The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-06-12
APPROPRIATIONS FOR TEXAS
TIE HOUSE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
GIVES TEXAS $1.438,4O1.
a Number Of Small Amounts Allowed
for Public Buildings in Texas
Rivers Rarbcrs, Etc.

Vashington-~A total of $l,43S,4Vl
is carried in the sundry civil appro-
prian bill reported by the house APP
propriation committee Thursday Tor
Texas projects for the year 1919.
Harbor and channel improvements
come in for $1,236,5O0, being the
amounts allowed on estimates Tor
work already authorized. For publlc
buildings and sites Texas gets total
of $196.501. Oklahoma for all pur-
poses is given total of $l5S,OOO. The
total appropriation allowed reaches
nearly one hundred and eight million
dollars. which is nearly eighteen NIL
lion less than the estimates asked for
The following is allowed for Texas
public buildings and sites:
Amarillo, $4,000; Brennan, $4,000;
Bryan, $4,000; Cameron tsite), 81
OO0; Coleman (site), $1,000; Ennis,
IS 600; Galveston federal court house
completion of remodeling and recon
struction, $4,000 Galveston, for com
pletion of Encouragement OF poStoi-
flee and custom house and construc-
ton of offices in third story, $l5,oO0;
EIillsboro, $4,000; Longyiew, $4,000;
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 A
and c from Port Arthur canal TO
mouth of Neches and from mouth OF
Neches to Beaumont, $4,000: for con-
tinuing Improvement OF section b
from mouth of the Neches to mouth
of the Sabine and up the Sabine TO
Orange, $4,000.
Improving channel from Galveston
harbor to Texas City, 100000; inn
prOvement of Houston ship channel,
for purchase or construction of two
suitable dredging plants and i'll com
pletion OF contract authorization and
subject to conditions specified in the
river and harbor act OF 1913, $20OO0g.
Appropriation heretofore made for
postoffice and court house at Corpus
Christi is made available for postof-
flee, court house and custom house
at that point.
A total of $4,000 was reapprO-
priated to be spent under direction of
the department of justice for continu-
ing prosecution of the $4,000 remain
ing on the docket of the eastern dis
trict federal court of Oklahoma Of
the so-caled $4,000 Indian land suits.
For prosecution of the Seminole land
suits in oklahoma $4,000 was allow
Ell. Plat National Park, Sulphur,
Okla, gets $4,000 for maintenance,
bridges, roads and trails.
An appropriation Of $4,000 is made
for investigation concerning the mill
ing, preparation, treatment and utili,
cation of petroleum and natural gas
with a view TO economic development
and conserving those resources
through prevention of waste.
AS showing the necessity of the in.
vestigations the committee quoted
from report touching the Cushing,
Okla, field which at that time was
yielding $4,000 per day in oil and
that there had been a waste of $780,
100000 feet of gas daily, causing a
loss of $4,000 per day.
The interior department IS given
$1,000 for lease or purchase of land
for headquarters Of the five mine
rescue cars and for the construction
of railway sdings. One of the cars
probably will be located at Fort Smith,
Ark, or McAlester, Okla.
The following public buildings in
Oklahoma are provided for; Ard
more, $4,000: Blackwell, $4,000:
Chickasha, $4,000; Ell Reno, $4,000
A number Of Texas and Oklahoma
items did not get out of the commit,