The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-09-14
!. SUMMARY \ OF WORK
Of GATH CONGRESS
RECORD Or CONSTRUCTIVE Leo
isLATIoN sY CONGRESS -
GREATEST IN HISTORY.
MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES
Total Of Appropriations $1,e2s, 4ss DO
With Additional Contracts Amo"~.
Ing TO $23t,s45, 275.-Items A..
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i Washington, d. CA record of nm
structtve legislation, improving ~.
advantages OF the people all along tho
line is that Of the 64th CongrosU
which has just ended.
r The total Of the appropriatioD.
specifically made, is $1,626, 43s, 2Os Ga
In addition to this congress has ar.
1 thorized contracts to be entered into
obligating appropriations in the n.
ture or 1921, 945, 275.20. These con-
tracts include $225, 266, 1880 for ma.
val and coast defense purposes, while
the remainder, $6,678, $50 Is for or.
binary objects of Government.
The appropriations for military and
naval purposes and for additional sea-
coast defeases alone amount to seSh.
7G9, 823.09. This sum, with the con.
tracts authorized, brings the total for
preparedness to $910,976, 1889. How.
ever, there is still more to be added
to the preparedness. Congress has
authorized 80 additional war vessels
to be constructed In the next three
years, which will cost 1926, 900 900 ad.
ditional when they are completed and
in commission. This brings the grand
total for the preparedness legislation
of this congress to $1,205, 976, 14S.2s.
The appropriations are distributed
as follows for preparedness:
Army appropriation act $267,5SS-
53O.1O.
Naval appropriation act $818,8OO,-
1854.
Fertilization appropriation act, $685.
TAT, $50.
Military Academy act, $1,225,O4S.
Sundry civil appropriation act:
sArmories and arsenals, $4,683,495;
military posts, $1,616,0OO military
surveys. $4,000; Panama Canal for.
tifications, s4,535,00O.
Deficiency appropriations, military
and naval establishments $46,77O,-
648.58;. National Guard camps, $780,
900; nitrate plant. $200,0OO,OOO.
Investigations have been started to
ascertain where the nitrate plants are
to be located The plan contemplated
when this provision was accepted by
congress was to place the plants at
convenient sections of the country
where they would supply the needs of
agriculture with fertilizer, easily dis
tributed, and also be ready for uuse
In time OF wOr In the manufacture OF
munitions. One of the plants will be
In the south.
New government activities will be
looked upon in the future among the
notable achievements of the finest
session of the sixty-fourth congress.
For these a total Of $73,719,700 is
appropriated, to be used as follows:
To encourage, develop and create
a naval auxiliary and naval reserve
and q merchant marine, $50,1OO,OOO;
federal aid in the construction OF
good roads. $6,o00,000; establishment
of federal farm loan banks. $780,
600; federal employees compensation
commission, $550,0O0; tariff commits
sion. 100000; construction OF rail-
roads in Alaska to develop its coal
fields, $8,247,620 expenses Of collecting
the income tax, $1,828.00O; federal
trade commission, $444,080; eight
hour day commission, $4,000.
Included in the legislation of the
session just closed are the following
items:
Reorganization OF the army
Vast increases In the navy and TOT"
tifications
A government controlled merchant
marine.
Exclusion of products of child Ia
Dor from interstate commerce.
"a system OF rural credits, assuring
the farmer OF his ability to borrow
money upon his asset at s per cent
Adequate compensation for WORK
men injured In government employ
ment.
Al fuller measure of Independence
Tor the Philippines.
An eight-hour day on the ra1lroauS.
Eighty-five million dollars for goOu
roads.
Established official grain STANDARDS
applicable to grain shipped IN ln'0i
state or foreign commerce.
A uniform system of bills OF iauine.
Amended the federal reserve ACT |"
make it more generally applicable
a. tariff commission.
L.evies upon dyestuffs. .s-
Retaliation for unfair trade ln0'A
DDS by foreign countries.
Government armor plate plant
Increased Understanding account,
In postal savings banks from "'''
10 81, 900. .ss
Crested subcommittee Oh -.
oemmerce committees to inVes'ls"'
railway problems. . a.
Some important measures raileu .he
pass They VIII be disposed Oh a. .Ss,
next session. Among them are -
following f .nose