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| Serial set 7439-2 | Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1916. In two volumes. Vol. II. Correspondence of Robert M.T. Hunter. | 1 |
| Serial set 7440 | Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States with a digest of the practice Sixty-fifth Congress second session. | 1 |
| Serial set 7441 | Annual report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, South Trimble, giving names of employees of the House and their respective compensation; the expenditures from the contingent fund; the amounts drawn from the Treasury; the stationery accounts; and unexpended balances for the year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7442 | Arms, ammunition, airplanes, and gas masks. Speeches by Hon. John Q. Tilson of Connecticut delivered in the House of Representatives and printed in the Congressional Record. September 20, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. | 1 |
| Serial set 7443 |
Special report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting a special report, supplementing its annual report, with reference to transportation conditions as affecting and affected by the war. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign commerce and ordered to be printed. Course of instruction at United States Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to authorize the President to temporarily reduce the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Address of President Wilson to the Congress of the United States, January 8, 1918. January 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Admitting free of duty articles made by prisoners of war interned in a foreign country. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of legislation to admit free of duty articles made by prisoners of war interned in a foreign country. January 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Report of Alien Property Custodian. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Alien Property Custodian of all proceedings had under the act entitled "An Act to Define, Regulate and Punish Trading with the Enemy, and for Other Purposes," approved October 6, 1917. January 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Temporary increase of enlisted strength of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to increase temporarily the enlisted strength of the Navy, and for other purposes. January 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Transmission of postal matter to and from American forces in France. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting report regarding the transmission of postal matter to and from members of the American expeditionary forces in France. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Withdrawals and restorations of public lands in certain cases. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office submitting report of the withdrawals and restorations contemplated by the statutes approved June 25, 1910. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed. Reports of Bureaus of Enemy Trade and Imports. Message of the United States transmitting reports of the Bureaus of Enemy Trade and of Imports, showing proceedings had by the War Trade Board during the year ended December 31, 1917. February 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Increase in number of midshipmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of bill to increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. First annual report of the Shipping Board. Letter from Chairman of the Shipping Board, transmitting first annual report of the United States Shipping Board covering the period of its existence to and including October 31, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of the two houses of Congress, December 4, 1917. First annual report of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, September 7, 1916, to June 30, 1917. First annual report of the United States Tariff Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. Authorizing officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Dominican Republic. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of bill to authorize and empower officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the government of the Dominican Republic... December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Fish-work in Mississippi River Basin. Letter from the Secretary of the Commerce, transmitting communication from the Commissioner of Fisheries relating to the remarkable results of the rescue work for fishes in the overflowed lands of the Mississippi River Basin. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. Postal savings system. Letter from the Postmaster General, submitting the annual report of the operations of the postal savings system, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Endowment and support of agricultural and mechanical colleges. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the disbursements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, under acts to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges... December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the report of the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, giving details of the receipts and expenditures of the Bureau from December 1, 1916, to November 30, 1917. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Board of Ordnance and Fortification. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting annual report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Age limits for admission to Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to fix the age limits for candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy. December 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. National Forest Reservation Commission. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the National Forest Reservation Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1917. December 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Report of the status of the Georgia Experiment Station. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a report on the status of the Georgia Experiment Station. December 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Inspection of State Soldiers and Sailors' Homes, 1917. Letter from the Inspector General and Chief Surgeon, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and Sailors, transmitting report of inspection of State Soldiers and Sailors' Homes for the year ended June 30, 1917. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. 1917. Report of the United States Bureau of Efficiency for the period from November 1, 1916, to October 31, 1917. General report of the National Memorial Celebration and Peace Jubilee (National Memorial Reunion), Vicksburg, Mississippi, October 16 to 19, 1917, by Colonel Willard D. Newbill, (Field Artillery) Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army, in charge of arrangements. Proceedings in the House of Representatives on the occasion of the retirement of Hon. John J. Fitzgerald as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and his resignation from the House after almost nineteen years continuous service as a Representative from New York. December 14 and 17, 1917. Income tax primer. Prepared by the Bureau of Internal Revenue for the information and assistance of taxpayers. Work performed by the subtreasuries. Letter from the Chief, Bureau of Efficiency, transmitting report of the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency covering the work performed by the subtreasuries. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Special report of Federal Trade Commission submitting recommendations for additional legislation. Letter from the Federal Trade Commission transmitting a letter from special attorney of the Federal Trade Commission in regard to additional legislation required in regard to the taking of papers where crimes are charged. February 28, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Proposed amendment to section 164, Judicial Code. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting proposed amendment to section 164 of the Judicial Code. March 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Report of audit of accounts of American National Red Cross. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting am itemized report of audit of accounts of American National Red Cross for the year 1916, made by the Inspector General of the Army. March 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress January 4, 1918. January 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Sanitary conditions at Army camps. Communications from the Surgeon General of the Army to the Chief of Staff upon the sanitary conditions of the Army camps and cantonments. January 8, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Eighth annual report of the Boy Scouts of America, as submitted at the annual meeting of the National Council in New York City, March 25, 1918. April 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Roads and trails, national forests. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting annual report of expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Plan for a national budget system submitted by Hon. Medill McCormick with legal citations, authorities, historical precedents, and charts by Charles Wallace Collins, author of "The National Budget System and American Finance". March 27, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed with illustrations. Report of the President of the Board of Managers National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Gen. George H. Wood, President of the Board of Managers National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Costs of all type and manufacture of guns and other articles at the several arsenals. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements submitted by the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, of the costs of all type and experimental manufacture of guns and other articles... January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. First annual report of the Federal Farm Loan Board covering the period from the organization of the board up to November 30, 1917. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed, with illustration. Land, buildings, and other facilities for use of aerial machines, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information relating to... facilities available or to be required for the accommodation of airships and aerial machines... in connection with... defenses of the... United States,... possessions,... Panama Canal. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rearrangement of customs-collection districts. Message from the President of the United States, submitting a statement of the abolition, consolidation, and rearrangement of certain customs-collection districts, together with a citation of the authority therefor. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Hide and leather situation. Letter from the Chairman of Federal Trade Commission, transmitting a preliminary report on the hide and leather situation, stating certain facts ascertained in an investigation of hides, leathers, and leather products undertaken by the Commission's resolution... January 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed, with illustration. |
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Hospital and sanatorium for treatment of soldiers and sailors by Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of legislation to provide suitable additional hospital and sanatorium facilities for the care and treatment of soldiers and sailors and others entitled to treatment... September 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress. The finances. May 27, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Presentation of pieces of plate to persons connected with American embassy in Berlin. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report from the Secretary of State concerning pieces of plate presented by the British government to certain persons connected with the American embassy at Berlin. April 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a summary of reports transmitted by collectors of customs and brief statement of the action of the department in respect to accidents sustained or caused by barges while in tow through the open sea during the fiscal year 1917. May 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries and ordered to be printed. Special report on commercial bribery. Letter from the Chairman of Federal Trade Commission transmitting a special report dealing with the subject of commercial bribery. May 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. List of places for public-building work. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting list of places for which authorization for public-building work is recommended. May 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Disposition of the public lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relating to the disposition of the public lands. June 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed. To amend act making further provision for the national defense. Letter from the Secretary of War, suggesting proposed draft of legislation to amend section 110 of an act entitled "An Act Making Further and More Effectual Provision for the National Defense, and for Other Purposes," approved June 3, 1916. July 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Restricting fuel consumption by brewers. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a regulation issued by the United States Fuel Administrator restricting fuel consumption by brewers. July 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Military service of British subjects in the United States... June 12, 1918. -- Message read; conventions read the first time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and together with the message and accompanying documents, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate. June 24, 1918. -- Ratification advised and injunction of secrecy removed. July 9, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Claim of Sylvester Lane. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting original papers relating to the claim of Sylvester Lane, as alleged helpless child of Reuben Lane, late of Troop B, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. July 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committed on Pensions and ordered to be printed. Still and moving pictures of war preparations and of the American Expeditionary Force. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information regarding the taking and exhibition of still and moving pictures of war preparations and of the American Expeditionary Force. July 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supply and transportation of materials used in the manufacture of intoxicating liquors. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information regarding orders or rulings of the... Railroad Administration, the War Trade Board, or the War Industries Board with reference to... intoxicating liquors. July 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. East St. Louis riots. Report of the Special Committee authorized by Congress to investigate the East St. Louis riots. July 15, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of Secretary and Treasurer of American Red Cross. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of the Secretary and Treasurer of the American Red Cross for the period January 1 to June 30, 1917. July 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Note from French ambassador. Letter from the Acting Secretary of State, transmitting note from the French ambassador expressing the feelings of gratification with which the resolutions of Congress passed on July 14 were received. August 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Valuation reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Valuation docket No. 2. Texas Midland Railroad. August 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Reports of Clerk and Chief Probation Officer of Juvenile Court, District of Columbia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting reports of the Clerk and Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia for the two years ended June 30, 1917. August 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Revenue bill and report. September 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing. September 4, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Co. Letter from the Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting copy of the report of the commission in Valuation Docket No. 5, Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Co. September 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Settlement of debts of deceased members of expeditionary forces abroad. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draft of bill to provide for the prompt settlement of debts of deceased members of our expeditionary forces abroad. September 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Limitation of time for bringing suits against the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draft of bill fixing a limitation for bringing suits against the United States in certain cases. September 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Amendments to S. 3475, prescribing requisite form of death proof. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting draft of certain proposed amendments to Senate Bill 3475 to prescribe the requisite form of death proof. September 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Journal of the session of the Haitian Council of State. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of the journal of the session of the Haitian Council of State, dated July 4, 1918. September 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. United States Disciplinary Barracks Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting report of the Adjutant General of the Army relative to the financial and other affairs of the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.,... for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Amendment of the soldiers' and sailors' relief act. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a bill designed to amend paragraph 1 of Section 302 of the soldiers' and sailors' civil relief act. September 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Lands and buildings required for hospital purposes. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the draft of an item of legislation to authorize the requisitioning of lands, including buildings thereon, or the temporary use thereof, required for hospital purposes. September 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States vetoing H.R. 9054, An Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919. July 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States vetoing H.R. 7237, an Act Making Appropriations for the Service of the Post Office Department For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919, and for Other Purposes. June 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed. Message from the President of the United States vetoing H.R. 10358, An Act Making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919, and for Other Purposes. July 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Terms of armistice signed by Germany. Address of the President of the United States to the joint session of Congress Monday, November 11, 1918 in the House of Representatives. November 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Admission into the United States of alien refugees. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report by the Acting Secretary of State submitting draft of a joint resolution authorizing the admission... of aliens who are refugees from conditions created by the war. August 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization and ordered to be printed. Fiftieth article of war. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draft of bill amending the fiftieth article of war, relating to mitigation or remission of sentences. September 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. |
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Clyde C. Westover. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Clyde C. Westover, administrator of the estate of John W. Westover, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses, Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting a statement showing the travel of all officials and employees (other than special agents, inspectors, or employees who in the discharge of their regular duties are required to travel constantly). December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriters, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1917. Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting report showing as to each exchange of typewriters the period of its use and price, including exchange value. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Encouraging industry among Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry among Indians at various Indian reservations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses of employees outside of District of Columbia in Postmaster General's office. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General, transmitting statement showing what officers or employees ... have traveled on official business... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Winsor B. French. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Winsor B. French against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Indian school and agency buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report for the fiscal year 1917, showing the amounts expended at each school and agency from the appropriation for construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school... December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Relief of distress and prevention of disease among Indians, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, from the appropriation for the relief of distress... on account of the construction of hospitals. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Solomon N. Isaminger. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Solomon N. Isaminger, son and one of the heirs of James Isaminger, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Increased rates of compensation, employees of the Government Printing Office. Letter from the Public Printer, transmitting detailed report showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for therein. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Receipts and expenditures of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, submitting a financial report. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting detailed report showing the number of persons, the grades or character of position, the original rates of compensation and the increased of compensation of employees provided for in... appropriation act of March 3, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Typewriters -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General, transmitting a statement showing the required information regarding typewriters purchased and exchanged by the Post Office Department during the period from July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. No hostilities with Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report showing no hostilities occurred with any tribe of Indians with which the United States had treaty stipulations since the last report. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Industry among Tongue River Reservation Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians on the Tongue River Reservation,... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from permanent fund of the Sioux Indians, fiscal year 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of expenditures from the permanent fund of the Sioux Indians during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Survey and allotment work, Indian reservations, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the cost of all survey and allotment work on Indian reservations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Heirs of deceased Indian allottees, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of all moneys collected and deposited during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, under the appropriation "Determining Heirs of Deceased Indian Allottees, 1917." December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Per capita payments. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed report of the expenditures made in making per capita payments to the Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians during year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Diversion of expenditures, subsistence of Indian Tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report that no diversion of expenditures were made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, under the provisions of the Act of March 1, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from tribal funds of Confederated Bands of Utes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of the expenditures made from the tribal funds of the Confederated Bands of Utes for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from tribal funds of Blackfeet Indians of Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement of expenditures from the tribal funds of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Indian moneys, proceeds of labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement of expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, of money carried on the books of this Department under the caption, "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor." December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Pay patients at Freedmen's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed statement of receipts and expenditures on account of pay patients for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, at Freedmen's Hospital. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Cattle for the Northern Cheyenne Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of expenditures made for the purchase of cattle for the Northern Cheyenne Indians on the Tongue River Reservation, Mont., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Pay of specified employees in Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report showing the diversion of appropriations for the pay of specified employees in the Indian service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Purchase of typewriters, Smithsonian Institution, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of Smithsonian Institution, transmitting information regarding the purchase of typewriters and exchange thereof. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Industrial work and care of timber. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of expenditures on account of the Indian service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, from the appropriation "Industrial work and care of timber." December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Purchase of cattle, Standing Rock Reservation, N. Dak, and S. Dak., 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of expenditures made for the purchase of cattle for the benefit of Indians on the Standing Rock Reservation... for fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Expenditures on Indian irrigation projects. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting cost account showing the moneys expended on each Indian irrigation project during the fiscal year 1917 and the total expenditures on each such project as computed to June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Reports to be made to Congress. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives submitting a list of reports of be made to Congress by public officers during the Sixty-fifth Congress. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Journal of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. Letter from the Secretary of Hawaii, transmitting a copy of the journal of the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii for the ninth regular session of the Legislature. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Territories. Report of public property in Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Postmaster General, transmitting a report of the public property in the Post Office Department on November 1, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department and ordered to be printed. Fiscal affairs of Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement of the fiscal affairs of all Indian tribes for whose benefit expenditures from public or tribal funds were made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed statement of expenditures from the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for encouraging industry among Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed report of the expenditures made for the purpose of encouraging industry among the various Indians of the reservations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Support of Indian schools, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, relating to the appropriation, "Indian schools, support, 1917." December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior, and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Postmaster-General, transmitting a report of the finances... for the preceding year, amount expended... also report of increased compensation for three months ending September 30, 1917, additional to salaries. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the Bureau of Naturalization, 1916 and 1917. