Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-24
Measure as Approved by Sen
ate Carries $116,0OO,O 900.
ROLL CALL is NOT TAKEN
About $6,OOO,OO0 Added to House
Appropriations.
VOW GOES TO CONFERENCE
Differences in Congress as to Needs
of Government Service to
Be Adjusted.

The sundry civil appropriation bill,
carrying approximately SIG, 100000 for
the support of certain bureaus and
branches of the government service.
passed the Senate today without a roll
call. IT contains increases of about
s6.00O.000 over the appropriations au-
thoriZed by the House. The differences
between the two bodies will be adjusted
in conference committee.
The more important additions in the
Senate include the Appropriation of S225.-
COO for the tariff board; Sa..0.O2O for col
lecting the customs revenues: 100000
for the prevention of epidemics and
emergency work against the bubonic
plague. S650.OO for the public lands
service. and $2o1 900 for national park i'm
provementS.
Island Railway Indorsed
The construction of a fifty thousand
dollar military railroad in the Philip
pines, which provoked a fight a few
days ago over the governments policy
of holding the islands. came up again
today. but was again indorsed by the
Senate.
The sundry civil bill is nearly $685.
100000 less in amount than the esti-
mates that We're submitted to Con-
gress. and is $26.OOO,OOO less than the
same bill carried last year.
The amendment increasing the pay OF
office from ~ to - cents per hour was
proposed by Senator Reed of Missouri
and was advocated by Senator Smoot,
chairman of the printing investigation
committee.
This advance in wages is provided for
in the Smoot printing bill for a revision
of the printing laws and for the reor-
ganiza ton of the government printing
office.
That bill. however. has only passed
the Senate, and there seems to be little
chance of Its passage by the House soon.
1t affects about 100 employees of Uncle
Sans print shop and involves an in
creased expenditure of about $1,000 per
year.
An appropriation of $4,000 TO carry
census to procure additional statistics re-
gardlng the amount Of leaf tobacco in
the country was inserted at the sugges-
tion of Senator Bradley.
Fight on Tariff Board.
When the bill was reported from the
committee of the whole to the Senate, a
mere parliamentary procedure, the demo-
Gratis renewed several of the fights they
had unsuccessfuly made in the commit
tee of the whole. The first was over the
provision for continuing the tariff board
at an expenditure of s225. 900.
The vote was practically the same as in
the committee of the whole last night.
Republican regulars and insurgents voted
for the continuance of the board, while
the democrats. with the exception of
Senators Chamberlain, Newlands and
Thornton, voted against it.
Funds to Hire Clerks.
To hasten the work of adjudicating the
claims and increasing the pensions of the
veterans of the war with Mexico and the
civil war. under the Sherwood -Smoot pen
sion bill passed by Congress in May. an
amendment was put in the sundry civil
bill late yesterday afternoon making
S3OO,OOO available for the hiring of tenn
porary clerks in the pension bureau.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio offered the
amendment. 1t specifies the salaries of
the temporary clerks are not to exceed
81 100 per year, and that clerks who have
been employed in other government de-
partments and are fitted for the work
may be employed without complying with
the requirements of the civil service law.
Senator Warren, in charge of the supply
bill, declared that he understood the mat
ter was to be taken up by the House
committee on appropriations in connec-
ton with the general deficiency bill, but
some indirec, information that the House
committee had declined to make provl-
sion for the extra work.