The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-31
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 COMMITTEE CHIEF
Chairman Good Declares He Will Try to Prevent Appro- priation of Single Penny.
 Also Muscle Shoals
By Associated Press

Washington, December 30.-In open ing House debate on the sundry civil appropriation bill, Chairman Good of the appropriations committee today served notice that if he could prevent it. mot a single penny would be apr propriated for the shipping board. He added that his comfsstttee felt that it had to get benind tife shipping board and compel it to sell it's plant and equipment.'
 House leader took up the big ap- propriation bin with the avowed pur- pose of disposing of it as soon as pos sible to make way for other important supply measures to run the. govern ment through the fiscal year of 1922. The bill contains more than 1000 items and calls for an aggregate appropria : ton of s3S3,611, 292. General debate on the measure will be concluded tomor- row and it's consideration item by item will begin next week.
 ASSAILS BOARD
 Chairman Good in the course of to- days discussion assailed the provision. which had been rejected by his com mittee, to give the shipping board $147,000, 900 for the support of the emergency fleet corporation
 We are not going to appropriate, if can prevent it. he said, "a single penny for this board that does not know it's business, that is wasting the peoples money. and if it is going to get any money, it must get it out of the salvage of it's plant
 Representative Bankhead democrat. Alabama asked if Representative Good was making 1t possible for the board to put off the day of final reckoning as the profit or loss of it's operations.
 T don't think so.' Mir Good replied. If you had watched the spectacle of man after man in high position on the shipping board who knew nothing about the business in which he was engaged except to know the amount of his salary, you would not be ready to criticize the committee. We want them to commence to salvage some of kt2se D dlstss < Fss xgsisI eit t l4tsxsid . ssssT must get to work. They have got to learn this business or get out of it.
 ALABAMA PROJECT
 The committee feels that some ships should be sold. It feels that now Is not the time to take money and loan 1t to any shipping board concern to Dullu Olner SnlpS because the money is likely to be lost. The committee feels that it has got to get behind the shipping boary and compel it to sell its plant and it's equipment
 There were indications during Mir Goods address that democratic mem bers from the south would make a determined fight to have the House in ciude an appropriation of $10, 900, 900 eliminated by the committed for com pletion of the dam across the Ten Iessee river as a part of the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant project. MT. Good admitted there was some merit in the proposal but insisted that the question should go over for consdera- tion later.
 The fight for the appropriation was led by Representative Byrnes, ranking demo- cratic member of the appropriations conn mittee, who said he did so because of the urgent nature of the undertaking on which $l7,V00o0 already had been ex- pended.
 The chairman also attacked the war de- partment for spending more money than Congress had appropria ted in recruiting the army. He said he personally was in favor of limiting the army to 150,000 men and make them learn to work
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