T / AM - 8 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS JAMES P. BUCHANAN, Texas, Chairman EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, Massachusetts THOMAS S. MCMILLAN, South Carolina GLOVER H. CARY, Kentucky B. M. JACOBSEN, Iowa MALCOLM C. TARVER, Georgia JED JOHNSON, Oklahoma J. BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD, North Carolina WILLIAM R. THOM, Ohio MARION A. ZIONCHECK, Washington JOHN F. DOCKWEILER, California EDWARD C. MORAN, JR., Maine EMMET O'NEAL, Kentucky JOHN TABER, New York ROBERT L. BACON, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts CLARENCE J. MCLEOD, Michigan LLOYD THURSTON, Iowa JAMES MCANDREWS, Illinois GEORGE W. JOHNSON, West Virginia JAMES G. SCRUGHAM, Nevada JAMES M. FITZPATRICK, New York MARCELLUS C. SHIELD, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFICIENCIES Messrs. Buchanan (chairman), Taylor, Arnold, Oliver, Sandlin, Woodrum, Boylan, Taber, Bacon, and Thurston. II HJIO .B8 1935d Соруз SECOND DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1935 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, CONSISTING OF MESSRS. JAMES P. BUCHANAN (CHAIRMAN), EDWARD T. TAYLOR, WILLIAM W. ARNOLD, WILLIAM B. OLIVER, JOHN N. SANDLIN, CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, JOHN J. BOYLAN, JOHN TABER, ROBERT L. BACON, AND LLOYD THURSTON, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935. GENERAL PUBLIC WORKS The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, the President, when Congress first 'convened, sent up his regular budget for the fiscal year 1936 and in that an estimate of $300,000,000 appears on page 88 for regular public works requirements of the Government. These activities are generally regularly included in our appropriation bills and kept separate from emergency appropriations. Several things have happened since then-the passage of the fourbillion-dollar bill and so forth-and within the four-billion-dollar bill some of those items, included under the $300,000,000, are being taken care of. Therefore, revision of that estimate was requested. I have a letter transmitted to me by the President on May 17, 1935, revising those estimates, and reducing them to $164,000,000. That is the basis for our hearing this morning. The first thing we are going to take up is the Public Buidlings Program. That is generally divided into two parts, one for buildings in the District of Columbia and one for buildings outside the District of Columbia. We will first take up those outside the District of Columbia. PUBLIC BUILDINGS OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STATEMENT OF REAR ADMIRAL CHRISTIAN J. PEOPLES, DIRECTOR PROCUREMENT DIVISION, TREASURY DEPARTMENT AMOUNT REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDING IN EACH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT The CHAIRMAN. Admiral, the first item of the $300,000,000 for ordinary regular public works purposes was $45,000,000 for public buildings outside of the District of Columbia. That has been revised somewhat, and now you have $53,000,000 in this estimate. The first question I want to ask you is this: Under the provision for public buildings outside of the District of Columbia, how much will take to put a public building in every Congressional District, except, of |