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor transmitting itemized report of expenditures during the fiscal year 1917 from appropriations "Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization," 1916 and 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Expenses for professional and other services, Freedmen's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from Surgeon in Chief of the Freedmen's Hospital transmitting detailed statement of expenses for professional and other services. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, officers of Interior Department, 1917. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement showing what officers or employees of the department have traveled on official business outside of the District of Columbia. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report of the contingent expenses of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures United States Court of Customs Appeals. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the appropriations for the United States Court of Customs Appeals for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, as furnished by the presiding judge of that court. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice and ordered to be printed. Allowances granted Post Office Department under "Appropriations for unusual conditions." Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a memorandum of allowances granted payable from the "Appropriation for unusual conditions" for the fiscal year 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Civil Service Commission employees' travel expenses. Letter from the President of United States Civil Service Commission transmitting statement showing what officers and employees of the commission have traveled on official business... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Traveling expenses of clerks, Surveyor General, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, giving detailed statement of traveling expenses of clerks... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase of compensation, Commission of Fine Arts. Letter from the Secretary of the Commission of Fine Arts transmitting a statement bearing on appropriation "Increase of compensation, Commission of Fine Arts, 1918." December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- District of Columbia employees. Letter from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting a detailed report showing number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation... for the District of Columbia... December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Thomas T. Munhall. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas T. Munhall against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles W. Haskins. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles W. Haskins, son of Philo J. Haskins, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry E. Davies. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry E. Davies, son of Henry E. Davies, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William E. Ludlow. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William E. Ludlow against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Emily J. Smith. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Emily J. Smith, widow (remarried) of Alexander Dockery, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Seth M. Hinman. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Seth M. Hinman against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Samuel Fallows. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Samuel Fallows against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. W.D. Wiley and J.T. Wiley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of W.D. Wiley and J.T. Wiley, sons and sole heirs of John T.C. [i.e., J.C.] Wiley, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Hiram Argersinger. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Hiram Argersinger against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Phebe A. Brewer. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Phebe A. Brewer, widow of Andrew J.H. Brewer, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Increase rates of compensation. Letter from the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting detailed report of the commission's employees subject to increased rates of compensation for the fiscal year during ending June 30, 1918. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement showing the documents received and distributed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- House of Representatives. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting a detailed report of the operation of the 5 and 10 per cent increase in the appropriation for salaries of officers and employees of the House of Representatives. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, showing exchanges made by that department and its several bureaus and offices of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation "increase of compensation, Senate, 1918." Letter from the Secretary of the United States Senate... showing the number of persons employed and paid by the Senate of the United States, the grades and character of their positions, and original rates of compensation as provided by the act approved March 3, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Employees under appropriation "valuation of carriers." Letter from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting statement showing the employment under appropriation for the valuation of carriers for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a detailed statement showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for employees. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures in the Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution transmitting detailed statement of expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution transmitting a statement showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation paid for the quarter ending September 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses of employees of Smithsonian Institution, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting statement showing in detail what officers or employees... under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution have traveled on official business... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief of the Court of Claims, transmitting statement of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ended December 1, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting list of papers that have accumulated in the files of Navy yards, naval stations, and other offices of the naval establishment which were not needed or useful in the transaction of current business. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of useless papers and ordered to be printed. Zerilda Brodie. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Zerilda Brodie, widow of Robert Brodie, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Samuel W. Mann. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Samuel W. Mann against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ella H. Candy. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ella H. Candy, widow of Charles Candy, deceased, against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Absalom C. Phillips. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Absalom C. Phillips against the United States. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Detailed statement of miscellaneous expenditures, Department of Agriculture, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a detailed statement of the manner in which the... "Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, 1917," has been expended. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses of employees in Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting a statement of the travel performed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, by officers and employees of the Department of Labor. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor, transmitting detailed statement of expenditures from the appropriations "Contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 1917." December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. 5 and 10 per cent increase -- Department of Labor. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of Labor transmitting statement in relation to increased rates of compensation of employees of the Department of Labor, required by section 7, of act approved March 3, 1917, and section 2 of the act approved June 12, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase and exchange of typewriters, Library of Congress. Letter from the Superintendent of Library Building and Grounds, Library of Congress, transmitting information regarding purchases of typewriting and other labor-saving machines, and exchanges made in part payment therefore, by the Library of... December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. 5 and 10 per cent increase -- Building and Grounds, Library of Congress. Letter from the Superintendent Building and Grounds, Library of Congress, transmitting statement regarding increased compensation paid employees under that office. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting a detailed report of the publications received and distributed by this department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report showing each exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers in Agriculture Department. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting statement regarding disposition of papers not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of that department. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co. Letter from the Commissioner of Freedman's Savings & Trust Co., Washington, D.C., transmitting annual report of the Commissioner (ex officio) of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Co. for the year ended December 1, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Seeds purchased for Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting detailed statement showing the places, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the dates of purchase, as required by the act of August 11, 1916. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Vehicles and motor boats -- Department of Agricultural. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing for the fiscal year 1917 the motor propelled and horse-drawn vehicles and motor boats purchased by the Department of Agriculture. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Expenses of certain employees of the Bureau of Chemistry. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing the sums paid... for the compensation of... officers or other persons employed by any state, county, or municipal governments during the fiscal year 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees in the Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the Secretary's Office, the Solicitor's Office, and the various bureaus and offices of the department. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contributions on account of cooperative work, Forest Service. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting report of contributions on account of cooperative work with the Forest Service, and the amount refunded to depositors on account of excess deposits National Forest Fund, for the fiscal year 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses of employees, Library of Congress. Letter from the Librarian of the Library of Congress, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers or employees of the Library of Congress have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside the District of Columbia during the fiscal year, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, Library Building and Grounds. Letter from the Superintendent of Library Buildings and Grounds, Library of Congress, transmitting information relative to travel from Washington, D.C., in connection with official business of this office during the fiscal year 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., Department of Agriculture, Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting statement showing exchange of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices in the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. Increase of compensation, employees Library of Congress, 1917. Letter from the Librarian of Library of Congress, transmitting a statement giving the number of persons, the grades of character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and increased rates of compensation provided for therein. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Labor-saving devices -- Federal Trade Commission. Letter from the Chairman of Federal Trade Commission transmitting report of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices exchanged during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase of compensation, Department of Justice, fiscal year 1917. Letter from the Attorney General, transmitting detailed report required by the various acts of Congress providing for a percentage increase in compensation for personal services. December 3, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Persons employed, Bureau of Animal Industry. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing the names of all persons employed in the Bureau of Animal Industry during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, except those whose salaries were paid exclusively from the meat inspection appropriation. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. 5 and 10 per cent increase -- Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a statement showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation and the increased rates of compensation... of this department, on September 30, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed |
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Maude Taylor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Maude Taylor, one of the heirs of John C. Taylor, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Property in charge of Doorkeeper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives transmitting an inventory of all property under his charge belonging to the United States. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Dock No. 6, Cristobal, Canal Zone. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required to complete Dock No. 6 at Cristobal, Canal Zone. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New cables for the elevator of the Washington Monument. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1918, to cover the purchase and installation of new cables for the elevator at the Washington Monument. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eugene E. Neff. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eugene E. Neff, son of Edmund W.S. Neff, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Maintenance, etc., War and Navy Departments temporary building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury... submitting a supplemental estimate required for the maintenance, policing, etc., of the temporary office building... now in course of construction in Henry Park... from December 17, 1917, to June 30, 1918. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Proceeds from public property received by War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, of October 22, 1917, furnishing statements of all moneys arising from proceeds of public property received ... during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, ... December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance for the fiscal year 1918. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Persons employed in meat inspection, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the number of persons employed..., the salary or per diem..., where they... are employed,... the period beginning July 1, 1916, and ending June 30, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Estimates of receipts of Indian tribal funds and expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of receipts of Indian tribal funds, expenditure recommended therefrom... and estimates of amounts required to be expended under treaty stipulations and agreements, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Travel expenditures Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture transmitting statement showing in detail the travel from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia performed by officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture ... December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Sale of waste paper. Letter from the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives transmitting a statement of money received from sale of waster paper from December 1, 1916, to December 1, 1917. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., the Panama Canal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting data relative to exchange of typewriters and adding machines in part payment for new machines used for the same purpose as those exchanged, by the Panama Canal, for the period July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- First Assistant Postmaster General. Letter from the Postmaster General,... a statement showing for clerks, assistant postmasters, carriers, laborers, chauffeurs, etc.,... number of persons, the grades and character of positions, the... compensation, and the increased... compensation. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- Panama Canal employees in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures by naval disbursing officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting explanation of report required under section 5 of the act approved June 15, 1917. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Temporary employees in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statement showing, by bureaus and offices, the number and designation of the persons employed under the appropriations for the... employment of the additional force... and the annual... compensation paid to each. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting detailed reports by appropriations of the amount of 5 and 10 per cent increased compensation paid to certain employees of the Treasury Department. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims of postmasters for losses of money by fire, etc. Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting list of claims on account of loss by fire, burglary, etc., acted upon by the Postmaster General from July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917. December 5, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and ordered to be printed. Experimental and research laboratory, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting statement showing the manner in which all expenditures have been made under the appropriation "experimental and research laboratory," fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation paid employees of United States Botanic Garden. Letter from the Acting Superintendent of the United States Botanic Garden, transmitting statement regarding increased compensation paid employees of the United States Botanic Garden. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures from appropriations under control of Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of the amounts expended to December 1, 1917, from appropriations under the control of the Treasury Department. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Pay and allowances of officers of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement list showing the amount of money of all pay and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Expenditures, Coast Guard, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of expenditures of the Coast Guard for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate for collecting the revenue from Customs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from Customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. December 6, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Army Engineer Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... for maintenance and repair of... equipment for... fortifications for the fiscal year 1918. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Coast Guard. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the captain commandant of the Coast Guard, submitting a supplemental estimate required for the purchase of land and improvements on the water front at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., for the use of the Coast Guard. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., for Department of Labor. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Labor, transmitting a statement of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor saving devices exchanged in part payment for new machines by the Department of Labor during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of typewriters, Government Printing Office. Letter from the Public Printer, transmitting statement relative to purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines in the Government Printing Office covering the period from July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Sale of abandoned customs boarding stations, New Orleans, La. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting draft of legislation for the sale of three abandoned customs boarding stations at New Orleans, La. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Salaries of clerks, Aircraft Board. Letter from the Secretary of Aircraft Board transmitting a report of the salaries paid to clerks and employees, by grades, and the number in each grade. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Transferring portion of old public building site, Baltimore, Md. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting draft of proposed legislation transferring a certain portion of land on Fayette Street, at the southeast corner of the federal building site, Baltimore, Md., to the City of Baltimore, Md. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Deed for land, site of post office building, New York City. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting draft of proposed legislation authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept a correctionary deed to the United States to certain land in the City of New York, N.Y., for a post office building site. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Transfer of government property at San Francisco. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting draft of proposed legislation granting authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer the old subtreasury property at San Francisco Cal., to the War Department for the use of the engineer corps. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Receipts from rentals, Capitol Grounds. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement showing the receipts from rentals, extension of the Capitol Grounds, for the period December 1, 1916, to December 1, 1917. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase, Federal Trade Commission. Letter from the Secretary of Federal Trade Commission transmitting statement of increased compensation paid employees of the commission during the period July 1, 1917, to September 30, 1917. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rental of buildings, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for rent of buildings for the fiscal year 1918. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Refuse in the Harbor of New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department of the Army, for the prevention of deposits in the Harbor of New York... December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriting machines exchanged, Department of State. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a statement by the Secretary of State showing exchange of typewriting machines made by his department in part payment for new machines during fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and, with accompanying papers, ordered to be printed. Department of State appropriations, expenditures, and balances. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting statement of appropriations, expenditures, and balances for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, under the control of the Department of State. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department and ordered to be printed. Amend Section 1570, Revised Statutes. Letter the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to amend Section 1570 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Effects of deceased persons in the naval service. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Loss of Navy pay due to injury. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to amend an act entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1917, and for Other Purposes," approved August 29, 1916. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional pay for enlisted men, United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to authorize additional pay for enlisted men detailed beyond the expiration of their terms of enlistment. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Disbursements by the Department of Commerce. Letter from Secretary of Commerce, transmitting reports of expenditures by the several bureaus and divisions of the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Purchase of typewriters, State, War, and Navy Building, Superintendent. Letter from the Superintendent of State, War, and Navy Department Building, transmitting report concerning purchase of typewriters and other labor-saving devices. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Temporary employees, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement showing the number and designation of persons employed under the appropriation for additional temporary employees, Navy Department, and the annual rate of compensation paid to each. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase, Office Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Building. Letter from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building transmitting detailed report showing the number of persons, the grades or character of position, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation for the employees... December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Publications received and distributed by the War Department, 1917. Letter from the Assistant Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the publications received and distributed by the War Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for Post Office Department, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Post Office Department... for expenses of postal censorship of the mails. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Damages caused by Lighthouse Service vessels. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, reporting a list of claims... on account of damages caused by collisions for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Typewriters -- War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports showing the number of typewriting and other machines exchanged as part payment by the War Department during the fiscal year 1917. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Statement of certain expenditures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of expenditures under act of Congress approved April 24, 1917, as far as such expenditures have been submitted to the department up to December 1, 1917. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Typewriters, etc., exchanged for new machines, 1917, by Civil Service Commission. Letter from the President of the United States Civil Service Commission transmitting a statement showing the typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices exchanged in part payment for new machines during the fiscal year 1917. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Absentee officers, Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a provision to authorize the President to drop from the rolls of the Navy or Marine Corps any officer thereof who is absent from duty for three months without leave. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Proceeds of sales of old material and other public property, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, and other public property for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. James Wickersham v. Charles A. Sulzer. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, transmitting the contested election case of James Wickersham v. Charles A. Sulzer for a seat in the House of Representatives for the Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States for the District of Alaska. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Elections No. 1 and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the postal service, payable from the postal revenues, for the fiscal year 1918. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public quarters for officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a tentative draft of a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to determine where and when there are no public quarters available for officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. December 12, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Exchange of typewriters, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statement showing exchanges made during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, of typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor-saving devices, by the Navy Department and naval establishment, including the United States Marine Corps. December 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Interior Department, 1917. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an itemized statement of expenditures made by this department and charged to the appropriation "contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 1917," fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department and ordered to be printed. Repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an itemized statement of expenditures made by this Department and charged to the appropriation "repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, 1917," for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 13, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Report of the Governor of the Panama Canal. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting annual report of the Governor of the Panama Canal for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 13, 1917. -- Message referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Deficiency, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Letter from the Chairman of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, transmitting draft of provision recommended for insertion in the urgent deficiency bill. December 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. 10 and 15 per cent increase, Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster general, transmitting reports from the Bureaus of Second, Third, and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General showing the number of employees of their services who receive the benefits of increased compensation as provided by law. December 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on the Post offices and Post Road and ordered to be printed. Customs duties, etc., refunded. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a detailed statement of the refunds of Customs duties. etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 14, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- remodeling buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of urgent deficiency appropriation, quarantine service, "remodeling buildings," Cape Charles Quarantine Station. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries, officers of the Coast Guard. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting amended estimate of appropriation (p. 50, Book of Estimates for 1918) for "Salaries, officers of the Coast Guard." December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for the National Museum. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1918. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for the War and Navy Departments. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate required for the service of the War and Navy Departments. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Council of National Defense. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from Hon. Newton. D. Baker, Chairman of the Council of National Defense, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1918. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Five and ten per cent increase -- Engineer Department of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting a detailed statement showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of employees in the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting detailed statement showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenditures, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement... showing in detail what officers and employees traveled on official business to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. December 15, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Retired chief warrant officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers on active duty. December 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. 5 and 10 per cent increase -- Department of State. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a detailed report by the Secretary of State showing... increased rates of compensation provided by act of Congress. December 17, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and with accompanying papers, ordered to be printed. Forest Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting a supplemental estimate required for general expenses of the Forest Service for the fiscal year 1918. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Arlington National Cemetery. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1919, for necessary improvements at Arlington National Cemetery. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Heirs of James H. Brott. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frank Brott, Edward Brott, George Brott, and Adaline B. Hamilton, heirs of James H. Brott, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles J. Olson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles J. Olson against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Eleanor R. Mintie. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eleanor R. Mintie, widow of Fergus L. Mintie, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lawrence Moore. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lawrence Moore against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah J. Marsh. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah J. Marsh widow (remarried) of Martin B. Miller, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John A. Spielman. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John A. Spielman against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Birney E. Shaw. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Birney E. Shaw against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth W. Broadhead. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Elizabeth W. Broadhead, widow (remarried) of Richard M'Cowick, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Juliette Harrow. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Juliette Harrow, widow of William Harrow, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lucy B. Stahl. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lucy B. Stahl, daughter of James A. Bell, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Louisa Boles. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Louisa Boles, daughter of Charles Heinz, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George D. Scott. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George D. Scott, son and sole heir of Oliver H.P. Scott, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Chloe Hinchcliff. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Chloe Hinchcliff, daughter of Liam N. Mitchell, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles L. Knapp. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles L. Knapp against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Eva A. Ingersoll. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eva A. Ingersoll, widow of Robert G. Ingersoll, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Sarah C. Fisk. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Sarah C. Fisk, widow of Dennison Fisk, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Walter S. Dunn. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Walter S. Dunn, guardian of Caroline Dunn, a minor, sole heir of John T. Croxton, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary A. Clarkson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary A. Clarkson, widow of Isaac L. Clarkson, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lizzie J. Clark. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lizzie J. Clark, widow of Willard Clark, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Ellen B. Harding. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Ellen B. Harding, daughter of William Brisbane, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Heirs of Philip Adolph. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Carrie Adolph and Bella Adolph Epstine, daughters and sole heirs of Philip Adolph, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lydia F. Taylor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lydia F. Taylor, daughter of John C. Wilson, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Lilly B. Hancock. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Lilly B. Hancock, widow of William A. Hancock, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Warner U. Grider. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Warner U. Grider, administrator of Benjamin C. Grider, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John W. Clemans and Cora Foote. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John W. Clemans and Cora Foote, children of Sylvester W. Clemans, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles M. Bingham. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles M. Bingham against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Conine. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary E. Conine, daughter of Milton Valentine, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Benjamin F. Kemp. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Benjamin F. Kemp against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Morton T. Jones. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Morton T. Jones against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary A. Goddard. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary A. Goddard, widow of William C. Goddard, deceased, against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Harrison Dwire. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harrison Dwire against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Thomas Martin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas Martin against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Abraham Mitcham. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Abraham Mitcham against the United States. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Littleton W.T. Waller. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting draft of proposed bill for the relief of Brig. Gen. Littleton W.T. Waller. December 11, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of letter from Messrs. Daly, Hoyt & Mason, counselors at law, New York, inclosing copy of the report of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. December 7, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Prevention of spread of epidemic diseases. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting detailed report of the expenditures under the appropriation, "Preventing the spread of epidemic diseases," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Columbia Institution for the Deaf. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, submitting a supplemental estimate required by the institution for the fiscal year 1918. December 4, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Credit in the accounts of Maj. (Now Col.) Henry L. Newbold. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a paragraph of legislation ... to allow and credit in the accounts of Maj. (Now Col.) Henry L. Newbold, the sum of $2,157.61 ... December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed |
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Supplemental estimate, land and buildings, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department to provide for the acquisition of land and erection of temporary office... January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for Quartermaster Corps, Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Quartermaster Corps... Panama Canal, fiscal year 1919. February 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- United States Food Administration. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the United States Food Administrator submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the United States Food Administrator for salaries and expenses for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain officers of the United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of legislation for the relief of certain officers of the United States. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for State, War, and Navy Department Building, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required for operation of the State, War and Navy Department Building during the remainder of the fiscal year 1918. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting detailed statement of expenditures under the contingent appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and ordered to be printed. Clerical assistance, Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate for clerical assistance required by the United States Public Health Service for that portion of the present fiscal year from February to June. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Ex-paymasters' clerks, United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of certain ex-paymasters' clerks, United States Navy. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mary Blight. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary Blight, daughter of William B. Wright, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation paid employees Alaskan Engineering Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement regarding the increase in compensation paid employees of the Alaska Engineering Commission at Washington, D.C., and Seattle, Wash. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the United States Public Health Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of the Governor of Porto Rico on real estate held in excess of 500 acres. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report prepared under direction of the Governor of Porto Rico covering all real estate holdings in excess of 500 acres. January 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, Quartermaster Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Quartermaster Corps of the Army for expenses of the War Port Board, port of New York... January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- seacoast batteries, Canal Zone. Letter from the Acting 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 seacoast batteries, Canal Zone, Panama Canal, fiscal year 1919. January 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain pay officers, United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of certain pay officers of the United States Navy. January 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. List of cases dismissed by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a list of cases referred to this court by the House of Representatives dismissed on motion of defendants, consented to be the claimants' attorney. January 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Reports of accounting officers, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports from accounting officers of this department, showing what officers of the government were delinquent in rendering their accounts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. William Keiser. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William Keiser against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary O. Power. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary O. Power, widow of Albert L. Power, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. William A. Power. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William A. Power against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. James H. Corbin. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of James H. Corbin against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Paulina F. Shelt. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Paulina F. Shelt, widow of John Shelt, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mary B. Taylor. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary B. Taylor, widow of Isaac Taylor, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Session laws of Alaska for 1917. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the session laws of Alaska for 1917, containing the acts, resolutions, and memorials passed at the third regular session of the Territorial Legislature of Alaska. January 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Territories and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for Quartermaster Corps, Canal Zone. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Quartermaster Corps ... for the fiscal year 1919. January 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Land for naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Va. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate... to complete the purchase of land for the naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Va., for the fiscal year 1918. January 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Suppression of pink bollworm of cotton. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1919. January 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Annual report Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Letter from the President of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. transmitting a report of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to the Congress of the United States for the year 1917. January 31, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Capital Traction Co. Letter from the President of the Capital Traction Co. transmitting report of the Capital Traction Co. for the year ending December 31, 1917. January 31, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Purchases and disbursements made by the United States Food Administration and by the United States Fuel Administration. Letters from the United States Food Administrator, transmitting itemized statements of purchases and disbursements... January 31, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Georgetown Gas Light Co. Letter from the President of Georgetown Gas Light Co., transmitting detailed statement of the business of the Georgetown Gas Light Co., together with a lost of stockholders for the year ending December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co. Letter from the President of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., transmitting report of the Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Co. for the year ending December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Washington Interurban Railroad Co. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co., transmitting report of the Washington Interurban Railroad Co., for the year ending December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Potomac Electric Power Co. Letter from the president of the Potomac Electric Power Co., transmitting report of the Potomac Electric Power Co., for the year ended December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. City and Suburban Railway of Washington. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co., transmitting report of the City & Suburban Railway of Washington for the year ended December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. East Washington Heights Traction Railroad. Letter from the President of the East Washington Heights Traction Railroad transmitting annual report for the year ending December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- United States Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of an urgent deficiency appropriation required for the United States Public Health Service for the current fiscal year. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Statement of the Washington Gas Light Co. Letter from the President of the Washington Gas Light Co., transmitting detailed statement of the business of the Washington Gas Light Co., with a list of its stockholders, for the year ended December 31, 1917. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Interallied institute for the restoration and reeducation of crippled soldiers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the support of an interallied institute for the restoration ... February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation -- Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Attorney General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Justice for the detection and prosecution of crime, fiscal year 1918. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for maintenance, etc., of Office of Alien Property Custodian. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Alien Property Custodian submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay outstanding bills for supplies and equipment and to maintain his organization to carry out the provisions of the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act... February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Wrapping twine, etc., postal service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the postal service for wrapping twine and tying devices, Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, for the fiscal year 1918, payable from postal revenues. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimated appropriations for certain officers of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation... for reimbursement to certain disbursing officers of the Army, for the fiscal year 1915... February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Lighthouse Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Lighthouse Service for repairing and rebuilding aids to navigation on the Atlantic coast damaged by ice or storm. February 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salary of chief clerk, office of chief of staff, 1918. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting estimate of appropriation required by the War Department to increase the salary of the chief clerk, office of chief of staff, from the present rate $2,250 per annum to $2,750 per annual for the six months ending June 30, 1918. February 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salary of chief clerk, Office of Chief of Staff, 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department to increase the salary of the chief clerk, Office of Chief of Staff... February 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- State Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... of the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism to be held in the United States. February 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, War Department, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required for the War Department for the fiscal year 1918. February 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates, Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1918. February 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cases dismissed by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting list of cases dismissed by the court December 10, 1917. February 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Claims adjusted by the Chief of Engineers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting, in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the River and Harbor Act, a list of claims for damages which have been adjusted and settled by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War. February 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Marine hospitals and stations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations for marine hospitals and stations. February 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increased rank for Coast Guard officers during present war. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill to authorize temporary increased rank and pay for certain officers of the United States Coast Guard while operating as a part of the Navy during the period of the present war, February 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Sugar-testing apparatus, Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... for standardizing and designing sugar-testing apparatus, fiscal year 1919. February 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriation for Engineer Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Engineer Department for the fiscal year 1918. February 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Operation of War and Navy buildings in Henry Park. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation... for fiscal year 1919. February 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriation -- District of Columbia militia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting revised estimates of appropriation required by the militia of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1919. February 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of the Arlington property. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimates of appropriation for the purchase of the site and the fireproof building being erected thereon, for the use of the Treasury Department, together with an extension thereto, not yet commenced, known as the Arlington property. February 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Annual report, Washington-Virginia Railway Co. Letter from the Treasurer of Washington-Virginia Railway Co. transmitting report of the Washington-Virginia Railway Co. for the year ending December 31, 1917. February 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the United States Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, for maintenance and ordinary expenses of the Quarantine Service. February 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief and protection of American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the State Department for the relief and protection of American seamen for the fiscal year 1918. February 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries of draftsmen, Bureau of Ordnance. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for salaries of draftsmen in the Bureau of Ordnance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. February 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the State Department for emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year 1918. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mail bags and equipment, Postal Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Postmaster General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Post Office Department for mail bags and equipment, postal service, for the fiscal year 1918. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Temporary office buildings, War and Navy Departments. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Compensation increases for employees of St. Elizabeths Hospital. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill, authorizing certain increases in compensation... February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates for naval establishment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the naval establishment for the fiscal year 1919. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Navy Department and naval establishment for the fiscal year 1918. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for fortifications in insular possessions for the fiscal year 1918. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Printing and binding for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for printing and binding for the War Department for the fiscal year 1918. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, contingent expenses, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate for contingent expenses of War Department for the fiscal year 1918. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Henry C. Chappell. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a proposed clause of legislation authorizing the payment to Henry C. Chappell of certain money paid by him for advertisements. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimates of appropriations required by the United States Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. December 18, 1917. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- Medical Department of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations required for the Medical Department of the Army for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for legislative reference work, Library of Congress. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Librarian of Congress submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for legislative reference work for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for printing and binding, Library of Congress. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Librarian of Congress submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for payment of postage to postal union countries. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... supplementary estimate of appropriation required for payment of postage on official matter addressed to postal union countries for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations for public buildings, etc, and certain annual appropriations under control of supervising architect, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting certain estimates of appropriations for public buildings, etc., and for certain of the annual appropriations under the control of the supervising architect of the Treasury Department. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for purchase and sale of seeds to farmers, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture submitting a supplemental estimate... for the purchase and sale of seed to farmers. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, State Department, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the State Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Post Office Department for fuel, etc., for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations, Department of Justice. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting additional estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Justice and the United States courts for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriations for War Department, 1919. 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 fiscal year 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Department of Commerce. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Board of Commissioner of the District of Columbia submitting additional estimates of appropriations required by the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of legislation to be incorporated in the urgent deficiency bill. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Quartering officers and enlisted men. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information for quartering officers and enlisted men of the Army. