with limitations by Public, No. 141, as amended, is $138 for a total and permanent disability, with proportionate lesser amounts for partial and permanent disabilities. Prior to the recent enactment of Public Law 339, supra, the basic rate of compensation authorized for total disability under Public, No. 2, Seventy-third Congress, and Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended, was also $138, with proportionate amounts for the nine degrees of partial disability (under Public, No. 2 and the Veterans Regulations, no distinction is made between permanent and temporary disabilities). However, section 3 of Public Law 339, supra, amended subparagraphs (a) to (j), inclusive, of paragraph II, part I, Veterans Regulation No. I (a), as amended, to increase this rate to $150 per month, with proportionate increases for the degrees of partial disability. Enactment of H. R. 6301, therefore, would authorize a similar increase in the basic disability compensation rates payable for total and permanent disabilities under Public, No. 141. As the bill makes no distinction between temporary and permanent disability cases, the mentioned rate would also be applicable to temporary disability cases. Under existing law, the basic monthly rate for temporary total disability is $110.40, with proportionately lesser amounts for temporary partial disabilities. In this connection, the records of the Veterans' Administration disclose that as of October 1, 1949, there were less than 300 cases on the rolls receiving compensation for temporary disabilities pursuant to the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, and Public, No. 141, as amended.

The bill further provides that the increases authorized therein shall be effective December 1, 1949. This date coincides with the effective date of the mentioned increased rate of disability compensation authorized by section 3 of Public Law 339.

It is estimated that enactment of H. R. 6301 would result in providing increased benefits to approximately 163,700 World War I veterans at a first year cost of approximately $7,643,000.

Due to the urgent request of the committee for a report on this measure, there has not been sufficient time in which to ascertain from the Bureau of the Budget the relationship of the proposed legislation to the program of the President.

Sincerely yours,

O. W. CLARK,
Deputy Administrator

(For and in the absence of the Administrator).

DISPOSITION OF SUNDRY PAPERS

OCTOBER 14, 1949.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. GARMATZ, from the Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, submitted the following

REPORT

The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Representatives and acting in compliance with the provisions of the act approved July 7, 1943 (57 Stat. 380), as amended by the act approved July 6, 1945 (59 Stat. 434), respectfully reports to the Senate and House of Representatives that it has received and examined the report of the Archivist of the United States No. 50-10, dated October 12, 1949, to the Eighty-first Congress, first session, submitting the following lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, covering records proposed for disposal by the Government agencies indicated:

Your committee reports that the records proposed for disposal in the said lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, reported by the Archivist of the United States do not, or will not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government and recommends that their disposal be accomplished subject to the proviso of section 6 and the provisions of section 9 of the afore

mentioned act, as amended, in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the National Archives Council under the provisions of said act.

Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives.
EDWARD A. GARMATZ, Chairman,
C. W. BISHOP,

Members on the Part of the House.
OLIN D. JOHNSTON,
WILLIAM LANGER,

Members on the Part of the Senate.
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H. Rept. 1448

RELATING TO EDUCATION OR TRAINING OF VETERANS UNDER TITLE II OF THE SERVICEMEN'S READJUSTMENT ACT (PUBLIC LAW 346, 78TH CONG., JUNE 22, 1944)

OCTOBER 14, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. TEAGUE, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT

To accompany S. 2596]

The Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2596) relating to education or training of veterans under title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (Public Law 346, 78th Cong., June 22, 1944), having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment, and recommend that the bill, as amended, do pass.

The amendment is as follows:

Page 3, line 14, strike the words "or any other" and insert in lieu thereof the word "general".

GENERAL STATEMENT

The bill is designed to insure the veteran the right to select a course of training under the GI bill of rights provided the course is not avocational and recreational and is in the same general field of the veteran's occupational objective. The ban on schools in existence less than 1 year prior to August 24, 1949, as contained in the proviso of Public Law 266, Eighty-first Congress, is modified. Certain courses are found to be avocational or recreational in character, and the veteran is prohibited from taking such courses unless it is shown that such course is for use in connection with his present or contemplated business or vocation. In addition, a Veterans' Education Appeals Board composed of three members to be appointed by the President is created to hear complaints of educational institutions concerning the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.