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Serial set 7248	Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States Sixty-fifth Congress first session. Begun and held at the City of Washington: April 2, 1917 in the one hundred and forty-first year of the independence of the United States.	1
Serial set 7249	Extend time for constructing bridge across Missouri River near Kansas City, Mo. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Two additional assistant secretaries of Agriculture. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Modification of the design of the current quarter dollar. April 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Army appropriation bill. April 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. General deficiency bill, 1917. April 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Medals of honor and distinguished-service medals. June 28 (calendar day, June 29), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Ark. -- Extending time. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. September 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Post Office Department appropriations. August 15 (calendar day, August 21), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional midshipmen. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protecting persons in the military or naval service from the forfeiture provisions of the land laws. October 2 (calendar day, October 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. War with the Imperial German Government. April 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Military Academy appropriation bill. April 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Sundry civil appropriation bill, 1918. April 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Measurement of vessels for imposing tolls, Panama Canal. April 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Emergency bond issue. April 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Export trade. April 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enlargement of Interstate Commerce Commission. April 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendments to federal reserve act. April 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendments to the National Defense Act. April 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Minority enlistments in naval reserve. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Fleet Naval Reserve. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional officers to Hydrographic Office. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase age limit officers Naval Reserve. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Requisition of ships, etc. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Bemidji, Minn. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Permitting certain enlistments under foreign nations. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To authorize the President in time of war to give direction to exports from the United States so as to insure their wise, economical, and profitable distribution to other countries. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Two condemned cannon to Murfreesboro, Tenn. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Two brass cannon to Nashville, Tenn. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Three brass cannon to Lewisburg, Tenn. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Residence -- military service. April 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. May 2 (calendar Day, May 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River. May 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enrollment in the Naval Reserve. May 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To increase the enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps. May 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Eradication of the southern cattle tick. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Encouragement of production of foodstuffs. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in the military and naval establishments on account of war expenses, fiscal year 1917. May 11 (calendar day, May 15), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River, Near Vincennes, Ind. May 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Car-service shortage. May 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To stimulate the production of food supplies. May 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Podiatry in the District of Columbia. May 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Daylight saving. May 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Manipulation of prices of foodstuffs and necessaries. May 28, 1917. Priorities in transportation -- amending the act to regulate commerce, as amended. May 31, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Transfer of certain lands to the City of New York, N.Y. June 8, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Investment of Indians funds in government bonds. June 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. National prohibition amendment to the constitution. June 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Foodstuffs in the manufacture of intoxicants. June 12 (calendar day, June 14), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of Northgate, N. Dak., as a port of entry. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Condemnation of lands for military purposes. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Retirement of officers and employees of Bureau of Lighthouses and Lighthouse Service. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Salaries of keepers of lighthouses. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aids to navigation in the Lighthouse Service. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Appeals from decisions of boards of local inspectors of steam vessels. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. bill to amend section 5 of the motor-boat law approved June 9, 1910. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Number and recording of undocumented vessels. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of a reserve for the Public Health Service. June 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Status of officers and members of the Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, etc. June 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increasing the area of the Botanic Garden. June 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To stimulate the production of food upon private and public lands within reclamation projects. June 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Flint River, Ga. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Rio Grande River, Tex. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Allotment of pay in the Army. September 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amend the naturalization laws. September 26, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Saline River at or near Suttons Ferry, Ark. September 27, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the Judicial Code. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River, in Aitkin County, Minn. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. War-risk insurance. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, in Poinsett County, Ark. October 2 (calendar day October 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal building at Moultrie, Ga. October 2 (Calendar day, October 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Homestead and other public land affidavits. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending section 3 of the Stock-raising Homestead Act. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Provisional organization of field artillery and infantry regiments. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. National Army and Reserve Corps commissions. October 2 (Calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta. October 2 (calendar day, October 4), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Timber for mining purposes. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Settlers on reclamation projects. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Cutting of timber on the Coconino and Tusayan National Forests, Ariz. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Stock-watering privileges on unallotted lands, Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of entrymen on the Huntley irrigation project, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Conveying land to City of Bozeman, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Improvements on homestead entries in lieu of residence. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Publication of land office notices. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Nonmineral entries on coal lands in Alaska. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enlarged-homestead entries, Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Suspension of payments on public lands by entrymen in the military or naval service of the United States. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Disposition of certain lands in Montana ceded by the Crow Indians. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Metalliferous minerals on Indian reservations. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Reclamation of certain arid lands in Nevada. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Granting certain coal lands to the Town of Kaycee, Wyo. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To consolidate national forest lands. October 5 (Calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Agricultural entries on coal lands in Alaska. October 5 (calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Government control and regulation of print-paper industry. October 5 (calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of migratory birds. April 20, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Universal liability to military service. April 19, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Authorizing the County of Morrison, Minn., to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said county. April 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Purchase or condemnation of Great Piece Meadows. April 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase enlisted strength of Navy and Marine Corps. April 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Commutation price of Navy ration. June 27, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River between the counties of Cass and Itasca, Minn. June 28, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Suspending mining assessment work on mining claims during the war with Germany under certain conditions. June 28 (calendar day, June 30), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Revenue to defray war expenses. June 28 (calendar day, June 3), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Building for the use of the Treasury Department. July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Certain lands to Port Angeles, Washington. July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Oregon & California Railroad land grants. July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Changing the name of steamship "Caldera" to "A.T. Kinney." July 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aviation stations for Army and Navy. July 12 (calendar day, July 14), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To control and regulate the manufacture and use of explosives in time of war. July 16 (calendar day, July 17), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. American Academy of Engineers. July 18 (Calendar Day, July 21), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of desert-land entrants who enter military or naval service. July 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Fort Smith, Ark. July 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Bayou Macon, La. July 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Chaplains at large in the Army. July 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Little River, Ark. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Selective draft of aliens. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Cape May air station site. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Exploration for and disposition of potassium. August 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. The Joint Committee on Expenditures in the Conduct of the War. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Motor-truck delivery. August 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Restoration to Army of certain former officers of the Regular Army. August 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aircraft board. August 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Revenues to defray war expenses. August 4 (calendar day August 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Okla. August 13, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Woman suffrage in Hawaii. August 13, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Export trade. August 15 (calendar day, August 20), 1917. An Act To Define, Regulate, and Punish Trading with the Enemy, and for Other Purposes. August 15 (calendar day, August 23), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Lock and dam in Mermentau River, La. August 15 (calendar day, August 23), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. An act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes. August 15 (calendar day, August 31), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To permit American citizens to wear medals. August 15 (calendar day, September 5), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Classification of lands under stock-grazing homestead act. August 15 (calendar day, September 7), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Mining of coal, phosphate, oil, gas, potassium, and sodium on the public domain. August 15 (calendar day, September 8), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To defray expenses incurred by officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the Army of the United States. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Preventing the publication of inventions by the grant of patents. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Fox River at Elgin, Ill. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tug River, W. Va. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River in Itasca and Cass counties, Minn. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. For improving Willapa Harbor and River, Wash. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Service of persons drafted into the military service of the United States. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Little Kanawha River, W. Va. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mobile Bay, Ala. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red River. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Woman suffrage. September 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Waccamaw River, N.C. September 20, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Promotion of first lieutenants in the medical corps. September 20, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes. September 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Granting to the State of Nevada land for educational purposes. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Aurelio Collazo. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Production and conservation of food supplies. May 11 (calendar day, May 12), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Election of President and Vice President without the Electoral College and fixing commencement of terms of President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. District land offices. October 5 (Calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed.	156
Serial set 7250	River and harbor appropriations. July 9 (calendar day, July 10), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 7251	Change of reference. April 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Peter Goelet Gerry. April 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Printing of petitions and memorials. June 1, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. David L. Brainard. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To permit the reenlistment of Omer G. Paquet in the United States Army. John T. Melvin. September 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of John Flanigan. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of certain persons expelled from Indian lands in Arizona. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Resolution on charges made against Senator Stone. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Casualties aboard steamship "Mongolia," and premature explosions of shells on vessels. June 27, 1917. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Armor S. Heffley. June 27, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Harry Graham. June 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. L. Marvin Maus. July 12(calendar day, July 13), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Nancy E. Mullins. July 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Looking to the enlistment of certain alien residents in the Army of the United States. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Allen M. Sumner. July 31, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Frederick W. Cobb. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. John T. Melvin. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Day of prayer for success of American armies. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Use of public land for production of grains and cereals during the war. September 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Street railway conditions in the District of Columbia. October 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed.	20