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase firemen's pay, Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting a communication from the director of the Bureau of Standards transmitting a petition for an increase in pay to firemen in the Bureau of Standards. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations for the Lighthouse service. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting items in the estimates of appropriations for the Lighthouse service for the fiscal year 1919 which have not been authorized by Congress, and to request that the necessary authority therefor be enacted into law. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed. Cost of arms, etc., Springfield (Mass.) Armory and Rock Island (Ill.) Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements... of the expenditures and allotment costs of arms, components of arms and appendages fabricated, altered, and repaired during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Appropriations for War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement showing the total appropriations made for the War Department under this act, the total withdrawals from the Treasury during the period from June 15 to November 30, 1917, inclusive, and the balances remaining ... January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Professors and instructors, Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the number of professors and instructors employed at the Naval Academy paid from the lump sum of appropriation, and the amount of compensation prescribed for each. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement showing in detail what officers or employees of the War Department have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Cincinnati, Pomeroy & Charleston Packet Co. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Cincinnati, Pomeroy & Charleston Packet Co. against the United States. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Proposed legislation for inclusion in urgent deficiency bill for Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Engineer Department of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department of the Army for construction of seacoast batteries, Philippine Islands, for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriations for the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the War Department for the service of the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Travel expenses, Bureau of Efficiency. Letter from the Chief Bureau of Efficiency transmitting statement showing in detail what officers and employees of the United States Bureau of Efficiency have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside the District of Columbia during the fiscal year June 30, 1917. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Efficiency employees. Letter from the Chief Bureau of Efficiency transmitting statement showing in detail the number of employees of the Bureau of Efficiency whose compensation was increased by section 7, appropriation act approved March 3, 1917. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerical force, Register of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Office of the Register of the Treasury for additional clerical force during the fiscal year 1919. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting revised draft of a proposed bill to regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty. January 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Draft of bill in lieu of H.R. 8980. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, requesting consideration of Navy Department's draft of bill in lieu of H.R. 8980. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Reappropriating the unexpended balances or certain 1918 appropriations for the National Guard. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill, reappropriating certain 1918 balances. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Civilian engineers employed in work of improving rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of the War, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army submitting a statement showing the name of each civilian engineer employed between July 1, 1916, and June 30, 1917, in the work of improving rivers and harbors. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. Flora L. Hovey. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Flora L. Hovey against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Henry C. Crosthwait et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Henry C. Crosthwait, Lyman L. Crosthwait, and George A. Crosthwait, heirs of William Y. Crosthwait, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John T. Gunn. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John T. Gunn against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Addie P. Jones. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Addie P. Jones, widow of D. Lloyd Jones, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Adam [i.e., Enoch] Smith. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Enoch Smith, administrator of the estate of Harrison Fields, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Mabel Cushman Hitt. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mabel Cushman Hitt, daughter of William H.W. Cushman, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. J.H. Reed. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of J.H. Reed, administrator of the estate of John B. Reed, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Milton Giles et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Milton Giles, Charles P. Giles, and Aldana G. Burr, children and heirs of Ezekiel Giles, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Washington & Old Dominion Railway. Letter from the President of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway, transmitting report of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway for the 12 months ending December 31, 1917, in compliance with requirements of section 10, Act of Congress, June 30, 1896. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Financial report of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives. Letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives, transmitting a statement of receipts and disbursements for the year December 1, 1916, to December 1, 1917, and a statement of property in his charge December 1, 1917. January 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Accounts, and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Chief, Division of Publications. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting annual report of the Chief, Division of Publications, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917... January 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and ordered to be printed. Armament of fortifications, War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department of the Army for the fiscal year 1918 on account of armament... January 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Coast Guard cutters. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation to be included in some urgent deficiency bill. January 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Thomas J. Craycroft. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas J. Craycroft against the United States. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Annual report of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Letter from the President of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., transmitting report of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. for the year 1917. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Report of Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator & Railway Co. Letter from the Vice President of the Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator & Railway Co., transmitting report for the year ending December 31, 1917. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, U.S. Shipping Board -- construction of ships. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the chairman of the United States Shipping Board, submitting a supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the United States Shipping Board for the construction of ships, fiscal year 1919. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations, 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 fiscal year 1918. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Secondary projects, etc., reclamation projects. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Reclamation Service for secondary projects, cooperative, and other miscellaneous investigations, for the fiscal year 1919. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, Food Administration. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the United States Food Administrator submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation in the sum of $10,000,000, required for the fiscal year 1919. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingencies of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of expenditures on account of appropriation "Contingencies of the Army" during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Report of certain expenditures of the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of expenditures on account of appropriation for contingent expenses of the War Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- interest teller for office of United States Treasurer. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of the Treasury to provide an interest teller for the Office of the Treasurer of the United States for the fiscal year 1919. January 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- salaries and expenses, United States Fuel Administration. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the United States Fuel Administration submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the fiscal year 1919 for salaries and expenses... January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Harriet L. Cantleberry. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Harriet L. Cantleberry, widow of Emanuel B. Cantleberry, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Charles A. Cutler. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles A. Cutler against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. John T. Donahugh. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John T. Donahugh against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Edgar A. Kimmel and Henry T. Kimmel. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Edgar A. Kimmel and Henry T. Kimmel, sons of George Kimmel, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Urban Hornburger. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Urban Hornburger against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Office of Auditor for Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Treasury Department for salaries for additional clerks in the Office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1919. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Legislation authorizing certain credits in account of Sydney E. Smith, disbursing clerk, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting... certain credits in the account of Sydney E. Smith, disbursing clerk, War Department. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- Municipal Court, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1918. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, War Risk Insurance Bureau. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a revised statement of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance for the fiscal year 1919. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Ordering into service retired officers of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a draft of proposed bill to define more clearly the authority of the Navy Department in the matter of ordering into active service retired officers of the Navy. January 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for Engineer Department, United States Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department of the Army for supplying uniforms for park, monument, and bridge watchmen for the fiscal year 1918. January 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for subsistence, fuel, etc., at the several branches... January 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Payment of gun pointers and gun captains. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to authorize the payment of gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from their regular stations, and for other purposes. January 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Approaches, etc., government buildings, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1919. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bridge across San Juan River, N. Mex. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year 1918. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mary Ann Ford. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mary Ann Ford, daughter of William Boden, deceased, against the United States, January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Narcissa E. Wade. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Narcissa E. Wade, sister of Berry M. Webb, deceased, against the United States. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Department of Labor, 1916. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Labor, transmitting a detailed statement of the number of documents received and the number distributed by the Department of Labor during the fiscal year 1916. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance for the fiscal year 1918. January 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Engraving and Printing employees detailed for clerical work. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement the number of employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing whose compensation is paid... as carried in the sundry civil bill, but detailed for duty in connection with clerical work of the Bureau. January 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain pay officers of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of certain pay officers of the United States Navy. January 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates for post office and courthouse at Harrisburg, Pa., and bridge at Nogales, Ariz. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting certain estimates, for inclusion in the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, for post office and court house at Harrisburg, Pa., and bridge at Nogales, Ariz. January 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Expenditures by the Alaskan Engineering Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of expenditures by the Alaskan Engineering Commission from its appropriation for "Construction and operation of railroads in Alaska" to October 31, 1917. January 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for State Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Secretary of State submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the State Department for the fiscal year 1919. January 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for bill of printing for the Bureau of Mines. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Fortifications, Panama Canal. 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 fortifications, etc., Panama Canal. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, U.S. Geological Survey -- examination, etc., of lands for homesteads. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the United States Geological Survey... fiscal year 1918. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for rent of buildings, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department for rent of buildings, fiscal year 1919. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for increase in salaries of certain employees of the Army War College. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for increase in salaries... January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Proposed change in wording of estimates of appropriations concerning shipbuilding plants. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, submitting a proposed change in the wording of the estimates of appropriations for acquisition of plants... January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the State submitting a proposed draft of an act to amend section 2 of the act of February 5, 1915 (38 Stat., 805). January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Statements covering certain sales. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting two statements, one covering "sale of surplus and obsolete material and equipment during the year ended June 30, 1917," and the other "collections from the town-site assessments to June 30, 1917." January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Accounts of Col. (now Brig. Gen.) Jesse McL. Carter. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary or War, submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation authorizing and directing the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit the accounts of Col. (now Brig. Gen.) Jesse McL. Carter the sum of $352.23. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules and lists of papers, documents, etc., on the files of the Treasury Department, which are not needed in the transaction of public business and have no permanent value or historical interest. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Wilson Kerns. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Wilson Kerns, son of Joseph Kerns, deceased, against the United States. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Miscellaneous repairs, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of proposed amendment to the urgent deficiency bill, the unexpended balance of the appropriation "For miscellaneous repairs to laundry, new roof, and so forth, damaged by fire, for the fiscal year 1917,"... January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Hydroelectric power plant in Yosemite National Park. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill. January 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the public printer, 1918. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the public printer submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the public printer for the fiscal year 1918. January 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriations Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Assistant Secretary of Labor submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required ... for the United States Employment Service ... January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations urgently required for the service of the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations -- Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of communications from the Secretary of the Interior submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations for the service of the Interior Department for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate for additional clerk, Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate for an additional clerk of class 1 in the section of surety bonds of this department, supplementing the estimates for this section on pages 38-39 of the printed estimates of appropriations for fiscal year 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate in the amount of $600, covering the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, for an additional clerk of class 1 in the section of surety bonds of this Department ... January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims against the United States for services, losses, damages, etc. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting list of claims against the United States for services, losses, damages, etc. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Quartermaster warehouses, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Bureau of Efficiency. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chief of the Bureau of Efficiency submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate for current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations for current and miscellaneous expenses of the Naval Academy for the fiscal year 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- United States Employment Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Assistant Secretary of Labor submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the United States Employment Service for the fiscal year 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Bureau of Mines. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Mines for the fiscal year 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation of prize money. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation for inclusion in an appropriation bill to be enacted during the present session of Congress. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Provost Marshal General's office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Provost Marshal General for administration of the selective-service law for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations, Office Auditor for the State and Other Departments. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required for additional clerical force in the Office of the Auditor for the State and Other Departments, for the fiscal year 1918 and 1919. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. United States Shipping Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the president of the Civil Service Commission submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the commission for salaries and expenses for the fiscal year 1919. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Navy mail clerks. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to amend an act approved May 27, 1908, thirty-fourth statutes, pages 417 and 418, and for other purposes. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Relief of Paymaster Alvin Hovey-King. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill for the relief of Paymaster Alvin Hovey-King, United States Navy. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. Wages and contingent expenses, Assay Office, New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the director of the Mint, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the Bureau of the Mint for wages and contingent expenses of the Assay Office at New York, for the fiscal year 1918. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for protecting Panama Canal and canal structures, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for protecting Panama Canal and canal structures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the repair of the fire boat of the Fire Department, for the fiscal year 1918. January 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mabel Henderson et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Mabel Henderson and Mary H. Fletcher, daughters of William P. Henderson, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. A.H. Shonn. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of A.H. Shonn, executor of the estate of Andrew J. Brown, deceased, against the United States. January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for logging and manufacture of timber at Red Lake Agency sawmill. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the urgent deficiency bill. January 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate for foreign intercourse, Department of State. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of State submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required for the expenses of foreign intercourse for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919. January 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Testing structural materials, etc., Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1918. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional computers and draftsmen, Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Department of Commerce for additional computers and draftsmen in the office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the fiscal year 1919. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Cadet laundry, military academy. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the War, submitting a change in the wording of an estimate of appropriation for the military academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Purchase of typewriters, United States Bureau of Efficiency. Letter from the Chief Bureau of Efficiency transmitting statement showing typewriters purchased by the United States Bureau of Efficiency during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. January 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Report of Washington Railway & Electric Co. Letter from the President of Washington Railway & Electric Co., transmitting report of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. for the year ended December 31, 1917. February 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Legislation to allow credits to certain disbursing officers of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting proposed clauses of legislation authorizing accounting officers of the Treasury to allow credits in the accounts of certain disbursing officers of the Army. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Useless papers, Department of Commerce. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting list of Executive papers not needed or useful in the transaction of current business of the department and have no permanent or historical interest. February 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, marine hospitals. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting certain estimates of appropriations for remodeling, construction work, etc., at the marine hospitals. January 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for Navy Department, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1918. February 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency, Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a letter from the United States Employees' Compensation Commission submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the salaries and expenses of the commission for the fiscal year 1918. January 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- diplomatic and consular service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the State Department for expenses of the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year 1919. January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, United States Civil Service Commission. Letter from the President of the United States Civil Service Commission transmitting certain schedules of useless papers in the office of the commission... January 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. |
