Excerpt from Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1922: United States Shipping Board; Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session on H. R. 8117; A Bill Making Appropriations to Supply Urgent Deficiencies in Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Endin The chairman. The Senator from Utah and the Senator from Kansas have to attend another committee meeting, and therefore they may proceed at once with such questions as they want to ask. Senator smoot. Mr. Lasker, I find in the hearings before the Subcommittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives the statement that there was a contract being made with Lybrand, Ross Bros. A Montgomery by the United, States Shipping Board and the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation; and I understand from that examination that you were paying one of their partners $100 a day and others $50 a day with all expenses, and I understand that Mr. Montgomery got about 50 per cent of all of that and besides he is paid necessary expenses and expenses incurred in connection with the work, and that it is costing the Shipping Board about What I wanted to ask of you is this: Is there another audit to be undertaken? Mr. Lasker. I don't quite understand. Do you mean another audit? Senator smoot. I understand there is a move on foot to have these people here come in now and make another audit. Mr. Lasker. There is only one audit that I know of that they are making. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.