New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
$1,761,7o1,0oo for Ship
building and $5O,00O,OOO
for President
Creel Bureau Gets
Only $1,25O,O00
Hoover to Have $4,000
and the Fuel Board
$3,5OO,OOO

mittee on Public Information, was
passed by the House late to- day with
out record vote. 1t now goes to the
Senate.
The measure carries a total of ST.
915,O00,00O, of which more than $751;
100000 was added by the House, in
Guiding the funds for the President
and the Information committee and
S1,oO0,0OO for Mississippi River food
control.
The appropriations for the President
and the Information Committee were
approved to-day by the House Appro-
pr,ations Committee and attached as
amendments to the bill, with both
Democrats and Republicans supporting
them. Before passing the measure,
however, the House amended it SO that
none of the Information appropriation
draft age unless they are physically
disqualified for military service.
SS7,OO0,00O for Shipyards
Most of the nearly two billions pro-
vided for the Shipping Board is for
and abroad, with $4,000 900 for estab-
fishing shipyards, $60,000,00 for oper-
ating ships heretofore acquired and So
25O.0O0 for recruiting and instructing
ships officers.
Other appropriations include $780,
600 for tie food administration, $3,-
100000 for the fuel administration,
$3,500,000 for the War Trade Board,
$2,SOO,OOO for the Department of Labor,
sl,15o,ooo @. for for the War Industries
Board, 5000 900 for the Alien Property
Custodian, 100000 for the Council of
National Defence and 100000 for the
National Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics.
For the current year S100O000O0 had
been provided for the Presidents
emergency fund, but this was cut in
half at the Presidents suggestion be-
cause specific appropriations are made
in the pending bill for many of the &C
tivities formerly paid for out of the
Presidential fund.
How Funds Are Divided
In letter Chairman Sherley of the
Appropriations Committee read to the
House, the President outlined how the
money had been spent. Sums were al
otted for the food and fuel admins
trations, War Trade Board, War Labor
Board, Committee on Public Informa-
ton and various other war agencies
and for Secret Service work at home
and abroad.
Referring to the Committee on Pub
lie information, the President praised
highly its work and said he would be
personally crippled" by any obstacles
put in its way. An unexpended balance
of S26,798 $50 remains in the Presi-
dents fund for the current year.
One of the purposes to which a con-
siderable part Of the Presidential fund
has been devoted was the repair of
enemy merchant ships damaged by
their crews before they We're taken
now is completed. The Presiden,
pointed out that war agencies which a,
the outset were supported by the
emergency fund now could be taker
care of through specific appropriations
in the regular way.
Uses for Wilson'S Fund
"There remains the uses for such 6
fund which may perhaps characterize
as continuing but incalculable,' he
wrote 81 refer to the conduct of many
necessary Investigations, for example
in connection with the determination
| of the prices which the government is
to pay and which the governments as
sociated with us in the war are to pay;
| to indispensable Secret Service and tt
confidential uses abroad; to the yer,
large necessities of record and in
formation; to the maintenance of thu
instrumentalties, both on this side OF
the water and on the other side, which
are doing admirable work in informing
public opinion both here and there o.
the real aims of America, of the pro
gress she is making in the conduct O.
| the war and of the real facts with re
gard to all the larger aspects of oul
policy; and to the service and guidanc,
| to all sorts of patriotic movements il
the United States, which appeal to tn,
government for its assistance and fo
materials wherewith to conduct thei,
work
Praises Creel Bureau
Besides these things which can nov
| be stated, the experience of the las
| year convinces me there are many oc
caslons which will arise which l can
not now even conjecture, but which
will make it necessary that | shoult
have free fund at my disposal
| May not take the liberty of saying
word OF special emphasis with regarC
to the work which the Committee or
Public Information has been doing?
have had very close personal connec
tions with the work Of that committee
and have watched its development anc
ITS activities with particular care anc
interest, feeling special RESPONSE
bli.y.
The work Of the committee has. or
the whole, been admirably done. and
think it very likely that nobody, ever
those intimately connected with the
government, is aware Of the extent. the
variety and the usefulness of that work
or Of the really unusually economical
manner in which it has been achieved
so far as the expenditure of money is
! concerned. | should feel personally
crippled if any obstacle of any kind
was put in the way of that work.
ut is probable that it will now be
possible to a considerable extent tc
submit estimates of the usual sort te
take care of the work Of the committee
and / hope that in connection with
these estimates at least some of the
members of the Committee on Appro.
Priations may have an opportunity ia
Know more particularly what it has
been doing"
Budget Is Slashed
The appropriation of 81 $50 900 70,
the Committee on Public Information
was $S4S,000 less than the amount
asked for by George Creel, chairman OF
the committee. 1t is stipulated that
money derived from the operation OF
the motioan picture activities of the
committee shall be paid into the
Treasury to the credit of the appro-
rriation.
A report on the activities of the COM
mittee shows that since it's inception.
| shorti& after the entrance of the Init