The Washington times., 1925-02-20
ADDITIONS
ARE MADE
INSTEAD
Millions Appropriated for New
Enterprises to Be Under
taken by U. S.
By WILLIAM HARD


The appropriation bills are all
Of them now just about finished
off by Congress for this session;
and they include some consider
able economies; but a. survey Of
them today revealed that they do
not make really one inch of prog
ress toward the ideal which the
President recently expressed when
he said that the Federal Govern.
ment ought to retire from some of
the fields Of activity which it now
occupies.
The appropriation bills of this
session do not take the Federal
Government out of one single
present activity of any slightest
Importance.
There is no appropriation this
year for the Perry Victory Me-
mortal Commission. Apparently
the memorial to Perry is through
and done. Otherwise virtually
every existing Federal activity is
continued; and new ones are
added.
Many New Enterprises.
a count Of the new ones dis
closes, along with many others, the
following:
There had to be an emergency
appropriation for a joint committee
to investigate the Northern Pacific
Land Grants. This will cost
Fifty thousand dollars had to be
granted also to the new Agricul.
tural Commission, which has made
recommendation which further
will cost additional money annually
In the future.
Another $4,000 has had to be
granted to the new Oil Conservation
Board which also, 1t is confidently
expected, viii make recommends
tons for new permanent Federal
sndeavors which will cost some fur
Their additional sum annually. .
Under a recent act vocational
education had to be extended by
ritory of Hawaii at a new cost for
this fiscal year of 100000.
Nearly a Million Here.
Also vocational rehabilitation"
by the Federal Government Of per.
sons disabled in industry had to
be put into operation by a recent
act at a cost of $S34,000 carried in
al emergency bill.
1t further became necessary to
embark on the new idea of eradicat-
ing the cocoanut scale in the
Island of Guam at cost of $4,000,
thus bearing the white mans bur-
den with slightly additional
heaviness in that brown quarter
o. the globe.
Also the Interparliamentary Union
Of members of all the national legis-
latures of the world is coming here
to have a little conference in
Washington during the present
year, and this is going to cost us
an unexpected $50. 1000.
Further, a half dozen new irri.
cation and reclamation projects
in the Great Arid West have been
authorized at a cost of at least
several million dollars.
Big Hole Opened
Also. and even more Importantly.
an appropriation of 100000 has
been made for inquiries into how
and when and where the Federal
government shall now begin to
change swamp land into land Nhich
IL drier. Previously the Federal
government has confined itself to
changing arid land to wet land.
Now it is going to begin to change
wet land into land not SO wet.
Also the new activities of the
Coast Guard in the matter of the
enforcement of the prohibition law
million dollars annually to the
general Coast Guard cost.
Also the White House roof start
cd leaking. Fifty thousand dollars.
Also a new Rural Roads bill has
been passed, renewing the policy Of
federal aid in the construction OF
rural roads and authorizing apprO-
priations of seventy-five million dol
lars annually for two years.
Also the Secretary of War has
been authorized to report on the
project of new national military
park near Kansas City.
Millions For Forest Trails
Also a new appropriation for
seven million five hundred thousand
dollars annually has been made for
federal forest trails.
Also, in addition to the regular
Navy Department appropriation bill,
the Bureau of the Budget has
recommended new naval expendi-
lures for new naval construction
to the amuont of thirty million
dollars for the next fiscal year.
Radio meanwhile keeps becoming
more important and more expensive
for the Federal Government. To
regulate il in the fiscal year
1920, we had to spend sixty-fiVe
thousand dollars of Federal money.
To regulate it in the coming fis-
cal year we shall have to spend
1920, 900.
Additionally a bill has been