Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
INTERIOR FUND BILL .
|. IS GIVEN TO HOUSE.
First of Appropriations
Measures Is Reported
to Lower Body.


the budget estimates for Howard Uni
versity and increases above current ap-
preparations of S163,820 for Freedmen's
Hospital, $50, 248 for st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital and $4,000 for Columbia Institu-
ton for the Deaf, the first of the big ap-
preparation bills with total of $685.
189,973.74 for all activities of the In
| terror Department was reported to the
House today by Representative Cramton.
Republican, Michigan.
For st. EliZabeth's Hospital the total
recommended is $1,513,248. This in
| cludes 100000 to begin construction
and equipment of a male receiving
| building, the total cost of which is to be
$780, 900. and 100000 for construction
| and equiT1ent of tubercular building.
For Howard University the total
| recommended is $1,249, 900, which in
| cludeS an increase of 100000 in the
Federal contribution toward mainte-
| nance Of the university, $4,000 for
salaries, to be used entirely in the en-
ployment of additional personnel, and
$4,000 for general expenses. The
House appropriations committee also
recommends the appropriation of
100000, as recommended by the
Budget, to be Immediately available,
| for the construction of a classroom
building, the total cost of which is not
to exceed $460,000. There also is rec
| commended an appropriation of $3.50, 900,
to be Immediately available, for the
construction and equipment of two dol
m1torieS for girls.
Plan Hospital Addition.
For FTeedmens Hospital total of
S424,OOO is recommended Of this
| amount $3.50, 900 is for salaries and OBJ
Grating expenses and $155.O00 for a
hospital addition for obstetrical pa
tients. For Columbia Institution for
81 1882 An increase of $4,000 IN
| the contribution for the maintenance
OF this institution is recommended.
The hearings on this bill, which were
made public today, disclose that DR..
Mordecai w. Johnson, president of
| Howard University, emphasizes a very
urgent need for full-time teachers and
| assistants. DR.. Emmett j. Scott, secre-
tary-treaSurer of the institution, called
| attention that the total amount paid for
the year ended June 80, 1929, for per-
Sonal services of officers, instructors and
other regular employees of Howard Uni
versity was 1881, 134.78, and that toward
this sum the Federal Government ap-
propriated 100000, leaving a balance
of 1921, 134.78 to be paid for other serv-
ices. DR.. Johnson said that 70 part
time teachers at the university repre-
| Sented less than the equivalent of 20
full-time teachers, and that the actual
need of the institution is for 1879 to 214
full~time teachers or their equivalent,
which means an addition of from SO to
108 new teachers.
$2,444,1O2.O4 Less.
fol - To
partment's appropriation bill Is $2,444,-
10204 less than current appropriations
and $148,674 less than the budget esti-
mate.
The bill provides salaries of $4,000
each for the First Assistant Secretary
and the Assistant Secretary instead of
$4,000 each as proposed by the Budget
and permits the appointment of a
Second Executive Assistant to the Sec
rotary at $4,000.
The committee recommends an addi-
ton of $4,000 above the Budget figure
to make effective an increase from $40,-
900 to 100000 for prevention and fight
ing of forest fires on the public lands.
The appropriation from the Federal
Treasury for the Bureau of Indian AZ
fairs shows a striking increase, the
Budget figure being $3,112,9l3.96 above
the appropriation for the current year,
and substantially this increase is rec
commended by the committee, bringing
| the total expenditure for the care of
these wards of the Nation as recon-
mended by the committee up to S19,-
86,129.74. At the same time the APP
preparation of tribal funds is reduced
from $4,714,82960 in 1880 to S3,226,-
630.96 in the bill as recommended by
the committee. In other words the ex-
penditures for the benefit of the Indians
are increased by nearly one-flfth as
from the Federal Treasury and de-
creased by nearly one-third as concerns
tribal funds of the Indians. This in
crease in the proposed expenditure of
Federal funds for this bureau is chiefly
to be found in the increase Of $4,000
for industrial assistance, $431, 58659 for
irrigation and drainage, 81 ,432, 500 for
education and $443, 400 for conservation
of health.
Increase Health Fund.
The bill as presented proposes an in
crease Of $443, 400 for 1881 for conserva-
ton of health.
For the Bureau of Reclamation a to-
tai expenditure of So, 1921 900 is recon-
mended, together with a reappropriation
of uneXpended amounts heretofore ap-
propriated. These appropriations and
reappropriationS from the reclamation
fund WILL 1t is estimated, If fully ex-
pended, reduce the cash balance in the
reclamation fund from $5,400,00O July
l, 1880, to $1,250,O00 July /, 1881. The
bill does not provide for the commence
ment Of construction of any new prof.
ectS.
The bill proposes an increase of
| $696,000 above the current year for the
Geological Survey, which is $360,00O
above the Budget estimate The prin-
cipal increases involved are SOL 900 for
topographic surveys to match the con-
stantly increasing funds offered by the
States for cooperation in this work, as
| well as to take care of purely Federal