Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-29
Sunday Civil
Bill Reduced
FiftyPercent
Four Hundred Million
Slashed from Estim-
ates Of Department
by Committee

washington, Dec. 29.-The sun
dry civil bill, carrying a total of
s3SS,611,292 or $420.914,192 less
than was asked by the government
departments, was reported today
by the house ppror-tations com
mittee. 1t was the first of the big
supply measures for the next fiscal
year to be completed and its total
was $52,237,514 less than the
amount appropriated for similar
purposes this year
Indicating desire to put rgov-
ernment expenditures on pre-war
basis, the committee, first taking
care of men disabled by war, set
aside only S160,611,292 for actual
sundry civil expenses of the govern
ment which was only $4,000, 900
more than the total amount appro-
priated for 1916.
Shipping Board Hit.
The largest single reduction.
$147,000,000 applies to the ship
ping board emergency fleet corpor-
alton, the bill providing that the
organization shall be supported en-
tirely out of various sources of in
come,
Requests from the department of
justice for $780, 900 for the enforce
ment of the national prohibition
act was eliminated entirely. The
sun of $4,000 was appropriated,
however for suppressing liquor
triffic in Alaska.
Other principal slashes in the
amounts asked by the government
departments include: war risks in /.
surance $87, 0,0O0;' vocational ed
ucation s13, 900; military posts,
$60,942,815; national cemeteries,
$19, 100000; flood control Mississip-
pi river, $3,3S0,OOO: nitrate plants,
$10,000,000; Panama canal, ST.
1S7,255; immigration service, $2,-
667,5S9; employment service, ST.
SS4,s91; reclamation service, $5,-
100000; public health service, s4,-
$4,000; armories and arsenals, $6,-
23S,0O0; public buildings, $6,798,-
400; bureau of mines, $2,112,OOO,
and department of Justice, $685.
304.
Compensation Retained.
The bill includes $223,0OO, 900 on
account of militarya nd naval COM
pensation for death or disability OF
soldiers, sailors and marines, med.
ical, surgical and hospital treat
ment of beneficiaries of the bureau
Of war risks insurance, and voca-
tional rehabilitation of soldiers
sailors and marines, all growing
out of the world war.
The principal increases over this
years appropriations were $11,.
SO3,0O0 for the defamation sery.
ice; $1,231,0O0 for national home
for disabled volunteer soldiers; ST.,
100000 for light houses and bea.
cons and $516,200 for the govern.
ment printing office.
Appropriations for Alaska in.
clude $4.O00,000 for railroads
$S25,000 for education; $4,000 fol
medical relief; s12O,63O for care o.
the insane; $4,000 for protection
Of game and $4,000 for the ma
tional park service.
For the enforcement of anti
trust laws 100000 is proposed al
against the 100000 asked by tn,
department of justice. The ship
ping board estimate of $89s,O00 1
cut to s459,O0O. For the construc
ton of military posts only $520,OOl
was allowed as against the S62,
| 462,S15 asked and the total recon
mended was to be spent in the Ha
waiian islands, no appropriation
being proposed for the Panam;
canal and the continental Unite,
Estates and Alaska.
Shipping Board Hit.
Washington, Dec. ga total O
1913, 3,964,721 was recommended b.
the house appropriations commit
tee today for the postoffice depart
ment during the fiscal year 1925
This is $11, ,442,1S1 less than tha
asked by postal officials but is $50,