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Appropriation required by Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. September 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses, War Trade Board. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the War Trade Board submitting an alternative estimate of appropriation required by the War Trade Board for salaries and expenses of the board for the fiscal year 1919. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriations required by Engineer Department of the Army, 1918 and 1919. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting additional estimates of appropriations required by the Engineer Department of the Army... May 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Forrest R. Black. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting proposed draft of bill for the relief of Forrest R. Black, Naval Reserve Force. September 13, 1918. -- Referred to be Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation to provide housing, local transportation, etc., for war needs. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Labor submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required to provide housing, local transportation... for war needs. May 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Bureau of Fisheries. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of Fisheries for the fiscal year 1919. October 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required for salaries and expenses for the District of Columbia. September 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth B. Beal. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Elizabeth B. Beal, administratrix, of the estate of George L. Beal, deceased, against the United States. April 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for War Industries Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Industries Board for the remainder of the fiscal year 1919. October 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Civilian assistant, Disciplinary Division, Office of Superintendent of Military Academy. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a supplemental estimate of appropriation to provide a civilian assistant to the clerk in charge of the Disciplinary Division in the Office of the Superintendent of the Military Academy... April 16, 1918 -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, office of Auditor for the War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the office of the Auditor for the War Department for the fiscal year 1919. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation -- Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. October 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for State, War, and Navy Department Building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... September 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for office of director of purchase, storage, and traffic, United States Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the director of purchase, storage, and traffic, United States Army... May 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Quartermaster Corps. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... for... fiscal year 1918. March 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations in the Department of the Interior and ordered to be printed. Quarantine stations, Boston and Cape Charles. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of additional appropriation for quarantine stations, Boston and Cape Charles, United States Public Health Service. March 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for salaries and expenses, Alien Property Custodian. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Alien Property Custodian, submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Alien Property Custodian for salaries and expenses of his office for the fiscal year 1919. March 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The Yellowstone National Park. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting certain changes desired in estimates for the Yellowstone National Park for the fiscal year 1919. April 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for clerks, Returns Office, Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a supplemental estimate of appropriation, for six clerks of class one, needed to bring up the arrears of work in the Returns Office of the Interior Department, for the fiscal year 1919. May 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Arthur M. Sherman. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Arthur M. Sherman against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Purchase of vehicles for use of Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of provision for inclusion in sundry civil appropriation bill to authorize the purchase of vehicles for use of Public Health Service. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers, Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting lists of documents and files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of the department and have no permanent value or historical interest. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriation Department of Commerce, 1918. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1918. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses of War Trade Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the President submitting estimates of appropriation received from the Chairman of the War Trade Board years 1918 and 1919. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations for Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Labor, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1918. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations for Department of Labor, 1919. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Labor submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1919. February 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Maj. Kenneth E. Williams and Maj. (now Lieut. Col.) Charles J. Nelson, United States Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting proposed paragraphs of legislation to allow certain accounts disallowed on the books of the Treasury. May 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for expenses of registration and selection for military service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an estimate of appropriation, required by the Provost Marshal General of the Army... May 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military, and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation... for the fiscal year 1919. May 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rank and precedence of permanent and temporary officers of the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting draft of a proposed bill to regulate the relative rank and precedence of permanent and temporary officers of the Navy. May 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional messenger for Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Treasury Department of fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. May 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Temporary office buildings, War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Superintendent State, War, and Navy Department Buildings submitting the following estimates of appropriations for the temporary office buildings for the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. May 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Proposed legislation making certain Engineer Corps officers responsible for moneys advanced. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chief of Engineers submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the pending Army appropriation bill for the fiscal year, 1919. May 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of deficiency appropriation, General Land Office. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the General Land Office for resurveys in the State of Colorado and for... May 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriations required by the civil and naval establishments, Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of the Navy submitting additional estimates of appropriations required by the civil and naval establishments of the Navy Department... May 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Ordnance Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... for the fiscal year 1919. May 22, 1918. -- So much as relates to appropriations, referred to the Committee on Appropriations... and ordered to be printed. Proposed legislation for reappropriating unexpended balances, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation for inclusion in the general or other deficiency bill. May 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations for electric-light and power plants, Panama Canal and insular possessions. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the Engineer Department of the Army... May 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Diplomatic and consular officers in Chile. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the next deficiency bill. May 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Military establishment of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draft of a proposed bill to amend section 7 of "An Act To Authorize the President To Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917. May 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Appropriations payable from the postal revenues. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation, payable from the postal revenues, for the fiscal year 1918. May 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional temporary employees, War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for additional temporary employees for the fiscal year 1918. May 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Brennan Construction Co. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay the claim of Brennan Construction Co. for balance due on the construction of the Senate Office Building under contract dated December 2, 1905. May 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Substitute estimates of appropriation, Quartermaster Corps of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting substitute estimates of appropriation for the support of the Quartermaster Corps of the Army, for the fiscal year 1919. May 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Pay of Superintendent of National Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... to increase the pay of the Superintendent of the National cemetery at Mexico City ... May 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Engineer Department of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Engineer Department of the Army for the fiscal year, 1919. May 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Credit in accounts of Brig. Gen. Frederic V. Abbot. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War... authorizing and directing the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of Brig. Gen. Frederic V. Abbot... May 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate for services of a clerk, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate for the services of a clerk stenographer and typist, Treasury Department. June 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Accounts of Lieut. Col. Charles J. Nelson, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a proposed clause of legislation authorizing and directing allowance and credit in accounts of Lieut. Col. Charles J. Nelson... June 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Public Health Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required by the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. June 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations for Department of Commerce. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1919. June 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase of pay, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of appropriation to provide increase of pay of female operatives, printers' assistants, and skilled helpers employed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill. June 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Defenses of the Panama Canal, 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department of the Army for the defenses of the Panama Canal, fiscal year 1919. June 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Thomas J. Lindley. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Thomas J. Lindley against the United States. June 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Office of First Assistant Postmaster General. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the postal service for the fiscal year 1917. June 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Checks, drafts, etc. -- Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of a provision of legislation authorizing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to increase the number of sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to 6,500,000 for the current fiscal year. June 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by Quartermaster Corps of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the Quartermaster Corps of the Army for the fiscal year 1918 and for prior years. June 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of deficiency appropriation for the District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1918 and for prior years. June 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Operating supplies for public buildings. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriation for operating supplies for public buildings, 1918, for inclusion in some appropriation bill. June 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate of appropriation, General Staff. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation, required by the Director of Purchase, Storage, and Traffic, General Staff of the Army, fiscal year 1918, for inland and port storage and shipping facilities. June 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, 1918. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting recommendation of an item to be included in the next deficiency bill for "contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, 1918." June 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Boilers, etc., Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriation for inclusion in the sundry civil bill, for additional boilers, etc., Bureau or Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. June 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses, Committee on Public Information. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, submitting estimate of appropriation... for salaries and expenses in connection with its work... for the fiscal year 1919. June 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional proving-ground facilities, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department of the Army for the fiscal year 1919. June 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Record of judgment in case of Helen C. Sheckels. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a record of a judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in the case of Helen C. Sheckels, surviving executrix of Theodore Sheckels, versus the District of Columbia, which judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States... June 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department, fiscal year 1919. June 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriation required by the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1918. June 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the department for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia. June 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the United States Employees' Compensation Commission submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Commission for salaries and expenses... June 28, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase of appropriations for certain quarantine stations. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate for an increase in appropriation for certain quarantine stations. June 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriations for Bibliography of Aeronautics. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman, Executive Committee, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation for printing and binding ... June 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mountain, field, and siege cannon, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department of the Army for the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, and ammunition therefor for the fiscal year 1919. June 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Dismissing the petitions of Charles T. Engle et al by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting certified copy of the memorandum of the court, dismissing the petition in the case of Charles T. Engle et al., and the orders of the court dismissing the petitions in certain other cases. June 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Okanogan project, Washington. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required for emergency work of the Okanogan project, Washington, fiscal year 1919. June 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of cable charges collected by the War Trade Board. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury... authorizing the amount of cable charges... collected from exporters by the War Trade Board to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation first charged with the cost of such cablegrams. June 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Assistant Attorney General, submitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases... June 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Eastern Transportation Co. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting judgment rendered against the government by the District of Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, under the provisions of the act of August 9, 1916. June 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Conferring jurisdiction on District Court of Canal Zone for naturalization of aliens. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the War, transmitting draft of a proposed bill, entitled "An Act Conferring Jurisdiction on the District Court of the Canal Zone for the Naturalization of Certain Aliens." June 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Judgments against government rendered by district courts. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered against government by the district courts of the United States under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1887, as submitted by the Attorney General, which require an appropriation for the payment. June 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by the Court of Claims. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, which have been presented to the Treasury Department and require an appropriation for their payment. June 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Employees of the Navy Department for whom exemption from military duty or deferred classification has been requested. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting in response to House Resolution 372, information regarding employees of the Navy Department for whom exemption from military duty or deferred classification... June 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Expenditures under appropriation "Expenses of loans." Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting further statement of expenditures under provisions of section 8 of the act of Congress approved April 24, 1917, Public No. 3, 65th Cong. July 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations required by Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the Navy Department. July 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Submarine mines and appliances, Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation... for submarine mines and appliances, Panama Canal, for the fiscal year 1918. July 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Steamboat Inspection Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the Steamboat Inspection Service for the fiscal year 1919. July 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional employees, Auditor for Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for additional services and equipment for the Office of the Auditor for Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1919. July 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Materials, stores, etc., transferred between different bureaus and departments of the government. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to provide method of settlement for materials, stores, and supplies transferred between different bureaus, departments, or agencies of the government. July 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Army account of advances for Army appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a bill authorizing an Army account of advances for Army appropriations. July 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Carrie E. Pierce and Alice Pierce. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Carrie E. Pierce and Alice Pierce, children and sole heirs of James H. Pierce, deceased, against the United States. July 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Frank A. Baker. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Frank A. Baker, son of John J. Baker, deceased, against the United States. July 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations for the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. August 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. List of men commissioned or enlisted in the Navy and assigned to clerical positions. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting list of names and addresses of men between the ages of 21 and 31 years who have been commissioned or enlisted in the Navy since June 5, 1918, and assigned to clerical positions... August 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Authority to call into service dismissed or discharged officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of proposed bill to amend the one hundred and eighteenth article of war and authorize the calling into service of dismissed or discharged offices. August 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Transfer of Craney Island and Fishermans Island. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of bill authorizing transfer of land known as Craney Island from War Department to Treasury Department and Fishermans Island from Treasury Department to War Department. August 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pay of certain warrant officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a proposed draft of a bill to give warrant officers on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States the same pay as they now receive while on sea duty. August 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Crediting cable charges to appropriation for War Trade Board. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting proposed clause of legislation providing for crediting cable charges to the appropriation for the War Trade Board. August 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. To prevent waste and to encourage saving by organizations of the Army. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a draft of a bill requested by General Pershing to prevent waste and to encourage saving by the organizations of the Army. August 31, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Steamboat-Inspection Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Steamboat-Inspection Service for the fiscal year 1919. September 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Money on deposit for Five Civilized Tribes and Osage Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of amount of money on deposit in state and national banks on April 1, 1918, belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Osage Indians and to individuals of said tribes. September 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Salaries, Lighthouse service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, transmitting an estimate in the sum of $9,600 supplemental to the appropriation of $380,000 for salaries, Lighthouse service, 1919. September 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Enlisted men between the ages of 21 and 31 assigned to clerical work in United States Marine Corps. Letter from Secretary of the Navy, transmitting list of men who on June 5, 1917, were between the ages of 21 and 31 years and who, since that date... assigned to clerical work under the United States Marine Corps... September 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Laundry, etc., Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriation for Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C., for inclusion in some appropriation bill. September 12, 1918. -- Referred to be Committed on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Extension of certain provisions of War-Risk Insurance Act. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting proposed draft of a bill to include both midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy and cadets at the United States Military Academy within certain provisions of the War-Risk Insurance Act... September 13, 1918. -- Referred to be Committed on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Department of Justice for the current fiscal year. September 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Division of Loans and Currency and Register of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the current fiscal year, required by the Division of Loans and Currency and the Register of the Treasury. September 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Repair of post office, Chicago, Ill. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for repairing Chicago, Ill. post office for inclusion in some appropriation bill. September 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Free entry into United States of materials for use of War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draft of proposed bill to permit free entry into the United States of all material and articles imported for the use and by order of the War Department during the existing war, and for other purposes. September 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriation, War Department, fiscal year 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. September 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerical force, Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Post Office Department for additional clerical force for the fiscal year 1919. September 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay for Army and Navy Nurse Corps during involuntary captivity. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting suggestion regarding amendment of H.R. 12860, a bill granting to the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps pay and allowances during any period of involuntary captivity by the enemy of the United States. September 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by State Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting additional estimates of appropriation required by the State Department for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919. September 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. War savings stamps, Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for expenses of the Post Office Department in connection with war savings stamps and thrift stamps... September 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Automobile for official use, Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster general submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the purchase and maintenance of an automobile for official use, fiscal year 1919. September 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Personnel of Coast Guard bands. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting draft of a bill regulating the personnel in the Coast Artillery Bands. September 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Bureau of Standards for the fiscal year 1919. September 23, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for contingencies of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the War Department for contingencies of the Army, fiscal year 1919. September 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriations for public printing and binding, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Public Printer submitting additional estimates of appropriation required by the Public Printer for public printing and binding and for leaves of absence... September 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerical force, Auditor for the Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for an additional clerical force in the Office of the Auditor for the Navy Department for the remainder of the current fiscal year. September 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Rent of buildings for government officials, East St. Louis, Mo., etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations for rent of buildings for government officials, East St. Louis, Ill., Evansville, Ind., Harrisburg, Pa., Huntington, W. Va., Newport, R.I. September 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for repair of Auditors' Building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for repair of Auditors' Building, former Bureau of Engraving and Printing. September 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reimbursement of certain civilians for losses sustained during labor troubles in Colorado in 1914. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a draft of a bill to provide for the reimbursement of civilians for the seizure of arms and ammunition by United States troops during the labor troubles in Colorado during 1914. September 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation, Capital Issues Committee. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the Capital Issues Committee submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Capital Issues Committee for the remainder of the fiscal year 1919. September 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. First Congress of American Economics Expansion. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Baltimore quarantine station. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation to be included in the deficiency bill or some other act which may be considered at an early date. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increasing travel allowances of Army officers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a draft of a bill increasing the travel allowances of officers of the Army. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase in salaries of Post Office employees. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Postmaster General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for increases in salaries of certain classes of employees of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1919. September 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation -- Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Justice. September 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Civil Service Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Civil Service Commission submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required for the fiscal year 1919. October 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase of salaries in the Department of the Interior. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for necessary increases in salaries in the mechanical and laboring forces of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1919. October 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate for disposal of Washington (D.C.) refuse. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the District of Columbia for disposal of city refuse, fiscal year 1919. October 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, Department of Justice. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1918. October 4, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional field clerks for the Quartermaster Corps. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a tentative draft of a proposed bill authorizing the appointment of additional field clerks for the Quartermaster Corps. October 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Additional vaults in the Treasury Building. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a tentative draft of a proposed bill providing for the construction of new and additional vaults in the Treasury Building. October 5, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Police force, Potomac Park. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department for the fiscal year 1919. October 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Price of wheat. Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, in response to House Resolution 429, requesting copy of report made by the Agricultural Advisory Committee regarding the price of wheat on August 20, 1918. October 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Public Health Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an urgent deficiency estimate of appropriations required by the United States Public Health Service for the fiscal year 1919. October 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional appropriation -- Reclamation Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting additional estimates of appropriation required by the Reclamation Service for the fiscal year 1919. October 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates, Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Navy supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1919. October 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate, Ordnance Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department of the Army for armament of fortifications for the fiscal year 1919. October 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance for the fiscal year 1919. October 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimates of appropriations for Department of Commerce, 1919. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce, submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation... for the fiscal year 1919. February 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay of chief nurses. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of proposed bill to amend section 4 of Chapter V of "An Act Making Appropriation for the Support of the Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen." August 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Salaries, etc., Alien Property Custodian. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Alien Property Custodian, submitting an estimate of appropriation, required by the Alien Property Custodian for salaries and expenses of his office for the fiscal year 1919. May 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Stationery, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Interior of the 25th instant, submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation for stationery, Department of the Interior, for the fiscal year 1918. May 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Printing and binding, Pan American Union. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Department of State for printing and binding for the Pan American Union, fiscal year 1918. May 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for contingent expense, foreign missions, Department of State. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of State submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Department of State for contingent expense, foreign missions... May 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Extending appropriation for advancing transportation to wage earners. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Labor submitting a proposed paragraph of legislation made in the act of March 28, 1918, for advancing transportation to wage earners. May 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Arthur P. Watts, United States Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a proposed clause of legislation authorizing the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to allow and credit in the accounts of Capt. Arthur P. Watts. United States Army... May 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for Engineer Department of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required... for the protection of the reservation at Sandy Hook, N.J., fiscal year 1918. May 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation required by the Fuel Administration. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the United States Fuel Administrator, submitting revised estimate of appropriation required by the Fuel Administration for the fiscal year 1919. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Robert Z. Johnson. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Robert Z. Johnson against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Florence Collins. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Florence Collins, daughter and heir of Joseph A. Collins, deceased, against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth W. Broadhead. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Elizabeth W. Broadhead, widow (remarried) of Richard McCowick, deceased, against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Reuben A. Beach. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Reuben A. Beach against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. John C. Klyn. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of John C. Klyn against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Florence W. Toll. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Florence W. Toll, daughter of Alexander C. Watson, deceased, against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Electa C. Waltermire. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Electa C. Waltermire, widow of William Waltermire, deceased, against the United States. May 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Medical Department of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation... for the medical necessities of the military forces for the fiscal year 1918, and to remain available during the fiscal year 1919. May 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for War Department, 1918. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the War Department for the fiscal year 1918. May 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Salaries and expenses, temporary buildings for War and Navy Departments. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... estimates of appropriation for salaries and miscellaneous expenses in connection with the temporary office buildings under construction for the use of War and Navy Departments... May 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriations for Ordnance Department, 1919. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Secretary of War submitting supplemental estimate of appropriations required by the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. May 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Family of Tatsuji Saito, a Japanese subject. Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending to the Congress that there be appropriated the sum of $2,000 for the benefit of the family of Tatsuji Saito, a Japanese subject. May 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for Department of State. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State submitting an estimate of appropriation for the service of the remainder of the fiscal year, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. May 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Revised estimate of appropriation for food administration. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the United States Food Administrator submitting a revised estimate of appropriation required by the United States Food Administration for the fiscal year 1919. May 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Checks and drafts, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing submitting a tentative draft of legislation raising the limit of the number of sheets of checks and drafts that may be executed during the fiscal year 1918. May 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for expenses of Federal Trade Commission. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission submitting estimate of appropriation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. May 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Switching locomotive at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Ordnance Department of the Army for a switching locomotive at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., fiscal year 1919. June 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain civilian employees of the Engineer Department, United States Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a deficiency estimate of appropriation to reimburse certain civilian employees of the Engineer Department at large, United States Army, for loss of personal effects... June 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Henry Pickle. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting original papers relating to the pension of Henry Pickle, now of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Mass. June 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and letter only ordered to be printed. Appropriation for seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for protecting the seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska for the fiscal year 1919. June 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for inclusion in general deficiency bill for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. June 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the Navy Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the Navy Department for fiscal year 1918 and prior years. June 28, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriations, Office of Superintendent of Documents. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from Public Printer submitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for salaries, Office of Superintendent of Documents, for the fiscal year 1919. June 28, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. New boilers at National Training School for Boys, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Attorney General, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Department of Justice for new boilers at the National Training School for Boys, Washington, D.C. June 28 (July 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Pay Director Livingston Hunt, United States Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a proposed draft of a bill for the relief of Pay Director Livingston Hunt, United States Navy. June 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Public works, Lighthouse Service. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, inviting attention to certain items of public works relating to the Lighthouse Service, with a view of their inclusion in the next deficiency appropriation bill. June 29, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation required by the Medical Department of the Army. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War resubmitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation in the sum of $33,000,000 required by the Medical Department of the Army for the fiscal year 1918. June 29 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for War Department censorship of mails in Canal Zone. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation in the sum of $120,000, required by the War Department... June 29 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for Ordnance Department of the Army at Philadelphia, Pa. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation... fiscal year 1919. June 29 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public building at Newark, N.J., etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, inviting attention to the letter written May 25, 1918, recommending authorizations for public building work at various places and particularly to item No. 5, Newark, N.J. June 29 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for remodeling and reroofing the Treasury Building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submitting estimate of appropriation for remodeling and reroofing the Treasury Building. June 29 (calendar day, July 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional clerks, Auditor for Interior Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for eight additional clerks in the Office of the Auditor for the Interior Department for the fiscal year 1919. June 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tentative draft of bill to amend the fifty-seventh Article of War. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to amend Article 57 of Section 1342 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. June 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. June 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Unveiling memorial to Gen. Grant. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a proposed clause of legislation for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year, 1919. March 2, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation, office of Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting...a supplemental estimate of appropriation required for three additional clerks in the office of the Collector of Taxes of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1919. March 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- reeducation of war cripples. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of State, submitting... estimate of appropriation... toward the maintenance of the Interallied Institute for the Restoration and Reeducation of Crippled Soldiers. March 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Care and treatment of patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a proviso to be inserted under the appropriations for the Public Health Service, to be carried in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. March 9, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. List of 66 leases granted by Secretary of War. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting a list of 66 leases granted by the Secretary of War, under authority of the act approved July 28, 1892, during the calendar year 1917. March 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Customs Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of an increase of $900,000 to the estimate of appropriation heretofore submitted for collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. March 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. R.C. Hart. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of Commerce submitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required to reimburse R.C. Hart, special disbursing agent, Department of Commerce. March 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Employees' Compensation Commission. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the United States Employees' Compensation Commission submitting revised estimates of appropriation for salaries and expenses of the commission for the fiscal year 1919. March 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, employees, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of an item of legislation for consideration in connection with the sundry civil appropriation bill. March 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Administration of justice in the Navy. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill providing for the better administration of justice in the Navy. March 14, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of additional appropriation, Department of Agriculture. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting of the Secretary of Agriculture submitting an estimate of appropriation ... to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products. March 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Salaries, public schools, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication of the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia... submitting revised estimate of schedules of salaries for teachers and certain officials of the public schools of the District of Columbia... March 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Useless papers in Department of Labor. Letter from the Secretary of the Labor, transmitting a list of useless papers in the Department of Labor. March 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. New ratings in the Navy. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a proposed draft of a bill to establish certain new ratings in the Navy. March 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate -- Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the naval establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. March 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation - Post Office Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication of the Postmaster General submitting an urgent estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. March 18, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Charles A. Stocksdale. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Charles A. Stocksdale, son and sole heir of Sidney A. Stocksdale, deceased, against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimates of appropriations -- Public Health Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate for increases in certain items for the Public Health Service, over the amounts originally estimated therefor, for 1919. March 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Permanent hospital, Rock Island Arsenal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation in the sum of $40,000 required by the Ordnance Department for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, for the erection of a permanent hospital building at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill. April 1, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of chart paper, Coast and Geodetic Survey. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce inviting attention to a deficiency estimate of appropriation for the purchase of paper for printing charts for the Navy, Army, and Shipping Board and for other necessary expenses... April 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- detection and prosecution of crime. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Attorney General, submitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Department of Justice and United States courts, fiscal year 1918, and prior years. April 3, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation -- Philadelphia Mint. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required to cover expenses of the recoinage of uncurrent and lightweight gold coin on hand in the Mint at Philadelphia and the several subtreasuries. March 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. William S. Boyd. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William S. Boyd against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Samuel Fallows. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Samuel Fallows against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Margaret Eichorn. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Margaret Eichorn, administratrix of the estate of Charles Obst, deceased, against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Jefferson Good. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Jefferson Good against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. William Poe. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of William Poe, son of William Poe, deceased, against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Nelson D. Curtis. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Nelson D. Curtis against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Dicey E. Stockham. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Dicey E. Stockham, widow of David M. Stockham, deceased, against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Eva A. Ingersoll. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Eva A. Ingersoll, widow of Robert G. Ingersoll, deceased, against the United States. March 25, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Salaries of employees of workhouse, District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an alternative estimate of appropriation for certain employees of the workhouse, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year 1919, in lieu of the original estimate for these positions... March 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Documents received and distributed by the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting report showing the number of documents received and distributed by the Treasury Department during the calendar year ended December 31, 1917. February 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed. Uniforms of Public Health Service officers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statement relating to the extension of the provisions of the bill to supply Army officers with uniforms, etc., at cost to officers of the Public Health Service engaged at national cantonments. February 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for disposal of refuse, etc., District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioners of the District submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation required by the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1919. February 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Receipt on board a vessel of the Navy of goods, merchandise, or treasure, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a tentative draft of bill to amend section 13, of article 8, of section 1624 of the Revised Statutes of the United States... February 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Pay of naval aviators. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative provisions of legislation relating to pay and indemnity of naval aviators. February 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Appropriation fire control at fortifications, Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate... for the construction and equipment of fire-control stations at fortifications, Panama Canal, for the fiscal year 1919. February 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Increase in compensation, Senior Assistant Chief of Division of Customs. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for increase in compensation of Senior Assistant Chief of Division of Customs, fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. February 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation for mail bags and equipment. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation payable from the postal revenues, required by the Post Office Department for expenses of mail bags and equipment, fiscal year 1918. April 8, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reappropriation for Mount Rainer National Park. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting a proposed clause of legislation reappropriating for the fiscal year 1919 the balance of the appropriation for Mount Rainier National Park for 1918, which may remain unexpended at the close of the year. April 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Disposition of useless papers and records in the Office of Superintendent of Documents. Letter from the Acting Public Printer transmitting schedules of useless files of papers and records of the Office of the Superintendent of Documents that are no longer of any value or use to that office. April 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed. Claim for damages by river and harbor work, approved by Secretary of War. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a claim for damages by river and harbor work which has been adjusted and settled by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War. April 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Public buildings at Providence, R.I., and Richmond, Va. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations, customhouse and post office at Providence R.I., and post office, courthouse, and customhouse at Richmond, Va. April 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional building for Hygienic Laboratory. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of legislation for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill, granting authority for the construction of an additional building for laboratory purposes and research work... April 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for Reclamation Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Reclamation Service, fiscal year 1919, for the Rio Grande project. April 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Withdrawal of certain estimates from sundry civil bill. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting withdrawal of certain estimates submitted for inclusion in the sundry civil bill, as printed in the Book of Estimates, 1919, beginning on page 487. April 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Discharge of officers of Navy and Marine Corps for misconduct. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill authorizing the discharge of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps incapacitated for service by reason of misconduct. April 13, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Patrol vessel for prevention of deposits in New York Harbor. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a proposed change in the wording of the estimate... for the purchase or construction of a patrol vessel for the prevention of deposits in the harbor of New York. April 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental estimate of appropriation for United States Shipping Board for concrete-ship building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the United States Shipping Board submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriations... April 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Alternative appropriation for care and custody of the insane in Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Interior submitting an alternative estimate of appropriation required by the Interior Department for care and custody of the insane in Alaska. April 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for stationery, Treasury Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an additional urgent deficiency estimate of appropriation in the sum of $100,000, required by the division of printing and stationery of this Department for stationery for the Treasury Department... April 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for military post exchanges, War Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the War Department for military post exchanges, fiscal year 1919. April 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Sea service in grade before promotion. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative draft of a bill to amend the Naval Appropriation Act of August 29, 1916, in so far as it relates to sea service in grade before promotion. April 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for purchase of old burying ground adjacent to Watervliet Arsenal. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, required by the Ordnance Department of the Army, for the purchase of land known as the old burying ground... April 16, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Reroofing post office and courthouse, Chicago, Ill. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting tentative draft of a bill amending the sundry civil appropriation act of June 12, 1917, relative to reroofing the Chicago, Ill., post office and courthouse. April 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. Home for the Aged and Infirm, and Industrial Home School for Colored Children, District of Columbia. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, submitting an alternative estimate of appropriation for employees... April 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for rent of building at Muskegon, Mich. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriations for rent of building, Muskegon, Mich., with the request that it be given favorable consideration for inclusion in the sundry civil appropriation bill. April 19, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Offices in the District of Columbia for the Board for Vocational Education. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the director of the Federal Board for Vocational Education submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation, for rental of offices in the District of Columbia... April 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Education of natives of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting deficiency estimates of appropriations required by the Bureau of Education for medical relief and education of natives of Alaska for the fiscal year 1918. April 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation -- public printing and binding. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Public Printer submitting supplemental estimates of appropriation for the fiscal year 1919. April 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation -- Lighthouse Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of Commerce submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Lighthouse Service for the fiscal year 1919. April 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for completion of Treasury Building annex. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for completion of the Treasury Building annex, in Washington, D.C. April 20, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriations required by Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of communications from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required... April 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for payment of indemnities -- Post Office Department. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Postmaster General submitting deficiency estimate of appropriation for the payment of indemnities, domestic mail, payable from postal revenue. April 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claim for damages by river and harbor work, Harlem, N.Y. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Acting Secretary of War submitting a claim for damages by river and harbor work adjusted and settled by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War. April 24, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Yankton Sioux Indians against the United States. