SECOND DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, 1925 HEARING BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE OF HOUSE COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF MESSRS. MARTIN B. MADDEN (CHAIRMAN), DANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., HJ10 B& 19252 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION MARTIN B. MADDEN, Illinois Chairman FRA H. FUNK, Illinois. JOHN TABER, New York. MAURICE H. THATCHER, Kentucky. JOSEPH W. BYRNS, Tennessee. JAMES P. BUCHANAN, Texas. JAMES A. GALLIVAN, Massachusetts. JAMES F. BYRNES, South Carolina. BEN JOHNSON, Kentucky. CHARLES D. CARTER, Oklahoma. WILLIAM B. OLIVER, Alabama. MARCELLUS C. SHEILD, Clerk LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AUG - 1925 DOCUMENTS DIVISION SECOND DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, 1925 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. MARTIN B. MADDEN (CHAIRMAN), DANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., WILLIAM R. WOOD, LOUIS C. CRAMTON, CHARLES R. DAVIS, SYDNEY ANDERSON, JOSEPH W. BYRNS, JAMES A. GALLIVAN, JAMES P. BUCHANAN, AND GORDON LEE, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1924, AND PRIOR FISCAL YEARS, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1925. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A MEMORIAL BUILDING TO WOMEN OF THE WORLD WAR STATEMENT OF MISS MABEL T. BOARDMAN, SECRETARY, AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS The CHAIRMAN. Miss Boardman, you are here to tell us why the Government should contribute $150,000 toward a $300,000 fund, $150,000 of which the Red Cross people are to raise, for the construction of a memorial. We will be very glad to have you tell us the importance and necessity for this. Miss BOARDMAN. Taking it up first from the side of precedent, I may say that in the Sixty-third Congress, in 1913, $400,000 was appropriated in an urgent deficiency bill toward the purchase of a site and the erection of a memorial to the women of the Civil War, North and South, upon the condition that $300,000 should be raised by private subscription; $400,000 was raised, and the tract of land bounded by Seventeenth, Eighteenth, D, and E Streets, was purchased at a cost of a little over $350,000. That land to-day is assessed at $815,000. The building cost approximately $450,000 and it would cost much more to build it to-day. Therefore, I think that the property is easily worth four-fold what it originally cost, and it belongs to the United States Government. Since that time, and within five years after the Congress made the appropriation, the American people contributed to the Red Cross for relief work in the war over $400,000,000 in supplies and in money values, the larger part being in money. Therefore, I feel that we are a little justified in coming back after such a record. We come back showing a return, not one hundred fold, but one thousand fold. Now, as to the new memorial, the purpose is twofold: First, it is another memorial, a sister memorial, to the sacrifices and services of the American women in the World War. As to the sacrifices, there were thousands of women who gave their sons, their fathers, 1 |