portion of the Capitol and the Dome has been cleaned down and painted; the walls and corridors leading from the crypt in the basement story northward to the Senate wing and those leading northward from the Rotunda were repaired and refinished to conform to the surroundings; an iron stairway has been constructed leading from the corridor in front of the Senate post office, basement story, to the subbasement floor below, landing directly at the entrance to the subway connecting the Capitol with the Senate Office Building. Committee rooms and other rooms have been painted and decorated and plumbing fixtures have been installed. Statuary Hall has been thoroughly overhauled and the walls and ornamental ceiling painted. New chandeliers have been installed in a number of rooms.

The practical completion and satisfactory operation of the new congressional heating and power plant has supplied the Capitol, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and, in a large measure, the Library of Congress during the past year with light, heat, and power.

The expenditures were as follows: Capitol Building and repairs, $39,450; improving the Capitol grounds, $32,100; lighting Capitol grounds, etc., $100,000; engine house, Senate and House stables, $1,500; repairs to courthouse of District of Columbia, $10,000; Court of Claims Building, $3,831.

GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD.

This corporation, which was created by the act of Congress approved January 12, 1903, section 6 of which requires the corporation to annually file with the Secretary of the Interior a report, in writing, stating in detail the property, real and personal, held by the corporation, and the expenditure or other use or disposition of the same, or the income thereof during the preceding year, has for its object the promotion of education within the United States. The corporation owns no real estate, its property consisting of securities and money divided into various funds, according to the purpose for which it is to be used.

On June 30, 1911, the capital funds belonging without restriction to the board amounted to $32,246,377.29, invested as follows: Bonds, $15,786,229.65; stocks, $16,430,758.68; cash, $29,388.96.

The income from the above funds, including income earned but not received and gain on securities sold amounting to $20,594.65, amounted during the year to $1,861,073.15. A gift from Mr. John D. Rockefeller from the income of the special fund in the hands of the board increased this by $200,000, and the unexpended balance from previous year, amounting to $3,636,778.37, brought up the total undisbursed income to $5,697,851.52.

The disbursements during the year were as follows:

Payments on account of appropriations to colleges, universities, etc.. $1,307, 878.86 Payments on account of appropriations for farmers' cooperative demonstration work carried on by the United States Department of Agriculture......

Payments made on account of appropriations for salaries and expenses of professors of secondary education in Southern States..... Expenses.

Total.......

113, 251.62

29, 859.79

34, 139.44

1, 485, 129.71

This leaves an undisbursed balance of income on June 30, 1911, of $4,212,721.81. It is invested as follows: Bonds, $2,472,582.05; stocks, $805,963.29; income receivable, $204,844.35; cash, $729,332.12 It should be noted, however, that against this balance there are unpaid appropriations amounting to $4,158,668.89.

The John D. Rockefeller special fund is a fund which Mr. Rockefeller controls both as to principal and income. During the year the board, at his direction, gave from the principal $9,912,540.74 to the University of Chicago, one-tenth to be delivered January 1 of each year for 10 years; $924,707.63 was also given during the year to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, of New York. This leaves an undisbursed balance of the fund amounting to $1,568,141.54, which is invested as follows: Bonds, $242,135; stocks, $1,225,940.15; cash, $100,066.39.

The income from this fund during the year was $561,591.42, which, added to the balance from the previous year, makes a total of $1,033,966.14. Disbursements during year were as follows:

Gifts to the University of Chicago..

Gift to general education board income account..
Expenses....

Total......

$112, 600.00 200,000.00 2,796. 23

315, 396. 23

This leaves a balance of $718,569.91, which is invested as follows: Bonds, $441,973.65; stocks, $2,625; income receivable, $97,855; cash, $176,116.26.

The Anna T. Jeanes fund, the income to be used for negro rural schools, amounts to $200,000. It is invested as follows: Bonds. $182,877.51; stocks, $16,645; cash, $477.49.

The income from this fund during the year was $9,206.81. Added to the balance from the previous year the total available income amounted to $13,711.51. Of this, $8,589.25 was appropriated and paid to various schools, leaving a balance of $5,122.26, all in cash.

During the year all securities and funds held by the board for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research were turned over to the board of trustees of that corporation.

IMPROVEMENTS AT LAWTON, OKLAHOMA.

By the act of Congress approved March 27, 1908 (35 Stat., 49), it was provided—

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to plat and sell in accordance with section twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States the following-described tract of land, to wit: The south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west, of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall reserve from said tract of land, when surveyed, one block for public-park and two blocks for public-school purposes, and shall cause to be erected two suitable school buildings out of the proceeds arising from said sale, the remainder of proceeds, after deducting the expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, to be converted into and become a part of the fund belonging to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Tribes of Indians: Provided further, That said sale shall be made as soon as practicable after the approval of this act.

The act of Congress approved February 18, 1909 (35 Stat., 636), provides for extension of time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma, and amends the above act in the following language:

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to extend the time of payments to the purchasers and their assigns applying therefor upon the lots sold, or to be sold, in pursuance of an act entitled "An act providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west, of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for town-site purposes," approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to permit the unpaid purchase money for such lots to be paid in such installments and at such times as he may deem proper: Provided, however, That said purchasers or their assigns shall be required to pay interest on all such deferred payments sufficient to pay the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians four per centum interest on the payments so deferred, and to pay the local authorities entitled to receive the same the equivalent of the State, county, city, and school tax at the legal rate upon such valuation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, and to which the lots would be liable if patented, such extension of time not to exceed four years from the date of the approval of this act: Provided, further, That not exceeding one-half of the amount which may be set aside by the Secretary of the Interior, under the act above referred to, for the construction of two school buildings may be applied by the Secretary of the Interior to such other improvements as he may deem for the public welfare.