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting certified copy of the findings of fact, with an opinion of the court per curiam, in the case of the Yankton Sioux Indians against the United States. April 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mie Uratake. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, recommending that relief be granted in the case of Mie Uratake, widow of Torahachi Uratake, a Japanese subject, killed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, November 25, 1915. April 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency estimate, postal service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Postmaster General submitting deficiency estimates of appropriation required by the postal service for the fiscal year 1918. June 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Purchase of land in the District of Columbia by the Bureau of Standards. Letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting letter relating to the purchase of land by the Bureau of Standards in the District of Columbia. June 22, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Improvement of marine hospitals. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations for improvement of marine hospitals at Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; New Orleans, La.; New York (Stapleton), N.Y.; San Francisco, Cal., and Savannah, Ga. October 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for Chemical Warfare Service, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Chemical Warfare Service of the War Department for the fiscal year 1919, in lieu of the estimate heretofore submitted. October 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Judgments rendered by Court of Claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims which have been presented to this Department and require an appropriation for their payment. October 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Claims allowed by accounting officers of the Treasury Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund. October 17, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Permitting Zeng Tze Wong to receive instruction at United States Military Academy. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State inclosing draft of a joint resolution... to permit Mr. Zeng Tze Wong, a citizen of China, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy. October 28, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation -- Public Health Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Public Health Service. October 31, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation for the Panama Canal -- regulating commerce, etc. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of War submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Panama Canal authorities for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919. October 31 (calendar day, November 1), 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional building, Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for construction of additional building for Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, D.C. November 7, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Prevention of deposits in New York Harbor. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of War, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Engineer Department of the Army for the prevention of deposits in New York Harbor, fiscal year 1919. September 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Supplemental appropriation required by Navy Department and naval establishment. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of communication from the Secretary of the Navy submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Navy Department and naval establishment for the fiscal year 1919. September 27, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Contingent expenses of the District of Columbia. Letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures from the appropriation for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Provisions of H.R. 12376. Letter from the Secretary of War, directing attention to the importance of the provisions of H.R. 12376. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation of Navy Department employees. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing for the first four months of the current fiscal year the average number of employees in each bureau and office of the Navy Department proper, at Washington... November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Additional temporary employees, Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement showing, by bureaus and offices, as of date November 15, 1918, the number and designation of persons employed under the appropriation for additional temporary employees, Navy Department. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Nancy A. Lockwood et al. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Nancy A. Lockwood, Edna M. Miller, and Charles K. Miller, heirs of Benjamin K. Miller, deceased, against the United States. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. George Jabez Daniels. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of George Jabez Daniels, son and sole heir of Jabez J. Daniels, deceased, against the United States. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Alice W. Rash. Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy of the findings of the court in the case of Alice W. Rash, daughter of Humphrey W. Woodyard, deceased, against the United States. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation for Health Department of the Panama Canal. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting... a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Health Department of the Panama Canal for the fiscal year 1918. April 26, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation, Public Health Service. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a deficiency estimate of appropriation required by the Public Health Service in the treatment of patients for the fiscal year 1918. May 6, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Tentative amendments to H.R. 9390. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting tentative amendments to H.R. 9390, a Bill To Promote the Efficiency of the Navy, and for Other Purposes. March 12, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. Exemption from military duty or deferred classification of certain clerks in the Interstate Commerce Commission. Letter from the chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission transmitting certain information in response to House Resolution 382, of June 3, 1918. June 11, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. To repeal a clause in the act of July 16, 1892. Letter from the Secretary of War, submitting a tentative draft of a provision of legislation repealing a clause in the act of July 16, 1892. May 15, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Increase compensation, candidates for commissions, Air Service. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting tentative draft of a bill designed to provide increased compensation for all candidates for commission in the Air Service (Aeronautics) while receiving instruction involving flights. November 21, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Estimate of appropriation, War Industries Board. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Chairman of the War Industries Board, submitting an estimate of appropriation required by the War Industries Board for salaries and expenses for the fiscal year 1919. May 31, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Army and Navy pensions, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation required by the Department of the Interior for payment of Army and Navy pensions for the fiscal year, 1919. May 10, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed Appropriation for construction of vault in Treasury Building. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation for the construction of a two story vault in the north court of the Treasury Building. 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Long and short haul railroad bill. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pay of members of Army and Navy Nurse Corps and others while in captivity. December 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Title to certain homestead lands in Hawaii. February 6, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Arkansas River. December 4, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending the federal reserve act. January 9, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. School District No. 28, Missoula County, Mont. January 9, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Medals for service in the Navy. January 9, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bitter Root, Lolo, and Missoula National Forests, Montana. January 9, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Naval brig "Niagara." January 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Fixing rank and rating of pay of veterans of Civil War on retired list. January 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Assessment work on mining claims in Alaska. January 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Eldorado, Kans. January 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Payments of allotments out of the pay of enlisted men, etc. January 20 (calendar day, January 22), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Restoration to entry of 80-rod strip reservations in Alaska. January 20 (calendar day, January 23), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Extending patent laws to include soldiers and sailors making discoveries in foreign countries. January 20 (calendar day, January 24), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Resignations and discharges in the Army. January 20 (calendar day, January 24), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply for Olathe, Colo. January 20 (calendar day, January 23), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Delaware River. January 24, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Issuance of patents to inventors without payment of fee. January 20 (calendar day, January 24), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Sewer system at the Carson Indian School at Stewart, Nev. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Rivers and harbors appropriation bill. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Post office appropriation bill. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Ambassador to the Republic of Peru. January 28 (calendar day, January 29), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River, Chamberlain, S. Dak. January 28, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Columbia River, Chelan Falls, Wash. January 28, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Prohibition in the Canal Zone. January 28, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. For relief of homestead entrymen who served in Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. January 28, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of the St. Croix Chippewa Indians. January 28 (calendar day, January 30), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Extending the time for construction of bridge across Mississippi River at New Orleans, La. January 31, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Lock and dam in Old River, Tex. January 31, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill, 1920. January 31, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mahoning River, Ohio. February 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red River of the North, N. Dak. and Minn. February 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Niagara River at or near Buffalo N.Y. February 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pension appropriation bill. February 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. February 7 (calendar day, February 8), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal Commission on Reconstruction. February 10, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Industrial and economic conditions in Porto Rico. February 10, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Omaha Tribe of Indians. February 10, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Memorial archway at Vicksburg, Miss. February 11 (calendar day, February 12), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Military Academy appropriation bill. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Contest and cancellation of homestead entries. February 13 (calendar day, February 14), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bright across the Roanoke River near Williamston, N.C. February 13 (calendar day, February 15), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Claims of volunteer soldiers of the Civil and Spanish wars. February 13 (calendar day, February 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Hospitals for discharged soldiers and sailors. February 13 (calendar day, February 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Drainage of certain lands in Arkansas. February 13 (calendar day, February 14), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Title to certain lands in Mississippi County, Ark. February 13 (calendar day, February 14), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Preference right to purchase certain lands in Mississippi County, Ark. February 13 (calendar day, February 14), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tug River, W. Va. February 13 (calendar day February 15), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. United States Coast Guard. March 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Third deficiency bill, 1919. March 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Revenue bill of 1918. December 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Special fund for vocational education. December 6, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Suspending the operations of the United States Housing Corporation. December 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River near Bismarck, N. Dak. December 10, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Fourteenth and subsequent decennial censuses. December 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Promotion of commissioned Marine officers. December 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Cost price of equipment to officers and midshipmen at the Naval Academy. December 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Change of name of steamer "Charlotte Graveraet Breitung." December 15 (calendar day, December 19), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Filing of statements on contracts and of profits on war contracts. December 15 (calendar day, December 21), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Vocational education. December 26, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal farm loan. February 28, 1912 [sic]. -- Ordered to be printed. National cemetery in France. February 19, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. To exclude certain lands from the Pike National Forest. February 19, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tombigbee River at Barrs Ferry, Miss. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Port of entry at Gulfport, Miss. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Allegheny River at Pittsburgh, Pa. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Allegheny River near Millvale Borough, Pa. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Ohio River, McKees Rocks Borough, Pa. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Monongahela River at Wilson, Pa. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Connecticut River, State of Massachusetts. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge and dam across the Mahoning River, Ohio. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Sale of certain lands in South Dakota for cemetery purposes. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Title to certain lands in Mississippi County, Ark. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Indian appropriation bill. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal Farm Loan Act. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment to the War-Risk Insurance Act. February 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Fortifications appropriation bill, 1920. February 22, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Domestic potash industry. February 22, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Agricultural appropriation bill. February 22, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Exhibition of red flag. February 24, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. To stimulate the production, sale, and distribution of live stock and live-stock products, etc. February 24, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply of the Town of Sunnyside, Utah. February 24, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Hawaii National Park. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Admission of wine. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Admission of gin. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Guaranteed price of wheat. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Acquisition of the Cape Cod Canal. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Roanoke River, N.C. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red Lake River, Minn. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. War-risk insurance. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Commission to standardize screw threads. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Naval appropriation bill. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Patent to certain land in Huron County, Mich. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Right to purchase certain lands in the State of Arkansas. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Work and homes for returning soldiers, sailors, and Marines. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Modoc National Forest, Cal. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Gig Harbor abandoned military reservation, Wash. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Addition of certain lands to the Yellowstone National Park. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. National Lincoln-Douglass Sanatorium, Denver, Colo. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Validation of certain public land entries in Minnesota. February 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Victory Liberty Loan authorization. February 28, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Aircraft motors and aircraft material. January 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Construction of a bridge at Janesville, Wis. January 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Increasing salaries of United States judges. January 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. January 14 (calendar day, January 16), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridges near the Leupp Agency, Ariz. January 14 (calendar day, January 16), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Sequoia National Park. January 14 (calendar day, January 16), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Timber privileges to citizens of Malheur County, Oreg. January 14 (calendar day, January 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Volunteer enlistment in the Army. January 14 (calendar day, January 16), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Coos Bay Wagon Road grant. January 14 (calendar day, January 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Ship construction for foreign account. February 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Public Health Service. February 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional judge, northern district Texas. February 5, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. District of Columbia appropriation bill. February 5, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Right to cut timber in the State of Nevada. February 5, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of settlers under forfeited Carey Act projects. February 6, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Right of way through public lands for tramroads, canals, etc. February 6, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. For relief of homestead entrymen who served in Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. February 6, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Extension of time for reclamation of certain lands in Oregon. January 14 (calendar day, January 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. |
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Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the civil war etc. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Report of the Committee on Rules on Senate Resolution 339. February 19, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Alexander F. M'Collam. January 9, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Ira G. Kilpatrick and Guy D. Dill. January 9, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Postmarking and stamp-canceling hand stamp patents. January 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Watson B. Dickerman, administrator. January 20 (calendar day, January 21), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Canadian Car & Foundry Co. (Ltd.). January 20 (calendar day, January 23), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Michigan senatorial election. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Denial of patent to S.M. Herber. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. W.B. Graham. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. David E. Gray. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Claims against Mexico. January 28 (calendar day, January 29), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Francis Stewart. February 6, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the regular Army and Navy and of wars other than the Civil War, etc. February 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, etc. February 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, etc. February 7 (calendar day, February 8), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Federal commission on reconstruction. February 10, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Owners of the schooner "Henry O. Barrett." February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of owners of steamer "Mayflower," and of passengers on board said steamer. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. To reimburse fire insurance companies for payments made for property destroyed by fire in suppressing bubonic plague in Hawaii. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Elizabeth B. Eddy. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Capt. Frederick B. Shaw. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Jesse E. Smalley. February 11 (calendar day, February 12), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. John A. Gauley. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of J.C. Garrett. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Roland S. Robbins. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Buffalo River Zinc Mining Co. February 13 (calendar day, February 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of certain officers of the Army. February 13 (calendar day, February 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. James W. Cross. February 13 (calendar day, February 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Mattie R. Mayer. March 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Senate committee to attend peace conference. December 5, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Calvin Willard Gilfillan. December 11, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Senator from Wisconsin. December 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Senator from West Virginia. December 15 (calendar day, December 23), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Promotions in overseas service. December 15 (calendar day, December 23), 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Jennie M. Heath. February 19, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Otis C. Mooney. February 19, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the regular Army and Navy, etc. February 19, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Simon M. Preston. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Susan A. Nicholas. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Heirs of Adam and Noah Brown. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Arthur Nelson. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Owner of steamship "Matoa." February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. The Central Manufacturers Insurance Co. of Van Wert, Ohio. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Owner of the steam lighter "Cornelia." February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Thomas G. Allen. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Expenses incurred under the Treaty of Washington. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Fire at Morgan Munition Plant. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. D.C. Darroch. January 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Alma Harris. January 7, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. W.E. Crawford. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Henry P. Grant. February 13 (calendar day, February 18), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Owners of the schooner "Horatio G. Foss." February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Arundel Sand & Gravel Co. February 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. |