Serial set 7252	Issue of bonds. April 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Longevity pay claims of Army officers. April 11, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Aids to navigation in Lighthouse service. September 21, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Food control. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To control and regulate the manufacture and use of explosives in time of war. May 1, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Temporary increase in the military establishment of the United States. May 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Leaves of absence by homestead settlers and entrymen. June 14, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River at Little Rock, Ark. October 4, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Allotment of pay in the Army. October 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. bill to amend an Act To Regulate Commerce. April 24, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mississippi River, Cass County, Minn. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. War with the Imperial German Government. April 4, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for certain expenses, first session, Sixty-fifth Congress. April 9, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Emergency bond issue. April 11, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Age limit of officers appointed to naval reserve. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for the naval service. April 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Hydrographic Office -- additional officers. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Extension of minority enlistments in naval service. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Requisitioning ships, boats, and other water craft by the government. April 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Increase in number of midshipmen at the Naval Academy. April 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Punishment for destruction of war material. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. General deficiency appropriation bill. April 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment to Criminal Code. April 16, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Additional policemen for Capitol. April 16, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Temporary increase of Navy and Marine Corps personnel. April 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Economical distribution of exports from the United States in time of war. April 27, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River near Bemidji, Minn. April 27, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River, Near Vincennes, Ind. April 27, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amendments to federal reserve act. April 27, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Seizure of the German interned ships. May 1, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Statue of James Buchanan. May 1, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To amend act making appropriations for naval service, enrollment in the Naval Reserve Force. May 4, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Measurement of vessels for imposing tolls, Panama Canal. May 4, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Army appropriation bill. May 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Military Academy appropriation bill. May 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bill to provide revenue to defray war expenses. May 9, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Conference report -- Military Academy appropriation bill. Conference report. Mr. Dent, from the committee of conference, submitted the following. May 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending War-Risk Insurance Act. May 10, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Promotion of export trade. May 11, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Temporary buildings, Red Cross. May 15, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Temporary increase in the military establishment of the United States. May 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Temporary increase in the military establishment of the United States. May 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To temporarily increase the Navy and Marine Corps. May 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, Federal Trade Commission. May 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the Act To Regulate Commerce. May 21, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Status of officers and members of Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, etc. May 21, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Rifles and other property for equipment of home guards. May 24, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies for military and naval establishments. May 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War Risk Insurance. May 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To amend the act to regulate commerce. May 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Espionage bill. May 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. To erect temporary buildings, Smithsonian grounds. May 31, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the military and naval establishments. May 31, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Espionage bill. June 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the military and naval establishments. June 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Sundry civil bill. June 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Retired officers of the Army. June 6, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amending the federal reserve act. June 9, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies, military and naval establishments. June 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Protection of desert-land entrants who enter military or naval service. June 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Modifications of the designs of the current quarter dollar. June 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Conservation of food and fuel. June 12, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Relief of homestead entrymen in the military and naval service. June 15, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes. June 20, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To amend Section 10, National Defense Act. June 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To define trading with the enemy. June 21, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amending the act to regulate commerce. June 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Diversion of water from Niagara River. June 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Little River, Poinsett County, Ark. September 24, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Experiments in motor-truck delivery. September 24, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Aircraft board. September 24, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Admitting foreign shipping to coastwise trade. September 24, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Fox River at Elgin, Ill. September 25, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Status of citizens of United States who have entered foreign military or naval services. September 25, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Expenses incurred by officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the Army of the United States. September 25, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Waccamaw River, N.C. September 27, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Suspension of requirements of improvements of mining claims. September 27, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Prohibiting the manufacture, etc., of explosives in time of war. September 28, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendments to laws relating to denominations of circulating notes by national banks. September 28, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Chaplains at large for the United States Army. September 28, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Revenue to defray war expenses. September 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Permitting American citizens to wear medals or decorations from foreign governments. October 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mahoning River, Ohio. October 