EXPLANATION OF COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS One of the committee amendments to section 6 provides that the cleaning of rough rice by or directly for a producer for seed purposes shall not be a processing within the meaning of this subsection, whether or not such rice is grown by the producer. The committee amendment to section 7 substitutes a new section 7 which new section provides that the Secretary, in exercising the discretion conferred upon him by section 8, subsection 1, of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, to provide for rental or benefit payments, is directed to provide in any agreement entered into by him with any rice producer pursuant to that section upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines will best effectuate the declared policy of the act, that the producer may pledge for production credit in whole or in part his right to any rental or benefit payments under the terms of such agreement and that such producer may designate therein a payee to receive such rental or benefit payments. The purpose of one of the amendments to section 8 is to indicate that the tax-payment warrants are to have a face value determined by multiplying the number of pounds of rice by the rate of processing tax in effect at the time such tax-payment warrant is issued. The amendment to section 11 is a clarifying amendment made by the committee at the request of the Comptroller General. The amendments to sections 1, 3, 6, 8, and 9 (except as otherwise mentioned) provide for changing the effective date from March 15 to April 1, 1935, eliminating the existing provisions providing for the redemption by the Secretary of Agriculture of the tax-payment warrants, or are in the nature of claryifying changes. TREASURY AND POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTS APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL YEAR 1936 MARCH 4 (calendar day, MARCH 11), 1935.-Ordered to be printed Mr. GLASS, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 4442] The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4442) making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes, reports the same to the Senate with various amendments, and presents herewith information relative to the changes made. Amount of bill as passed House... Amount added by Senate... Amount of bill as reported to Senate____ Amount of regular and supplemental estimates for 1936. Amount of appropriations for 1935.. The bill as reported to Senate: Under the appropriations for 1935-- Exceeds the estimates for 1936.... Treasury Department bill, title I: Amount as passed House.. Amount added by Senate... $903, 225, 598.00 2,095, 944. 04 905, 321, 542. 04 903, 183, 880. 00 1,094,910,240.00 189, 588, 697.96 2, 137, 662. 04 175, 761, 149.00 1, 402, 824. 04 Amount of bill as reported to Senate. 177, 163, 973. 04 Under the appropriations for 1935 247, 952, 326. 96 The changes in the amounts of the House bill recommended by the committee are as follows: TREASURY Department OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS AND DEPOSITS Salaries.... It is proposed by the committee to consolidate with this office the Division of Disbursement and the Division of Bookkeeping in Warrants, as recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury, in one paragraph reading as follows: OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS AND DEPOSITS For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and the Division of Disbursement, and including also for the Division of Disbursement stationery, travel, rental of equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous and contingent expenses, $996,620. $16,960.00 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Continued BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE The committee recommend the passage of the following amendment pertaining to motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles: Cost of acquisition and maintenance of automobiles, seized for violation of the internal-revenue laws, delivered to the secretary of the Secretary of the Treasury for use in administration of the law under this jurisdiction. Salaries, fiscal year 1935. The following provision, relating to personnel in the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is recommended by the committee: That the proviso to the paragraph under the heading "Bureau of Internal Revenue" contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934, be amended to read as follows: "Provided, That from and after May 15, 1935, no part of the appropriation made herein, or heretofore made, shall be used to pay the salaries of persons who were dropped from the service under the Executive Order (No. 6166) of June 10, 1933, and reinstated, transferred, or promoted to positions in the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol, or in the Alcohol Tax Unit upon certificates issued by the Civil Service Commission between January 30, 1934, and May 10, 1934, unless such persons shall have passed an appropriate open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commission after June 19, 1934, such persons being those who were separated from the service by Executive Order of June 10, 1933, and who, under the terms of such order, were ineligible for reappointment unless such reappointments were made before December 10, 1933: Provided further, That, inasmuch as the Treasury Department, under the advice of the Attorney General, has given the proviso referred to above a construction including other employees not intended by the Congress to be included in that proviso and advising the Treasury Department that it could retain such employees without pay, there is hereby appropriated for salaries from December 1, 1934, to May 15, 1935, both dates inclusive, in the offices as follows: Bureau of Customs, $2,357.14; Bureau of Internal Revenue, $1,367,006.91; Bureau of Narcotics, $8,642.85; and Secret Service Division, $7,857 14; in all, $1,385,864.04, to pay all of said employees up to and including May 15, 1935: Provided further, That the employees, other than those heretofore designated may be retained by the Treasury Department, but those designated in the first proviso hereof shall not be retained after May 15, 1935, by the Treasury Department unless they have passed an appropriate open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commission after June 19, 1934, and, if retained, shall not be paid out of this appropriation or any other appropriation made by this Act.' SECRET SERVICE DIVISION The committee recommend that the limitation for purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, etc., of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles, be increased from $25,000 as proposed by the House to $57,000. Total, Treasury Department--- $1, 385, 864. 04 1,402, 824. 04 POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Office of the Postmaster General: Office of the chief inspector, salaries. Printing and binding Office of chief inspector. Payment of rewards.. Total, office of the Postmaster General... Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General: Unusual conditions at post offices... Total, office of First Assistant Postmaster Gen- Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General: $1,000. 00 3, 500. 00 1, 620. 00 25, 000. 00 42, 000. 00 5, 000. 00 78, 120.00 10, 000. 00 5, 000. 00 15,000. 00 Railway Mail Service.. Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Operating force, public buildings. Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings. Total, office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Total, Post Office Department... Section 2: GENERAL PROVISIONS The committee recommends the following provision concerning household effects and other property: * * * or on reappointment heretofore or hereafter at another official station under the provisions of section 19 of Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, and for the expenses incurred in packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects and other property, not exceeding in any one case five thousand pounds, of employees so reappointed. New section 4: The committee recommends the following: No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for the payment of personal services not specifically authorized by law. New section 5: The committee recommends the following: Sec. 5. That no part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate, upon vote, has failed to confirm the nomination of said person, or for the payment of an acting official whose name has been submitted to the Senate and withdrawn. |