Public Law 75–9

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS

LEGISLATIVE senate To pay to Ellen E. Murphy, widow of Honorable Louis Murphy, late a Senator from the State of Iowa, $10,000. To pay to Lydia Norbeck, widow of Honorable Peter Norbeck, late a Senator from the State of South Dakota, $10,000. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1937, $160,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1937, $125,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926, as amended: Provided further, That the rate of compensation for any position under the appropriations now available for, or herein or hereafter made for, expenses of inquiries and investigations of the Senate or expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives shall not exceed the rates fixed under the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for positions with comparable duties; and the salary limitations of $3,600 attached to appropriations heretofore made for expenses of inquiries and investigations of the Senate or for expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives are hereby repealed. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: For two laborers, from February 1 to June 30, 1937, at the rate of $1,260 per annum each, $1,050. house of representatives For payment to the widow of Glover H. Cary, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Warren J. Duffey, late a Representative from the State of Ohio, $10,000. For payment to the widow of William V. Gregory, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Bernhard M. Jacobsen, late a Representative from the State of Iowa, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Andrew J. Montague, late a Representative from the State of Virginia, $10,000. For payment to the widow of John J. McSwain, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Marion A. Zioncheck, late a Representative from the State of Washington, $10,000. The foregoing appropriations to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Contingent Expenses: For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, fiscal year 1936, $7,500. For the procurement of a portrait of Honorable Joseph W. Byrns, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fourth Congress, $2,500: and for the procurement of a portrait of Honorable William B. Bankhead, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses, $2,500; in all, $5,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House under the direction of the Speaker of the Seventy-fifth Congress. joint committee on government organization For the payment of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Government Organization as authorized by law, fiscal year 1937, to remain available during the fiscal year 1938, $30,000, one-half of such amount to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. office of architect of the capitol Air-conditioning, Capitol, Senate, and House Office Buildings: The appropriation for air-conditioning, Capitol, Senate, and House Office Buildings, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved August 12, 1935, shall continue available for the same purposes until June 30, 1938; and in addition there is appropriated, to be merged with, and to be available for the same purposes as, the appropriation hereinbefore extended, the sum of $1,672,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938; all funds to be available for structural changes, alterations and additions at the Capitol Power Plant.

EXECUTIVE independent offices relief and work relief To continue to provide relief and work relief as authorized in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, and subject to all the provisions thereof, $789,000,000, which amount shall be added to, and proportionately increase the specified amounts of the limitations prescribed under, the appropriation made in such Act: Provided, That no part of this appropriation or of the appropriation in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936 shall be used to pay the compensation of any person, not taken from relief rolls, detailed or loaned for service in connection with any investigation or inquiry undertaken by any committee of either House of Congress under special resolution thereof. This proviso shall not take effect until thirty days after the date of the enactment of this Act. charles carroll of carrollton bicentenary commission For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the performance of the duties of the Charles Carroll of Carrollton Bicentenary Commission in carrying into effect the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 106, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June 15, 1936, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, and subsistence at pot to exceed $5 per day; erection of markers and memorials; postage, printing and binding, services, office supplies and equipment; pageantry, cartographic maps and publications and their distribution, promotion and stimulation of school activities through and by means of essay and public-speaking contests and by other methods, cooperation with the State of Maryland and patriotic societies; fiscal year 1937, to remain available during the fiscal year 1938, $12.500. district of columbia airport commission For the payment of all necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a commercial airport for the District of Columbia”, approved April 21, 1936, including compensation of experts and other assistants, printing and binding, contract stenographic reporting service without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and for the payment of obligations heretofore incurred in carrying out the purposes of such Act, $10,000, one-half of such sum to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. emergency conservation work For an additional amount for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes”, approved March 31, 1933, which Act, as amended, is hereby continued in full force and effect to and including June 30, 1937, $95,000,000, to be expended under the direction of the President and to be available until June 30, 1937, for the same purposes and objects as those specified under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936. farm credit administration Crop production and harvesting loans: To enable the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1937, and for other purposes”, approved January 29, 1937, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; paper, printing, and binding; supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) when the aggregate involved does not exceed $50, and such other expenses as may be necessary, fiscal year 1937, to remain available until June 30, 1938, $50,000,000. federal communications commission For an additional amount for all authorized expenditures of the Federal Communications Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in completing the investigation and reporting to Congress on matters with respect to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and all other companies engaged directly or indirectly in telephone communication in interstate commerce, as authorized and directed in Public Resolution Numbered 8, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved March 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 43), $350,000, to continue available until June 30, 1938. veterans’ administration Adjusted service and dependent pay: For an additional amount for “Adjusted-service and dependent pay, Veterans’ Administration”, and for reimbursing the adjusted-service certificate fund in the amount of disbursements heretofore made therefrom and properly chargeable to the appropriation “Adjusted-service and dependent pay”, $1,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA general expenses Boiler Inspection and Regulation: For personal services, equipment, instruments, supplies, transportation, and other contingent expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Act. entitled “An Act to provide for the inspection, control, and regulation of steam boilers and unfired pressure vessels in the District of Columbia”, approved June 25, 1936 (49 Stat., 1917), fiscal year 1937, $3,000. Employees’ Compensation Fund: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1937, $10,000. Office of Register of Wills: For an additional amount for miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $3,000. contingent and miscellaneous expenses Postage: For an additional amount for postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, fiscal year 1937, $3,000. Printing and Binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, including the same limitations and provisions under this heading in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $5,000. fire department The appropriation, contained in the 1937 District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved June 23, 1936 (49 Stat. 1872), reading “For three aerial hook and ladder trucks, four combination hose wagons, and two pumping engines, triple combination, all motor driven, $92,000”, is hereby changed to read as follows: “For additional fire-fighting apparatus, $92,000”. division of expenses The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years for which such sums are provided.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE forest service Fighting and preventing forest fires: For an additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $2,045,000. enforcement of the commodity exchange act For carrying into effect the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act (U. S. C., Supp. II, title 7, secs. 1–17 (a)) including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year 1937, $100,000.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR war minerals relief commission Administrative expenses: For an additional amount for administrative expenses of the War Minerals Relief Commission for the fiscal year 1937, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $6,400.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE office of the attorney general Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1937, $10,450. miscellaneous objects, department of justice Preparation of Rules in Actions at Law: For an additional amount for preparation of rules in actions at law, including the same objects specified under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, $23,500, to remain available until June 30, 1938. united states supreme court Miscellaneous Expenses: For an additional amount for miscellaneous expenses, United States Supreme Court, including the same objects specified under this head in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, $25,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR office of the secretary Division of Public Contracts: For personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in performing the duties imposed by the Act entitled “An Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and for other purposes”, approved June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2036), including supplies, stationery, printing and binding, telephone service, telegrams, furniture, office equipment, traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, and other necessary expenses fiscal year 1937, $50,000. Transporting Filipinos to the Philippine Islands: For all authorized expenditures in the fiscal year 1937 and to and including December 31, 1937, necessary to enable the Secretary of Labor to administer the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935 (49 Stat., 478), as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1936 (49 Stat., 1462) , $150,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936.

