Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-04
|SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
GIVEN TO SENATE
Increase Over House Meas
ure Includes S17,5o0,oo0
for Soldiers and Sailors.

for Soldiers and Sailors.
The sundry civil appropriation bill.
carrying a total of s4I0,22l,107s1. was
reported to the Senate today by
Chairman Warren of the Senate ap-
propriations committee. This is an
| increase of s2s,437, 1880 over the
amount carried in the bill as passed
by the House.
The total increase allowed by the
but the committee decreased House
items by s2,133.095.
The largest item of increase was
SIT 100000 for additional hospital
facilities to care for the disabled SOL
diers and sailors.
! Another Senate amendment provides
| s496,000 to purchase a site for ma
tional archives building in Washing
ton.
Amendment stops Smoking.
Smoking in buildings of the gov
| ernment departments is prohibited
| under another amendment proposed
Dy tHe senate committee. ne Ian
guage of this amendment follows:
ANY person who shall smoke or
! carry a lighted cigar. cigarette. pipe
! or any form of lighted tobacco. for
/ smoking purposes in any building in
| the District of Columbia, which is
owned, rented or leased by the govern
! ment of the United States, and used by
! any executive department or inde
pendent establishment of the govern
ment. including the respective field
! services of such department or es-
! tablishment, shall be guilty of a mis-
| demeanor. and when convicted thereof
! Shall be fined not more than $50. No
! tices shall be posted c2nspicuously in
! all such buildings Containing the
legend Smoking prohibited under pen
! atty of fne,' together with the text
! of this act"
For the Council of National Defense
! the committee adfed $4,000. to pay
! the salaries of a director. secretary
j chief clerk and other assistants.
! $3.50 Plan Substituted.
] Under the items for the District OF
Columbia. the language of the House
bill providing that the expenditures
shall be made so per cent out of the
District and 40 per cent out of the
| federal Treasury is stricken out and
! the half-and-half plan is substituted.
! The Senate committee has provided
| $340.OOO for the interdepartment So
/ cal hygiene board. 1t also provided
masonry approaches and terrace
| around the Lincoln Memorial.
For the national advisory committee
| for aeronautics 100000 has been in
serted in the bill. The committee is
| to carry on scientific research in the
| field of aeronautics, in the Langley
memorial aeronautic laboratory The
! item for the tariff commission is re-
duced from 100000 to $2aO.000.
slO.oO0.oO0 for Muscle Shoals.
The Senate committee inserted an
item of s10.000.o00 for continuing con-
| struction of the locks, dams. power
| houses, etc, for the government
| nitrate plant at Muscle shoals.
The committee made some reduc-
tions in the items for care and i'm
provements of parks in the District.
| cutting down the item Tor improve
ment. care and maintenance of vart-
Gus reservations from $4,000 to $780,
| 900. for the care and improvement of
| East Potomac Park from $4,000 to
| $40, 900.
1t inserted an item of $1,000 for the
! operation of the electric pump which
| operates the memorial fountain to
| Admiral Dupont in Dupont Circle.
For continuing the construction of a
| reflect pool in West Potomac Park
the item is increased from s150,o0o
to s25O.OOO. and the money is made
Immediately available.
Provision is made for continuing
the appropriation for the expenses of
dedicating the Lincoln Memorial and
making it available during the fiscal
year 1922.
| Three thousand dollars is provided
for removal and reconstruction of a
part of fence around the Botanic
Garden on account of the completion
of the Grant Memorial.
The committee has provided $1,000
for necessary repairs to the Maltby
building. occupied by the Federal
Board for Vocational Education. The
committee has added $116.000 for ad-
ditions to the home economic build
ing at Howard University. including
dining hall and kitchen. laundry.
bakery, and all equipment necessary
for the building, and also to provide
for heating apparatus.
Senate improvements inserted.
The committee inserted number of
items for the Senate wing of the
Ganitol. and for the Senate Office
building, including $4,000 for i'm
proyements and supplies for the Sem
ate kitchen and restaurant; $o,0OO Tor
continuing the work OF restoring the
decoration on the walls of the first
foor corridors of the Senate wing;
"a 600 for shelving and file boxes
for the Senate document room. $50. 900
for maintenance and supplies for the
senate Office building. and $4,000 for
furniture for the Senate Office build
ing. ,..o
in legislative amendment that any
magazine or periodical now being
issued by a department or establish
ment of the government may, in the
discretion of the head of the depart
ment, be continued with the limita-
tion of available appropriation until
June 80, 1922. If it shall not have
been specifically authorized by Con-
gress before that date. such magazine
or periodical shall be discontinued
The Congressional Record index ap-
preparation, instead Of being made in
a lump sum, is split up into salaries;
the chief indexer. $4,000; the cata-
loguer $4,000. and two, other cata-
loguers, $1,S00 each.