The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1921-01-06
sUNDRY CIVIL
BILL CHOPPED
s,9a e141l2 Is Topped OF of Appro-
.-;at;ons Asked by Various Depart
.aants--s3OO,00 to Check Booze
Is Refused.

washington. Dec. 29.-The sundry
.;v;l bill. carrying total of $685.
c,1 s92. or s420.914,112 less than was
ssked by the government depart
-uts. was reported by the house
Committee today. 1t is the first of
tie big supply measures for the next
Sssal wear to be completed and its
total was $52,237,5l4 less than the
smount appropriated for similar pur-
noses this year.
Indicating a desire to put govern
,aent expenditures on a pre-war basis,
The committee, first taking care Of
men disabled by war, set aside only
SieO611, 292 for actual sundry civil
exnenses of the government which is
within S34 1000, 900 of the total amount
appropriated for 1916.
The largest single reduction of
s147 OOO, 900 applies to the shipping
board emergency fleet corporation,
he bill providing that the organiza-
tion shall be supported entirely out
Of various sources Of income.
No Anti-Liquor Money.
Requests from the Department of
Iustice for 100000 for enforcement
az the national prohibition act was
eliminated entirely. The sum of $751;
zoe was appropriated, however, for
srnpressing liquor traffic in Alaska.
ether principal slashes in the
amounts asked by the government de-
partments include:
war risk insurance, SS7, 900, 900; vo-
cational education, $4,000, 900; mill
tarv posts, sec. 942,813; national GEM
eteries. 19,000,000; flood control Mis-
sissinpi river, SCI $50, 900; nitrate
plants, $10O00,000; Panama Canal,
$7,1s7 ,255; immigration service, ST.
1889; employment service, $1,384,-
9y1; reclamation service, S5,238,000;
public buildings, $6,789 400; bureau of
mines, $2,112,000, and Department of
Justice, 81 ,9S9,S04.
Military and Naval
The bill includes $223, 900 900 on ac-
count of military and naval compen-
sation for death or disability of sol
diers. sailors and marines, medical,
surgical ard hospital treatment of
benefciaries of the bureau of war
risk insurance and vocational train
ing and rehabilitation of soldiers, sail
ors and marines, all growing out of
With this amount deducted from the
NTH this amount deducted from the
amount recommended in the bill, only
S160611 ,292 was left for all other
purposes, as compared with $126,922,-
$50, the total carried by the sundry
civil act for the fiscal year 1916.
The principal increases over this
years appropriations were 81, $685.
600 for the reclamation service: $780,
900 for flood control; 81 Poi 900 for
national home for disabled volunteer
soldiers; 100000 for lighthouses
and beacons, and $4,000 for the gov
eminent printing office.
The appropriation proposed on ac-
count Of medical and hospital serv-
ice for war risk patients was $685.
100000. or $13,000,000 less than the
total for 1920
7 e"hre coun gb001 rainin Il bifft
There were 1857 patients receiv-
ing treatment on November Is, 1920"
said the committee report accompany
ing the bill, "and the estimate is that
the number will reach 10000 during
tire fiscal year 1929.
The amount proposed is on the
basis of 10000 patients thruout the
hoeai year iJ1z at Ine approximate
rate of SO day"
While there was an apparent reduc-
tion of $25, 600. 900 in the amount pro-
posed for 1922 for vocational train
ing, the bill provides for re-apportion-
ment of unexpected balances, esti-
mated at $10,500,000, making the
total proposed for this service $75.-
100000.
Alaskan Appropriations
Appropriations for Alaska include
100000 0for railroads; 1926 900 for
education; $4,000 for medical relief:
Sl2O630 for care of the insane; $25,-
goo for protecting game, and $3l 900
Tor the national park service.
For the enforcement of antitrust
laws 100000 is proposed as against
the $500 900 asked by the Department
OF Justice. The appropriation for the
railroad labor board is $40. 900
aagaint the 100000 requested, while
me shipping board is 100000 aga
me shipping board estimate of 1893
wv Is cut to 1869, 900. For the con-
stI'uction Of military posts only $500
oO0 was allowed as against the S62.-
oeOOOO asked. The total recommend
&c, was to be spent in the Hawaiian
Islands. no appropriation being pro-
posed for tho panox.,