Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-02-21
s277,7S2,o00 FOR
A|RPLANE BOMBS
One Item in Billion Dollar Urg.
ent Deficiency Appropria.
ton Bill.
Is FAVORABLY REPORTED.
other Items Are O0,0OO.0O0 for Quar-
tcrmnstcr Storage Plants and
ss1,OOO.OOO for Artillery.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Principal
items for the army in the billion dol
lar urgent deficiency appropriation bill
favorably reported to the House to-
day include $277,732,000 for bombs for
airplanes, s100,0o0,000 FOR quartermas-
ter storage plants on the seacoast and
at interior points, and ss1,00O,O00 for
mountain, field. siege and other artil-
lery in addition to the billion dollars
already spent for ordnance and con-
tract authorizations for $4,000, 900
additional
In asking for an appropriation Of
500, 100000 for storage and shipping
facilities with an authorization Of $780,
100000 more, Major-General Goethals,
acting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS disclosed
that it is proposed to spend from $780,
100000 to s25,OOO,v0O charging the
Bush Terminals ut Brooklyn. The in
terror plants, the locations of which
were not given will cost $50,000,000
To complete the storage at Cover
nors Island, N. Y, 100000 is asked,
while a storage house at Newark. N j.,
will cost $4,600,000. Storage houses al
ready have been built at Harrison, N.
j., and Norfolk. Va.
The bill also reveals that the army
medical corps contemplates an aggre-
gate of 100000 square feet for its
storehouses at New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago. st. Louis. San Francisco,
Louisville, Washington, WATERFOWL,
San Antonio, and Atlanta.
The ordnance department contem-
plates storage at Newport News,
Charleston. Baltimore, Chicago, Phlla-
delphia, Paterson, Watertown, SPRING
field, Ills, Cleveland, Springfield,
Mass, Rock Island, San Francisco and
x.,tkA
Raritan river. New Jersey. The signal
corps wants storage at Dayton. Gin
cinnati Buffalo and Mlneola.
AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE.
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 systems which the United
States army is constructing in France.
The war department has expended $780,
OOO, 900 for materials for this system to be
fused abroad.
In discussing before the committee the
work of the engineer corps. Major-General
Black, chief Of engineers, said construc-
ton Of the ports of debarkation in France
is going forward as rapidly as the trans
shipment overseas will permit, but mot
as rapidly as we would like, because 1t
has been impossible to get the men and
the materials across the ocean,"
HOOVER ASKS FOR s5,515.OOo.
In asking $5,515.OOO for the food admin
istration, Food Administrator Hoover told
the committee that his administration is
directing the purchase Of s16O. 900 worth
of foodstuffs a month for the allies alone,
besides its work for conservation and in
keeping down prices in the United States
Although the navy department asked
tfor $4,000 for improvement and equip
ment Of navy yards for ship construction.
the bill allows only $157O.O0O in addition
to $4,000 heretofore appropriated for that
purpose. A total Of half billion was
eliminated by the committee from the res,-
concentrations of the various departments
$50 as to confine the appropriations to i'm
mediate needs. In many instances ap-
preparations were asked which the COM
mittee believed could be included in reg
ular appropriation bills to be considered
later.