40. Leave without pay may be granted by the Governor to all employees, including laborers, for such period as may be prescribed by him. OFFICE HOURS AND HOURS OF LABOR 41. Office hours and hours of labor will be fixed by the Governor within the limits prescribed by law. 42. This order shall take effect from and after the 1st day of April 1914. WOODROW WILSON. THE WHITE HOUSE, 2 February 1914. [No. 1888] To establish a Washington Office of The Panama Canal, to provide temporarily for the organization, officials, and employes thereof, and to continue in force for The Panama Canal rules, regulations, and Executive Orders which may have been made for the Isthmian Canal Commission By virtue of the authority vested in me it is hereby ordered: SECTION I. That an office of The Panama Canal is established in the City of Washington in the District of Columbia. SECTION II. That the Washington Office of the Panama Canal shall be the office of general records in the United States, and shall succeed to the custody, care and preservation of all the records and files of the Isthmian Canal Commission, to be retained and preserved in the United States on and after April 1, 1914, and shall also succeed to and become chargeable with all property of every kind and character purchased for the Washington Office of the Isthmian Canal Commission, which is on hand April 1, 1914. SECTION III. That the Washington Office of The Panama Canal shall be the headquarters and the principal office of the Purchasing Department of The Panama Canal. The head of the Purchasing Department of The Panama Canal, under the direction of the Governor, shall have administrative control of the Washington Office of The Panama Canal. He shall be subject to orders and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the U. S. Army to such extent as may be directed by the Secretary of War. He shall be General Purchasing Officer for The Panama Canal, and shall also act as the Chief of the Washington Office of The Panama Canal. SECTION IV. That until further ordered, the Washington Office of The Panama Canal shall have the same organization as to offices and departments (except the Office of the Assistant Examiner of Accounts and the Disbursing Office) as the Washington Office of the Isthmian Canal Commission shall have on March 31, 1914. The number, class and salaries of officials and employes in each of the offices and departments, except as hereinafter provided, shall be the same as those authorized for the Washington Office of the Isthmian Canal Commission on March 31, 1914, and any change in the salary of any position, or in the number of positions in any office or department, shall be made only as now provided by law. The officers and employees, except as hereinafter provided, shall perform the same class of duties that they may be assigned to on March 31, 1914. SECTION V. That the Assistant Auditor provided for in Executive Order No. 1885, dated January 27, 1914, shall be appointed April 1, 1914. His salary shall be fixed by the Governor. He shall perform such duties of the Accounting Department to be performed in United States, as may be assigned to him by the Auditor, and also such other duties of a general nature as may be assigned to him by the Chief of the Washington Office of The Panama Canal. On and after April 1, 1914, there shall be transferred to the Assistant Auditor, and he shall be charged with the custody, care, and preservation of all records and property of the Disbursing Officer, and of the Assistant Examiner of Accounts of the Isthmian Canal Commission, with which those officers shall be charged on March 31, 1914. The Chief of the Washington Office may, however, transfer to and place in the custody of the Disbursing Clerk, hereinafter provided for, such of the property and records above described, as he may deem to be essential to enable the Disbursing Clerk to properly perform his duties under this order, but the Disbursing Clerk shall not be permitted, without specific authority from the Chief of Office, to keep a separate set of records and files. He shall be required to rely upon, and consult when necessary, the records and files in the office of the Assistant Auditor, in verifying the legality of claims and accounts submitted to him for payment, or to verify the details of any collections for which he is required to account. Dis bursements will be made by the Disbursing Clerk only after examination of the claim on account in the office of the Assistant Auditor. Such of the officers and employes employed in the office of the Assistant Examiner of Accounts and the Disbursing Office of the Isthmian Canal Commission on March 31, 1914, as the Governor determines to retain, shall be transferred to and employed in the Accounting Department in the United States, and their salaries fixed at such amounts as the Governor deems just and reasonable. There shall be a Disbursing Clerk for that part of the Accounting Department in the United States, who shall perform similar duties to those that are required to be performed by the Collector and Paymaster on the Isthmus, insofar as there are such duties to be performed in the United