EXTENDING TIME TO COMPLETE BRIDGE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI RIVER, MEMPHIS, TENN.

APRIL 11, 1916.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SIMS, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 12999.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 12999) extending the time for the completion of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn., authorized by an act entitled "An act to authorize the Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge & Terminal Co. to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn.," approved August 23, 1912, having considered the same, report thereon with amendment and as so amended recommend that it pass.

Amend the bill as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That the time for the completion of a bridge now in the course of construction across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, which the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company, its successors or assigns, was authorized to construct, maintain, and operate by an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled 'An act to authorize the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River,' approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve," be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved.

Amend the title so as to read:

A bill extending the time for the completion of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, authorized by an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled

'An act to authorize the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River,' approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve."

The bill as amended has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report.

[Second indorsement.]

WAB DEPARTMENT,

April 4, 1916.

Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives.

The object of the accompanying bill H. R. 12999, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, is to extend the time for the completion of the bridge of the Arkansas & Memphis Railway Bridge & Terminal Co. across the Mississippi River, at Memphis, Tenn., authorized by act of Congress approved August 23, 1912.

The bill has been amended in red by the Chief of Engineers, to whom it was referred for report, to quote correctly the title of the act of August 23, 1912, authorizing the construction of the bridge, and to eliminate the two provisos in section 1, the occasion or necessity for them not being apparent.

As thus amended I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the bill by Congress, so far as the interests committed to the War Department are concerned.

JOHN C. SCOFIELD, Assistant and Chief Clerk.

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No. 519.

REPORT 1st Session.

BRIDGE ACROSS THE ALLEGHENY RIVER, WARREN COUNTY, PA.

APRIL 11, 1916.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. DEWALT, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 13475.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13475) granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Warren County, Pa., to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River in the borough of Warren, county of Warren, in the State of Pennsylvania, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass.

The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report.

[Second indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, April 3, 1916. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives.

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The Chief of Engineers reports that H. R. 13475, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Warren County, Pa., to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River in the borough of Warren, county of Warren, in the State of Pennsylvania," makes ample provision for the protection of the interests committed to the War Department, and I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the bill by Congress, so far as those interests are concerned.

JOHN C. SCOFIELD, Assistant and Chief Clerk.

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64TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session.

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BRIDGE ACROSS BAYOU BARTHOLOMEW, ARK.

APRIL 11, 1916.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. RAYBURN, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 13715.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13715) granting the consent of Congress to C. M. Simpson, Z. T. Hedges, J. C. Hackney, and Mark Brown to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Ark., having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass.

The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the letter attached and which is made a part of this report.

[Second indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT,

April 5, 1916.

Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives.

The Chief of Engineers reports that H. R. 13715, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, "Granting the consent of Congress to C. M. Simpson, Z. T. Hedges, J. C. Hackney, and Mark Brown to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholonew, Ashley County, Ark.," makes ample provision for the protection of the interests committed to the War Department, and I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the bill by Congress, so far as those interests are concerned.

JOHN C. SCOFIELD, Assistant and Chief Clerk.

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