mexico, the collector, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall assign customs officers and employees to duty at such times during the twenty-four hours of each day, including Sundays and holidays, as the Secretary of the Treasury in his discretion may determine to be necessary to facilitate the inspection and passage of such merchandise, baggage, or persons. Officers and employees assigned to such duty at night or on Sunday or a holiday shall be paid compensation in accordance with existing law as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in the case of the United States v. Howard C. Myers (320 U. S. 561); but all compensation payable to such customs officers and employees shall be paid by the United States without requiring any license, bond, obligation, financial undertaking, or payment in connection therewith on the part of any owner, operator, or agent of any such bridge, tunnel, or ferry, or other person. As used in this section, the term "ferry" shall mean a passenger service operated with the use of vessels which arrive in the United States on regular schedules at intervals of at least once each hour during any period in which customs service is to be furnished without reimbursement as above provided PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO FARMERS WHOSE PROPERTY WAS DESTROYED OR DAMAGED BY FLOODS IN 1944 MAY 16, 1944.-Ordered to be printed Mr. CANNON of Missouri, from the committee of conference, CONFERENCE REPORT [To accompany H. J. Res. 280] The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 280) to provide assistance to farmers whose property was destroyed or damaged, in whole or in part, by floods in 1944, in order to enable them to continue farming operations to produce food for the war effort, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate amending the text of the resolution, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: At the end of the matter inserted by said amendment, insert the following: (not to exceed $1,000,000 in the case of windstorms); and the Senate agree to the same. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate amending the title and agree to the same. CLARENCE CANNON, JOHN TABER, R. B. WIGGLESWORTH, W. P. LAMBERTSON, Managers on the part of the House. KENNETH MCKELLAR, CARL HAYDEN, MILLARD E. TYDINGS, RICHARD B. RUSSELL, C. WAYLAND BROOKS, Managers on the part of the Senate. STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE The managers on the part of the House of the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 280) entitled "Joint resolution to provide assistance to farmers whose property was destroyed or damaged, in whole or in part, by floods in 1944, in order to enable them to continue farming operations to produce food for the war effort" submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action recommended and agreed upon in the accompanying conference report as to each of such amendments, namely: Title: Accepts the proposal of the Senate to amend the title of the resolution by inserting the words "and windstorms" after the word "floods", so as to conform to the action of the conferees on the amendment of the Senate amending the text of the resolution. Windstorms: Accepts the amendment of the Senate making the appropriation available on account of damages resulting from windstorms, but with a limitation of not to exceed $1,000,000 for windstorm loans or grants. 2 CLARENCE CANNON, C. A. WOODRUM, JOHN TABER, R. B. WIGGLESWORTH, W. P. LAMBERTSON," Managers on the part of the House. О 2d Session No. 1448 CONSIDERATION OF H. R. 4219 MAY 17, 1944.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. SLAUGHTER, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. Res. 548 The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House Resolution 548, reports the same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution do pass. |