Evening star., 1933-01-22
S1(0,O()O,O(]O SAVING
SOUGHT IN HOUSE.
Four Department Supply Bill
Cut $5,0O0,000 Under
~ Budget Requests.
BY the Associated Press.

b., the Associated Press.
a record that would show it had cut
Federal expenditures $4,000 900 under
the amounts requested by President
Ifoover's budget beckoned the House
yesterday as it worked on one money
bill and received another from its Ap-
preparations Committee.
The newest measure to go into the
hopper was that making money avail
able to run the Departments of State,
Justice, Commerce and Labor during
the next fiscal year. 1t was reported by
the Appropriations Committee as the
House considered amendments to the
bill allowing $345 100000 for the War
Department.
The four department bill carried
$1O3,282 900. Chairman Oliver of the
subcommittee that drafted the measure
said that total compared with $l08,-
$4,000 asked by the budget.
-.r Average Cut 5 Per Cent.
The reductions averaged about per
cent for the Departments of State, JUS
tice, Commerce and Labor. divers
committee decided to recommend to
the House that per cent less be spent
for prohibition enforcement. That
brought the proposed allotment for this
purpose next year from $9,599,000 ap-
proved by the budget to S9,120,000.
The committee quoted Attorney Cen
eral Mitchell as having told it that so
long as prohibition was a law it should
be enforced. The committee agreed, as
serting that change comes by direction
hot indirection" But the cut was
made just the same.
Again, reduction in the amount al
lowed for new reforrpatory at Ell Reno,
Okla, was approved by the committee
on the basis Of statement by Mitchell
that there are impending changes in
the prohibition system"
As this bill was reported, Chairman
Byrns of the Appropriations Committee
reiterated a previous hope that the
money bills can be cut 100000, 900 un-
der budget estimates. He stuck to his
statement that the cuts already made
amounted to more than S60,000,000,
despite President Hoover's assertions
that the House committee actually had
increased the appropriations $4,000, 900.
Regardless of who was right, there
were evidences of desire to economiZe
In the consideration of the War De-
partment bill, for instance, the House
approved a proviso to prevent the ex-
penditure of S1,2O3.OOO on buildings at
military camps. These expenditures
had been authorized by the relief con-
struction act. A powerful bloc was Or
ganized to defeat the Appropriations
Committee proviso, but it failed.
The House also approved an amend
ment by La Guardia, Republican, OF
New York, to prevent the payment of
money to an officer convicted of
felony. It increased the allowance for
horses from S1l8,827, recommended by
the committee. to S207,327 by accepting
an amendment by Chapman, Democrat,
OF Kentucky.
Would Limit Guard Pay.
An amendment to the war bill by
Representative Cochran, Democrat, of
Missouri which would prohibit pay or
allowances to members of the National
Guard who are drawing disability al
1owances or retired pay because of dis
abilities, whose disability rating at the
Veterans Bureau exceeds 10 per cent,
was approved. SO to 5.
Cochran originally proposed 20 per
cent as the disability limit, but it was
reduced to 10 on the motion of Parker,
Democrat, of Georgia. Cochran also
would have excepted adjutant generals,
but this exception was eliminated, 81
to 2 on the motion of Goss, Repub-
Lcan, of Connecticut.
II know of 65 men on the emergency
officers retired roll who are drawing
pay from the National Guard" Cochran
said.