Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-29
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL,
CUT TO$383,611,292,
REPORTED TO HOUSE
Estimates of Various Govern
ment Agencies SIashed to
Half by Committee.
So, 900 is PROVIDED
FOR DISTRICT PROJECTS
Key Bridge $45o,o0o Appropria-
ton Carried; soc, 900 for Rock
Creek and Potomac Parks.


Carrying s3S3.sl1 ,e9241, the suidry
civil appropriation bill for the fiscal
year 1922 was reported to the House
Today, and will be taken up for imme-
diate consideration. The determination
of the appropriations committee 10 cut
estimates Ito the bone" Was shown by
the fact that the bill as reported is
less than half the amount asked by the
various government agencies in their
estimates 1t is 420.914, 1s2. 45 less than
the estimates and 52,237. .514.51 less than
the appropriations for the current fiscal
year.
Two Principal Items Denied.
a, Approximately two and a quarter
million dollars for projects of par
ticular interest to the District OF Co
Iumbia which are to be met 90 per
cent from the Districts 9 tax funds and
20 per cent from the federal Treasury,
are included in the bill. The princi-
pal of these items is 100000 for Rock
creek and Potomac parkway. which
is reduction OF 100000 from the
estimate submitted.
The two principal items for the Dis
trict which were denied by the ap-
preparations committee are $4,000
asked for the Arlington memorial
bridge commission and $4,000 asked
for new building for the National
Training School for Boys.
Among the District items recon-
mended in the bill are $4,000 for the
Fine Arts Commission, a decrease of
$4,000 from the estimate; $4,000 for
the maintenance of Columbia Hos
pital; s15.S2e for the Washington
Monument, which is decrease of
$3.50 from the estimate; s700 for the
deathplace of Abraham Lincoln, an
/, increase of $500 over the present ap-
preparation. and 800 for the birth
place of George Washington.
For the rejecting pool at the Lin
colin memorial s150.00O is provided,
which is an increase of $4,000 over
the present appropriation, but a de-
crease of s150.000 from the estimate.
For the maintenance of Lincoln me-
mortal Sl0,590 is recommended. which
is an increase of $3.50 over the pres
ent appropriation and a decrease of
1910 from the estimate.
For Key bridge at Georgetown
$456.000 is carried in the bill, which
Is tfIe full sum asked fns the estimate.
but $4,000 less than that the appro-
FOR the Francis Scott Key monument
S. 900 is provided. There was NO
appropriation for this purpose in the
1921 bilt but the committee cut the
estimate from Sl4,UUV-
sI.If4,50O for 81. Eliabeth's.
For repairs to the District of CO.
funlbia courthouse. $1,000 is provided.
in the estimate. and All, Increase of
81 900 above the current appropria ton
For the Capitol buildings and grounds
the following appropriations were
made: Repairs to building, $4,000:
for care of the grounds, $4,000, and
= he Evc and stables nd
the Maltby building, $500. This is
an aggregate increase of $37,250 over
the current appropriation for the
Capitol building and grounds.
For St. EIizabeth's Hospital 6he bill
carries $1,114, 500, which is decrease
of S15,500 from the current appropria-
Iion and a decrease of $246,00o from
the estimate for the next fiscal year.
For Columbia Institution for the Deaf
$10l,000 is provided. which is a de-
crease of So 500 from the current ap
preparation and of $4,000 from the
estimates. For Howard University the
appropriation is $1e4, 900. decrease of
$4,000 from the current appropriation
and a decrease of S1,638, ,437.15 from
The estimate for the next fiscal year
Besides this there is an appropriation
OF s1l5,020 for Freedmens Hospital.
which is an increase of $12. 500 over
the appropriation for the present year.
but a decrease of s6s,990 from the
amount asked for the fiscal year 1922.
The bill carries an item of new
Legislation which makes the revision
of salaries for employees of the Dis
.trict courts applicable to the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
$z23,OO0, 900 for Compensation.
The bill carries $22s. ZOO on account
of military and naval compensation for
death or disability of soldiers. sailors
and marines, medical, surgical and hos
m herefis.i nf the
bureau of war risk insurance, and vo-
cational rehabilitation Of soldiers. sailors
,and marines, all growing out Of the
recent war
recommended in the accompanying bill
leaves but s1S0.611 1924 Al for all other
PURPOSES, as compared with $685. ,922,-
75079. the amount carried by the sundry
civil act for the fiscal year 1916, Illus
trating the determination Of the COM
rnittee to get back to pre-war condi-
tons
The principal reduction made from
the current appropriations is found
in the appropriation recommended
for the United States Shipping Board
emergency shipping fund, $147 900. 900,
which was entirely eliminated The
bill provides that this organization
shall be supported entirely out of
its various sources of income fol-
lowing the methods prescribed in the
1921. notwithstandin the provisions
Of the merchant marine act approved
June 5. 1920. The provision in the
current sundry civil act prohibiting.
after the approval of the bill. the en-
tering into contracts or the under
taking of work for any additional
vessels for the Shipping Board or
The Emergency Fleet Corporation is
recommended in the new bill tn he
continued.
A large proportion of the reductions
have To do with public work, and the
items they represent are not recon-
niended- in keeping with the commit
tees policy to defer all construction
work which might be postponed
without deteriment to the public in
tereSt
Denies Prohibition Fund.
Request from the Department of
Justice for 100000 for enforcement
of the national prohibition act WAS
eliminated entirely. The sum of s15.-
eee was appropriated. however, for
suppressing liquor traffic in Alaska.
Conspicuous among the reductions
from the amounts asked by the ad-
ministration officials are:
Public buildings. $6,7Ss,l00: bureau
of engraving and printing, $209I. .229:
war risk insurance Compensation.
&S5,0n0,000; medical and hospital serv-
ice, $4,000. 600; hospital and dispen-
sary facilities. $3s,oo0.000): vocational
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