492 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL The Senate proceeded to consider the report of the committee of confer- ence on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. B. 1202) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1986, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1906, and June 80, 1987, and for other purposes Mr. AnAMS. Mr. President, as the bill passed the Senate some 153 amend- ments were attached to it. The conference committee spent a great deal of time, and went into the matter with a good deal of care, and reached an agreement upon all but four of the amendments. Two of these amendments, nos. 29 and 30, have to do with the Tennessee Valley Authority; one amend- ment, no. 41, has to do with the Florida ship canal; and amendment no. 49 was a textual amendment I move that the Senate recede from its amendments nos. 29 and 80 and from its amendment no. 41, and that It concur in the amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate, no 49. In order to make the situation clear, I may say that the motion which I make is a recession from the amendments of the Senate on the Tennessee Valley Authority matter and on the Florida ship canal amendment. The Senate conferees did their utmost to maintain the position of the Senate, the House declined to recede-the matters were taken to the House and a vote was taken in the House yesterday, both on the Tennessee Valley Author- ity amendment and the Florida ship canal amendment. The vote on the Florida ship canal amendment was 63 for and 108 against. The vote on the T. V. A. amendment was 10 for and 116 against. My view is that it is entirely useless for the Senate to insist upon these two amendments. If we do insist, we will delay the passage of the bill and perhaps will delay the adjournment of the Congress. Therefore I make the motion. Mr. MoKLLAa. Mr. President, as I understand, in regard to the two addi- tional dams under the Tennessee Valley Authority, the House vote was largely against the dams. Mr. AnAMs. Yes. Mr. MoKam.La Of course, the Senator knows that those of us who were conferees on the part of thp Senate fought steadfastly to add these two dams, as they would virtually make a completed project of the Tennessee Valley project from Knoxville to the Ohio River. I am deeply disappointed, naturally, that these two dams were rejected by the House of Representatives, but as they seem to have been rejected by quite a large majority, I do not see any- thing that we can do in connection with the matter in this deficiency bill I shall therefore adopt the course proposed by the Senator, and shall not object to the conference report Mr. LOamN. Mr. President, I hope the Senate will not agree to recede as to amendment numbered 41, which relates to the Florida Canal If my late dis- tinguished colleague, Senator Fletcher, were here this morning, standing in his place, I am sure that Senators would find him ably, aggressively, and elo- quently pleading for the Florida Canal, as he has been doing for many years. It had become a part of his heart's work. I shall not this morning review the merits or the arguments in favor of the canal because my late distinguished colleague did that so often on the foor of the Senate and so convincingly that the Senate agreed to the amend- ment. He has so ably said all that can be said about the canal and its ad- vantage to the Nation, as well as to my State, that anything I could say would not add to the Information the Senate already possesses. I merely ask that before Senators vote to recede from this amendment they recall what my distinguished colleague so often said about the canal, and the arguments he oaered in its favor. Whatever may be the action of this body today, as a matter of expediency to secure early adjournment, I want the Senators to know that the people of Florida still feel that the canal is a worthy project; that it will be of great benefit to the Nation and to the shipping of the world, and that they will be found again and again insisting that the canal be constructed until finally it will become a realization. Mr. RomsoN. Mr. President, when legislative provisions are at issue be- tween the two Houses, according to the precedent which has prevailed, when the House opposed to an amendment inserted by the other votes upon that amend- ment and rejects it, usually the body inserting the amendment recedes.