Evening star., 1933-01-21
Measure Presented in Midst
Of Dispute Between Hoover
and Democrats.
PROHIBITION BUREAU
INCLUDED IN SLASHES
Justice, State, Labor and Commerce
Departments Receive Total
of $1Os,5ee,7S1.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A new money bill, said to appropriate
$5,284,742 less than the budget asked,
was presented to the House today at
the same time as dispute was In full
swing between President Hoover and
the Democratic leadership over reduc-
tions in Federal expenditures.
The President said House Democrats
had not cut expenditures $4,000, 900 on
the first five appropriation bills. as
Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations
Committee claims, but actually had in
creased them $35, 100000.
Department Figures Set.
Byrns' committee, using budget figures
of the same class as those the chairman
quoted in offering his side, then brought
in a measure allowing $12,177,464 to run
the Department of State; $4l,834, ,052
for the Department Of Commerce;
$50, ,588, ,465 for Justice, and $l2,682 ,060
for the Department of Labor in the
next fiscal year-a total Of $103 ,282 039.
In the report on this bill, oliver. Demo-
crat, of Alabama, chairman Of the SUBJ
committee that handled it, said the
budget asked sl08,566.781.
The reductions. he said, extended even
to the Prohibition Bureau, which was
allowed $9,l20.000, against the $685.
948 recommended.
The slashes for the departments. as
reported by Oliver, were: State Depart
ment, $500. 1852. leaving a total appro-
priation of S12,177. 900; Justice. $2,448,-
900, leaving Sal, ,834,0 ,050; Commerce ST.
1926, 900. leaving $50, ,588, 900; Labor $707,-
285, leaving sl2,682, 900.
Mitchell Report Quoted.
The committee report quoted this
statement made to it by Attorney Cen
eral Mitchell on the subject of prohibi-
ton:
II have not the slightest doubt in
my own mind, regardless Of what the
future has in store for the national
prohibition system. that we ought to
maintain our efforts unrelaxed, and
that such changes as are to be made
ought to be made In the substantive
law, before they are made by scuttling
or nullifying the laws and leaving them
on the statute books"
The report added:
IN this expression the majority of
by direction, not by indirection"
Because Of this belief the prohibition
ALLEGATION was cut only per cent,
about the average Of reductions applied
to other agencies in the Justice Depart
ment.
Secretary's Fund Cut.
Among other things, the committee
reduced from 100000 to s13O,0O0 the
personal fund of the Secretary Of State,
saying it understood some Of the money
had been spent in violation of the
law"
Secretary Stimson, on his trip to
Europe last year, rode the Italian
steamer Cont Grande. 1t was said
then that American ships were avail
able, and if they were the law requires
that they be used.
Cognizance was taken by the COM
mittee OF the general belief that lit
Is reasonably certain that the Presi-
dent will be vested before the 1884
fiscal year with very plenary powers
OF reorganization.
The committee feels that very sub
stantial savings under the amount car
ried In this bill will follow" the report
continued.
1t added that If the recommended
tions carried in the present bill were
approved the appropriation for the four
departments would be $37,496 900 un-
der what it was in the 1892 bill, the
last handled by the House when Re-
publicans were in control.
The committee reduced the appro-
priation for the Bureau of Investigation
$10,119 to $2,589, 900; for the Supreme
Court, $4,000 to $279,173; it disal-
lowed any funds for hire by the Com
merce Department of Lampnghters on
the Missouri River; increased the Labor
Bureau Of immigration
allowance $640,000 above the expendi-
ture this year to $9,444,000; cut that
Tor the Bureau Of Naturalization $9,595
to $780, 900.
It did, however. allow uncut the
budget estimate Of S734,s00 for the EN-
ployment Service, although the report
said many Of the committee members
doubt the wisdom of continuing this
policy longer"
Allegations for Prisons
The ALLEGATIONS under the Justice De-
partment for specific penal institutions
we're:
Leavenworth, $1,4es.ooo. or ss0,14s
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