Evening star., 1941-01-29
'$125,000,0O0
For Presidents S
Use Is Asked
Sum Is Included
In $1,400, 900, 900
Supply Measure
BY the Associated Press.


An independent offices" supply
bill totaling s1,404 ,576,838 and in
Guiding a new emergency fund of
S125 100000 to be spent at the direc-
ton of President Roosevelt was
recommended to the House today by
its Appropriations Committee.
At the same time, the committee
recommended a special appropria-
| ton of 175,000,0 900 for the War De-
partment to finance advance pur-
chases OF clothing and equipage for
the Army. A little more than an
hour after receiving the recon-
mendation. the House approved it.
The special War Department sum
was included, the committee ex-
planned, to enable the department to
plan its purchases beyond the end
OF the present fiscal year on June 30
The independent Offices measure
provides money to operate such in
dependent Federal agencies as the
Maritime Commission during the
fiscal year beginning July /. 1t made
relatively few reductions in So
called non-defense expenditures,
possibly because, as committee men,
bers expressly noted, most agencies
reported defense significance in their
activities.
Funds Exceed Last Years.
The total of the bill was s146 .O00.-
900 greater than last years appro-
priation for similar purposes. The
committee said this was due chiefly
to the inclusion of the Presidents
emergency fund.
A similar fund was set up last
session, and Mr.. Roosevelt has used
1t for numerous purposes, including
the start of construction on air
naval sites acquired from the Brit
ish.
In approving his request for
new emergency fund of 100000, 900
In cash and 100000 in contrac-
tual authority, the committee. said
that it had no desire to hamper
or obstruct' his use of the money.
but 1T feels very strongly that it
should be reserved for use in con-
nectlon with items which are un-
usually emergent in character,
which are OF prime importance to
our national defense and which re-
quire immediate action on the eart
OF the Chief Executive
Previous Departures Noted.
During hearings on the bill"
the report said, the attention of
the committee was called to allo-
cations from emergency funds for
activities which were not so init
mately connected with national
defense that a specific appropria-
tion could not have been requested
from Congress in the usual way"
The report did not specify what
those ALLEGATIONS were.
In addition to the new emergency
fund, the committee also recon-
mended appropriation of 100000
600 to liquidate contractual obli-
cations incurred by the President
last year in connection with War
and Navy Department emergency
activities.
Among the other major increases
recommended. the committee listed
SIS 100000 for the Maritime Com
mission; $8.674,892 for the selective
service system; s4,800,OOO to the
Tennessee Valley Authority; $3,00O,-
600 for defense activities of the Civil
Service Commission, and $2,401, $40
for the National Advisory Commit
tee for Aeronautics.
Some Economies Achieved.
The major decreases listed in
cluded $34005,240 Topped from the
Federal Works Agency; $305 900 in
foreign service pay adjustment;
s480,000 from the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Commission, and $175,000
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