New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Deficiency Measure Also
Provides $1OO,OOO,OOO for
Storage Plants
$81,O0O,OOO More
For Artillery
$2O,OOO,OOO for Bush Ter
minal Is Recommended
to House

WASHINGTON, Feb. Principal
urgent deficiency appropriation bill, fa-
vorably reported 10 the House to-day,
include s277,732 900 for bombs for air
planes. 500, 100000 for quartermastcr
storage plants on the scacoast and at
interior points, and $S1 100000 for
mountain, field, siege and other artil-
lery. in addition to the billion dollars
already spent for ordnance and con-
tract authorizations for $779,00O,000
additional.
in asking for an appropriation OF.
sl00000,000 for storage and shipping
facilities, with an authorization of
S50.000,000 more, Major General Goe-
thals, acting quartermaster general,
disclosed that it is proposed to spend
from S2O,0o0,oO0 to S25.0O0OOO enlarg-
ing the Bush Terminal at brooklyn.
Storage plants at Norfolk, Va, will
cost $23,000,000; at Charleston, S. c.,
S13 900; at Baltimore S9.s3O,0O0; at
Philadelphia, S12,950,00O, and at Bos-
ton, $10,700,000. The interior plants,
the locations of which were not given,
will cost S50.000,000.
Money for Governors Island
To complete the storage at Cover
ror's Island, n. Y, $4,000 900 is asked,
will cost $4,600,000. Storage houses
already have been built at Harrison,
n. Y, and Norfolk.
The bill also reveals that the Army
Medical Corps contemplates an aggre-
gate of 100000 square feet for it's
storehouses at New York, Philade lphia,
Chicago, ST. Louis. San Francisco,
Louisville. Washington, Watertown.
San Antonio and Atlanta
The ordnance department contem-
plates storage at Newport News,
Charleston, Baltimore, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Paterson, Watertown, Spring
field. H.; Cleveland, Springfield, Mass. :;
Rock Island, San Francisco and Boston
with storage for explosives on Raritan
River, New Jersey. The signal corps
wants storage at Dayton, Cincinnati
Buffalo and Mincola.
The report of the Appropriations
Committee on the bill shows there is an
agreement between the United States
and French governments for France to
take over, after the war, the railroad
system which the United States army
is constructing in France.
The War Department has expended
Slo0,00OOUO for materials for this sys-
TEN to be used abroad.
Speeding New Ports in France
In discussing before the committee
the work of the engineer corps. Major
General Black, chief OF engineers. said
construction of the ports Of debarka
ton IN France was going forward as
rapidly as the transshipment overseas
would permit, but mot as rapidly as
we would like, because it has been i'm
possible to get the men and the ma
terlals across the ocean"
In asking So 900 for the food admin.
lstration Food Administrator Hoover
told the committee that his admnistra-
ton was directing the purchase of Sl6O.
O0O, 900 worth of foodstuffs month fol
the Allies alone, besides its work 70,
conservation and in keeping dowr
prices in the United States.
Although the Navy Department asked
for $7.l4O,o 900 for Enforcement "ane
equipment of navy yards for ship con.
struction, the bill allows only ST SO
900, in addition to $4,000 900 hereto
tore appropriated for that purpose. a
total of half a billion was eliminated
py the committee from the recommen
cations OF the various departments. 81
as to conhne the appropriations to i'm
mediate needs. In many instances an
preparations were asked which the com
mttee believed could be included !,
regular appropriation bills to be con
Sldered later.