Evening star., 1936-02-24
BILL
.PARES ESTIMATES,
BUT TOTAL GAINS
Reappropriations of Old
Balances Help Spending
Exceed Current Rate.
HOUSES FARM MEASURE
C0NFEREES ARE NAMED
Shelter Belt Funds Are Disal.
lowed-Soil Conservation Serv.
ice Is Regular Item.


Seren Ueeks from inualidation OF
A. A. A., Congress now faces dis
agreement betpeen House and
Senate on terms of substitute farm
legislation. Measure passed by
both branches is based upon
scheme OF Federal subsidies for
soil conservation: issue uhich
threatens neU delau is nhether
tenant farmers or landlords should
receiue benefits in property so used.
Program is expected to cost
about s500,000,00 per year.
BY the Associated Press
A Sl6l 863l47 Agriculture Depart
ment appropriation bill for the 1897
fiscal year was laid before the House
today as the new S500,000, 900 soil
conservation farm program headed
for conference on House and Senate
differences.
Meanwhile. the House agreed quick
ly today to conference with the Sem
ate on the latter.
Speaker Byrns named these menu
berS of the Agriculture Committee as
conferees: Chairman Jones, Democrat,
of Texas. Representatives Fulmer,
D mocrat, of South Carolina; Doxey,
Democrat, of Mississippi; Hope. Re-
publican. of Kansas, and KinZer, Re-
publican, of Pennsylvania.
Although. from the viewpoint of ac-
tual new money appropriated. the
supply bill was s28, ,525, ,857 under bud
get estimates, there were reappropria-
tions of uneXpended balances totaling
Sl8000.000. The measure was, at the
same time. s2l $685. above current
appropriations, not counting reappro-
priatiohs.
In addition. the bill allowed s4.-
100000 for the Farm Credit Admins
tration-the same as this year.
Shelter Belt Funds Out.
Following the policy laid down IN
the War Department supply measure.
the Appropriations Committee refused
to allow s10O0.000 requested in the
budget for the shelter-belt program Of
tree planting in the Great Plains.
In the war bill. s29,OOO.00o for
carrying on the Passamaquoddy tide
water dam and other projects started
under emergency funds. as vas the
shelter-b belt. was disallowed on grounds
those WORKS had not been approved
previously by Congress.
The principal provision for using
no Snh
would revert to the Treasury. was
Sl7.500.00 for elimination of diseased
cattle Work-the amount requested in
the budget
Substitute A. A. A. Included.
Chiefly accounting for the measures
total increase over this years funds
vas inclusion of the soil conservation
service for the first time as regular
item under the Agriculture Depart
ment The committee cut the S27-
100000 budget estimate to S22 .469. .265.
1t is under this law that the substi-
tute A. A. A. program is being set up.
After fight, the committee over
rode the budget and wrote in an au-
thorization for making Sl25 1000 900
of road contracts in the 1887 fiscal
year pursuant to the Hayden-Cart.
wright act. The budget had recon-
mended that this authorization be
postponed a year. For Federal-aid
roads outright, the bill carried the
$50 900 900 recommended by the bud
get and $7,082 600 for forest roads
and trails-a S9l7.4OO cut under the
budget for the latter work.
Weather Bureau Gets Increase.
The Appropriation Committee ex-
planned that of the bills total only
$25, 1892, ,422 might be said to be for
ordinary activities of primary benefit
to agriculture.
The Weather Bureau. upon its
presentation that facilities were made
quate to meet public demands. received
S3.8lO,724. or a $37l $50 increase over
this year and only $99, 100 under bud.
get requests. The added funds includ-
ed increases for the forecast and
warning service. Genealogical service.
river and flood service, forest fire
WCdtllEi wal ililSS, IOiIlIiCl Cldl al way
meteorological service and restoration
of the Apalachicola, Fla. station.
Last year increased funds were al.
lowed for expanding the hurricane
warning service.
Wheat and Cotton Aided.
The committee approved $4,000 not
in the budget for soft-wheat inves-
legations at the Ohio Experiment Sta
ton, and specified that $4,000 of the
$406, ,435 for cotton fiber crops and
diseases be used for experimenting in
sea island cotton. This was not rec.
commended in the budget Another
increase not in the budget was 5000
for naval stores Investigations and
s6.500 for the Allegheny Experiment
Station.
A new item included in the budget
and allowed was $4,000 for purchase
of private lands in the Uinta and
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