Evening star., 1939-02-06
$1,S9S,0oo,o0oB Bill.
For Independent
Offices Reported
| TotoI Is s2e8, 100000
More Than Current
| Appropriation
BY the Associated Press.

| oy tiAc <1sSoliotSo Aeoo.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee recommended $1,898 512 ,769
today to operate more than score
of independent Government agen-
cies for the year starting July /
an increase of more than 1898 900,
900 over the current year.
Despite the increase, the commit
tee Topped $1,580,670 from some OF
the Budget Bureaus estimates.
It withheld the $2,038,175 appro-
priation recommended for the Fed
eral Communications Commission
pending action by Congress on the
Presidents request for reorganiza-
ton of the commission, torn recently
by internal diSsension.
The committee proposed slashing
$4,000 from the salary OF each men,
ber Of the Maritime Commission and
each member and the administrator
of the new Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority.
100 Million for ShiDs.
Salaries of these officials y~ere
fixed by law at $4,000 year, out
the committee said the reduction
to $4,000 was in line with the
treatment accorded members of both
the Interstate Commerce and Tariff
Commissions.
The net increase in the bills
total was accounted for by inclusion
of new item of 100000 900 for
the Maritime Commissions con-
struction fund and grant author
izing the commission to contract
for an additional $3.50, 900 900 Of con-
struction.
Among other new items was $21,-
$4,000 for the Civil Aeronautics
Authority. The agency has been
operating with s14,719,935 transfer
red from agencies whose functions
it absorbed last fall.
The committee recommended
SO, 189 800 for the Labor Relations
Board, an increase of 1924 900 over
the current figure and only $4,000
less than the budget approved.
Air Research Stressed.
Asserting that recent events have
demonstrated the dominance of air
power in international affairs" the
committee approved a $3.50 900 in
crease for the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, giving
it s2,180,000 for the year.
Recently the aeronautical re-
search activities of foreign opwers
have been greatly accelerated, with
resulting improvement in their mill
tary aircraft" the committee said.
"In order to make possible the
development by our Army and Navy
of aircraft at least equal in per-
formance with those of any other
nation, the United States must
place greater emphasis on aeronau-
tical research"
The committee said the additional
funds would permit the advisory
group to enlarge its staff, procure
additional equipment for its lab
oratories at Langley Field, Va, and
complete the construction and
modernization of two wind tunnels
there.
BY far the largest items in the
bill were $561 ,093, 900 for the Veter-
ans Administration and $3.50, ,OOO, 900
for the Social Security Board.
Representative Rayburn of Texas,
the House Democratic leader, said
the House probably would pass the
bill tomorrow night and on Thurs
day would start debate on meas
,Ee embodying most Of the sugges-
tions in President Roosevelt's $751;
600, 1000 national defense program.
T. v. A. Gets 80 Million.
Other important recommendations
were $39, 600, 900 for the T. v. A., of
which $12,503,000 was designed to
continue work on the controversial
Gilbertsville, KY, dam and 81, 4,252, 900
to start work on the Watts Bar Dam
on the Tennessee; Railroad Retire
ment Board, $l23, ,404 ,Co0;. Rural
Electriflcation Administration, $42,-
100000; Interstate Commerce Com
mission, $8,908, 900; Civilian Con-
servation Corps, $295 900 900; Civil
Service Commission, $91, ,404, 900.
The bill included $450,950 for
maintenance of the White House
and for the salaries of the Presi-
dent and Vice President.
For the Canal Zone retirement
and disability fund, administered by
the Civil Service Commission, the
committee approved an appropria-
ton of $500,000, the amount ap-
proved by the budget and the same
amount granted for 1889.
The Senate approved, meanwhile
| (see APPROPRIATION, Page A-4.)