The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-12-31
SLASH SUPPLY MEASURE
House Sundry Civil Bill
Reported Out Today
HEAVY DECREASESH0WN
Grand Total of $50, 237 ,514 Less
Than Appropriated BY Con-
gress Last Year
rAssociated Press Dispatch. ]

Washington, December 29.-The
sundry civil bill carrying total OF
$685., 6l1,zs2 or $42O,914,192 less than
was asked by the government depart
ments, was reported today by the
house appropriations committee. 1t
was the first of the big supply meas
ures for the next fiscal year to be
completed and its total was $52,237,-
5l4 less than the amount appropriated
Ior similar purposes this year.
Indicating desire to put govern
ment expenditures on pre- war ba
sis, the committee, first taxing care OF
men disabled by war, set aside only
Sl6O,6l1,L9z for actual sundry civil
expenses OF the government which
was within $54,0UO,OU0 or the total
amount appropriated for 1916. The
largest single reduction, $l4 900, UUO
apples to the Shipping board emer-
gency fleet corporation, the bill pro-
Viuing that the organization shall be
supported entirely out OF various
soui COS OF income.
Request from the department of
justice for 100000 for enforcement OF
the national prohibition act was elm
mated entirely. The sum OF $4,000
was appropriated for suppressing traf..
nc in Alaska.
Other Principal Slashes.
Other principal slashes in the
amounts asked by the government de-
partments included: War risk insur-
aace $S7,000,000; vocational education
13,000,000; military posts $50, y42, $40 |;
national cemeteries $19.000,00U; flood
control Mississippi river $3,330,000;
nitrate plants S10,000,000.' Panama
canal $7,l87,25 immigration service
$92 ,567, $3.50; employment service ST.
384,991; reclamation service $780,
600; public health service $4,461 900;
armories and arsenals S6,238, 900; pub
lie buildings $6,i98,400; bureau of
mines $2,1l2,000, and department Oh
justice $1,9S9,304.
The bill includes $223, 200, 900 on ac-
count OF military and naval compensa-
tion for deaths or disability of SOL
diers, sailors and marines, medical
surgical and - hospital treatment of
beneficiaries of the bureau OF war
risk insurance, and vocational re- hab-
ilitation of soldiers, sailors and. ma
-rinSs, all. growing out of the world
war.
Amount For Other Purposes.
With this amount deducted from
the amount recommended in the DILL
only $50, 611 ,292 was lett for all other
purposes, as compared with $126,9 22,-
$50, the total carried by the sundry
civil act for the fiscal year 1916. The
principal increases over this years
appropriations were Sill 1903 900 for the
reclamation service; 100000 for flood
control; $1O, 321,000 for national homes
Tor disabled volunteer soldiers; ST.
100000 Tor lighthouses and beacons,
and $516, 200 for the government print
ing office
The application proposed on account
OF medical and hospital service for
war risk patients was $33,OOO,OOO or
S13,000,00O than the total for 1921
The estimate for 1922 was $500 900
There were 1887 patients receiving
treatment on November Is, 1920" said
the committee report ACCOMPANYING
the bill, and the estimate is that
the number will reach 10000 durine
the fiscal year 1922. These patients
are cared for in public health service
hospitals, in hospitals at various sol
diers' homes, in army and navy hos
pltals and in contract hospitals al
varying cost rates. The amount pro
posed IS on the basis of 10000 ma
tients throughout the fiscal year 1922
at the approximate rate of SO a day
Vocational Training Total. =
While there was an apparent educ.
ton of 100000 in the amount pro.
| posed for 1922 for vocational training
the bill provided for reappropriation
OF unexpended balances, estimated al
$1O,5O0, 900, making the total proposed
for this service $75,50O,00O. Appropri-
atoms for Alaska includes So, OOO. 00C
for railroads; 1926, 900 for education
$4,000 for medical relief; S12O, Gao fo,
care of insane; $4,000 for protection
OF game, and $4,000 for the national
park service.
For enforcement of anti trust laws
| 100000 is proposed as against the
$3OO,0OO asked by the department al
Justice. The appropriation for the
railroad labor board is s4OO. 000
against the $550,00O requested, while
the shipping board estimate of s8s8 !.
600 is cut to $4,000. For the CON
struction of military posts only $500
600 was allowed As against the s6I
462,815 asked. The totai recommend
ed was to be spent in the Hawaiiar
Islands, no appropriation being pro.
| posed for the Panama Canal. the con.
tinental United States and Alaska.