Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-06-13
APPROPRIATIONS FOR TEXAS
TIE HOUSE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
GIVES TEXAS St,43a,4o1.
Number Of Small Amounts Allowed
for Public Buildings in Texas
Rivers, Harbors, Etc.

Washington.-A total of $1,43S,4ol
is carried in the sundry civil appro-
priation bill reported by the house APP
propriation committee Thursday Tor
Texas projects for the year 1919.
Harbor and channel improvements
come in for S1,236,5O0, being the
amounts allowed on estimates lot
work already authorized. For puohc
buildings and sites Texas gets total
of S196.5O1. Oklahoma for all pur-
poses is given a total OF $l5S.Ooo. he
total appropriation allowed reaches
/ nearly one hundred and eight million
| dollars. which is nearly eighteen mil
| lion less than the estimates asked for.
The following is allowed for leXas
public buildings and sites:
| Amarillo. $4,000; Brennan, $4,000;
BRYAN, $4,000; Cameron (slte), w.
600; Coleman (site), $1,000; Ennis
s. 600: Galveston federal court house
completion of remodeling and recon
struction $4,000 Galveston, for COM
pletion of Encouragement OF postol-
flee and custom house and construc-
ton of offices in third story. Sl5.OoO;
Hillsboro. $4,000; Longview, Sl5,OOO;
Marshall, $4,000; Sherman, addition
al cost, $4,000; Sweetwater (site)'
$4,000; Uvalde, $4,000.
For improving Sabine-Neches canal
continuing improvement of sections
and C from Port Arthur canal to
mouth of Neches and from mouth oil
Neches to Beaumont, $4,000; Tor con
tinuing improvement of section L
from mouth of the Neches to mouth
of the Sabine and up the SABINE tC
Orange. $4,000.
Improving channel from Galveston
harbor TO Texas City, 100000; i'm
provement of Houston ship channel
for purchase or construction OF tW'
suitable dredging plants and in com
nletion of contract authorization ant
subject to conditions specified in tn
5 river and harbor act of 1913, 100000.
t Appropriation heretofore made 10
: postoffice and court house at Corpu
Christi is made available for posto
4 flee. court house and custom nous
c at that point
G A total of $4,000 was reapprC
:, priated to be spent under direction
e the department of Justice for conun'
4 ing prosecution of the $4,000 remall
h ing on the docket of the eastern dl
e trict federal court of Oklahoma
a. the so-called $4,000 Indian land suit
D. For prosecution of the Seminole Ian
IS suits in Oklahoma $4,000 was alloy
,e ed. Platt National Park, Sulphu
tt Okla. gets $4,000 for maintenance
Id bridges, roads and trails.
in An appropriation of $4,000 is mac
re for investigation concerning the mi
ing. preparation, treatment and utl
cation of petroleum and natural g
with a view to economic developme
ha and conserving those resourc
he through prevention of waste.
1v As showing the necessity of the
ist vestigations the committee quot
il from a report touching the Cushlr
Nv Okla. field which at that time W
or Welding $4,000 per day in oil a
So that there had been a waste OF 81
MS 100000 feet of gas daily, causing
of loss of $4,000 per day.
re- The interior department is CIV
in $1,000 for lease or purchase OF la
"a for headquarters of the five mi
re- rescue cars and for the construct
Of of railway sidings. One of the CT
or. probably will be located at Fort Sml
ari- Ark, or McAlester, Okla.
hat The following public buildings
de. Oklahoma are provided for A
ne more, S2O.OOO; blackwell 80
m Chickasha, $4,000; FL Reno, $4,000
ial- A number of Texas and Oklaho
to items did not get out of the conn
hui tee.