The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-04-03
vE7ERAh bureau
BUDGET 9LASHED
Committee Report On House Also
Gets Shipping Board Appr0-
priation S20,6O7,5O0.
OTHER ITEMS ARE REDUCED
Total for independent Offices Is $780,
384,4s5 Less Than 1928 Grant
For Medical and Hospital
Services, S42,ooo,o0o.

Washington.-A sharp reduction in
expenditures by the Veterans Bureau.
the Shipping Board and several other
government agencies is proposed in
the independent Offices appropriation
bill reported in the House. The meas.
ure carries 1898 $50, or s1O3,3S4,-
ass less than last years appropriations
and S241,741 less than budget esti-
mates.
OF the total s349,O65,OOO would go to
the Veterans Bureau, a reduction of
$9S.3SS,0S6 under a year ago. The
Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet
Corporation would be allotted S30,344,-
900, or s2O,6O7, 500 less than the last
bill carried.
The bill provides $4,000 for Presi-
dent Coolidge's salary, $4,000 for his
travelling expenses, S93, 500 for salaries
and S37 900 for contingent expenses in
the executive offices and s55,540 for
the pay of the White House police.
: Other items include S225,00O for the
Alien Property Custodian's Office,
$947,l15 for the Civil Service Commits
sion, s2,650,O0O for the Employees
Compensation Commission, S3,724,612
for the general accounting office, $685.
100 for the Housing Corporation,
$4,2622S4 for the Interstate Com
merce Commission, $4,000 for the
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronartics, $4,000 for the Railroad
Labor Board, s799,051 for the Smith
sonian Institution and S6S1,9SO for the
Tariff Commission,
The committee wrote out of the bill
a provision that no money can be ex-
pended for reconditioning Shipping
Board vessel at cost Of more than
$4,000 until government navy yards
or arsenals have an opportunity to bid
for the work.
Shipping Board salaries, too, were
sealed down. The bill provides that
only one official can be paid more than
$4,000 a year, two more than 100000
and four more than $4,000.
The bill carries SS3,000,00O for com.
pensation to war veterans and $685.
000,000 for insurance.
For medical and hospital services
s42,090,o00 was recommended, with q
provision that S2,048,0 900 is to be eX,
pended during the coming year for
improvement at the following hospi-
tails:
Palo Alto, Calf, S207,19O; Washing
ton, D. c., S100,253; Waukasha, Wis,
1857, 900; Fort Bayard, New Mexico,
1856; Helena, Mont, 100000; Daw-
son Springs, KY, SS2,73S; the Bronx,
n. Y, S325,OO0; Walla Walla, Wash,
$4,000; Sheridan, Wyo., $125,OO0; Rut-
land, Vt, $517,9S2; Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri, $4,000; Legion, Tex. So
900; Lake City, Fla, S115,0O0, and
Tuskegee, Ala, $4,000
The bill provides SS9,0O0,0O0 for vo-
cational rehabilitation, S31,343 900 less
than last years appropriation. The
decrease, the committees report ex-
planned, is due to the closing of schools
and getting men out of training and
into employment.
IN its report the committee said that
Onl 100000 insurance policies of the
4,500060 taken out by service men and
women during the war are still i'll
force. The committee estimated that
due to the decrease in receipts from
premiums more than S90,000,000 a year
will have to be appropriated for pay
ment of term insurance for the next
seventeen years.
The varying bonus estimates so far
submitted to the Senate Finance Com.
mttee have thrown it into confusion,
and one submitted by Herbert Hess,
Ac.uary of the American Legion,
placed the House bill cost at $4,000 900
000 as compared with the Treasury
estimate of $4,S50, 100000 and the Vet.
Grams Bureau total of $2,119,O00, 900.
SO the committee has asked the War
and Navy Departments for the number
of veterans entitled to the bonus and
the average length Of service, and with
these basic facts will make up it's own
computations tomorrow.