Evening star., 1928-11-14
HOUSE PREPARES
FINANCIAL BILLS
S4,5oo, 900, 900 Budget to
Be Reported at Opening
of Short Session.
By WILL P. KENNEDY.

Of Congress that starts two weeks from
Monday-the passage of II regular an
rnal appropriation bills for support OF
all branches of the Government
Hearings started today on the In
terror Department appropriation bill be-
fore a subcommittee, of which Repre-
sentative Cramton of Michigan is chair
man The other members of the SUBJ
committee are: Representatives Muir
ply, Ohio: French, Idahoi Taylor,
Colorado, and Hastings. Oklahoma.
Hearings are to start tomorrow on
the supply bills for the Department OF
Agriculture - War, with non-nilitary
functions first conSidered-and Treas
ury and Post once with the Post Office
section to be considered first.
The hearings on the agricultural ap-
preparation bill are in charge of Rep
resentative Dickinson Of Iowa, the other
members being Wason, New Hampshire;
Summers, Washington; Buchanan,
Texas, and Sandlin, Louisiana. Repre-
sentative Barbour Of California is i'll
charge of the hearings on the War De-
partment supply bill, which comes in
two Sections-non-m military or engineer
ing and military functions. The other
Clague, Minnesota; Taber, New York;
Harrison, Virginia, and Collins, Missis'
sippi.
Wood to Hold Hearings.
Representative Wood of Indiana. who
will be chairman of the appropriations
committee in the next Congress. will
conduct the hearings on the Treasury
and Post Office budgets. On this SUBJ
committee there is one vacancy, caused
by the death Of Representative Gallivan
Of Massachusetts. The other members
are: Thatcher, Kentucky; Hardy, Colo
rado; Bacon. New York, and Byrne OF
Tennessee, the latter being the only
remaining Democrat on this subcom-
mittee. -,
After two years absence from his
legislative duties on account OF sickness,
one-half of which time he was confined
to bed Representative Anthony OF Kan
sas, who has succeeded to the chair
manship of the committee, will take
active charge of the committee work
next Monday. He is now completing a
service of % years in Congress. He
was not a candidate for reelection TO
the Seventy-first Congress.
The budget will be submitted to Con"
gress on the opening day, Monday, De-
D. OS
Congress certain sections of the budget
have been confldentially placed IN the
hands of the clerks of the House ap-
propriations committee, who. during
the past two or three months, have
been whipping 1t into shape in the vart-
GUS departmental bills. so that the sub
committees could act more promptly
and intelligently upon the estimates
submitted. This work has been done
under the supervision Of Marcellus G..
Shield, clerk Of the committee, with a
special clerk assigned to each Of the II
bills.
VIII Call for s4,5OO. 100000.
The budget which goes TO the House
on the opening day will be the largest
approximately $4,000, 900, 900. The
total appropriation for 1879. ex-
elusive of any deficiencies Tor previous
years, was S4,322. .oo0. 900, It was
during the Fifty-first Congress that a
hue and cry was raised aneut
"billion- dollar Congress" covering two
years appropriations, and the famous
Thomas 3, Reed answered 1t with the
comment that this was "biliion-dol-
lar country" 1t was only few years
ago that the records showed the flrst
billion dollar session of Congress, the
first session of the Sixtieth Congress.
Now we are fast approaching a fiye-
billion dollar session Of Congress.
The first of the big appropriation
bills is scheduled to be reported to the
House on December 5-the Treasury
Post once bill. The plans call tor four
of these bills to be passed before the
Christmas holidays--the Interior bill to
be reported on December 8, the Agri-
culture bill to be reported on December
- and the State, Justice, Commerce
and Labor bill. on Thich hearings are
70 start next Tuesday, to be reported TO
the House on December is.
The schedule for the other bills is as
follows:
War Department hearings to start
tomorrow and the bill to be reported
January /.
FIRST deficiency bill, hearings to start
December II and the bill to be reported
independent offces bill, hearings 10
start December II and the bill to be
reported January IL,
District OF Columbia appropriation
bill. hearings to start December 20 and
the bill to be reported January lB
Navy Department bill, hearings to
start January and the bill to be re-
ported January 90.
Legislative appropriation bill. hear
ings to start January % and the bill TO
be reported January 81.
Second deficiency appropriation bill,
hearings to start February 4 and the
bill to be reported February 20.
One Vacancy Exists.
This schedule on which the appro-
ac
States that all regular appropriation
hsls will be before the House by Feb
1lary !. This will put the business of
Hlie short session in excellent shape,
nAowing the Senate plenty OF time to
Mhyiew the bills after they have been
sent over from the House,
Es There is now only one vacancy on
Whe appropriations committee, that left
sky the late Representative GalliVan, q
democrat, The vacancy caused by the
Heath OF Chairman Madden has been
Iflled by the appointment of Represent
sktive Allen Of Illinois. 1t is probable
THAT one of the first acts of the new
Congress will be to approve the appoint
sYnent OF some Democrat to succeed To
sMr. Gallivan's place.
7 In the new Congress there will be
three vacancies to be filled on the ap-
preparations committee; Mr.. Anthony
a Republican, was not candidate for
reelection; Representative Harrison
Democrat, of Virginia, and Representa-
tive Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky
were defeated.
There is no change in the suhcom-
mittee that will start hearings on the
District of Columbia budget December
20. Representative Simmons of Ne
braska will again be in charge of the
hearings. The other members Of the
subcommittee are: Representatives
Holiday, Illinois; Walsh, Pennsylvania
Grimm, New York, and Casey, Pennsyl'
vania.