Evening star., 1946-06-30
79th Congress Ends
Postwar Fiscal Year;
Cut i. ). Funds 6O96
BY the Asseeioisd Press

The 10th Congress ended its frs
postwar fiscal year yesterday witt
q spending record showing appro.
priations cut Of approximately 81
per cent from last years wartime
financial allotments.
With only a few major bills te
be disposed Of, and but little con.
troversy over the money provision!
in them, the fiscal year appropria.
tion totals as estimated by the House
Appropriations Committee will be
approximately $24 4,000, ,000, 900. They
are for all activities of the Govern
ment for the year starting tomorrow
The total appropriated for the
year ending at midnight tonight
was $58,921 ,422, ,229.
Ofsetting the $4,000 900 900 ap-
propriated this year, Congress re-
captured during the year $64 ,328,-
626,4s7 in appropriations made pre-
viously for war activities. A large
part OF that total came off of the
$5s,921 ,422, ,229 provided during the
flrst part of 1945.
Army, Navy Cuts Largest.
The biggest peacetime cuts were
made in the budgets of the largest
wartime spenders, the Army and
the Navy.
The Army, which received $21,.
496,902, ,030 this year, was given ap.
proximately $780, 100000 for the
coming year.
The Nays record total of S23,-
601, ,l36,064 this year was chopped tc
$4,119,659,3 800 for next year.
On the other hand, many of the
so-called "old line" departments
whose operations had been cut dur
ing the all-out war effort, received
more for the coming year when they
get back to normal peacetime pro.
grams.
A comparison Of this years and
next years appropriations for the
non-war agencies, with action not
yet completed on some bills:
Agriculture Department, $685., ,931,.
$40 this year and $5s1 ,240,121 next
year.
d. c. Gains IL Millions.
District of Columbia, $65,635, CSC
this year and $76,755, ,009 next year
Independent offices, 1921 900 ,23C
this year and $5,094,976,677 next
year.
Labor Department and Fedora,
Security Agency, $1,115,617,256 this
year and s1,136,500, ,238 next year.
Legislative establishment, $5O,-
ss4, ,481 this year and $50, ,s0s, ,736 next
year.
State, Justice and Commerce De-
partments, $265, ,52l 700 this year anc
$438, ,330,612 next year.
Treasury and Postoffce Depart
ments, 342,958, los this year anc
&l,604, ,556,940 next year.
War Department civil functions
(ergineer projects, $112,450 $40 this
year and $333,230,49 next year.
Deficiency and supplemental ap-
preparations this year amounted tt
s7,046, ,683 1886, while for next yeal
they will approximate $4,000, 900 900
Truman Gets Navy Bill.
The Senate completed legislative
action yesterday on a s4,119, ,659, SOC
Naval Department appropriation
bill, sending it to the White House
The total was about $4,000, 600
smaller than that approved by the
House, and $2O,000,000 larger than
the Senate bill.
The Senate also attached an
amendment to the Labor Depart
ment-Federal Security Agency ap-
preparation bill yesterday returning
the United States Employment Serv-
Ice to the States next December 81.
However, the Senate rejected an
other rider" amendment which
would have forbidden the National
Labor Relations Board from con-
sidering unfair labor practice
charges preferred by supervisory
employees.
The USES amendment went in by
q voice vote. The supervisory en-
ployes amendment was rejected on
a 81 to "a roll call. Both amend
ments had been approved by the
Appropriations Committee in con-
sidering the $1,l5l ,ooo,ooo annual
supply bill.