Evening star., 1922-03-16
USE0F SHIP BOARD
!. FUNDS RESTRICTED
House Refuses to Sanction
Employment of Proceeds
From Liquidation.

The House stood firm by a vote Of
II to 1s yesterday in refusing to give
its joint permission to the Shipping
Board to continue using, during the
coming fiscal year, funds received
from liquidation Of assets up to
s55.000.00O. This proposal came be-
fore the House as Senate amend
ment to the appropriation bill for In
dependent offices Of the government.
The Shipping Board has authority
to use such funds up to July l next,
given In supply bill passed a year
ago. 1t has. however, realized only
part Of the maximum amount. and
the privilege.
Concurrence also was refused in a
Senate amendment authorizing the
purchase for $1,500,000 of land in
Washington to be used for an addition
to the government printing Office.
Vocational Training Action.
The House. however. ratified action
of the conferees. wwho had reached q
compromise which inserts In the bill
limiting the use of Army camps or
environments as vocational training
centers to Camp Sherman, Ohio, and
which restores clause stricken out
by the Senate. providing that no part
training shall be expended for con-
struction work except for necessary
REPAIRS instead Of for necessary
minor repairs" as proposed by the
House. AS the bill now stands, no
limit is placed on the number Of for
mer service men who can be trained
at the Ohio camp.
Another conference agreement ap-
proved by the House appropriates ap-
proximately $40,000,000 for salaries
and expenses of the veterans bureau
as as proposed ono .a. by the Senate, instead Of
S26,O0O.0OO as proposed by the House,
as well as $160,000.0O0 for military
and naval compensation as proposed
by tSe House instead Of $145.O0 900.
and not exceeding $15.000,o0O of any
uneXpended balance as provided for
in Senate amendment. and $146.-
100000 for vocational rehabilitation
as proposed by the Senate instead Of
$127.000.O00 IN the House provision.
Stlll another com 'omise of the con-
ferees which met with House ap-
proval was or Src'.ing out of the ef-
fort of a blot o. House and Senate
members to have the liner Leviathan
reconditioned at the Boston navy
yard. 1t inserts the language pro-
posed by the Senate, providing that
no part of the money appropriated in
the bill shall be used for the repair or
icSoiuitiOHiHS Oh any VeSSel until q
reasonable opportunity has been given
TO the government navy yards to sub
nit estimates on the work.
Bids From Arsenals.
The Senate provision was modified
fy the conferees. however. to permit
government arsenals to submit bids
and to require estimates from the
navy yards or arsenals when the ex-
pense of such repair or reconditioning
is in excess of 100000, instead Of
$4,000
Approval was also given to action
of the conferees in striking out a
Senate provision that no part of the
money appropriated for the Shipping
Board shall be used to pay commits
sions on advertising contracts of
more than per cent.
The House, by an overwhelming
vote, insisted on its disagreement to
a Senate amendment which provides
that not more than thirteen officers
of the Shipping Board shall receive
annual salaries in excess Of $11, ,00O
The original House provision pro-
vided that not more than six officials
should receive salaries in excess of
$11. 900 and that none should be paid
more than s25,00O.
In urging the House to stand on the
original provision. Representative
Mann. republican. Illinois. declared
that I'VE have no right ito pay sala-
ries reaching to the mountain top"
IA salary of $4,000 is reasonably
high" he declared. land we ought
not to pay it to any one in the gov
ernment short of the President"