Arizona republican., 1918-06-18
THREE BILLIONS IN
 SUNDAY CIVIL BILL
 AS PASSED BY HOUSE
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WASHlNGION, June 1.-The sum- dry civil bill, carrying s1,761, ,701, 900 for the ship building program; s50,000,000 Tor the presidents emergency war fund and S1 25O,O00 for the committee on public information was passed late to- day by the house without a record vote. It now goes to the senate
 The measure carries a total of $2,915,- O00,000 of which more than S52,000, 00t was added by the house, including the funds for the president and the infor- nation committee and s1,000,000 for Mississippi river flood control.
 Amended In House
 The appropriations for the president and the information committee were approved today by the house appropri- ations committee today and attached as amendments to the bill with repub- licans and democrats supporting them. Before passing the measure, however. the house amended it so that none of the information committee approprla- tiOn fund can be used to pay salaries to men of draft age unless they are physically disqualified for military ser vice.
 Most of the money provided for the shipping board is for construction of ships with $S7000,00 for establishing shipyards; S6O,O0O 900 for operating ships heretofore acquired and S6,250,- | 900 for recruiting and instructing ships officers.
 1 Other Appropriation
 Other appropriations include s7.500,- 900 for the food administration s3.500,- 900 for the fuel administration; s3,-
 500,0 900 for the war trade board; S2,- S00,000 for the department of labor, S1150 900 for the war industries board
 S900.000 for the alien property custo- dian; S400,000 for the Council of Ma tional Defense and s200 900 for the ma
 tional advisory committee for aero- nautics.
 One of the purposes to which a con-
 siderable part of the presidential fund
 has been devoted was the repair of
 enemy ships damaged by their crews
 before they were taken over by the
 government. This work now is con-
 pleted. The president in a communica-
 tin to the committee pointed out that
 war agencies which at the outset were
 supported by the emergency fund now
 could be taken care of through specific
 appropriations in the regular way.
 Necessary Investigation
 There remains the uses for such a |
 as continuing but incalculable," he
 wrote. T refer to the conduct of many necessary investigations, for example
 in connection with the determination
 of the prices which the government is to ray and which the governments as
 sociated with us are to pay to indis-
 Iensable secret service and to conf
 Gential uses abroad t. the very large
 necessities of record and information
 to lle maintenance of the instrumen-
 ttllities, botG on this side of the water land the other, which are doing admir-
 ablc work in lnforming public opinion
 both here an1 there Of the real aims
 of America, of the progress she is
 making in the conduct o6 the war. and
 Of the real facts with regard to al
 the larger aspects of our policy; ant
 to the service and guidance to all sorts of patriotic movements in the Uni.e1 States, which appeal to the govern. lce"t fer assistance and fo' ma, ,oI ial. wharewith to conduct their work. Knows Not the Future Besides these things which can now te stated the experience of the pas year convinced me that there are man, occasions which will .lrise which cannot now even conjecture, but whicl will make it necessary that l should have free fund at my disposal. May l not take the liberty e sayin: a special word of special emphasis with regard to the work which in, committee on public information hat been doing? I have had very clos, connection with the work of that com mittee and have watched it's develop ment and it's activities with particula care and interest, feeling a special re sponsibility. The work of the commit tee has, on the whole, been admirabl, done and think it very likely that no body, even those intimately connecte, with the government, is aware of tn extent, the variety and the usefulness \ of that work or of the really unusua s economical manner in which it ha 1 been accomplished, so far as the ex b penditure of money is concerned. \ should feel personally crippled if an E obstacle of any kind was put in tn way of that work
 Tt is probable that it will now b \ possible, to a considerable extent, { submit estimates of the usual sort { take care of the work of the commit tee, and I hope that in connectio \ with these estimates at least some ( the members of the committee on ap propriations may have an opportunit k to know more particularly what it ha s1-..