liquidated or other damages as a penalty for any default or forfeiture thereunder. On amendment No. 9: Strikes out the provision, proposed by the Senate, that section 10 be stricken out, said section providing that nothing contained in this act shall be held to apply to the legitimate business of national banks, licensed bankers, trust companies, savings banks, building and loan associations, or real estate brokers, as defined in the act of Congress of July 1, 1902. On amendments Nos. 10, 11, and 12: Strikes out the provision, proposed by the Senate, for the renumbering of sections 11, 12, and 13. INCORPORATION OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS. January 11, 1913.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. TOWNSEND, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 18505.] The purpose of this bill is to incorporate a distinguished body of authors, artists, and composers of music analagous to the National Academy of Sciences, which received a national charter in 1863. It may fairly be said to occupy the same relative position toward literature and the arts which the latter organization has always occupied toward science. The object of the academy is to stimulate the production of good professional work by upholding the best standards and giving recognition to excellence. It is neither the purpose nor desire to obtain financial aid from the Government, but merely to enable the organization to receive and expend any fund which, for the purpose of advancing literature and the arts, may be entrusted to its good faith, its experience, and its knowledge of the best use to which such fund may be put. In the constitution of the academy there is no sectional, partisan, social, or other bias. The members are men of national reputation in their several activities. They are chosen, as vacancies occur, from the membership of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, by which the academy was established in 1905, and which, in turn, was organized in 1898 by the American Social Science Association. The academy has no commercial purpose in view, and the granting of the charter will prove an encouragement and a stimulus to literature and the arts. The committee is unanimously of the opinion that the charter should be granted. AIDS TO NAVIGATION. JANUARY 13, 1913.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. COVINGTON, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 27789.] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 27789) to authorize additional aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes; also sundry House and Senate bills to authorize particular aids to navigation in the several lighthouse districts, beg leave to report that all the bills referred to the committee authorizing particular aids to navigation have been laid on the table of the committee, and the bill H. R. 27789 is reported back to the House with a recommendation that it be amended by inserting between lines 10 and 11, on page 2, the following: To erect a carpenter shop at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, at a cost not to exceed $23,000. As thus amended the committee recommends that the bill do pass. The additional aids to navigation and other works in the lighthouse service provided for in the bill reported favorably are as follows: Improvements Great Salt Pond Light Station, R. I..... Carpenter shop, General lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, N. Y...... Improvement offices and laboratory, general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, N. Y. 25,000 23,000 Passaic Light and Fog Signal Station, Newark Bay, N. J. 21,000 45,000 4,000 125,000 |