States, and shall be subject to the same supervision by the Assistant Auditor, as the Collector and Paymaster on the Isthmus are by the Auditor. He shall give bond in such amount as may be fixed by the Government, or by his authority. Establishing a Maximum Rate of Pay for Alien Employees of The Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company on the Isthmus of Panama By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Panama Canal Act, approved August 24, 1912, it is hereby ordered: I. That the Executive Order of February 2, 1914, be so amended that paragraphs 6 and 20 thereof shall read as follows: PARAGRAPH 6 All employees who receive compensation at the rate of more than $960 a year or 40 cents an hour, must be citizens of the United States or the Republic of Panama, and such citizens will be given preference for employment in all grades. Aliens may not be employed in such grades unless (a) they have occupied similar positions during the construction of the Canal for two years or more, or (b) in case of emergency, in which latter case they must be replaced by citizens of the United States or Republic of Panama as early as practicable. PARAGRAPH 20 All employees who are citizens of the United States, and aliens whose compensation is at a rate of more than $960 a year or 40 cents an hour, shall be entitled to leave privileges. II. This Order shall take effect on and after this date. THE WHITE HOUSE, 20 February, 1920. WOODROW WILSON. FLOOD CONTROL STATEMENT OF ALAN N. JORDAN, SECRETARY OF THE OHIO VALLEY CONSERVATION AND FLOOD CONTROL CONGRESS Senator THOMAS. Will give your full name to the reporter, please? Mr. JORDAN. My name is Alan Jordan. I am executive secretary of the Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress, representing all of the cities in the Ohio Valley. Senator THOMAS. Just a moment. I have before me a list of gentlemen with their addresses. Would you look at that and see if that list embraces the delegation? Mr. JORDAN. It does. I corrected it this morning. Senator THOMAS. Without objection, will you place that in the record--the appearance of the delegation? Mr. JORDAN. I will. (The list of the delegation is as follows:) Lawrence Campbell, Johnstown, Pa., chamber of commerce and United States Flood Control Federation. Ralph Edgar, Pittsburgh, Pa., secretary, Tri-States Flood Control Federation, secretary, United States Flood Control Federation. Lee Wood, Martins Ferry, Ohio, mayor. Earl Lewis, Congressman, Ohio. Horatio W. Russell, Parkersburg, W. Va., chamber of commerce. Senator Matthew Neely, Fairmont, W. Va. W. S. Rosenheim, Huntington, W. Va., secretary, chamber of commerce. J. H. Long, Huntington, W. Va., president, chamber of commerce. B. L. Wilson, Guyandotte, W. Va., Guyandotte Flood Wall Association. Geo. R. Seeman, Huntington, W. Va., mayor. C. L. Logsden, Zanesville, Ohio, Muskingum Flood Control. O. Slack Barrett, Cincinnati, Ohio, president, Ohio Valley Improvement Co. Senator THOMAS. Now, as Senator Neely is going to be busy on the floor, I am going to call on him first. Senator NEELY. I have nothing to say. I just want you to get the facts in the record. Congressman Earl Lewis is from Martins Ferry, Ohio, and he wants to get back to the hearing on flood control in the House, so I will call on Congressman Earl Lewis, from St. Clairsville, Ohio, first. STATEMENT OF HON. EARL LEWIS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OHIO INCREASE REQUESTED FOR FLOOD CONTROL Senator THOMAS. At the beginning, will you please state for the record what particular point you want to stress, so that we can understand what you are interested in? Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Chairman, I want to discuss the necessity for an increase in the amount of the appropriation for flood control for this year over the amount in the bill as it came from the House. Senator THOMAS. In other words, you want the $70,000,000 item increased? Mr. LEWIS. That is right. Senator THOMAS. To what extent? Mr. LEWIS. $25,000,000, I understand, is generally agreed upon. The Army engineers can spend with profit and efficiency that amount. They are all equipped to spend at least that amount. Senator THOMAS. They asked for $206,000,000. Mr. LEWIS. I realize that they can spend that amount, but we realize that that perhaps is entirely beyond reach this year. Senator ADAMS. I wonder if I midunderstood the Congressman from that district who thought they would be very happy if they could get an extra $10,000,000? MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, PROJECT Mr. LEWIS. Well, of course, the thing that I am chiefly interested in-I suppose we are all interested in our districts and our States-is in seeing that we reach the city of Martins Ferry, Ohio, which is in the upper Ohio Valley and in my district. That city has been very hard hit by the closing of the Laughlin plant of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., that had employed in the neighborhood of 1,800 men, and it has created an unusual unemployment situation there. It is thought, that if we can get the flood walls started this year, that that will serve a double purpose