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Senators from Maine did not desire it included, so the Passamaquoddy project
in Maine is not before us. The question before us is the $20,000,000 which
would take care of the appropriation for the four projects authorized by the
President and for which funds were allotted and upon which work has been
begun.
 Mr. HAxL Mr. President, will the Senator yield further?
 Mr. FLWxCHEB Certainly.
 Mr. HALE. I think the Senator should state that in the recommendation by
the Budget Bureau $9,000,000 was included for the Passamaquoddy project.
The omission of that amount accounts for the reduction of the appropriation
to $20,000,000 which is provided for in the amendment of the Senator from
Florida.
 Mr. FLzTCHEm. That is quite true; and that is what I intended to say. Of
the $20,000,000 proposed in my amendment, $12,000,000, according to the break-
down, will go to the Atlantic-Gulf canal. The other $8,000,000 will be divided
in three sums of about $2,230,000 each to the projects in New Mexico, Missis-
sippi, and West Virginia. These projects were authorized by the President in
pursuance of a law enacted and approved in April 1935.
 Congress empowered the President to make this authorization. Congress
empowered the President and invested him with discretion to allot funds to
the works which he should select. I do not believe it can be objected that in
that act there was a delegation of legislative power to the President. An agency
was created by the Congress and power vested in the President to do precisely
what he has done.
 The President accepted that responsibility imposed upon him by Congress,
and with that rare vision and splendid judgment which has made him famous
and with that patriotism and statesmanship which characterized him he
proceeded to act.
 He designated these projects as worthy of public improvement. He allotted
funds to them. He has started the work upon them. Now he comes to Con-
gress and tells what he has done, and recommends to Congress that they take
over these projects and treat them as Federal projects, in accordance with
other river and harbor activities, and under the usual river and harbor
procedure.
 That has been done. These projects are now Federal projects under the
law. They are authorized by the President. He had the power to authorize
them. They are in process of being completed, and they are to be treated pre-
cisely as duly authorized Federal projects.
 I read from the testimony of General Markham upon that subject, so that
 there may be no doubt about it, although I believe that is not questioned. In
the hearings before the subcommittee of the Commerce Committee I asked him
this question:
 "Is it not true that projects classed as rivers and harbors projects and not
 authorized by Congress directly but authorized by the President, under authority
 delegated to him in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, and placed
 under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, as follows: Sardis Reservoir,
 located in Mississippi; Conchas Dam, located in New Mexico; Bluestone Reser-
 voir, located in West Virginia; Passamaquoddy project, located in Maine; and
 the Florida canal, located in Florida; that those were the projects authorized
 by the President?
 "General MARKHAM. That is correct, sir.
 "Senator FLarOHEa Isn't that true?
 "General MARKHAM. That is true.
 "Senator FLProHI Each of those projects were authorized by the President
 and the work initiated under an allotment which amounted, in many instances,
 to only a fraction of the cost?
 "General MARKHAM. That is correct.
 "Senator FLxrOH. Each of these is regarded by the Chief of Engineers as
 an authorized project; he proposes to carry them in his budget from year to year
 until completed unless it is otherwise disposed of?
 "General MARKHAM. That is correct.
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 "We will proceed in what we conceive to be an orderly fashion from the
 beginning of that authorization and first allotment to whatever would be the
 Executive or congressional conclusion.