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

Washington, Dec. 14.A"Edonomy'
was the watchword of the appropiil-
tions committee in the preparation OF
the legislative aid judicial appEopria
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropraton bill, first of the pig sup
ply measures which was report"d to
the house today. The committee cut
off nearly 100000 from tile esti-
mates submitted by the various lie
apartments, cutting salry allowances
measure appropriating s3S, ,744,I44,15S
all along the line and brought in a
measure appropriating s3S,744, 1880
The bill provides for morei than $4,000
salaries of government employees.
The total of the bill shows an in
crease of S1,12S,S43 over last years
measure. But this years measure in
cludes a special issue Of S2,2S6, 100,
and authorizes 1000 additional en-
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 contains the usual provi'
sion cutting down the mileage allow.
ance of members of congress from &c
cents a mile to cents 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 $102,26O 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
first week of mobilization. 1t had
been a tradition in Russia that the
assembling of the army was accom-
panied by disorders and riots, largely
if not wholly, due to alcoholism
The sale of liquor in Russia, it will
be remembered, is State monopoly.
which has for more than decade
Welded has for --NIff kqeevearrsfET
yielded the treasury annually hun
dreds of millions Of dollars. As soon
as the war broke out the Government
isued a second order absolutely for.
bidding the sale tranSpppcrppppppp
bidding the sale tranSptatlon. or
consumtiOn of any liquor during the
period of the war.
Immedeiately-we learn from the
Russian observation-disclosures, with it,
accompanying evils of hooliSaniSm
and crime. was reduced to a striking
degree. Even the reactiOnary Minis
ter of. the Interior, Maklakov, who
not long ago. gave it as his opinion
that vodka was q necessity to the
meSSeS. it now admitting that it is a
source fcrime and disorder. Seeing
the b. nt!ciali effects of prohibitions
many individuals, societies and even
some whole communities began to pc
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 all
portions of the empire under materia
law until the end of the war. The
Russian press is unanimous in praiS-
ing the measure as likely to, lead t.
the moral and material regeneration
Of the country, no mater what ma
he the outcome of the war,'-Fror
The Progress Of the world, in The
American Review Of Reviews.