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Correspondence concerning a reduction in Federal meat inspection appropriations and personnel.

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Correspondence concerning a reduction in appropriations for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Scope and Contents A letter from the National Fisheries Institute in Washington, D.C., in opposition to appropriations for the proposed Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River (Washington) which the Institute believes will result in the destruction of salmon and other fisheries of the Columbia River System and a resolution passed by the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners requesting support for legislation to provide Federal Aid to the States for fish restoration and management projects. Also...

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A letter from Idaho Representative Compton I. White requesting support for the flood control program on the Clark Fork and Kootenai Rivers in Western Montana and Northern Idaho.

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for the construction of a foot and mouth disease laboratory on Prudence Island, Rhode Island.

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for forest products research and forest roads and trail maintenance.

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A letter from the Chairman of the Maryland Committee for Representative Government requesting support for appropriations providing United States military and economic assistance to Formosa for defense purposes.

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A letter from an attorney for the Alaska Native Brotherhood requesting the deletion from the General Services Administration section of the appropriations bill of the proviso limiting projects in Alaska to those which the Secretary of Defense certifies as being of value in connection with national defense. Alaska did not obtain statehood until 1959.

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A response to a letter from former South Carolina Senator Wilton E. Hall regarding a clarification of the appropriations for the Hartwell Dam Project.

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Correspondence concerning an amendment proposed by Senator Maybank to the Federal-Aid Road Act to expand the definition of "bridge" to accommodate for improvements made to the Johns Island Bridge.