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Six months' gratuity for beneficiaries of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty. October 1, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Officers of auxiliary naval forces on naval courts. October 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Air station site for the United States Navy. October 1, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Efficiency of the United States Navy. October 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Reserve corps and national Army commissions. October 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Soldiers' and sailors' civil rights bill. October 2, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Port of entry at Northgate, N. Dak. October 3, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Entry of distilled spirits into bonded warehouses. October 3, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiency appropriation bill, fiscal year 1918. October 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Establishment of fuel yard in the District of Columbia. October 4, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge at El Paso, Tex., across the Rio Grande. October 4, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Funds to maintain roads, trails, and bridges within Indian reservations. October 5, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Sale of coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Okla. October 5, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Loyal Creek Indians. October 5, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Establishment of a bureau of war-risk insurance in the Treasury Department. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Auxiliary reclamation project, Yuma Project, Arizona. October 6, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River, Morrison County, Minn. April 24, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To construct bridge across Mississippi River in Morrison County, Minn. April 24, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To punish espionage and enforce the criminal laws of the United States. April 25, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Increase of the military establishment. April 21, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To regulate commerce in respect to car service. April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Diversion of water from Niagara River. June 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Naturalization of resident aliens. July 11, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Application of reclamation law to irrigation districts. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Additional force in Patent Office. July 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To prevent the publication of inventions, etc. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Increase of Signal Corps. July 13, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River near Logansport, Ind. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River, Kansas City, Mo. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Wabash River, near Logansport, Ind. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to the printed. Extending limit of time for building bridge across Flint River, Ga. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Bayou Macon, La. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Webbers Falls, Okla. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Fort Smith, Ark. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tug River, Kermit, W. Va. July 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Stimulation of food production. July 14, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Leaves of absence from homesteads during service in Army or Navy. July 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Saline River at or near Suttons Ferry, Ark. July 26, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Little River, Ark. July 26, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Drafting subjects of allied countries. August 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Rivers and harbors appropriation bill. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Distribution of agricultural products. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Steamer "Caldera." August 3, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. To promote settlement upon reclamation projects. August 3, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Reimbursement of officers and men in naval service for property lost. August 3, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. New ratings in United States Navy. August 3, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Increase of Navy ration. August 3, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Regulation of commerce. August 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Report on S. 2356, to regulate commerce. August 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Deportation of certain aliens. August 4, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Annual assessment work on mining claims. August 7, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Arkansas River, Ark. August 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. August 30, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Public Health Service Reserve Corps. August 30, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Second emergency bond issue. September 1, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. September 5, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Chaplains at large in the Army. September 5, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Lock and dam in Mermentau River, La. September 6, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Cavalry provisionally organized as field artillery or infantry. September 6, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in appropriations, fiscal year 1918. September 6, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Medals of Honor and Distinguished-Service Medals. September 7, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Building for use of Treasury Department. September 7, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Homestead and other public land affidavits. September 14, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Exploration for and disposition of potassium. September 15, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River near Kansas City, Mo. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red River, Tex. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Little Kanawha River, Gilmer County, W. Va. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Arkansas River between Webbers Falls and Gore, Okla. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mobile Bay in Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Ala. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Public building at Durant, Okla. September 21, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Trading with the enemy. September 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bond issue. September 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Minn. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. National security and defense and distribution of agriculture products. May 7, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies in appropriations for military and naval establishments on account of war expenses. April 30, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mississippi River in Itasca and Cass Counties, Minn. September 21, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Aviation stations for Army and Navy. June 26, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed	161
