SENATE DOCUMENTS

71st Congress, 3d Session

(December 1, 1930- March 4, 1931)

MISCELLANEOUS

VOL. 2

PART 1

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1931

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CONTENTS

NOTE.-Senate documents 273, 318, and 322 which were to have been included in this volume have been

removed. Senate document 273 is bound as Miscellaneous, vol. 2, part 2, serial no. 9347, v. 2. Senate

documents 318 and 322 are bound as Miscellaneous, vol. 2, part 3, serial no. 9347, v. 3.

No.

270. Second polar year program.

271. Construction of public buildings.

272. Completion of dam no. 2, etc., at Muscle Shoals.

274. Estimate for Federal Employment Stabilization Board.

275. Supplemental estimate for construction of vessels by Navy Department.

276. Construction of post office, Texas City, Tex.

277. Paving Missionary Ridge Crest road and Crest and Gap road, Ga.

278. Estimate for survey for flood control of Salmon River, Alaska.

279. Claim of Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjernan, Swedish corporation.

280. Veto message relating to claims of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians.

281. Claims allowed by General Accounting Office.

282. Draft of legislation relating to Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery.

283. Facilities for radio research investigations, Bureau of Standards.

284. Claims for damages to privately owned property.

285. Judgments rendered against Government by District Courts.

286. Judgments rendered by Court of Claims.

287. Annual reports of public utility companies of D. C., 1930.

288. Report relative to maintenance of United States marines in Nicaragua.

289. Construction of public buildings, Omaha, Nebr., and Bingham Canyon, Utah.

290. Supplemental estimate for erection of tablet to Nancy Hart.

291. Estimate for expenses of 4th Pan American Commercial Conference.

292. Estimate for construction of buildings on Government Island, Calif.

293. Estimate for printing and binding, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

294. Judgments rendered by Court of Claims.

295. Supplemental estimates for Bureau of Indian Affairs.

296. Construction of Court of Claims Building, Washington, D. C.

297. Appropriations for Federal Power Commission.

298. Draft of legislation relating to pay and subsistence of Army, 1931.

299. Contested election of Heflin v. Bankhead.

301. Estimate to pay claim of Isabel Mesler for damages to her car.

302. Estimate for D. C. George Washington Bicentennial Commission.

303. International Exposition of Colonial and Overseas Countries, Paris.

304. Estimate to pay claim of Henry W. Bennett.

305. Estimate to pay damage claim of Warren F. Brenizer Co.

308. Progress report on national hydraulic laboratory.

309. Vocational education in United States.

310. Statistics of foreign and domestic wages, prices, etc.

311. Estimate for Department of Vehicles and Traffic, D. C.

312. Outstanding loans of Federal land banks.

313. Roosevelt Steamship Co. and International Mercantile Marine Co. merger.

314. Survey of Seminole Indians of Florida.

315. Report on air mail contracts.

No.

316. Supplemental estimate for Veterans' Administration.

317. Estimate for modernization of battleships.

320. Agriculture Department report on appropriation for drought relief.

321. Veto message relating to disposition of Muscle Shoals.

323. Stabilization of coal industry.

324. Packers' consent decree.

325. Civil service retirement and disability fund.

326. Statements in Senate on ocean mail contracts.

327. Injunctions in labor disputes.

328. Philippine independence.

329. Estimate for advances to reclamation fund.

330. Hospital and domiciliary facilities, Veterans' Administration.

331. Drift toward dictatorship.

SECOND POLAR YEAR PROGRAM

MESSAGE

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

A REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE RELATIVE TO AN

APPROPRIATION FOR PARTICIPATION BY THE UNITED STATES

IN THE SECOND POLAR YEAR PROGRAM, AUGUST 1, 1932-AU-

GUST 31, 1933, AMOUNTING TO $30,000

JANUARY 26 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 10), 1931.-Read; referred to the Com-

mittee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed with an illustration

To the Congress of the United States:

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the

inclosed report from the Secretary of State, to the end that legislation

may be enacted authorizing an appropriation of $30,000 for participa-

tion by the United States Government in the second polar year

program, August 1, 1932-August 31, 1933.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, February 10, 1931.

The PRESIDENT:

HERBERT HOOVER.

In 1875 Lieut. Karl Weyprecht, of Austria, first brought forward

the definite program for an international "polar year." He main-

tained that the small scientific value of the results previously

obtained by polar expeditions was due to their isolated character and

concluded that expeditions should be arranged on a uniform plan to

give simultaneous physical observations over a full year at a number

of places in high altitudes. His plan came to fruition in the first

International Polar Year, from August, 1882, to August, 1883, when

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