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Amending the public building act of March 4, 1913. January 20, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. River and harbor appropriation bill. December 21, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Purchase of land by City of Myrtle Point, Oreg. January 2, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Modoc National Forest, Cal. January 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Mahoning River, Ohio. December 11, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Mobile Bay, Ala. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Authorizing survey of waters connecting Lake Erie and Ohio River. December 19, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers and sailors. December 21, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Authorize national banks to contribute to United War Work Campaign Fund. January 30, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Restrictions as to the exportation of certain works of art. February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Change of name steamer "Charlotte Graveraet Breitung" to "T.K. Maher." January 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Agriculture appropriation bill. January 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Investigation of lignite coal. December 4, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Transfer of control over Battle Mountain Sanitarium. January 9, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill, 1920. January 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Municipal water supply, San Diego, Cal. January 11, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Validation of certain public land entries. January 11, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. bill to regulate new trials. January 11, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Creating a commission to codify, revise, double index, and annotate all the laws of the United States of a permanent and general character -- new edition of the Revised Statutes. January 13, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Suspension of work by United States Housing Corporation. January 21, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Statue of Maj. Gen. McClellan. January 21, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Salaries of clerks of United States district courts. January 22, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Correctionary deed for land of new post office at New York, N.Y. January 22, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Federal building at Steubenville, Ohio. January 23, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Niagara River, Buffalo, N.Y. January 23, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Extension of time for building of bridge across the Delaware River. January 23, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Laws relating to the judiciary. January 23, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Lignite coals and peat. January 23, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Ohio River, McKees Rocks Borough, Pa. January 24, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Pa. January 24, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Relief of contractors and subcontractors for post offices and other buildings. January 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Homestead entries by minors. January 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Salary of United States marshal for Eastern District of Virginia. January 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extending the use of special fund for vocational education. January 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amending Section 4414 of the Revised Statutes. January 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Assessment work on mining claims in Alaska. January 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Castle Peak irrigation project, Utah. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Cache National Forest, Utah. January 27, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Pension appropriation bill. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain populations in Europe outside of Germany. January 27, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Refund to Frederick City, Md. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Retirement of employees in classified civil service. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Second deficiency appropriation bill, fiscal year 1919. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Term of court at Hugo, Okla. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Perry's victory memorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Construction of rural post roads. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To expel and exclude from the United States certain undesirable aliens. January 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Patent to certain land in Huron, Mich. January 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Fourteenth and subsequent decennial censuses. January 28, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Preference right to purchase certain lands in Mississippi County, Ark. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Title to certain lands in Mississippi County, Ark. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Drainage of certain lands in Arkansas. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extension of government control of telegraph and telephones. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Preferential employment of soldiers and sailors. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. The Military Academy appropriation bill fiscal year 1920. January 31, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Payment of indemnity in behalf of Madame Crignier. January 31, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Fourteenth and subsequent decennial censuses. February 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Naval appropriation bill. February 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Moneys collected under the direct tax levied by acts of Congress on raw cotton. January 30, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Civil rights of soldiers and sailors. December 5, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. District of Columbia appropriation bill, 1920. December 7, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Agriculture entries on coal lands in Alaska. December 7, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Vacancy in Board of Regents of Smithsonian Institution. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Right to cut timber in the State of Nevada. December 9, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extension of time for reclamation of certain lands in Oregon. December 9, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Port of entry at Gulfport, Miss. December 9, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Post Office appropriation bill. December 9, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Transportation of civilian employees from the District of Columbia. December 10, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge and dam across the Mahoning River, Ohio. December 11, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Gratuity to members of the United States Army. December 12, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Leave of absence for homestead entrymen. December 12, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Patent in fee simple to the National Lincoln-Douglass Sanatorium, Denver, Colo. December 12, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Amending sundry civil appropriation act of 1916. December 12, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Extending time for construction of bridge across Mississippi River at New Orleans, La. December 12, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Lumber River, N.C. December 13, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Retention of uniform and personal equipment. December 14, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. American Committee for relief in the Near East. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red River of the North, North Dakota and Minnesota. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. National sanitariums by fraternal organization. December 18, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee on the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. For relief of homestead entrymen who served in Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. December 18, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee on the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Allotments out of the pay of enlisted men in certain cases. December 19, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Relief where formal contracts have not been made in manner required by law. December 19, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Adding lands to Wyoming National Forest. December 30, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Arkansas River at Fort Smith, Ark. December 2, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Water supply of Corvallis, Dallas, and Oregon City, Oreg. January 2, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River, Chamberlain, S. Dak. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Purchase of lands by City of M'Minnville, Oreg. January 2, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River, between Nebraska and Iowa. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Connecticut River, State of Massachusetts. January 2, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Medical Society of the District of Columbia. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Corporations organized in the District of Columbia. January 4, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Resumption of voluntary enlistments in the regular Army. January 6, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Relief in Europe. January 7, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Missouri River near Bismarck, N. Dak. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Pa. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Monongahela River at Wilson, Pa. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Ohio River at McKees Rocks Borough, Pa. January 7, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Minam National Forest, Oreg. January 8, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Lands within former Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont. January 8, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Stock watering privileges on unallotted lands, Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont. January 8, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amending an act relating to Bureau of War Risk Insurance. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Additional judge for northern judicial district of Texas. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Rock River, Janesville, Wis. January 14, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Lafayette National Park. January 15, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Appraisal and sale of Gig Harbor abandoned military reservation, Wash. January 15, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, 1920. January 15, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Redistribution of general taxes, etc., in the District of Columbia. January 16, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Addition of certain lands in Wyoming to the Yellowstone National Park. January 16, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Exchange of certain lands in Montana. January 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Disposal of surplus unallotted lands in Blackfeet Reservation, Mont. January 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Salaries of United States Marshal and others in Louisiana. January 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amendments to federal reserve act. January 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Indian appropriation bill, 1920. January 20, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Sale of abandoned customs boarding stations, New Orleans, La. January 20, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Transferring portion of old public building site, Baltimore, Md. January 20, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the St. John River, between Maine and Canada. January 20, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Allegheny River near Millvale Borough, Pa. January 20, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Columbia River near Chelan Falls, Wash. January 20, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Stock-raising homesteads, etc. February 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Suspension of immigration. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amendments to federal reserve act, etc. February 3, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Monuments, etc., to commemorate heroes and events of the Great War. February 4, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Relief where formal contracts have not been made as required by law. February 4, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Credit to be allowed disbursing clerk of War Risk Insurance Bureau in certain cases. February 5, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Additional judge for northern district of California. February 5, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Revenue bill. February 6, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Lots for school purposes, Sun River project, Montana. January 13, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amending the law relating to statistics of commerce and navigation. December 17, 1918. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. |
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Extending effective date of unlawful restraints law, etc. February 27, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Frieze in Rotunda of Capitol. February 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Useless paper in the Treasury Department. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Military Academy appropriation bill. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Amending public buildings act of March 4, 1913. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Exchange of land in the North Platte reclamation project, Nebraska. February 13, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Columbia River, Chelan Falls, Wash. February 12, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Extension of term of National Screw Thread Commission. February 6, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Vacancy on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. February 8, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Two additional district judges, northern district of Illinois. February 8, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Army appropriation bill. February 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Guaranty price of wheat to producers. February 11, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Relief where formal contracts have not been made in the manner required by law. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Deficiency appropriation bill. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Mining coal, phosphate, gas, etc. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across the Roanoke River near Williamston, N.C. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the White River, Newport, Ark. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amending act authorizing establishment of Bureau of War Risk Insurance. February 11, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tug River, W. Va. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Tombigbee River, at Barrs Ferry, Miss. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Incorporation of War Mothers of America. February 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. February 12, 1919. --The Committee of the Whole House discharged, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered to be printed. Maternity aid and infant hygiene. February 12, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Promotion of vocational rehabilitation. February 13, 1919. -- 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. February 13, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Water supply for miscellaneous purposes, reclamation projects. February 13, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Fortifications appropriation bill, fiscal year 1920. February 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Public buildings bill. February 15, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Claims of the Cowlitz Tribe of Indians. February 17, 1919. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pensions to certain members of the former Life-Saving Service. February 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Water supply of Los Angeles, Cal. February 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Work and homes for returning soldiers, sailors, and marines. February 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Appropriation for federal control of transportation systems. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Increasing cost of public building, Juneau, Alaska. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Post office appropriation bill. February 18, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Woman suffrage. March 1, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged, sick, and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines. March 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Additional judge, Southern District of Florida. March 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Increase in salary of United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New York. March 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To amend the war-risk insurance act. March 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. March 1, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Conditions in the Indian service. March 3, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Inventions, patents, and patent rights. March 3, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Operation of railroads. March 3, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Useless papers in executive departments. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Indian appropriation bill. March 3 (calendar day, March 4), 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Public building at Pittsburgh, Pa. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Convention for the protection of trademarks. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Change name of Sequoia National Park to Roosevelt National Park. February 12, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Time of holding court, Amarillo division, Texas. February 19, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Hawaii National Park. February 21, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Sundry civil appropriation bill, fiscal year 1920. February 21, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Relief where formal contracts have not been made in the manner required by law. February 21, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Bridge across Red Lake River, Minn. February 21, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across Roanoke River, N.C. February 21, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Dam across Savannah River. February 21, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Bridge across the St. Francis River, Ark. February 21, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mail tunnel, New York City. February 21, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. American Committee for Relief in the Near East. February 22, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Resumption of voluntary enlistment in regular Army. February 22, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Retention of uniform and personal equipment. February 22, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Promotion of vocational rehabilitation. February 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Federal reserve act amended. February 24, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Rivers and harbors appropriation bill. February 24, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Victory liberty loan authorization. February 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Public buildings bill. February 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Entry under bond of exhibits at Bronx Exposition. February 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mining coal, phosphate, etc. February 25, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. United States Coast Guard to resume operations under Treasury Department. February 25, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Enforcement of war prohibition. February 26, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Relief in cases of contracts connected with the prosecution of the war. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Dams across navigable waters. February 26, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Third deficiency appropriation bill, fiscal year 1919. February 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Flood control, Colorado River, Cal. and Ariz. February 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. To amend War Risk Insurance Act. February 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amendments to Cotton Futures Act. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. To repeal section 904 -- luxury taxes. February 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Entry of certain distilled spirits. February 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Amendment of the War Risk Insurance Act. February 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Purchase of land by the Bureau of Standards. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Amendment of copyright laws. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Education of illiterates. February 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Claims growing out of insurrection in Mexico. February 6, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. To expel and exclude from the United States certain undesirable aliens. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Right of Ireland to self-determination. February 11, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. |
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Heirs of W.H. Sneed. January 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Della James. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Widow of Joseph C. Akin. January 22, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. The purchase of certain public lands by Frances Mack Mann. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. E.J. Meinecke. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, etc. February 6, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary C. Carpenter. January 8, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief in the case of certain contracts. January 8, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Validating certain applications and entries of public lands. January 9, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Estate of Moses M. Bane. January 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Joseph A. Prat. January 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of estate of Thomas H. Hall. January 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of certain Navy pay officers. January 10, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Edith Carow Roosevelt. January 20, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sebe Newman. January 21, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. R.T. Cook. January 21, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Provisions for embassy and consular buildings. January 21, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Catherine Grace. January 22, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Jose Ramon Cordova. January 22, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, etc. January 22, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Edith Carow Roosevelt. January 23, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the regular Army and Navy, etc. January 23, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Heirs of Adam and Noah Brown. January 24, 1909 [i.e., 1919]. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. I.N. Ellis. January 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Amherst W. Barber. January 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John A. Gauley. January 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Henry Ware. January 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Franking privilege for Mrs. Roosevelt. January 27, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. The Central Manufactures Insurance Co. of Van Wert, Ohio. January 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Frank Walsh, Fred F. Fuller, and Otto F. Schroeder. January 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Clyde M. Giddings. January 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. For relief of Mrs. Mamie Duffer. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Rebecca C. Pepper. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Susie Currier. January 29, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. P.J. Carlin Construction Co. January 29, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Martin Goldsmith. February 6, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. F.M. Barfield. February 7, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Eugene F. Sanguinetti. February 8, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Estate of Christian Hoffmann. February 8, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Overflow right on Fort George Wright Military Reservation, Wash. February 11, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of Kentuck Corbett. February 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors, etc. February 15, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions. February 15, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Francis Stewart. February 15, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Contested election case, Gerling v. Dunn. February 17, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Ellen B. Walker. February 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Southern States Lumber Co. February 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Wickliff Fry. February 17, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. War Trade Board. February 17, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Consideration of H.R. 12352. March 2, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Investigation of National Security League. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Messengers in House Post Office. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. W.H. Miller. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. William McKinley Cobb. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Sarah Grayson Adams. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Allison C. Jenkins. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Mayme O. Peak. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Extra clerks for Committee on Enrolled Bills. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, etc. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Compensation for examiner detailed to Committee on Invalid Pensions from Bureau of Pensions. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. G.D. Ellis. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Willis J. Davis. March 3, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. John Healy. March 3 (calendar day, March 4), 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Warren V. Howard. March 3 (calendar day, March 4), 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Contested-election case -- Wickersham v. Sulzer. December 4, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. National Security League. December 9, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Consideration of House Resolution 465. December 12, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. W.T. Dingler. December 13, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth R. Nicholls and Joanna L. Nicholls. December 13, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Elizabeth White. December 17, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Heirs of Susan A. Nicholas. December 18, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary B. Jones. December 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Miss E. Niedner. December 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. Charlotte Sterling. December 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. W. Ray Loomis. December 18, 1918. -- Ordered to be printed. John Chick. December 23, 1918. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Additional copies of Senator Lodge's address on Theodore Roosevelt. February 18, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Printing journal of Grand Army of the Republic. February 18, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Mrs. Ira D. Raney. February 18, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Freddie Scofield. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. A.R. Carstens. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. T. Binford. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. W.H. Burkett. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. C.W. Wright. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. E.A. Thompson. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Miss Almer [Alma] Reichart. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of Charles T. Clayton. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of Mrs. E.M. Jones. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. James Edward Lyon. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. G.W. Butcher. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. W.A. Wise. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary E. Winkler. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. D.R. Patton. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of Mrs. S. Satton. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Horace Moody. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. William J. Drucks. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. F.H. Sherbert. February 19, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. For relief of officers and crew of U.S.S. "San Diego." February 20, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Arrest of discharged soldiers and sailors for wearing uniform. February 22, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Consideration of H.R. 15993. February 24, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Atlas Lumber Co. et al. February 24, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Contested-election case -- Britt v. Weaver. February 21, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Horace A. Chouinard. February 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Isaac A. Gibbs. February 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Leonidas H. Sawyer. February 25, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. War trade board. February 28, 1919. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Relief of the heirs of John Edwards, deceased. February 28, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Consideration of H. Res. 566. February 11, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Consideration of House Resolution 488. January 2, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Consideration of H. Res. 499. January 13, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. John K. Ashley, Jr. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Henry P. Grant. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. For the relief of Nancy A. Parsons et al. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. For the relief of James A. Henderson. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. John T. Adams. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Alfred Sjostrom. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. George H. Grace. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. W. Loaiza & Co. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mrs. Thomas McGovern. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Capt. E.D. Kremers. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Catharine C. Schilling. January 14, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Ivy L. Merrill. January 15, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Assigning clerks to certain committees of the House. January 15, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Remains of Norman Lee Molzahn. January 16, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Sanatorium for treatment of discharged soldiers and sailors. January 17, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Relief of Baltimore Dry Docks and Shipbuilding Co. February 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Seth J. Harris. February 1, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of Jimmie Lou Martin. February 3, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Relief of William Henry Coleman. February 3, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mary Holloman. February 3, 1919. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Increased compensation to the official reporters. February 5, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Benjamin C. Green. February 5, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed. Compensation for services of clerks to certain committees. January 20, 1919. -- Ordered to be printed |
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| Serial set 7458 | Aeronautics. Fourth annual report of the National Advisory Committee for aeronautics, 1918. | 1 |
