Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-12-17
SUPPLY BILL cur TOTAL MORE
THAN LAST YEARS


Washington, Dec. .14.-fEdonomy''
was the watchword of the appropria-
lions committee in the preparation OF
the legislative and judicial appropli ia
the legislative, executive and judicial
Appropriation bill, first of the pig sup
ply measures which was report.,d to
the house today. The committee cut
OF nearly 100000 from tine ssti-
mates submitted by the various de-
ipartments, cutting salry allowances
measure appropriating $3s, s,744,744,75s
all along the line, and brought in a
measure appropriating $3s.744,7535O
The bill provides for morei than 10000
salaries Of government employees.
The total Of the bill shows an in.
crease of $1,12s,s43 over last years
measure. But, this years measure in
cludes a special issue Of $2,2S6, 100,
ployes for taking the agricultural cen
sus authorized by the law covering
the last regular census in 1908. The
committee in its report says that this
Is an extraordinary expenditure which
will come once every 10 years, and
maintains. therefore, that this years
measure is materially less than the
last appropriation.
The bill containsrthe usual provi
sion cutting down the mileage allow
ance of members of congress from &c
gents mile to cents a mile. The
first to cut down the mileage allow
ance has been on for years and al
though the committee each year re
ports the reduction in the bill, it is
defeated either on the floor of the
house or in the senate.
The committee cut $1O2,26O from
the estimate of the secretary OF
commerce, although an increace OF
commerce for the work of the bureau
of foreign and domestic $25, 900 over
last years Appropriation was allowed
for promoting commerce with South
and Central America.
expected results of the war. An i'm
perial ukaSe closed the wineShops
throughout thee empire during the
llISt Ncch ol HlOblllZitlOIt. II Ittu
been Il tradition in Russia that the
assembling of the army was accom-
panied by disorders and riots, largely.
If not wholly. due to alcoholism
be remembered, is Il State monopoly
which has for more than decade
yielded has for Mfr, kqeevearrsfET
yielded the treasury annually hun
drcdS Of millions of dollars. AS soon
as the war broke out the Government
iSueI Il second order absolutely for
bidding the sale transpppcrppppppp
bidding the sale transptation. nr
conSumtion of any liquor during the
period Of the war.
Immcdeiatcly-we learn from the
Russian Observation-Disclosures, with its
accompanying evils of hoOliganism
and crime, was reduced to a striking
degree. Even the reactiOnary Minis
ter of the Interior, MaklakoN, who.
not long ago, gave it as his opinion
that vodka was a necessity to the
mesSeS, it now admitting that it is a
source o fcrime and disorder Seeing
the h.ntiiciali effects of prohibition
many individuals, societies and even
some whole communities began to pe
titiOn the authorities not to reopen
the wineshops. The third Govern
ment measure, which took effect on
November, Is extends the prohibition
to every form Of alcoholic drink in al
portions of the empire under material
law until the end of the war. The
Russian press is unanimous in prais.
ing the measure as likely to lead to
1.-THE moral and material regeneration
OF the country, no mater what max
he the outcome of the war,'-From
The Progress of the world, in The
American Review of Reviews.