J61 Ав 74sh COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS JAMES P. BUCHANAN, Texas, Chairman EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, Massachusetts THOMAS L. BLANTON, Texas 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 JAMES MCANDREWS, Illinois EMMET O'NEAL, Kentucky GEORGE W. JOHNSON, West Virginia JAMES G. SCRUGHAM, Nevada JAMES M. FITZPATRICK, New York LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan JOHN TABER, New York ROBERT L. BACON, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachu setts CLARENCE J. MCLEOD, Michigan LLOYD THURSTON, Iowa MARCELLUS C. SHIELD, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado, Chairman INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL, 1937 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE: MESSRS. EDWARD T. TAYLOR (CHAIRMAN); BERNARD M. JACOBSEN, JED JOHNSON, MARION A. ZIONCHECK, JAMES G. SCRUGHAM, WILLIAM P. LAMBERTSON, AND RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1937, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1935. MEMBERSHIP AND INCREASE IN WORK OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT Mr. TAYLOR. Gentlemen of the committee, Mr. Secretary Ickes, and other officials of the Interior Department, we are about to start hearings on the Interior Department appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1937. There has been no change in the membership of this subcommittee during the past year. Some of our members have had an opportunity of visiting a number of the national parks and other outstanding activities coming under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department, since the adjournment of the last session of Congress, and I am sure their visits will be mutually beneficial to the Department and to the committee. The subcommittee and Congress and country have been fortunate in having so few changes in personnel ever since its establishment in 1921. In fact, there have been but two chairmen during all that time. Mr. Louis C. Cramton, of Michigan, served as chairman for 10 years, beginning with the bill for the fiscal year 1923. On his retirement from Congress at the close of the Seventy-first Congress I succeeded him and have served in that position ever since. In recent years the work of the subcommittee has been increased very greatly. Each year has seen the addition of numerous activities, newly established or transferred by Executive order of the President. During the fiscal year 1935 some 14 activities were transferred to the Interior Department by the Executive order of June 10, 1933, and it has been possible to bring about a substantial saving by reason of these consolidations. During the fiscal year 1936 appropriations for three activities, including the Bureau of Mines, were transferred to the Interior Department and a new Division of Grazing to put into effect the provisions of the Taylor Grazing Act was established in the Department. In the pending estimates for the fiscal year 1937 the committee will be called upon for the first time to consider appropriations for the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the War M144393 1 |