The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (S. 2697) to facilitate the execution of arangements for the exchange of surplus agricultural commodities produced in the United States for reserve stocks of strategic and critical materials produced abroad, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon and recommended in the accompanying conference report as to each of such amendments, namely: The House amendment provided that the Commodity Credit Corporation should warehouse in or near cotton-manufacturing centers in New England such reasonable amounts of cotton held as security for loans as the Corporation deemed necessary to meet local manufacturing needs, and in no event was the amount to be less than 300,000 bales. It was also provided that the written consent of the producer or borrower to reconcentration, as provided in section 383 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act should not be required, and in determining specific cotton to be exchanged the determination was to be made by sampling and selection at the place where the cotton was stored on the date of the enactment of the act, and no cotton was to be exchanged which after such date was transported to another place and there sampled and selected. The conference agreement provides that the Commodity Credit Corporation shall transfer to warehouses in or near cotton-manufacturing centers in New England not to exceed 300,000 bales of cotton, to which it has or may hereafter acquire title, having regard for the grades and staples customarily required by manufacturers in that area, provided that all necessary costs in connection with such transfer will not result in additional net cost to the Corporation. It is also provided that in determining specific cotton to be exchanged the determination shall be made by sampling and selection at the place where the cotton is stored on the date of the ratification of a treaty providing for such exchange, and no cotton is to be exchanged under such treaty which, after such date, is transported to another place and there sampled and selected. HENRY B. STEAGALL, CLYDE WILLIAMS, JESSE P. WOLCOTT, CHARLES L. GIFFORD, Managers on the part of the House. 3 O PROVIDING FOR THE EXPENSES INCURRED BY HOUSE RESOLUTION 290 AUGUST 3, 1939.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WARREN, from the Committee on Accounts, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. Res. 291] The Committee on Accounts, to whom was referred the House resolution (H. Res. 291) providing for the expenses incurred by House Resolution 290, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the House resolution as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: In line 4 strike out the figures "$25,000" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "$15,000". After line 11 add the following: "SEC. 2. That the official committee reporters may be used at all hearings held in the District of Columbia if not otherwise officially engaged. "SEC. 3. The head of each executive department is hereby requested to detail to said select committee such number of legal and expert assistants as said committee may from time to time deem necessary." OKIE MAY FEGLEY AUGUST 3, 1939.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. KENNEDY of Maryland, from the committee of conference, submitted the following CONFERENCE REPORT [To accompany H. R. 875] The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 875) entitled "An Act for the relief of Okie May Fegley," having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its amendment and agree to the sum of $6,000 to be inserted in lieu of "$5,000" in line 7, page 1. AMBROSE J. KENNEDY, J. PARNELL THOMAS, J. G. TOWNSEND, Jr., ALLEN J. ELlender, Managers on the part of the Senate. |