accounts for the month of May, nineteen hundred and nine, and now standing against him on the books of the Treasury. And the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 19: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 19, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: For repairs of the docks and wharves at West Point, New York, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $8,000. And the Senate agree to the same. JAMES HAY, S. H. DENT, Jr., Managers on the part of the House. DUNCAN U. FLETCHER, H. A. DU PONT, Managers on the part of the Senate. STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE. The statement of the managers on the part of the House as to the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments in the Senate to H. R. 21328, making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year 1916, and for other purposes: The Senate receded from amendments 1, 2, 15, and 17-No. 1 being an amendment increasing the pay of cadets $30,000; 2 being amendment authorizing the President to restore certain cadets to the Military Academy; 15 being an amendment restoring the appropriation provided for by the House; and 17 being an amendment providing for $10,527 for grading and granolithic pavement. The House receded from its disagreement on the amendments of the Senate numbered, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, and 20. Of these amendments 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, and 20 are corrections in grammar or wording. Amendments 7, 9, 10, 14, 16, and 18 are amendments increasing the appropriation. Amendments 9, 10, and 19 are amendments reducing appropria- . tions allowed by the Senate. JAMES HAY, Managers on the part of the House. O 3 CERTAIN PUBLICATIONS FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRIBUTION. MARCH 2, 1915.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. TAVENNER, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. J. Res. 393.] The Committee on Printing, having had under consideration the House joint resolution (H. J. Res. 393) providing for discontinuing the printing of certain publications for congressional distribution, reports the same back to the House with the recommendation that the resolution be agreed to. The unencumbered balance of the allotment for printing and binding for Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, is $653,910. The said resolution is as follows: [H. J. Res. 393, Sixty-third Congress, third session.] JOINT RESOLUTION To discontinue the printing of certain publications. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the printing of the publications known as Ethnology Bulletins, Geological Bulletins, Geological Professional Papers, and Geological WaterSupply Papers, printed and issued for congressional distribution, be discontinued. O } 63D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 3d Session. USELESS PAPERS IN TREASURY DEPARTMENT. MARCH 2, 1915.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. TALBOTT of Maryland, from the Joint Select Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers in Departments, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. Docs. 1528, 1612, and 1615.] The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed on the part of the Senate and on the part of the House of Representatives, to which were referred the reports of the heads of departments, bureaus, etc., in respect to the accumulation therein of old and useless files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business therein, respectively, and have no permanent value or historical interest, with accompanying statements of the condition and character of such papers, respectfully report to the Senate and House of Representatives, pursuant to an act entitled "An act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive Departments," approved February 16, 1889, as follows: Your committee have met and, by a subcommittee appointed by your committee, carefully and fully examined the said reports so referred to your committee and the statements of the condition and the character of such files, and papers therein described, and we find and report that the files and papers described in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury in House Document No. 1528, Sixty-third Congress, third session, dated January 22, 1915, and in the report of the Secretary of the Navy in House Document No. 1612, Sixty-third Congress, third session, dated February 16, 1915, and in the report of the Postmaster General in House Document No. 1615, Sixty-third Congress, third session, dated February 18, 1915, are not needed in the transaction of the current business of such departments and bureaus and have no permanent value or historical interest. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representa tives. |