Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-01
II MILLIONS IS
VOTED BY HOUSE
F0R HOSPITALS
FFHH EEEH kNHAt EfN
Additional Facilities to Be
Provided for Disabled Vet
d Grams if Senate Adopts
the Measure.
ln, rhe Associnlcd rressl

Washington, March 31.--An ap-
propriation of S1I000,000 TO be
used in providing additional hos
nital facilities for war veterans
would be authorized by a bin
passed late today by the house
without record vote, The measure
now goes to the senate.
# By a viva voce vote the house
rejected an amendment by repre-
sentative Kindred, New York, 10
increase the appropriation to $685.
100000.
The bill. drafted by Chairman
Langley of the public buildings and
grounds committee, would place
the director of the veterans bu-
reau in charge of all activities
which would grow out of passage
Of the measure. including selection
of sites, plans for new buildings
and for the rcmodellng OF existing
structures designated to be con-
yerted into hospitals and construc-
ton work.
After an up ant down
fight the house rejected by rec
ord vote of 1877 to 1877, an amend
ment by Chairman Hadden of the
appropriations committee, which
would have placed expenditures of
the fund carried in the bill in the
hands of the president with au-
thority to designate whatever gov
eminent agency he saw fit to SUI
pervise the planning OF additional
hospitals and construction work.
The amendment had been adopted
by a. standing vote of Sc to 81 and
was eliminated just prior to the
passage of the bill on a roll call
demanded by Mr.. Langley. who
was opposed to its adoption.
Last minute rejection on the sub
stitute threw the house into par
liamentary tangle which consumed
more than an hour. OF those
adopted. one by Representative
Williamson. republican, South Da-
kota, would give the president au-
thority by executive order to trans
fer to the veterans bureau build
ings under the jurisdiction of 9TH
er government departments but no
longer used by them. The bureau
director would have authority to
remodel such buildings for use as
hospitals.
Amendment Accepted.
An amendment also was accept
ed which would permit acquisition
of existing buildings not owned by
the government to be used as hos
pitfalls.
Debate on the bill was marked
by an attack on Director Forbes
OF the veterans bureau, by Rep
resentative Bland. republican. In
diana, who declared the bureau
had no responsible head and very
little efficiency in organization.
i THAT fellow. the director, over
there is like gander in hail storm
and does not know what il is all
about" Mr.. Bland shouted. HE
has men underneath him whom it
seems some power is holding there.
and whom nobody can remove,
who are either dreadfully ignorant
pr who are not acting in good faith
with the administration, and as a
result the boys are TO suffer for
compensation and for hospitaliza-
ton"
Mr.. Forbes was defended by Mr..
Langley. who reminded the house
that the director had been under
shell fire in France. No man who
has gone through what he has with
men in the army, Mr.. Langley de-
clared, can be unsympathetic with
disabled veterans.
q Mr.. Langley read a letter he had
received from President Harding in
which the executive said the bill
apparently was acceptable as
drawn. Mr.. Harding said that ear
~ enactment of the measure was
desirable.