1926 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECOR.D-HOUSE 1973 ~ Cliariie 'B. 'Starke, Holland. The Journal of' the proceedings of yesterday was read and Edmond\V. Corley, ·Humble. appro-ved. Albert L. Jennings, Kosse. ' \. LEAVE OF ABSENCE Hem·y B. Harrison, La Porte. By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to Mr. Ali de Schneider, Marion. MoRGAN, for five days, on account of important business. · Uae Sheen, Mertzon. Lucy Breen, Mineola. _ O.MNffiUS BUILDI:SG BILL ·· Mary L. Hardy, Newcastle. Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ Audry R. Redden, Ponta. -tend my remarks in the RECORD on H. R. 7182, relating to public Leland S. Howard, Roscoe. buildings. TIRGINIA The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Mississippi asks unani­ Cecil G. Wood, Ashland. mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD in the Creighton Angell, Boone Mill. manner indicated. Is there objection? Samuel T. Ranson, Bremo Bluff. There was no objection. 'Villard B. Alfred, Clarksville. Mr. BUSBY. .1\lr. Speaker, on Friday of last week, which Nancy E. Berry, Dahlgren. was January 8, I. introduced in the House H. R. 7182, which Daniel V. Richmond, Ewing. bill was in tbe nature of an omnibus building bill relating Bernard R. Powell, Franklin City. directly to post-office buildings throughout the country. Lewis B. Connelly, Lawrenceville. It includes ·altogether 418 building projects and the items Leonard G. Perh.'ins, Mineral. contained in the bill, designating places for buildings, are m~ William E. Hudson, Monroe. eluded in sections 1, 2, 3, and 4. Mary B. Wickes, New :Market. Tbe items in section 1 are listed by tbe Secretary of tb&o Fillie C. Hammock, Riverton. Treasl].ry. A. W. Mellon, in his ·response to Senate Resolution. Harry M. Giles, Roseland. No. 94, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish cer·­ Mamie A. Young, ShawsTille. tain data in reference to public buildings, in which communica­ Richru:d l\1. Epes, South Hill. tion be gave tbe following information on January 24, 1924: John P. Jenkins, Sperrynlle. (a) Name of each city or town-by States-where authorization~ Rosa S. Newman, Sterling. have been made for acquisition of a site, construction of a building on Hughes L. Gilbert, Stuart. site already owned, or for slte and bullding. Hersey Woodward, jr., Suffolk. (b) Date site was acquired; or, if not acquired, its present status. - Maude B. Hockman, Toms Brook. (c) Consideration paid for each site. James R. Tompldns, Toms Creek. (d) Amount authorized for site, site and building, or for buildiDg Otye E. Hancock, Trevilians. only. Cuthbert Bristow, Urbanna. , (e) Balance available tor building. Leslie M. Gary, Victoria. (f) Estimated cost of building on site au'thorized. George C. Brothers, Whaleyville. (g) Amount of increase- required where existing authorization is insufficient. WASHINGTON Forest W. France, Buckley. This document is known as Senate Document No. 28, Sixty: Nicholas l\1. Field, Can1as. eighth Congress, first session. Zopbar Howell, Edmonds. After taking out tbe projects contained in this document Tyrah D. Logsdon, Endicott. wbicb. are shown by tbe Annual Report of the Secretary of the Alfred U. Thompson, Everson. Treasury on the state of tbe finances for the fiscal year ended Oscar W. Behrmann, Fairfield. June 30, 1925, on pages 400 and 401, to have been completed Calvin K. Cooper, Long Beach. and projects in course of construction, the remaining 234 proj· Guy McReynolds, Oakesdale. ects recited in Senate Document No. 28 were included and David W. Packard, Oak Harbor. made up into section 1 of H. R. 7182. These projects cover Joseph E. l\Icl\fanrunon, Othello. pages 1 to 18 of the bill and the amotmts provided in the bill · John L. Field, Quincy. are those given in the estimate of the Secretary of tbe Treas­ James S. Atwood, Sultan. ury. 'l'be total amount necessary to build tbe projects named Fred Arrowsmith, Sunnyside. in section 1 of the bill, as estimated by tbe Secretary of the Treasury, is $41,745,002. WISCONSIN On December 11, 1922, llon. Hubert Work, Postmaster Gen· William White, Algoma. eral, addressed a communication to the J{)int Commission on Clifford C. Bro, Aniwa. Postal Sernce. Appended to that communication was a list Obarles G. Ballhorn, Bear Creek. of 1.40 cities where inve tigation shows that the floor space in George E. Alderson, Benton. the Federal building is inadequate. In this instrument be Foster V. Winegar, Clinton. states: Guy ID. Brigham, Darien. May I. Kinsey, Fish Creek. The proposed relief measures and estimated cost are given in each Wallace H. Pierce, Menasha. cttse. Lawrence Barrett, Peshtigo. 4-fter checking this list with the list given in Senate Docu· Edward M. 