Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
Weather Systems in Program.
SUPPLY BILL GOES
TO HOUSE WITH BIG
DRY LAW INCREASE

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Commercial, large-scale sale of grape
Juice concentrates that become IA per
cent wine by addition of air and water"
by Tinkham. He declined to discuss it.
The Attorney General testified there
was congestion in limited number"
of Federal courts and explained the adj
dition of prohibition agents would mean
some increase in court business.
FavOrs Wire Tapping.
Woodcock, asked by Tinkham wheth-
er he approved the practice of tapping
wires to obtain information on dry law
violations, replied:
II do have no qualms at all about
that. sir. I think the telephone and
telegraph franchises ere given for the
transaction of lawful business and the
promotion of lawful commerce. I do
not think that the unlawful have any
right to use them with impunity. At
least do not think that / can run this
bureau on any other basis than the SUI
preme Court has described as lawful"
Questioned as 10 whether stool
pigeons" were used, the prohibition di-
rector said about 101 special employees"
were employed temporarily to furnish
tanned a group of nine special officers
to investigate its field personnel.
The annual outlay for the purchase
OF alcoholic evidence amounted to $780,
600, he testified.
In the Justice Department items. in
creased court business and crowded
penal institutions caused increases of
81 $50, 900 and 81 ,661 900, respectively
Mitchell testified in the year ended
July l, 1880, the Federal prison popula-
ton increased 20 per cent to more than
$4,000. On December l, 1880, there
were 26,469 Federal prisoners in peni-
tentiaries, jails and reformatories. The
judiciary received $20,370,000.
DepOrtatiOns Cost 500 Each.
Under the Labor Department the
Immigration Bureau received S10,034,-
600. of which 100000 was for deport-
ing aliens and 100000 for improve
ments at Ellis Island. The committee
recorded that 1881 aliens were de-
ported in 1880 at an average cost of
$63 each. A greater number is to be
sent off this year.
The committee allotted a total of
$575, 400 for the Woman's Bureau and
the ChildrenS Bureau, an increase of
$4,000. The Woman's Bureau will
employ its share of the increase, $2I,-
400, to continue investigation of haZ-
ards to women in industry. The Chill
drens Bureau increase will go to new
personnel for the statistical and social
service divisions, which will cooperate
with child welfare organizations in or
ganizing studies.
The Commerce Department section
included Census Bureau appropriation
cut to $6,270,000 the aeronautics
branch was allowed $40 ,342, 900, an in
crease of $1,137, 900 to improve air navi-
cation facilities, and the $12,072 900
Lighthouse Bureau allotment included
81 100000 for two new lightships and
public works.
Other commerce allotments were:
$5,181 900 for the Foreign and Domestic
Bureau, $6,236,000 for the Patent Office,
$2,9O5,0e0 for the Fisheries Bureau,
SIS, 063, 900 for the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, $2,874,000 for the Bureau of
Standards, $2,278,0 0O for the Bureau of
Mines and 81 1895 900 for the Steamboat
Inspection Service.
AIlotments for Prisons.
The State Department appropriation
carried $l1,612,000, an increase of
$175,000, for the foreign service. For
eign service buildings we're allowed
S1.200,000. There is an unexpended
balance of 100000.
Under the Justice Department allot-
ments for penal institutions were:
Leavenworth, Kans., 81 ,942 ,0o0; Mcneil
Island, Wash, $3.50, 900; New Northeast
ern Penitentiary (construction) Penn
sylvania, $28T,000s federal Industrial
Institntion for Women Anderson, w.
Va. 1882, 900; Industrria1AR eformatory,
Chillicothe, Ohio, $1.790O00; New
Southwestern Reformatory 1t FL Reno,
OKLAHOMA, 100000; National Train