47 COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. UNITED STATES SENATE FIRST SESSION ON Senate Document No. 7 A LETTER FROM THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF 62917 FEBRUARY 25 AND 27, 1947 Printed for the use of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1947 S2345 155 Casey, Ralph E., principal attorney, General Accounting Office, Downey, Hon. Sheridan, United States Senator from California. Fisher, Edwin L., assistant general counsel, General Accounting Office, Fletcher, Hon. Charles K., Representative in Congress from Cali- Hill, James T., Jr., general counsel, Navy Department, Washington, Kenney, Hon. W. John, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Washington, Knowland, Hon. William F., United States Senator from California__ Knox, Hon. Harley E., mayor of the city of San Diego, Calif Manning, Rear Adm. J. J., Chief, Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy 97 129 Warne, Hon. William E., Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Rec- lamation, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C Weinberg, Edward, attorney, Bureau of Reclamation, Department Willis, Purl, San Diego, Calif.. Comptroller General, letter to Secretary of the Navy, re authority Comptroller General, memorandum on two similar contracts_ Comptroller General, report of, on aqueduct near San Diego, Califor- Expenditures, Senate Committee on, analysis of contentions of Navy Interdepartmental Committee, report of, on aqueduct project Interior Department, letter of Acting Secretary to San Diego County Water Authority re Interdepartmental Committee... Interior Department, letter of Secretary to the Fresident re Inter- departmental Committee report. Interior Department, memorandum on San Diego water requirement.. Legislative Counsel, Memorandum on Comptroller General's Report- Naval Affairs, House Committee on, letter of chairman to Bureau of Yards and Docks re projects approved.. Naval Affairs, Senate Committee on, letter of chairman to Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks re projects approved... Naval Affairs, Senate Committee on, letter of chairman to Members Navy, Assistant Secretary of, letter to Senator George D. Aiken, chairman, Senate Committee on Expenditures, re Navy position. Navy, Secretary of, letter to chairman of Senate Committee on Naval 169 18 Exhibits-Continued Navy Department, letter of acting general counsel to Senate Com- Navy Department, letter of Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks to Navy Department, letter of Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks to chairman, Senate Committee on Expenditures, re two similar con- Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letters to Assistant Com- missioner, Bureau of Reclamation, re Interdepartmental Com- Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letter to Administrator, Federal Works Agency, re report of Interdepartmental Committee. Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letter to Phil D. Swing, San Diego, Calif., re report of Interdepartmental Committee_- Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letter to Secretary of the Interior re report of Interdepartmental Committee_- Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letter to Secretary of War re report of Interdepartmental Committee.. Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letters to Senator Sheridan Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letter to Vice President transmitting report of Interdepartmental Committee__ Roosevelt, Hon. Franklin D., President, letter to Walter Cooper, city manager, San Diego, Calif., re report of Interdepartmental Com- San Diego, chart of annual precipitation_. San Diego, chart of annual precipitation and storage curves. San Diego, chart of population and water consumption.. San Diego, chart of rainfall_ _ . San Diego, chart of revenues and expenditures. San Diego, chart of water supply-safe yield and deliveries- San Diego, chart showing investment in utility plant- San Diego, data re reservoir storage 1944 and 1945. San Diego, data on water used by Federal agencies and war industries__ 198 85 AQUEDUCT NEAR SAN DIEGO, CALIF. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1947 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock a. m., in room 357, Senate Office Building, Senator George D. Aiken (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Aiken (chairman), Ferguson, Bricker, Thye, McCarthy, McClellan, Hoey, Taylor, Robertson, and O'Conor. There were present before the committee: Hon. Sheridan Downey and Hon. William F. Knowland, United States Senators from the State of California; Hon. Charles K. Fletcher, a Representative in Congress from the Twenty-third California District; Rear Adm. J. J. Manning, United States Navy, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks; Harley E. Knox, mayor of the city of San Diego, California; Fred A. Heilbron, chairman, San Diego (Calif.) Water Authority. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order and we will proceed with the hearing. I would first like to make this statement. Under the Reorganization Act, among the duties of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments is this: Such committee shall have the duty of— (a) Receiving and examining reports of the Comptroller General of the United States, and of submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such report. I want to say first that whenever the Comptroller General makes a report alleging wasteful or illegal expenditures on the part of any person or any department of Government, it is the duty of this committee to examine such report and to make a report and recommendation to the Senate as to what they find. The first report we have received this year from the Comptroller General, and the one under consideration this morning, is the report which was submitted January 27, 1947, and which indicates the reason why the contract in question and the expenditure of Federal funds are considered to be in violation of law. This relates to the contract between the Navy Department and the city of San Diego regarding the construction of an aqueduct for that city. We will have this report of the Comptroller General printed in the record. (The report from the Comptroller General follows:) [S. Doc. No. 7, 80th Cong., 1st sess.] The PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE, MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: There is transmitted herewith, for the information of the Senate, a report relative to the construction of an aqueduct near San 1 |