COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS TASKER L. ODDIE, Nevada, Chairman GEORGE H. MOSES, New Hampshire. FELIX HEBERT, Rhode Island. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR., Wisconsin. KENNETH MCKELLAR, Tennessee. CARL HAYDEN, Arizona. GEORGE MCGILL, Kansas. JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY, North Carolina. JOHN H. BANKHEAD, Alabama. W. J. BULOW, South Dakota. JAMES F. BYRNES, South Carolina. M. M. LOGAN, Kentucky. H. N. LAWRIE, Clerk CONTENTS Statement of Mr. Frederic E. Everett, president, American Association of Statement of Mr. W. C. Markham, secretary, American Association of Statement of Mr. G. C. Dillman, State Highway Commissioner of Mich- Statement of Mr. Z. E. Sevison, president of the Western Association of Statement of Mr. Ernest N. Smith, executive vice president, American Statements from Western A. A. A. affiliations.. Statement of Mr. O. S. Warden, chairman of the Highway Commission of Statement of Mr. Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture--. Statement of Mr. Harvey L. Cobb, general counsel, American Motorists Association; also representing the National Rural Letter Carriers Statement of Mr. W. G. Armstrong, president of the National Rural Letters of Mr. Charles Upham, engineer-director, American Road Builders' 143, 144 Letters from the National Park Service, with a table_- 123, 147, 148 Statement from the American Association of State Highway Officials- Letter from National Rural Letter Carriers Association_. Table furnished by National Automobile Chamber of Commerce_ III FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY LEGISLATION MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1932 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, in the committee room, Capitol Building, at 2 o'clock p. m., Senator Tasker L. Oddie, chairman, presiding. Present: Senators Oddie (chairman), Frazier, White, Barbour, McKellar, Hayden, McGill, Bankhead, Byrnes, and Logan. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. I called this meeting for the purpose of considering S. 36, which I have introduced, and my amendment thereto, also other amendments that may be offered. This is the Federal aid road bill. (The bill under consideration by the committee is as follows:) [S. 36, Seventy-second Congress, first session] A BILL To amend the act entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following additional sums, to be expended according to the provisions of such act as amended: The sum of $125,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934; the sum of $125,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935. SEC. 2. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal highway act, approved November 9, 1921, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for forest roads and trails, out any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following additional sums, to be available until expended in accordance with the provisions of said section 23: The sum of $12,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934; the sum of $12,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935. SEC. 3. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Federal highway act as amended June 24, 1930 (46 Stat. 805), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, the sum of $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, the sum of $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, the sum of $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, available until expenderl. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts in any way inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect on its passage. Amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Oddie to the bill (S. 36) to amend the act entitled An act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes, viz: Change section 4 to section 5, and insert the following as section 4: SEC. 4. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act of April 9, 1924 (43 Stat. 90), entitled "An act authorizing the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior," as amended by the act of January 31, 1931 (Public, No. 592, Seventyfirst Congress), and the act of March 4, 1931 (Public, No. 869, Seventy-first Congress), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following additional sums, to be available until expended in accordance with the provisions of said acts: The sum of $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934; the sum of $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935; of which sums $1,500,000 may be allocated each year, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of approach roads to national parks and national monuments, inclusive of necessary bridges. The CHAIRMAN. One of the strongest and most important road organizations in the country is the American Association of State Highway Officials, which includes those from every State in the Union. Mr. Markham, its executive secretary, who has his office in Washington, is with us to-day. He is one of the ablest and strongest exponents of the good-roads movement. We have Mr. Frederic E. Everett, the president of that organization, and some of its other officials here. While they are in town to-day, it seemed wise to ask them to give certain testimony which can be placed in the record. The first witness I will call will be Mr. Markham, the executive secretary of the American Association of State Highway Officials. We will ask you, Mr. Markham, to make a statement regarding the bill before us, S. 36. Mr. MARKHAM. I think that in order that there may be presented to you the material we wish in the proper order, Mr. Chairman, I would like to have Mr. Everett, of New Hampshire, president of the American Association of State Highway Officials, read to you our resolutions and our attitude on the items of the bill before you, and then I will take up the statistical matters with which I am a little more familiar. If you will allow Mr. Everett to present these matter I will appreciate it. The CHAIRMAN. We will be very glad to hear from you, Mr. Everett. STATEMENT OF MR. FREDERIC E. EVERETT, PRESIDENT AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY OFFICIALS Mr. EVERETT. My name is Frederic E. Everett, commissioner, highway department of New Hampshire, and this year president of the Association of State Highway Officials. First, I would like to read the resolutions adopted by our association at our annual convention at Salt Lake City on October 1, 1931: FEDERAL AUTHORIZATIONS FOR 1934 AND 1935 Whereas the authorizations for Federal aid in highway building, as provided by existing law, terminate with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933: Now, there fore, be it Resolved by the American Association of State Highway Officials, That we hereby recommend that Federal authorizations for highway building be continued for the fiscal years of 1934 and 1935 at the rate of $125,000,000 per year, the same as provided for the last two fiscal years; be it further |
