DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL


 Senator FIETCnHE. You are talking about the Board of Review
now?
 General MARKHaM. Yes.
 Senator FLETCHER. Before that the P. W. A. engineers themselves
made a study and a report, did they nott
 General MARKHAM. That is my understanding.
 Senator VANDENBEGB. What happened as the result of the P. W. A.
engineers themselves?
 General MaRKHAM. I do not know what the P. W. A. considera-
tions were.
 Senator VANDENBERO. Do you know whether they reported to
 Secretary Ickes or what Secretary Ickes' decision was?
 General MA&KHnM. I do not.
 Senator VANDwENBxG. Very welL Go ahead.
 Senator FLEromB. After that the Board of Review was born?
 General M~lAH Ax. Was directed by the President to make a report
 and reported to the President.
 Senator FLETCHE. The President named those engineers, and the
 two named by your Department, the War Department?
 General MARKHAM. The Secretary of War named two engineers
 on the committee, the Secretary of the Interior named two engineers
 himself, and the four selected a fifth,
 Senator VANDENBERG. General, you do not know whether or not
 Secretary Ickes rejected the project on the basis of his own original
 report?
 General MARKHAM. I do not. That special Board of Review re-
 ported to the President, following which the President made an
 allotment of $5,000,000 to proceed with the canal.
 Senator VANDENBEBG. I do not want to interrupt you, except I
 am very anxious to have all the information in the record. That
 allotment would not have been possible, would it, under the Emer-
 gency Act of 1933, because of the clause prohibiting allocations to
 any projects except projects approved by Congress?
 The CHAIRAN. I suppose that is a legal question.
 Senator VANDENBEBG. No; it is not The general is fully familiar
 with it. It is covered in correspondence from his Department.
 General MARKHAM. I would suppose, merely expressing to that
 extent a personal opinion, that under the act to which you refer, the
 Corps of Engineers, not having completed its considerations and
 reported to Congress, and Congress not having acted, the $5,000,000
 could not have been allotted out of the first emergency appropriation.
 Senator VANDENBERO. Then when the second law was passed that
 qualifying clause was omitted, which left the door wide open
 General MARKHAM. That is correct, I think.
 Senator VANDENBEBG. Go ahead.
 General MARKHM. Based upon the allotment following the ad-
 ministration's consideration of the Review Board's reports to which I
 have referred, and assigning the work to the Corps of Engineers, we
 proceeded therewith.
 Now, with respect to the use made of that $5,000,000 as a matter of
 emergency employment we immediately proceeded to carry out the
 building of a village for employees, the camps for the various con-
 82710-86--13


187