'Valker, Plainfield. ment No. 28 and eliminating the duplications in tbe two lists WYOMING there remain 132 projects which are listed in section 2 ot Blanche _Sutton, Hulett. H. R. 7182, pages 19 to 29. Tbe amounts provided in this section of the bill are those estimated necessary by the Post· master General to complete the construction of the projects. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tbe total amount of these 132 items is $42,028,000. On February 8, 1923, the Postmaster General, Bon. Hubert WEDNESDAY, January 13,1926 Work, and the Secretary of the Treastuy, Bon. A. W. Mellon, The House met at 12 o'clock noon. jointly addressed a communication to the Speaker of the House The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered of Representatives giving a list of 19 cities where tbe Gov­ the following prayer : ernment-owned buildings are inadequate to house tbe Federal service, and suggested relief measures with estimated cost. Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we come again to the From this list section 3 of H. R. 7182 is made up and the solemn yet tender mystery of Thy throne. • We believe that amounts designated for each of tbe projects are those esti­ there is one God and one infinitely divine and holy Saviour, mated as necessary by ~.u.._ Work and Mr. Mellon, totaling through whose ageless sacrifice we are saved. We tb8llk Thee $50,560,000. I might add, however, that this section contains that while Thy judgments are so often mysterious they are two items for Seattle, Wash., amounting to $3,900,000_, which merciful. Gently correct us by that loving pity that redeems projects had been provided for in section 1 under Senate Doc­ and gives us comfort. Be unto us an abiding reality and make ument No. 28 estimate, and it also contains another item of Thy presence like unto the nearness of a dear friend. Give us $2,250,000 for Pittsburgh, Pa., which had also been provided large conceptions of the truth and a profounder knowledge of for in section 1 of the bill under like circumstances. These aU things needful. Oh, help us to bring the vision to tbe task, two items total $6,150,000, which deducted from $50,560,000 the revelation to the duty, and, above all things, the truth to leaves a total for section 3 of $44,410,000. This $6,150,000 everything. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. should, of course, be deducted from the total amount of the LXvii-125 1974 CONGRESSIO~ AL RECORD-HOUSE 'JANU.A.RY 13 appropriation to be authorized on page 39 of the bill. (Senate The Elliott bill, H. R. 6559, seeks an abdication on the part Document No. 28 and the lists from the Postmaster General of Congress of its legislative functions; it asks Congress to and the Secretary of the Treasury referred to may be found adopt a new policy and to turn over, without let or hindrance, in -hearings on H. R. 11791 of the Sixty-eighth Congress.) the legislative functions of Congress to an executive branch of Section 4 of the bill contains 31 small items, totaling the Government, there to be administered by the subordinate's $2,750,000. of this department, as was disclosed in the recent hearings on Some of the items contained in H. R. 7182 were carried in that bill. They would determine the place, select the site for the omnibus building bill which passed the House January 19, the building, and determine the amount to be expended in each 1917 but failed in the Senate. Other items were included by instance. Under that bill there would be no limit whatever on me from a personal knowledge of the situation existing ~r any of these. Nor is any place definitely assured that it will from information furnished by Members regarding the postal receive any consideration. receipts, population, and so forth. Believing in direct legislation on the various projects where As above stated, the total number of projects provided for construction is contemplated by Congress, and being entirely in H. R. 7182 are 418, 387 of which, with the amounts esti­ opposed to conducting the Government by making lump-sum mated as necessary to complete them, have been taken literally appropriations and placing these sums in the hands of any from· the reports of the Postmaster General and the Secretary executive department to be used without limitation or direc­ of the Treasury. These require an authorized expenditure tion, I have introduced this bill with the hope that through of $128,183,002. The additional 31 projects in section 4 of. the the cooperation of the membership of Congress and the as­ bill involve an expenditure of only $2,750,000, as explamed sistance of the de·partments needing relief that we may all above. work together and in the committee frame a proper and com­ Section 5 of the bill provides $50,000,000 for the District of prehensive building bill and relieve the unwarranted congestion Columbia to be spent under the direction and discretion of existing from one end of the country to the other.