Serial set 7253	Rivers and harbors appropriation bill. May 9, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 7254	Assistant clerk, Committee on Rules. April 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Nancy E. Mullins. June 29, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Committee janitors. April 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Congratulating the people of Russia. April 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Clerk and messenger to Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. April 16, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Attendant for ladies' reception room, House of Representatives. April 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Assistant clerk, Committee on Enrolled Bills. April 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. E.C. Rost. April 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. William H. Topping. April 25, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Session clerks for certain committees. May 19, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. The Republic of Cuba and the German empire. May 28, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Acceptance of statue of Sequoyah. June 1, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Session clerks to certain committees. June 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Joseph S. McCoy. June 14, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Edward F. Warfel. June 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Day of prayer for the success of the American armies. September 24, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amendment to rules. September 24, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. House Resolution 161. October 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. House Resolution 160. October 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Myra Collins. October 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Contested-election case, Beakes v. Bacon. October 5, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Charles S. Greenwood. October 5, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Payment of legal services rendered the Creek Nation of Indians. October 6, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Inquiry into charges made by Hon. J. Thomas Heflin. October 6, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Peter Goelet Gerry in re steam yacht "Owera." April 24, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Frank Funkhouser. June 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Discovery by Garabed T.K. Giragossian. July 13, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Matter alleged to be unmailable under the espionage law. July 23, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Food-control bill. July 24, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Consideration of H.R. 4285. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. The flag of the United States. August 3, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Defective small-arms ammunition. September 5, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Ida Cottrell Hodgson. September 7, 1917. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Manufacture and purchase of ordnance and ammunition. September 8, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Interference with interstate commerce in Illinois and Missouri. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. House Resolution 138. September 12, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Consideration of House Resolution 147. September 21, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. War risk insurance. October 6, 1917. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.	39
Serial set 7255	Senate documents. Vol. 1.	1
Serial set 7256	Report of the Commission of Fine Arts. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the report of the Commission of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. June 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.	1
Serial set 7257	Anthracite and bituminous coal. Letter from the Federal Trade Commission transmitting in response to Senate resolution adopted June 22, 1916, and April 30, 1917, respectively, a report and recommendations on the anthracite and bituminous coal situation and the relation of rail-and-water transportation to the present fuel problem. June 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce and ordered to be printed.	1
Serial set 7258	Visiting war missions to the United States. Proceedings in the Senate and House of Representatives Congress of the United States on the occasion of the receptions tendered to the war missions of France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Belgium, and Japan.	1
Serial set 7259	British industrial experience during the war. Volume 1. Laws, rules, and orders. Presented by Mr. Hollis. June 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.	1
Serial set 7260	British industrial experience during the war. In two volumes. Volume 2. Presented by Mr. Hollis. June 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.	1
Serial set 7261	Second inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States and Thomas Riley Marshall as Vice President of the United States. March 5, 1917.	1
Serial set 7262	Reunion of United Confederate Veterans. Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Reunion of the Confederate Veterans. The Eighteenth Annual Convention of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association and the Twenty-second Annual Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans held in Washington, D.C. June 4,5,6, and 7, 1917. Presented by Mr. Bankhead. October 2, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.	1
Serial set 7263	News-print paper industry. Letter from the Federal Trade Commission transmitting pursuant to a Senate resolution of April 24, 1916, the final report of the Commission relative to the news-print paper industry in the United States. June 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Book paper industry. Letter from the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting a preliminary report on the book paper industry. June 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. News-print paper investigation. Reply of the Federal Trade Commission to Resolution No. 95 of the Senate. July 9 (calendar day, July 11), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Book-paper industry. Letter from the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission transmitting a final report of the findings of fact, together with conclusions and recommendations with reference to the book-paper industry. August 15 (calendar day, August 21), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.	4
Serial set 7264	Naval Ammunition Depot, St. Juliens Creek, Va. -- To authorize development of the site. Message from the President of the United States. A communication from the Secretary of the Navy recommending that legislation be enacted by the Congress authorizing the Navy Department to proceed with the development of the site... May 2, 1917. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Advance of public moneys under contracts for war materials. Letter from the President of the United States to the Vice President transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Navy inclosing a copy of a proposed joint resolution authorizing the advance of public moneys under contracts for war materials, and recommending passage of same. June 28, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Amendments to federal reserve act. Mr. Owen submitted the following conference report on the Bill (H.R. 3673) to amend the act approved December 23, 1913, known as the federal reserve act, as amended by the acts of August 4, 1914, August 15, 1914, March 3, 1915, and September 16, 1916. June 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. The espionage bill. Mr. Overman submitted the following conference report on the Bill (H.R. 291) To Punish Acts of Interference with the Foreign Relations, the Neutrality, and the Foreign Commerce of the United States, To Punish Espionage and Better To Enforce the Criminal Laws of the United States, and for Other Purposes. May 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Urgent deficiencies for military and naval establishments. Mr. Martin submitted the following conference report on the bill (H.R. 3971) making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the military and naval establishments on account of war expenses. May 31, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Columbia River Survey. Letter from the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army to the Committee on Commerce transmitting a report of the Board on the survey of the Columbia River. June 28 (Calendar day, July 2, 1917). -- Presented by Mr. Fletcher and ordered to be printed as a Senate document. Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of two Houses of Congress. April 2, 1917. Caroline L. King. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Caroline L. King, widow of William T. King, deceased, against the United States. April 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Jacob Harris. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court dismissing the cause of Jacob Harris, son of Samuel Harris, deceased, against the United States. April 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimates and plans for works of river and harbor improvement. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report on estimates and plans for works of river and harbor improvement that will best provide adequate facilities for operations of the fleet for defense of the Harbors on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts of the United States. April 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. List of cases dismissed by the Court of Claims for want of sufficient evidence. