GENERAL EXPENSES Mr. FITZPATRICK. The next item is general expenses, which is as follows: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $55,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, engineers, and land classifiers, and the Geological Survey is authorized to exchange unserviceable and worn-out passenger-carrygand freight-carrying vehicles as part payment for new freight-carrying vehicles, and including not to exceed $3,000 for necessary traveling expenses of the Director and members of the Geological Survey acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies when required in connection with the authorized work of the Geological Survey, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: Dr. MENDENHALL. The justification in support of this item is as follows: General authorization for the conduct of field surveys, laboratory investigats, and office work under each of the specific appropriation items that follow s contained under this heading. No changes are proposed in the limitations on "the purchase and exchange" ad on the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation" of passenger-carrying ces, though the present amounts are scarcely sufficient for the purposes. Thee of automobiles by scientific and technical workers is a recognized neces**y for the efficient and economical conduct of field work. Light trucks cone to be used whenever possible; in fact, more than three-fourths of the Survey's automobiles are trucks, of which there were 524 in the fleet as of 1 se 30, 1936. But in the year-round work of some of the Survey units, pasor carrying vehicles must be used. The actual funds for their operation and replacement are derived from the several appropriation items that follow, and the figures stated here are simply limitations on the amounts that can s be spent from those appropriations. The Amitation upon the amount expendable for necessary attendance at Mest.be and technical meetings was $5,000 through 1929, $4,000 and $4,500 the period 1930-34, $3,000 in 1935, and $2,000 in 1936 and 1937. This great reduction in the limitation is seriously hampering the work of the Bureau by venting attendance at very significant meetings (through which a research 451 technical organization must keep in close touch with the advances and atest developments in scientific and engineering thought and practices), and al restoration of the former amount is much needed. TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS Mr. FITZPATRICK. The next item is topographic surveys, which is as follows: For topographie surveys in various portions of the United States, $650,000, of which amount not to exceed $250,000 may be expended for personal services * the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in of such an amount as is necessary for the Geological Survey to perits share of standard topographic surveys, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 per centum of the cost of the survey: Provided further. That $227,750 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperawith States or municipalities. Mr. MENDENHALL. The justification in support of this item is as follow: TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS A ship trying to enter an unknown harbor, without adequate charts or an experienced pilot, may reach port in safety; but its captain is taking an unwise Fix of serious loss or disaster. Similarly, a nation that enters upon great programs of administrative and industrial plann.. The Such basic information is furnished b variety of national and State govern private and commercial uses. realiaztion of the imperative ne in the study of long-range pl. industrial, economic, and administrators and enginee of their first needs is for before them an exact the true shape of sea-level, the grad... every natural an can they proce are not as maps can be which are hich was available it, $166,602.45 was As contrasted with provided more adeof field instruments of office projects, and aty Federal impor e projects is $433,000, Pese funds is shown e headings of "Fedheid projects." 250, a decrease of the current fiscal year. t of the noncooperaorests, national parks, which the States have forth in the following summary: claulustration is that part of the topographic branch administration Andres ble et directly related to current field and office project a Che wichuure were $32,452.88, the increase over the allotment anticiIf this bike being caused by the necessity for replacing equipment www of damaged beyond repair, by the purchase of parts and of Cerbalcumculs and by the purchase of another unit of a stereo und this heading for 1937 is $31,940 It provides for essential Scan and operations, for the purchase of field surveying inand roll parts for field stationery, and for combined plate proof AR is 828.540, all subitems being the same as for the cur that the subitem of instrument purchase (field) is reduced to STATE COOPERATION In the fiscal year 1936 the total expenditure 5. Der was $207,608.33. This sum is $17,391.67 less than vis in eoperation with States or municipalities. less than was anticipated. The wate For the current fiscal year 1937 the amount agre ton offered by States and municipalities is $2170 Es been allotted to meet State offerings; $5,964.41 » additional cooperation; $60 represents savings beca tions; and $13,900 is held as a Budget reserve. ita pe the end of the current fiscal year $25,000 will be Puerto Rico for cooperative surveys. The Le ho has passed Act No. 76, appropriating $25,000 & 7227 expended in cooperation with the Geological Survey for se et the island. This cooperative project is held in a ir.formation that territorial funds are available for that authority exists for the Geological Survey to cooperate Puerto Rico in topographic surveys under Public Reson urth Congress, approved June 17, 1935. The amount set up in the Budget for 1938 for the Forza *ion is $227,750. This represents the estimated amoest that to meet State cooperation offerings which the State actors gical Survey may be definitely anticipated, and, bases State legislatures in the several States, is the minim The estimate, however, does not include funds for poste mora Territory of Puerto Rico or by the State of Connecting may be too low. The details of cooperative expenditures, allotments, and marized in the following table: TABLE 2.-Summary of expenditures, allotments, and estimates veys in cooperation with the States r NONCOOPERATIVE PROJECTS That part of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1936 which was available for noncooperative projects was $175.000; of that amount, $166.602.45 was expended, leaving an unexpended balance of $8,397.55. As contrasted with the sum made available in the preceding year, this amount provided more adequately for Federal administration and for the replacement of field instruments and parts by purchase, permitted a moderate expansion of office projects, and provided for the resumption of mapping in areas of primary Federal importance for which map data are urgently needed. For 1937 the total amount available for noncooperative projects is $433,000, an increase of $258,000 over 1936. The allotment of these funds is shown below in table 3 and subsequently in more detail under the headings of "Federal administration”, “Federal office projects", and "Federal field projects.” The estimate for noncooperative work for 1938 is $422,250, a decrease of $10,750 below the amount available for that purpose in the current fiscal year. Federal field projects, which constitute all but a small part of the noncooperative program, include surveys of areas in the national forests, national parks, and Indian reservations, and on other public lands in which the States have no direct concern and responsibilities. The uses of noncooperative funds are set forth in the following summary: Recent rapid developments in apparatus to adapt airplane photographs to topographic mapping make it highly desirable and an obviously economical procedure to increase the Surveys stereosc pte n.at pang equipment. It is anticipated that about $70,000 worth of this equipment will be purchased from nonovoperative funds in 1938, and the distribution of funds indicated in this table prepared late in the calendar year 1936, will probat ly be modified accordingly. That part of the sim nistration of the Topographic Branch which has no relation to State cooperation. Not related to State cooperation. •Of which $558,23) has been allotted and $28,110 is reserved for allotment later where most needed. FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION "Federal administration" is that part of the topographic branch administration and operations which is not directly related to current field and office projects, The expenditures in 1936 were $32,452 88, the increase over the allotment antici. pated for this purpose being caused by the necessity for replacing equipment which was worn or damaged beyond repair, by the purchase of parts and of new surveying instruments, and by the purchase of another unit of a stereoscopic plotting instrument. The allotment under this heading for 1937 is $31,940. It provides for essential items of administration and operations, for the purchase of field surveying instruments and repair parts, for held stationery, and for combined plate proof checking The estimate for 1938 is $28.540, all subitems being the same as for the current year except that the subitem of instrument purchase (field) is reduced to $5,000, |