NAVY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels”, approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 110 Seventy-fifth Congress, $1,285.83.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT out of the postal revenues office of the second assistant postmaster general Contract Air Mail Service: For an additional amount for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post. Office Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, $984,000.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT office of the secretary of the secretary Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages: For an additional amount for payments to each Federal land bank of such amount as the Land Bank Commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such bank have been reduced during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1936, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph “Twelfth” of section 12 of the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, to supplement the amount made available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937 in one fund by the “First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936”, $6,000,000. office of commissioner of accounts and deposits Contingent expenses, public moneys: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, public moneys, including the same objects, specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $75,000. bureau of the budget Printing and binding¹¹So in original.: Not to exceed $5,000 of the appropration ¹¹So in original. for salaries and expenses, Bureau of the Budget, fiscal year 1937, may be transferred to the appropriation for printing and binding, Bureau of the Budget, fiscal year 1937. coast guard Contingent expenses: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Coast Guard, including the same objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $25,000. bureau of engraving and printing Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including the same objects specified tinder this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1937, $1,400,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938. procurement division—public building branch Los Angeles, California, post office and courthouse, and so forth: The limit of cost authorized under the provisions of the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, for the construction of a post office and courthouse building in Los Angeles, California, is hereby increased from $6.250,000 to $7,280,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for said building at a cost of not to exceed the latter amount. Peoria, Illinois, post office and courthouse: The limit of cost authorized under the provisions of the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, for the construction of a post office and courthouse building in Peoria, Illinois, is hereby increased from $1,000,000 to $1,200,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for said building at a cost of not to exceed the latter amount. Springerville, Arizona, forestry and post office building: The limit of cost authorized under the provisions of the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, for the construction of a post office and forestry building in Springerville, Arizona, is hereby increased from $75,000 to $105,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for said building at a cost of not to exceed the latter amount.

WAR DEPARTMENT office of the secretary of war Claims for damages by collision with river and harbor vessels: To pay claims for damages by collision with river and harbor vessels adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provision of section 9 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 564), as set forth in House Document Numbered 120, Seventy-fifth Congress, $2,087.20. quartermaster corps Regular supplies of the Army: There is hereby transferred to the appropriation “Regular Supplies of the Army. 1937”, the following amounts from the following appropriations: “Travel of the Army, 1937”, $240,000; “Pay of the Army, 1937”, $180,000; “Medical and Hospital Department, 1937”, $13,000; and “Ordnance Services and Supplies, 1937”, $7,000; in all, $440,000.

TITLE II— JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS