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74TH CONGRESS 1st Session

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SENATE

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REPORT No. 424

FRAZER, MONT., IN COOPERATION WITH PUBLIC
SCHOOLS

MARCH 13 (calendar day, APRIL 4), 1935.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. WHEELER, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 1530]

The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1530) to provide funds for cooperation with public schools, Frazer, Mont., to complete the public high school to be available to both Indian and white children, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass without amendment.

This is in accord with the present Indian-education policy of cooperation wherever feasible, with local public-school authorities in the schooling of Indian children.

This bill provides for completion of the public high school at Frazer, Mont. Heretofore, a congressional appropriation of $25,000 was provided for completion of a school at that place. The money was expended with an additional $17,000 raised by the school district.

The school undertakes some shop work and a little instruction in home economics but it is overcrowded and poorly equipped. Recently a supervisor of the Indian Service visited Frazer and studied the situation. He reports that five additional classrooms and space for home economics and shop work are needed.

About 63 percent of the lands in this district is nontaxable Indian land and this constitutes a real justification for financial assistance by the Federal Government. For the current fiscal year we have authorized payment of tuition for 95 Indian pupils at a daily rate of 42 cents each. The school district and citizens show an excellent spirit of cooperation with regard to education of the Indian children of the district. The latest available report shows 110 white pupils and 62 Indians in elementary grades and 74 whites and 12 Indians in high school.

The large percentage of nontaxable Indian land, the increased enJollment of Indian children from year to year, and the need for additional facilities for their care justifies Federal assistance to the district.

The bill provides for completing the high-school building and for necessary equipment for the manual laboratory and other lines of training. This class of training is particularly valuable for Indian children.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs and other officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs personally appeared before the committee and manifested their approval of this legislation.

The Secretary of the Interior personally favors this.proposed legislation, but he states that the Director of the Budget advises that it would not be in accord with the financial program of the President. The Secretary of the Interior's letter, dated April 2, 1935, is appended hereto and made a part of this report, as follows:

Hon. ELMER THOMAS,

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, March 27, 1935.

Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This is in further reference to your request of January 31 for a report on S. 1530, which is a bill to authorize an appropriation in the sum of $25,000 for completion of the public high school at Frazer, Mont. Except for the amount of money involved, this bill is identical with S. 4391, introduced during the first session of the Seventy-second Congress, upon which a report was made May 7, 1932, also S. 1710, introduced during the first session of the Seventy-third Congress upon which a report was made April 30, 1934. Also an identical bill was introduced in the Seventy-third Congress, namely, H. R. 5747.

The latest reports available from the Frazer schools show an enrollment in the elementary grades of 110 white pupils and 62 Indians and an enrollment in the high school of 74 whites and 12 Indian pupils, or a total of 184 whites and 74 Indians. There are 12 grades in the school.

It was reported that 83 percent of the lands of the district are nontaxable Indian lands. Three years ago there was an enrollment of 33 Indian pupils of whom 4 were in high school, thus showing a marked increase in Indian enrollment. The school undertakes some shop work and a little instruction in home economics, but it is much crowded and poorly equipped. A supervisor of the Indian Service, who has recently made a study of the situation, reports that the school plant requires five additional classrooms and space for home economics and shop work. The school district and the citizens have evinced an excellent spirit of cooperation with regard to the education of the Indian children of the district.

For several years tuition has been paid to the district for the Indian children so attending. For the fiscal year 1934 payment of tuition was authorized for 75 Indian pupils at a daily rate of 42 cents per pupil. For the current year 1935 payment has been authorized for 95 Indian pupils at the same daily rate.

It will be recalled that heretofore a congressional appropriation of $25,000 was provided for completion of the school at Frazer. This sum was so expended, with an additional amount of $17,000 raised by the school district.

The bill, if enacted, should conform to customary authorization of this character, and this may be accomplished by adding the following at the end of line 7 thereof:

"Provided, That the expenditure of any money so appropriated shall be subject to the condition that the schools maintained by said district shall be available to Indian children on the same terms, except as to payment of tuition, as other children of said school district: Provided, further, That such expenditure shall be subject to such further conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior."

The large percentage of nontaxable Indian land constitutes the real justification for financial assistance by the Federal Government, and this fact taken in connection with the increased enrollment of Indian pupils and the need of the service thus rendered for the education of Indian children affords ground for favorable action in the premises.

While I personally favor enactment of S. 1530, the Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget, under date of March 18, 1935, advised that the proposed legislation would not be in accord with the financial program of the President.

Sincerely yours,

HAROLD L. ICKES,
Secretary of the Interior.

74TH CONGRESS 1st Session

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SENATE

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REPORT No. 425

TO REGULATE THE STRENGTH AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE LINE OF THE NAVY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

MARCH 13 (calendar day, APRIL 5), 1935.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. TRAMMELL, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 5599]

The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5599) regulating the strength and distribution in the line of the Navy, having considered the same, report it to the Senate with the recommendation that the bill do pass. H. R. 5599 is a companion bill to S. 1978, both being Department bills.

The purpose of this bill is to build up the officer strength of the line of the Navy to meet the needs and demands of a treaty navy which is now authorized and in the process of construction.

Several changes were made in the House with which the Senate. committee is in full accord. Both the Senate and House Committees on Naval Affairs held hearings on this legislation and as they are in agreement on the bill, H. R. 5599, is hereby reported out favorably without amendment.

In order that a clear understanding may be had of what this bill proposes to do, and also of the changes made in the bill, House Report No. 211, which gives this explanation, is hereby made a part of this report.

House Report No. 211, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session

The Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5599) regulating the strength and distribution of the line of the Navy, and for other purposes, report it to the House with amendments with the recommendation that it do pass.

Amend by inserting a new section known as "section 3":

That section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1934 (48 Stat. 814), is hereby amended to read as follows: "That after June 30, 1936, lieutenants and lieutenants (junior grade) who shall not have been recommended for promotion to the next Figher grade by the report of a line selection board as approved by the President shall, on and after June 30 next succeeding the date of the approval of said line selection board, if they have completed fourteen or seven years, respectively, of commissioned service, be carried as additional numbers in grade, but shall be included in the authorized number of commissioned officers of the active list of the line of the Navy in any grade to which later promoted. That for the purpose of extending section 3 of the Act of March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1483; U. S. C., Supp. VII title 34, sec. 286a), to officers below the rank of lieutenant commander, the said section is amended so that the length of service therein prescribed shall be twenty-one years for lieutenants and fourteen years for lieutenants (junior grade): Provided, That lieutenants with less than twenty-one years commissioned service shall become ineligible for promotion on June 30 of the fiscal year in which they attain the age of forty-five years: Provided further, That no officer of said rank shall become so ineligible prior to June 30, 1936: And provided further, That the restriction on the number of involuntary transfers in any fiscal year to the retired list prescribed in section 7 of the Act of March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1434; U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 34, sec. 286e), shall not apply to the grade of lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade)."

And by renumbering original sections 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, as 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, respectively, and by striking out all of original section 8.

The purpose of this bill is: (1) To provide for an increase in the authorized line officer strength of the Navy; (2) to reaffirm existing

percentages in grades and to place a numerical limit on the number of rear admirals, captains, and commanders; (3) to delay for a period of 7 years the involuntary retirement of lieutenants and lieutenants of the junior grade who may not be selected for promotion to the next higher grades; (4) to increase the number of dental officers and to authorize the number of chaplains there may be instead of fixing a definite number in that corps; (5) to authorize including time on a promotion list as "service in grade"; (6) to authorize the President of the United States to transfer officers of the Navy not above the grade of lieutenant commander of the Navy from the line of Staff Corps and vice versa; and (7) to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to determine the number of officers who may be detailed as tactical and gunnery observers to duty in aircraft and involving actual flying.

The primary purpose of this bill is to build up the line officer strength of the Navy to meet the essential demands of the treaty navy now authorized and in the process of construction.

It developed during the hearings on this bill that the Navy when built up to treaty strength will require both ashore and afloat a total of 7,941 officers of the line, which number includes 1,908 aviators.

The present authorized line-officer strength of the Navy is 5,499 officers. However, to meet the needs of the Navy and to take care of surplus graduates of the Naval Academy Congress has authorized by temporary legislation this number to be exceeded so that on June 30, 1934, the line-officer strength of the Navy was 6,132, including 806 aviators. This bill proposes to authorize a strength of 6,531 line officers an increase of 399 over the number in the Navy at the end of the last fiscal year, or an increase in the present authorized strength of 1,032 officers.

In order that a clear understanding may be had of what this bill proposes to do, the following is an explanation of what is expected to be accomplished and how it is to be done.

Section 1: The authorized enlisted strength of the Navy is 137,485

Existing law provides that the authorized line-officer strength on the active list of the Navy shall be 4 percent of this number of enlisted men, or 5,499 officers. This bill proposes to increase the percentage from 4 to 4%, which will give an authorized officer strength of 6,531. The Navy Department plans to build up to this lineofficer strength by securing appropriations for four appointments to the Naval Academy in July 1935 and five appointments effective in 1936 and thereafter.

Section 2 provides that the percentage distribution in grades shall continue in accordance with existing law, with a numerical limitation in time of peace on the number of rear admirals, captains, and commanders and with the excess to be carried in the grade of lieutenant commander. The distribution in grades to be made on a basis of 5,499 line officers until June 30, 1936, and thereafter on the actual number of line officers on the active list. With an authorized officer strength of 6,531, distributed in grades as provided in this bill, there will be 58 rear admirals, 240 captains, 515 commanders, 1,016 lieutenant commanders, 1,959 lieutenants, and 2,743 lieutenants, junior grade, and ensigns.

The act of May 29, 1934, provides for the retirement of lieutenants with 14 years of commissioned service and lieutenants, junior grade,

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