The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-10
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU

PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-By April
! this year s2,5OO 900 of the $4,715,924
representing Indiana's available share
of the federal appropriation for the
construction of highways will be put
under contract for road work in In
diana and by July 1 the balance, 81
1852 also will be under contract. ac-
cording to report submitted to con
gress by Representative Sells of the
roads committee.
This week the house passed a bill
appropriating An additional $10.0o0000
as federal aid for highway construc-
ton for the fiscal year beginning July
| !, next. Indiana's apportionment of
! this appropriation will be $2,687, ,053. .27.
! Under the national road law the states
to receive federal aid for highway con-
struction must provide appropriations
| for the same purpose.
Affords Stimulus.
! Representative Sells states that the
! benefits accruing from federal appro-
priations for road work is not so much
the actual aid rendered as the stimu-
i lus afforded to the various states and
! their counties to provide for them
selves the funds necessary to secure
! federal aid.
| The first appropriation made by
congress for highway construction, IN
| 1916, was $4,000 900, followed by an
other, in 1919, of s20o,000,000. No ap-
| preparation was provided last year.
! 1t is stated that in 1919 alone so
great was the incentive of the national
road act that the states themselves
provided an eggregate fund of $780,
| 100000, followed by an expenditure OF
| proba bly, S500,000,000 in 1920
Indiana Banner State.
| Indiana was one of the leading
states in appropriating for road work
both years incidentally, Indiana is
listed as one of the banner good
! roads" states of the union and the rec
ords of the National Bureau of Roads
shows Wayne county to be as far ad-
vanced in the work of providing and
maintaining good roads as any county
| in Indiana In fact Wayne couty's
rating is higher in this respect than
! the ma jority of her sister counties
! in the state and on a par with the rat
ing of any oher county.
| Federal funds apportioned to the
states are not considered as allotted un-
til projects submitted by the states
have been actually approved by the
National Bureau of Roads.
! May Submit Projects.
! Before any state may submit a pro
! ject a thorough survey must have been
made and submitted for approval to
! a national highway engineer and the
funds provided for the payment OF the
states share in the cost of construc-
ton. If the state is cooperating with
! the counties within it's jurisdiction
the same process must be repeated.
In discussing the highway construc-
/ ton appropriation bill Representative
! Sells expressed the opinion that the
! federal governments policy OF pro-
noting highway construction had been
! wise and approved by the great ma
| jority OF Indiana people.
An eleventh hour drive. directed by
influential southern Republicans, to
have a southern man appointed a mem
Der of the Harding cabinet, prefera bly,
for the portfolio of agriculture, mas
been launched Senator-elect Harreld
of Oklahoma and the south's two he
pblican governors, Morrow, OF Ken
lucky and Taylor, of Tennessee. as
we'll as by all southern Republican
representatives in congress, have
pointed out to Mr.. Harding that his
failure to take such action would De
keen disappointment to the p.e-eiec
ton belief that your election "ouio
wipe out sectionalism.'
DR. and Mrs Mora S. Bulla, VINO
have been visiting in Washington sey