Evening star., 1916-06-27
|AL[ APPROPRIATIONS.
| WILL Be CONTINUED
House Committee Reports Bill
Granting Funds to Run
Government.
EIGHT ANNUAL MONEY
MEASURES HELD UP
Urgent Deficiency Bill Carries Large
Sums for Operation Of Army
in Mexico.

The House appropriations committee
today reported a bill continuing until
July 81 all appropriations necessary FOR
the operation of the government which
remain unprovided for June 80 and also
an urgent deficiency appropriation DILL
The continuing appropriations bill ex-
tends the current year appropriations
for a month because of the failure of
final passage of eight of the annual
supply bills for the next fiscal year.
beginning July the agriculture.
army, District OF Columbia, Military
Academy. naval. pension, post office and
sundry civil appropriation bills.
There are also a general deficiency
and urgent deficiency bill yet to go
through both houses, together with the
fortifcation bill, which carries appro-
year. Under the continuing bill sum
equal to one-twelfth of the appropria-
tions for the current year is made
available for July.
Similar resolutions have been pushed
through Congress in the past when sup
ply bills have been delayed in the con-
gestion of legislative business.
Millions For Preparation.
The urgent deficiency bill. which will
be taken up tomorrow along with the
continuing appropriations bill. carried
millions for the preparations of the
army and National Guard in connection
with the Mexican situation and 1926, 900
for the navy. Besides $250.00O for the
signal service and 100000 for wireless
telegraph installations. the bill appro-
s.ss3.214 for transportation. ss.o25.ss5
for horses, $3,791 .160 for clothing, camp
and garrison equipage; s1,s4s,000 for pay
of the National Guard: mileage of Off
| GERS. $50.0o0; subsistence. $623.700;
regular supplies, S105,410; construction
! and repair of hospitals. 100000; and
| in the Engineer Department, $500, 200
F.! for field operations; 100000 for engi-
| neer equipment of the troops. along
| with many minor items. In the naval
| establishment the bill appropriates
$55.000 for the medical department.
100000 for provisions for the Marine
Corps, $105.000 for military stores for
| the marines and $4,000 for contingent
expenses of the Marine Corps.
"In Terrible Need of Money"
Brig. Gen. Scriven, chief signal officer
| of the army, told the House appropria-
tions committee that the army is "in
terrible need of money for radio
tractors, trucks, field wire. telegraph
| poles and SO on, to carry on the abso-
lutely necessary communication on the
Mexican border" The s25o,000 is for
| radio installations generally and for
purchase of motor vehicles.
The $4,000 is to establish permanent
wireless stations on the border at Fort
Huachuca, Ariz.; Fort Mcintosh, Tex,
and Fort Bliss. Tex. With the 300-mile
radios the army can pick up the small
er wireless sets. establishing a COM
plete chain across the gulf to the sta
tion at San Diego.
The testimony of army officers before
the committee. reported today, shows
| the army engineer depots have sent out
to the border practically everything
| they had in the way of engineer equip
| ment and material for the Mexican ac-
tivities. The army has sent to the
border 1900 feet of bridge stringers
approximately $4,000 shovels picks,
cross-cut saws and similar equipment
required for intrenchments and heavy
bridge construction.
Branch engineer depots have been es-
| tablished at Ell Paso, San Antonio and
| elsehere in Texas for the purpose of
having quick access to the material
needed at the front. The officers advis-
ed the committee that I'VE will have to
have one engineer depot at each place
where we cross the Inc nto Mexico, and
one at Vera Cruz"