The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-22
WAR AGENCIES ARE LEFT OUT OF NEW
 CIVIL CASH BILL
Food and Fuel Administra- tions and Many Other Agencies Left Out of
 Provisions

Washington, February 21.-No ap- propriations for the continuance of several government agencies created during the war, including the depart ment of labors employment service, are contained in the new sundry civil appropriation bill reported to tl;o House tonight by Representative Shir- ley of the appropriations committed. The measure carries sS50, ,766, 800 for various departments and also provides for turning back to the treasury $21,- 905,S1S of unexpended war appropria- tions.
 War agencies for which no provision is made include the food and fuel ad- ministrations, the committee on public information, the capital issues commit tee, the war trade board and the war labor administrative servIces of the department of labor. Under the bill publication of the Official Bulletin by the committee on public information and the maintenance of its service bu- reau here will be discontinued April l, but the film division will continue un' til the end of the fiscal year, June 30.
 PROTESTS REVIEWED
 
 Protest against the abolishment ot the employment service were received today from many states and municipal officials and others by the committed, but its majority voted against the $10,033 900 appropriated for continuing the service Four members, however, joined in a minority report claiming that the service could be continued by including the appropriation in the m mo that service was created as war emer- gency and could not be continued with out specific legislation.
 Representatives Gallivan of Massa- chusetts, Eagan of New Jersey, Evans of Montana and McAndrews of Illinois prepared the minority report, declaring that the service "is part of the off, cial machinery of the government for the return of soldiers and war workers to peace industry" and that cit is time to go slow in discontinuing those forms of national ,bolshevism by as. sisting during the transition from war to peace conditions the soldiers and workers who have borne the brunt of the war
 Secretary Wilson wrote Representa- tive Heating of Colorado today that maintenance of the system of labor cx- changes established by the federal ser vice was absolutely necessary to keep industrial unrest at a minimum" par ticularly during the readjustment pe- riod.
 FEDERATED SYSTEM
 He also said the policy of the labor department for the future contemplated "a federal system of employment eX- changes" financed jointly by the fed eral government and the states.
 The repealed war appropriations turned back into the treasury by the bill included the housing and trans- portation funds of the emergency fleet corporation, aggregating s14,72S, 900: food administration, $S,5O0,0oO; war in dustries board, $1.925, 900; federal trade commission, $300,000, and fuel admin istration, $775,000.
 The principal item of the new bill is $660, 0,903,250 for the emergency ship ping fund.- for use in construction Of vessels and other operations of the shipping board. The remaining $1S9,- S63,595 carried in the new bill cover activities in practically every depart ment of government. Reductions in de- partment estimates made by the ap- propriations committee included $a9.- 670,746 from the fleet corporation, and Nfh