ALLOW CREDIT TO HOMESTEAD SETTLERS AND ENTRYMEN FOR MILITARY SERVICE IN CERTAIN INDIAN WARS JANUARY 22, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. EATON of Colorado, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany H. R. 61231 The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred (H. R. 6123) to allow credit to homestead settlers and entrymen for military service in certain Indian wars, having considered the same, report it favorably to the House with the recommendation that it do pass without amendment. The purpose of this bill is to place the veterans of Indian wars in the same status enjoyed by veterans of other wars with reference to homestead entries. The enactment of this measure into law will prevent a discrimination heretofore made against the veterans of Indian wars. A letter signed by the Secretary of the Interior and a memorandum transmitted by him are herein set out in full for the information of the House. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Hon. DoN B. COLTON, Chairman Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: With further reference to your request of December 5 for a report on H. R. 6123, which is a bill to allow credit to homestead settlers and entrymen for military service in certain Indian wars, I transmit herewith a memorandum from the Commissioner of the General Land Office. After a review of the measure, I agree with Commissioner Moore. Very truly yours, Ray Lyman WILBUR, Secretary. Department of the InterIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Washington, December 19, 1929. Memorandum for the Secretary. Reference is had to the letter of December 5, 1929, addressed to you by Hon. Don B. Colton, chairman Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, requesting report on H. R. 6123, a bill to allow credit to homestead settlers and entrymen for military service in certain Indian wars. The bill proposes to authorize homestead settlers or entrymen who come within the provisions of the act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1361), which grants pensions to certain soldiers who served in the Indian wars from 1817 to 1898, to deduct the period of their established military service in those wars from the 3-year period of residence required or to deduct the full term of enlistment if discharged on account of wounds received, or disabilities incurred in line of duty subject. however, to the condition that no patent shall issue to any such entryman who has not resided upon, improved, and cultivated his homestead for a period of at least one year. I recommend that the bill be enacted into law. C. C. MOORE, Commissioner CONSTRUCTION AT MAXWELL FIELD, ALA. JANUARY 22, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. HILL of Alabama, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 7244] The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7244) to authorize an appropriation for construction at Maxwell Field, Ala., having considered the same, report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass without amendment. The bill authorizes an appropriation not to exceed $20,000 to be expended for the construction and installation at Maxwell Field, Ala., in the glassing in of the front porches on 13 noncommissioned officers' quarters at said field, the addition and installation of sleeping porches to said quarters, the addition and installation of a porte cochère or garage for each of said quarters, and for the construction of sidewalks, driveways, roadways, and culverts. At the time the quarters were constructed the limit of cost for the construction of noncommissioned officers' quarters was $6,000. The War Department only spent, however, $5,000 each for these quarters. They are very cramped and crowded, and so hot in the summer time that they are almost uninhabitable. They consist of 2 bed rooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room, and 1 bath. The bed rooms are 10 by 12 feet, respectively, the kitchen 12 by 11 feet, and the living room 11 by 18 feet. There is no garage or other place for keeping an automobile at the quarters to-day. By glassing in the front porch it would mean practically the addition of another room to the quarters, and a sleeping porch will give relief at night from the heat. The truth is that the quarters were built along lines such as might have been devised for quarters in a far northern climate. To illustrate, there is a full concrete cellar under the entire quarters with no need for all of this cellar space. There is, however, a most imperative need for more living accommodations and for better sleeping accommodations. The quarters are of stucco with red tile roofs. The additions proposed in the bill are necessary and will be of a permanent nature. о 718T CONGRESS 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT No. 384 ACQUISITION OF LAND IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALA., FOR MILITARY PURPOSES JANUARY 22, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. HILL of Alabama, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8805] The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8805) to authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in the county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, for use as an addition to Maxwell Field, having considered the same, report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass without amendment. The purpose of this bill is simply to authorize the Secretary of War to receive a donation of some 75 acres of land in the county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, and contiguous to Maxwell Field as an addition to the flying field and to permit the Secretary of War to request condemnation proceedings to acquire such land in the name of the United States, with the proviso that any and all awards in payment for title to such land as is condemned shall be made by the donors. The fact is that the deeds to the land from the city of Montgomery to the Government are now in the hands of the War Department, and it seems clear that the titles conveyed in these deeds are good and that there will be no need for any condemnation proceedings. The condemnation provision is simply put into the bill in the event that any cloud should appear on any title to any of the property. The land is a gift from the city of Montgomery, Ala., to the Government and does not cost the Government one cent. O SURVEY AND PATENT OF CERTAIN LANDS CLAIMED BY ZUNI PUEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO JANUARY 23, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. LEAVITT, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 8476] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8476) to authorize the survey of certain lands claimed by the Zuni Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, and the issuance of patent therefor, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass without amendment. The purpose of the bill is to authorize a patent fee for a certain tract of land, consisting of approximately 18,000 acres to the Indians of the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, who have had the unmolested use of the land for centuries, following and prior to a grant from Spain in 1689. However, the grant has never been confirmed by Congress. The area in the grant is entirely surrounded by lands reserved and set apart for the same Indians by Executive order of March 16, 1877, and May 1, 1883, all of which is located in the western part of New Mexico near the Arizona line. The Zuni Indians are anxious to obtain a patent for the land included in the grant, and to have issued to them a patent of the same form as has been already issued to all other Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. The favorable report of the Secretary of the Interior, together with the memorandum of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the four letters to which he refers, follow: Hon. SCOTT LEAVITT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I inclose herewith a memorandum from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and a draft of a bill which he proposes and which would authorize the survey of certain land claimed by the Zuni Pueblo Indians, |