Evening star., 1925-01-04
OPENS WAY TO PUT
HOWARDFUNDB BACK
Submission of Amendment
From Senate Floor Author
lied by Committee.

In the Interior Department appro-
priation bill reported to the Senate
yesterday afternoon, the committee
authorized the submission of an
amendment from the floor of the Sem
ate to provide $406,OOO for Howard
University, which had been stricken
out in the House. The bill carried
total of S23S,S65.636, an increase of
S1,o24,710 above the bill which passed
the House.
The proposed appropriation for
Howard University in the amendment
TO be submitted from the floor is di-
vided as follows:
For maintenance, to be used as
payment of part of the salaries of
the officers. professors, teachers and
other regular employees, SIZE, 900; for
tools, materials and salaries of in
structorS of the department of
manual art, $4,000; for the medical
department, laboratory supplies, etc,
$4,000; for material and apparatus
for chemical, physical, biological and
natural history study, 5000: for the
library, $4,000; for improvement of
grounds and repairs of buildings,
$4,000; for fuel and light at Freed
mans Hospital and Howard Uni
Nersity, $4,000: toward the construc-
tion of building for the medical
department. within a limited cost of
S270,000, which is authorized, $1S5, 900.
1t is provided that no part of the
sum appropriated for this building
shall be available until there is filed
with the Secretary of the Interior a
guarantee by the trustees of the uni
Versity that suitable equipment for
the building will be provided at a
cost of not less than $4,000. by sub
scription of alumni and other friends
of the university.
Makes Point of Order.
In the House provisions for Howard
University were stricken out on
Spint of order by Representative
Byrnes of South Carolina. Mr.. Byrnes
n year ago also caused the appropria-
tions for the university to be stricken
out in the House, but they were later
put in by the Senate, as il now
proposes to do.
The Senate committee on appro-
priations also reported to the Senate
and had placed on the calendar the ag-
riculture appropriation bill carrying
a total of $124,78S,47S. or $125.O05
more than the House bill In this bill,
as in the Treasury and post office ap-
preparation bill reported to the Senate
Friday, provision is made for paying
field employees compensation compar-
able to the compensation for similar
work done by employees in the Dis
trict of Columbia under the reclassi-
fication. The proposed amendment
which will be offered from the floor
of the Senate, under authority of the
committee, follows:
Can Fix Rates.
The Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to fix rates of compensa-
tion of civilian employees in the field
services under the Department of
Agriculture to correspond, so far as
may be practicable, to the rates es-
tablished by the classification act of
1928 for positions in the departmental
services in the District of Columbia,
notwithstanding the salary restric-
tions in other acts which limit
salaries to rates in conflict with the
rates fixed by the classified ton act
of 1928 for the departmental services"
Another proposed amendment fol-
lows:
For cooperation with the War
Department in the maintenance and
operation of an airplane patrol to
prevent and suppress forest fires on
national forests and adjacent lands.
$4,000: Provided, That no part of
this appropriation shall be used for
the purchase of land or airplanes."