in not only taking those men off relief, but building this flood wall, that has already been approved and the plans made by the Army engineers for its completion. Martins Ferry's entire manufacturing area is in the flood district of the Ohio River, and a comparatively small flood reaches that area and puts those plants temporarily out of business. AUTHORIZATION FOR PROJECT Senator THOMAS. Is this particular project authorized by law? Senator THOMAS. What is the estimated cost of the project? Senator THOMAS. Does the bill as it now appears before this committee carry any money at all to start this project? Mr. LEWIS. No; not a cent. Senator THOMAS. So unless the total amount of $70,000,000 is increased, you will have no chance to get that work started in the next 12 months? Mr. LEWIS. That is correct. Senator THOMAS. You are asking that the $70,000,000 be increased to $95,000,000, is that correct? Mr. LEWIS. Well, I don't know what it will become. I know that if we get it to $95,000,000, that Martins Ferry will surely be included in that. Senator ADAMS. If it was $71,200,000, it would be all right if this was put next in line? Mr. LEWIS. If you want to put me down to that. I suppose that is next in line. At the same time, I just want to say this, gentlemen. I am as much economy-minded as anyone in Congress, I think, but when it comes to these expenditures of money that annually save substantial amounts as well as safeguard human life, I don't feel that when we make that type of expenditure, the benefits of which will last for generations, that we are wasting money. Sooner or later, we are going to get the flood wall at Martins Ferry. I am tremendously interested in seeing that it be gotten this year when we can make the dollars that build do double work in saving men from going on relief and saving that money on relief rolls, and at the same time getting this necessary flood-control project built. PROJECT AT HUNTINGTON, W. VA. Senator ADAMS. Will I interrupt you if I inquire? I see on the list of projects one at Huntington, section 1, Ohio River Basin, W. Va., flood wall and levee, and there is $1,200,000 included for that. What relationship does that have to the project which you have in mind? Mr. LEWIS. Well, as far as I know, it has no relationship, except that if that is one of the unstarted projects, it is in the same category as Martins Ferry, I suppose, but I don't know whether it comes ahead or below Martins Ferry on the list of the approved projects mentioned. Senator ADAMS. This is in the list of projects? Mr. LEWIS. Yes. Senator ADAMS. That is within the $70,000,000? Mr. LEWIS. Oh, yes; that is in the $70,000,000. Then that has no relationship to Martins Ferry. Senator ADAMSs. How far are they apart-one congressional district apart? Mr. LEWIS. At least; perhaps 2. Senator NEELY. These cities are about 200 miles apart. One is in Ohio and the other is in West Virginia. Senator ADAMS. Senator, the reason I was asking that is that Congressman Johnson had spoken to me about this Huntington project. and I wanted to see whether or not they were the same thing. Mr. LEWIS. No; they are not entirely the same thing. The only similarity is the amount. Senator THOMAS. Does that complete your statement? Senator THOMAS. All right. I thank you very much. Mr. JORDAN. The next speaker will be Mr. Lawrence Campbell, of Johnstown, Pa. STATEMENT OF LAWRENCE W. CAMPBELL, REPRESENTING THE UNITED STATES FLOOD CONTROL FEDERATION INCREASE REQUESTED FOR FLOOD CONTROL Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, on behalf of the United States Flood Control Federation, I wish to commend you gentlemen of the Senate and your colleagues of the House for what the newspapers term an "economy program," in your effort to reduce expenses of Government in order to avoid additional taxes. But, at the same time, I should like to present to you, for the federation, that there are occasions when one can be penny-wise and pound-foolish; losing more by some economies than the amount that may have been saved originally. You, gentlemen of the committee, have the flood-control appropriation for the fiscal year of 1940-41 as transmitted by the House. The amount allotted so far is $70,000,000; this is only one-third of the amount that the Engineer Corps of the Army has stated can be expended profitably for flood-protective works during the approaching fiscal year. The federation has made a thorough and comprehensive study of flood control through its membership, residing in, and representing 40 different States. It has reached several major and vitally important conclusions affecting the economy and welfare of this country. These conclusions are being presented to you and your fellow members in a cooperative spirit; they are founded on logic, and are supported by unquestionable facts. First, if this body fails to increase the appropriation for flood control from the present total of $70,000,000 to a figure more commensurate. with the amount that can be profitably expended by the Army engineers, Congress will fail in consistently following its "economy program." This is true, since adequate appropriations to properly pro |