By section 30 of the act of May 29, 1908, 20 per cent of receipts of sales from the above-mentioned source was set aside for use in connection with the construction of a courthouse and post-office building at Lawton, Oklahoma. The attention of the Secretary of the Treasury was called to the provisions of the foregoing acts, and he has set aside for the use of this department from the proceeds the sum of $147,047.03.

Thereafter plans and specifications were prepared for a 10-room schoolhouse to be located on block 31 of the north addition to Lawton and designated as school building No. 1. Contract for the work was let to the McHenry-Beatty Co., of East Liverpool, Ohio, and the

building was completed at a total cost, including sidewalks, architect's fees, and supervision of work, of $54,822.96. Contract was also let to E. M. Eby for the construction of a sanitary sewer, which was completed at a total cost, including plans and supervision of work, of $25,867.94. The building and sewer were formally accepted and turned over to the authorities of Lawton and are now in use.

On April 24, 1911, contract was let, after due advertisement, to the same firm for construction of an additional 10-room school building, to be located on block 26 of the north addition to Lawton, and to be designated as school building No. 2, and for the laying of sidewalks around it. The work is now in progress and, it is expected, will be completed early in 1912.

After deducting from the total proceeds of sales of lots, Lawton, Oklahoma, the amounts authorized by the acts of May 29, 1908, March 27, 1908, and February 18, 1909, the balance will, by operation of law, be "converted into and become a part of the fund belonging to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Tribes of Indians."

MEMORIAL TO JOHN WESLEY POWELL.

The International Geological Congress in 1904 considered the advisability of the construction of a suitable memorial of life service to Maj. John W. Powell, Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be erected on the brink of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and appointed a committee for the purpose of promoting the project. Thereafter, in the sundry civil act approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., 992), Congress, among other things, provided:

MEMORIAL TO JOHN WESLEY POWELL: For the purpose of procuring and erecting on the brink of the Grand Canyon, in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in Arizona, a memorial to the late John Wesley Powell, with a suitable pedestal, if necessary, in recognition of his distinguished public services as a soldier, explorer, and administrator of Government scientific work, five thousand dollars: Provided, That the design for said memorial and the site for the same shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

Thereafter, on March 4, 1909, the then Secretary of the Interior designated Dr. W. H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology, Dr. C. D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Col. H. C. Rizer, chief clerk of the United States Geological Survey, as members of an advisory committee to assist him in determining the character of the monument and the selection of the best site. Finding it difficult to reach any definite conclusion regarding the character of the monument which would be appropriate and satisfactory without having a somewhat intimate acquaintance with the available sites for selection, the chairman of the committee, Dr. Holmes, visited the Grand Canyon in May, 1909, with a view to making the necessary observations. As a result of such visit the committee submitted a preliminary report recommending the selection

of "Sentinel Point," on the rim of the canyon, from which the view of the Granite Gorge is awe-inspiring, as being the most suitable site for the monument, which was approved by the Department, and the committee was authorized to look further into the matter of design and erection of the monument.

On October 19, 1910, the committee submitted a further report, stating, among other things, that

In its report to you of June 24, 1909, the committee presented a number of suggestions that had been made touching the character of the proposed monument. After very full consideration the committee has concluded that the most feasible plan to follow is that embraced in the last-named suggestion there submitted, viz., a monumental seat or chair from which the canyon and the river could be viewed.

A model of this plan is presented herewith.

It is proposed to insert in the back of the chair a bronze medallion portrait of Maj. Powell with appropriate inscription. Owing to the limitations marked by the appropriation the committee finds that the only suitable material that can be adopted in construction is concrete.

It is therefore recommended that the committee be authorized to at once proceed to negotiate with responsible parties for effecting the above-indicated design. It is further recommended that the Director of the Reclamation Service be authorized to detail some competent person with experience to superintend the construction of the proposed design, the necessary expenses thus incurred to be paid from the sum of $5,000 heretofore appropriated for the erection of this monument.

This report was approved by the Department October 20, 1910, since which time the committee has had the matter intrusted them under further consideration, and has submitted a tentative design and model for the monument which is now under consideration.

MARITIME CANAL CO. OF NICARAGUA.

Section 6 of the act of Congress approved February 20, 1889, entitled "An act to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua" (25 Stat., 675), provides:

Said company shall make a report on the first Monday of December in each year to the Secretary of the Interior, which shall be duly verified on oath by the president and secretary thereof, giving such detailed statement of its affairs, and of its assets and liabilities, as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior, and any willfully false statement so made shall be deemed perjury, and punishable as such. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to require such annual statement and to prescribe the form thereof and the particulars to be given thereby.

The report of this corporation has been duly transmitted to Congress. In view of the fact, however, that the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua has no relations whatever with this Department and the Secretary has no duty to perform thereto, except as specified in the above-mentioned law, it is recommended that the act be so amended as to require the corporation to submit directly to Congress such form of report as it may prescribe.

Very respectfully,

The PRESIDENT.

WALTER L. FISHER,

Secretary.