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a list of cases dismissed by the Court of Claims. April 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Fortifications, the Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of the communication from the Secretary of War, resubmitting an estimate of an appropriation for $1,5773,950, for the fiscal year 1918, to be immediately available, for the establishment and equipment of a submarine base, Panama Canal. April 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eight-hour workday for railway employees. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Francis M. Wilson... vs. Alexander New and Henry C. Ferris... relative to the Act To Establish a Uniform Workday for Railway Employees, embracing both the concurring and dissenting opinions. Presented by Mr. Walsh. April 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Eminent domain power of the states. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Utah Power & Light Co. v. United States. Presented by Mr. Walsh. April 10, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Panama Railroad Company. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the sixty-seventh annual report of the Board of Directors of the Panama Railroad Company, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. April 11, 1917. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. Estimate for expenditure for motor-propelled vehicle for use of Alaskan Engineering Commission. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior... for the purchase and maintenance of a motor-propelled vehicle for the official use of the Alaskan Engineering Commission at Seattle, Wash. April 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Military service acts of Great Britain. 1916. Presented by Mr. Sherman. April 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Universal military training. Letter from the Secretary of War submitting to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs certain papers and data relative to carrying into effect liability to universal military training in the United States. Presented by Mr. Watson. April 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Shall military training be given our youth? Address delivered before the City Club of Chicago, Ill., on March 23, 1917, upon the physical, moral, and social qualifications required by those entering the military service, together with some facts relating thereto, by Clark W. Hetherington, professor of physical education and recreation, University of Wisconsin. Presented by Mr. Thomas. April 17, 1917. -- Referred to Committee on Printing. Urgent estimate of appropriation, Comptroller of the Treasury, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Comptroller of the Treasury, submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation required for the salaries for additional force in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury... May 2 (calendar day, May 3), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Army appropriation bill. May 2 (calendar day, May 4), 1917. Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mint at Denver, Colo. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Director of the Mint submitting an estimate of a deficiency in the contingent appropriation of the Mint at Denver, Colo. May 2 (calendar day, May 8), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Military Academy appropriation bill. May 2 (calendar day, May 4), 1917. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Urgent estimate of appropriation, Auditor for War Department, 1918. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Auditor for the War Department, submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation required for the salaries for additional force in the Office of the Auditor for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. May 2 (calendar day, May 5), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New Jersey intracoastal waterway. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 19, 1917, summaries of reports of government commissioners... as to the commercial, naval, and military advantage or disadvantage of... a public waterway through the State of New Jersey. May 2 (calendar day, May 5), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Anthracite coal prices. Letter from the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting, in the response to Senate resolution of June 22, 1916, a report of the Federal Trade Commission to the Senate of the United States on anthracite coal prices. May 2 (calendar day, May 5), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed as public document. Employees for the care of the new Interior Department office building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation required to apply to the employees for the care of the new Interior Department office building... May 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting additional estimates of appropriations required for the naval establishment. May 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriation for furniture, file holders and cases, and contingent expenses and miscellaneous items for the use of the Treasury Department. May 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Messengers for headquarters of territorial departments. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a special estimate of appropriation for temporary employment of messengers for headquarters of the several territorial departments, districts, divisions, brigades, and service schools. May 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Military surveys and maps. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for topographic surveys and maps for military purposes. May 11 (calendar day, May 14), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional quarters for Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting an estimate of appropriation for rent of additional quarters for use of the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. May 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Protecting the Panama Canal structures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an urgent estimate of appropriation for extraordinary expenses heretofore and hereafter incurred by the Panama Canal in protecting the canal and canal structures. May 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Commandeering tugs to tow small craft abroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, asking that Navy Department be authorized to commandeer necessary sea tugs to tow small craft for patrol purposes abroad. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Coastal air stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a recommendation for increase in total appropriation under head of aviation in naval establishment. May 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Senate precedents on conference reports. A statement of the action of the Senate on conference reports taken from "Precedents and Decisions on Points of Order" complied by Henry H. Gilfry. Presented by Mr. Stone. May 17, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Exemption from military service in Great Britain. Statutory provisions and regulations relative to tribunals and certificates of exemption under the military service acts, with a digest of appealed cases. Compiled in the Legislative Reference Division, Library of Congress. Presented by Mr. La Follette. May 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Financing the war. Address of Hon. W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, delivered in Chicago, Ill., on May 17, 1917, at a meeting of bankers and business men of the Seventh Federal Reserve District. Presented by Mr. Simmons. May 22, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Oregon land grant. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Oregon & California Railroad Company et al. v. United States, together with the law relating to the lands granted the Oregon & California Railroad Company. Presented by Mr. Chamberlain. May 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. The Grand Canyon. An article giving the credit of first traversing the Grand Canyon of the Colorado to James White, a Colorado gold prospector, who it is claimed made the voyage two years previous to the expedition under the direction of Maj. J.W. Powell in 1869. By Thomas F. Dawson. Presented by Mr. Shafroth. May 25, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Public service by the bar. Address delivered before the annual meeting of the American Bar Association held in Chicago, Ill., on May 30, 1916, by Hon. Elihu Root. Presented by Mr. Lodge. May 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. The liberty loan. Address of Hon. W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, delivered at a meeting of business men and bankers of Iowa, in Des Moines, May 21, 1917. Presented by Mr. Smoot. May 31, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Increase of force in Comptroller's office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, urgently recommending the increase in the force in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury estimated for in Senate Document No. 14. May 31, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Merchant vessel construction in American shipyards. Letter from the Vice Chairman of the United States Shipping Board transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of May 5, 1917, certain information as to the construction of merchant vessels in American shipyards on May 1, 1917. June 1 (calendar day, June 2), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. The espionage bill. Mr. Overman submitted the following conference report on the Bill (H.R. 291) to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes. June 5, 1917. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. British and Canadian food regulation. Statues and orders in council relative to food regulation in Great Britain, Canada, and Newfoundland. Presented by Mr. Chamberlain. June 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Production, distribution, and conservation of food supplies. Letters from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of April 6, 1917, and April 20, 1917, proposals for increasing the production, improving the distribution, and promoting the conservation of the food supplies in the United States. In two parts. Land susceptible to cultivation in cereal crops within Crow Indian Reservation, Mont. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 12, 1817, information as to the amount of land within the Crow Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, susceptible of cultivation to cereal crops... April 23, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Clotilda Freund. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Clotilda Freund against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. William Flannery. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of findings of the court in the case of William Flannery against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. J.C. Washington, administrator Robert H. Love. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of J.C. Washington, administrator of Robert H. Love, deceased, against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Cases dismissed by Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, at the order of the court, a list of the cases dismissed by the court -- Arthur H. Humiston, Isaac Dulhagen, James Ballard, et al., against the United States. June 27, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Types of guns of United States, English, and French armies. Letter from the Secretary of War, furnishing information in reference to difference in types between guns and ammunition therefor of the United States, the English, and French armies. June 28 (calendar day, June 29), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Naval Academy graduating class, 1917. Address delivered the graduation class of the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., on March 29 and June 28, 1917, by Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy and Capt. E.W. Eberle, Superintendent United States Naval Academy. Presented by Mr. Tillman. June 30, 1917. -- Referred to Committee on Printing. Minnie E. Fite and Elizabeth Creager. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Minnie E. Fife, daughter, and Elizabeth Creager, widow (remarried), of William W. Brady against the United States. July 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Pauline W. Bryant. Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Pauline W. Bryant, daughter of James M. Willett, deceased, against the United States. July 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Osage Indian leases in Oklahoma. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of April 16, 1917, information relative to number of leases of lands of the Osage Indians in Oklahoma issued or authorized since the 1st day of January, 1916. July 16, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.	57
Serial set 7265	Aurelio Collazo. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Acting Secretary of State inclosing a draft of a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to permit Aurelio Collazo, a citizen of Cuba, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy. July 18 (legislative day, July 20), 1917. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. Food-control bill. August 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. The mobilizing of America. An address delivered before the Park View Community Celebration, at Washington, D.C. on July 4, 1917. Presented by Mr. Sheppard. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Food control and democracy. An article proposing the organization of chambers of agriculture to regulate the equitable distribution of farm products at fair prices both for the producer and the consumer. Presented by Mr. Fletcher. September 29, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Revenue to defray war expenses. H.R. 4280. A bill to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes. This document is a reproduction of the bill as reported to the Senate on August 6, 1917. The Colorado River in its relation to the Imperial Valley, California. Report on the utilization of the waters of the Colorado River for irrigation and its relation to the Imperial Valley, California. Presented by Mr. Phelan. June 1, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Constitutional sources of the laws of war. Article on the constitutional sources of the laws of war by Horace L.B. Atkisson. Presented by Mr. Fletcher. June 9, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Private rights and government control. Address delivered at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, held at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., September 4, 1917. By Hon. George Sutherland of Utah, president of the association. Presented by Mr. McCumber. October 5 (calendar day, October 6), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. The second liberty loan and the causes of our war with Germany. Address Hon. W.G. McAdoo Secretary of the Treasury delivered at the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, at Atlantic City, N.J. September 28, 1917. Presented by Mr. Shafroth. September 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Appropriation for naval establishment. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the naval establishment for the service of the fiscal year 1918, amounting to $5,760,000. September 29, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Revenue to defray war expenses. October 2, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. British labor's war message to American labor. Addresses and discussions at a meeting of the Committee on Labor of the Council of National Defense held in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 1917. Presented by Mr. Fletcher. June 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Estimated population for draft apportionment. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce transmitting estimates of population by the Census Bureau based upon the registration of June 5, 1917, for use in apportionment of the forthcoming draft. July 18 (calendar day, July 19), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Our national and international responsibilities. An address delivered before the Michigan State Bar Association at Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 29, 1917, by Hon, Atlee Pomerene. Presented by Mr. Townsend. July 18, 1917 (calendar day, July 20, 1917). -- Ordered to be printed. Prices of American flags. Letter from the Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of April 16, 1917, a report relative to the prices of American flags. July 26, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Sara F. Cox. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sara F. Cox, heir and legal representative of James J. Cox, deceased, against the United States. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Rivers and harbors bill. July 31 (calendar day, August 1), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Preferential shipments. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Enlarging the Interstate Commerce Commission. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Distribution of agriculture products. August 4, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Family allowance, indemnity, and insurance for officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy. Correspondence between President Wilson and Hon. W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the bill providing for family allowances, indemnification, reeducation, and insurance in behalf of officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy... Presented by Mr. Fletcher. August 10, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Cases dismissed by Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a list of cases referred to the court for adjudication by the United States Senate and dismissed by the court for want of prosecution on motion of defendant. August 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Present dangers confronting our country. An address delivered before the State Bar Association of Florida, at Jacksonville, Fla., on August 11, 1917, by Hon. Geo. E. Chamberlain. Presented by Mr. Fletcher. August 15, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. The duty of a just government: An article on family allowance, indemnity, and insurance for our soldiers and sailors, by W.G. McAdoo, secretary of the Treasury. Presented by Mr. Husting. August 15 (calendar day, August 24), 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Americans of German origin and the war. Extracts from an address delivered before the Merchants Association of New York, at its liberty loan meeting, held on June 1, 1917, by Otto H. Kahn. Presented by Mr. Sutherland. August 15 (calendar day August 22), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Interstate commerce. An address on the regulation of commerce between the states under the commerce clause of the constitution of the United States delivered at the meeting of the American Bar Association held at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. September 4, 5, and 6, 1917. Presented by Mr. Overman. August 15 (calendar day September 10), 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Visit of imperial Japanese mission to Washington's tomb. Addresses delivered at Mount Vernon on August 26, 1917 during a visit of the Japanese War Mission to the tomb of Washington, by Hon Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, and Viscount Ishii, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Presented by Mr. Pomerene. September 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. War powers under the constitution. Address delivered before the American Bar Association at its annual meeting held at Saratoga, N.Y. on September 4, 5, and 6, 1917. Presented by Mr. Martin. September 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Trading with the enemy. An article upon the measures adopted by Germany in retaliation for those promulgated by other nations. Presented by Mr. Beckham. September 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. The birth of American thrift. An article relative to the partial payment plan in the purchase of liberty bonds. Presented by Mr. Sterling. September 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Additional estimates for the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting additional estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required for the service of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. September 18, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Fortification of Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required for the fortification of the Panama Canal for the fiscal year 1918. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, schedules of claims allowed by the Treasury Department for the service of various department and the District of Columbia. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Internal Revenue Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $4,583,000 required for the Internal Revenue Service for the remaining nine months of the fiscal year 1918... to use the estimated unexpended balance of the appropriation... for the employment of deputy collectors and inspectors... September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rental of Post Office Department annex. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Postmaster General submitting estimate of appropriation to continue rental of buildings at first and K Streets NE., Washington, D.C., known as the Post Office Department annex. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by Court of Claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims requiring an appropriation for their payment. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Buildings for temporary use by the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for inclusion in the deficiency bill in the sum of $100,000 for repairs and alterations of buildings belonging to the United States to fit them for temporary use by the Treasury Department. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury at a salary of $5,000 each, for the remainder of the present fiscal year. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries of additional employees and furniture for office of Treasurer of United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Treasurer of the United States submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for salaries of additional employees for his office and furniture, etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rent of public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriations for the rent of public buildings at Charlotte, N.C., and Muskegon, Mich. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for an additional force of one clerk of class 4 and one clerk of class 3 in the Office of the Disbursing Clerk, Treasury Department, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the War Department for the Signal Service, etc., for fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerk in Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a supplemental estimate for an additional clerk of the class 1 in the section of surety bonds of the Treasury Department. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Ordnance and ordnance stores. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of additional appropriation of $4,000,000 for increasing the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, land, etc. September 22, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Address of the Vice President of the United States delivered at a meeting of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons for the northern jurisdiction of the United States held in New York City, on September 17, 1917. Presented by Mr. Swanson. September 22, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Trading with the enemy. September 22, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional employees in Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $1,429,500 for the employment of an additional force of 1,500 clerks and other employees in the Ordnance Department. September 24, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. World conflict in its relation to American democracy. An address reprinted from the July, 1917, number of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, by Walter Lippmann. Presented by Mr. Fletcher. July 30, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. Constitutional amendment with relation to national prohibition. Memorandum on the nature and method of amendment of the Constitution of the United States with relationship to national constitutional prohibition. By Mr. James T. Lloyd. Presented by Mr. Stone. July 30, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Unlawful imprisonment. Syllabus and opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of Ex Parte Milligan, filed with the court on a petition for discharge from unlawful imprisonment. Presented by Mr. Gore. August 11, 1917. -- Ordered to be printed. Employment to temporary clerks, etc., in Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the treasurer of the United States submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for temporary employment of clerks, purchase of furniture, etc. September 20, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Salaries of employees, Municipal Court of District of Columbia, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting ...communication from the Acting President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting an estimate... for salaries of employees, Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, and other expenses incident to removal of the court to its new quarters. September 20, 1917...	52
Serial set 7266	I. The standardization of antityphoid vaccine. By George W. McCoy. II. A colorimetric method for the estimation of the cresol or phenol preservative in serums. By Elias Elvove... IV. Observations on the significance of antisheep amboceptor in human serum, with reference to complement fixation test for syphilis. By Mather H. Neill. [Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 110. September, 1917.]	1
Serial set 7267	The genesis of the ores at Tonopah, Nevada, By Edson S. Bastin and Francis B. Laney. [U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 104.] Hydraulic-mining debris in the Sierra Nevada by Grove Karl Gilbert [U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 105]	2