The Washington times., 1923-01-07
vE7ERA|VS' BUREAU
DRAWS S428,16O,773
House Committee Reports
$496, 235,771 For Mis-
CeiIaneouS Bureaus
$50, 100000 IS INSURANCE
Total Recommended In Meas
ure Is $12,105,242 Less
Than Budget Estimate.

The 1924 appropriation bill for
the independent Government offices
and establishments, not provided
for in the regular departmental
appropriations, was reported to the
House yesterday by the Appropria-
tons Committee.
The bill carries total of 1896. :
236,771. a decrease of $12,1O6s242
from the budget bureaus estimates
and $42,275,151 less than carried In
the 1923 appropriation.
VETS BUREAU S428, 16O,75S.
The Veterans Bureau draws the
bulk of this appropriation, total
OF s428,16O.77S, which is $12,152,-
227 under the budget estimate. but
SO ,096, 1919 above 1923. The re.
naming $6S,O74,99S is apportioned
as follows:
EXECUTIVE office, $4O2,77O; Alien
Property Custodian, 1891 200; Bureau
of Efficiency. S145, 900; Civil Service
Commission, $685. 95: Cornn1ission
Of Fine Arts, $4,000: Employee Com
pensation Commission, $2,432,7 4Oi
Federal Power Commission, $4,000
Federal Trade Commission, $9b6,OOOi
General Accounting Office, $685.
513: Grant Memorial Commission
81 800: Housing Corporation. 1920.
$50; Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion, 1864, 500; Lincoln Memorial
Commission, $4,000; National Ad.
visory Committee for Aeronautics,
$685., 900; Railroad Labor Board,
$340. 900; smithsonian Institution,
$61S,400; State, War and Navy
Buildings, $1,707 ,23O: Tariff Commits.
sion, 100000; United States Geo.
graphic Board, 1000; United Statea
Shipping Board, $50,411 800.
INSURANCE ITEM RAISED.
The Shipping Board item is $780,.
O47 500 less than for 1928. which
carried $50. 10000 for the payment
of claims under the emergency
shipping fund.
The Veterans Bureau allotment
provides for $4,000, 900 military and
naval insurance not carried in 1928,
and an increase OF $15,0OO,OOO Tor
salaries and 100000 for printing.
Military and naval compensation Is
reduced $41, $50, 900; medical and
hospital services SGT $40, and vo.
cational rehabilitation $25, 666, 1873,
as compared with the 1928 bill.
CURBS HOSPITAL BUILDING.
A Congressional curb on hospital
building activities OF the Veterans
Bureau, was, injected into the bill
lust before it was reported to the
House. 1t provides:
mo part of this appropriation
shall be expended for the purchase
OF any site for q new hospital, Tor
or toward the construction OF any
new hospital or for the purchase
OF any hospital, and not more than
$5,7S1, 900 of this appropriation
may be expended to alter, improve.
or provide facilities in the several
| hospitals under the jurisdiction OF
the United States Veterans Blu
reau SO as to furnish adequate
accommodations for its beneficiar-
les, of which 81 ,673. 900 shall be
Immediately available"
This section was written into thu
bill. after the bill had been approved
| in its final form and printed, ready
| for the House to consider.
WOOD EXPLAINS CHANGE.
Representative Wood Of Indiana
chairman Of the subcommittee o.
| the Appropriations Committee hav
| ing this bill in charge, explained
| that the purpose Of the change wal
to prevent the Veterans Bureau buy
ing any more sites or building any
more hospitals without specific Con
gressional authority. He declared
that the opinion prevails in thu
minds of many Congressman thai
the bureau already has more sites
and hospitals than are necessary tt
carry on its work for. disabled vet
Grams.
The 1878, 900 to be made imme
diately available Is to complete hos
pital projects already built or &C
uuired but lacking in certain essen
tial facilities.
This measure will be taken up by
the House in committee of the
whole tomorrow, as soon as the
District Of Columbia appropriation
bill now under consideration is con
cluded.