The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-12-31
SEEK PRE-wAR BASIS
IN U. S. EXPENDITURES
Department. Estimate Cut
In Half In Sundry
Civil Bill

611,292, or $420,914,192 less thar
was asked by the Government depart
ments, was reported today by the
HoL-s Appropriation Committee. II
was the first of the big supply mea
sures for the next fiscal year to be
completed and its total was $52,237,-
514 less than the amount appropriate
ed for similar purposes this year.
Indicating a desire to put Govern
ment expenditures on a pre-war ba-
sis. the committee, first taking care
OF men disabled by war, set aside on
ly s16O,611,292 for actual sundry
civil expenses of the government,
which was within $34,000,000 Of the
total amount appropriated for 1915.
The largest single reduction, s147,-
900, 900, applies to the Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation,
the bill providing that the organi-
cation shall be supported entirely out
of various sources of income.
Request from the Department OF
Justice for 100000 for enforcement
of the national prohibition act was
eliminated entirely. The sum of $751;
900 was appropriated. however for
suppressing liquor traffic in Alaska.
Principal Reductions.
other principal slashes in the
amounts asked by the Government
departments included:
War risk insurance, $S7,0OO,OOO;
vocational education, S13bOOO,0OO;
military posts $50, 942,S15; national
cemeteries $19,O00,000; flood con-
troll, Mississippi River, $3,33O,OOO;
nitrate plants $4,000, 1000; Panama
Canal, S7,1S7, 255; immigration ser
vice, S2,657,5S9! employment service,
S1,3S4,991; reclamation service, So
100000; Public Health Service, $4,-
467.OOO; armories and arsenals. S6,-
23S,OOO; public buildings $685.
400; Bureau of Mines $2,112,OOO and
Department of Justice $1,9S9,904.
The bill includes $229,000,0OO on
account of military and naval COM
pensation for death or disability of
sailors, soldiers and marines, medical.
surgical and hospital treatment of
beneficiaries of the Bureau Of War
Risk Insurance and vocational re-.
Mobilization of soldiers, sailors and
marines, all growing out of the World
War
With this amount deducted from
the amount recommended in the bill,
only $16O,611, 292 was left for all
other purposes, as compared with
the total carried by the
sundry civil act for the fiscal year
1916.
The principal increases over this
years appropriations were S11,S03,-
900 for the reclamation service;
$500, 900 for flood control; $1,231,-
900 for national homes for disabled .
volunteer soldiers; $1,000,000 for
lighthouses and beacons and $4,000
for the Government printing office.
1887 Soldiers Receiving Treatment
.sThere were 1857 patients receiv-
ing treatment on November Is, 1920
said the committee report accompany
ing the bill, land the estimate is that
the number will reach 10000 during
the fiscal year 1922. These patients
are cared for in public health service
hospitals, in hospitals at various SOL
iiers' homes, in army and navy hos
pitfalls and in contract hospitals at
varying cost rates. The amount pro-
posed is on the basis of 10000 pa
tents throughout the fiscal year 1922
II the approximate rate of SO day."
While there was an apparent re-
luction of 100000 in the amount
proposed for 1922 for vocational
raining the bill provides. for reappro-
,riation of unexpended balances, es-
mated at $1O,5OO,OOO making the
otal proposed for this service $751;
zoe. 900.
Appropriation for Alaska include J
"A, 100000 for railroads 1925, 900 for q
$4,000 for medical relief q
120,63O for care of the insane, $685.
90 for protection of game and $751;
90 for the national park service.
For the enforcement of antitrust
D~s 100000 is proposed, as against
he 100000 asked by the Depart 6
.cIs- Of 5sst:ee. The appropriation b
Or the Railroad Labor Board is I
400. 900, against the $500 re- I
uested while the Shipping Board es- r
mate of $S9S,OOO is cut to $45s,- v
90. n
For the construction of military
ostss only $4,000 was allowed as n
yainst the $62,OOO,OOO asked. The L
,tal recommended was to be spent in Il
lie Hawaiian Islands, no appropria- s.
ON being proposed for the Panama Il
anal and the continental United