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Hickory Daily Record
Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina
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The House Appropriations Committee reported the sundry civil appropriations bill totaling $383,611,292, $420,914 less than requested and $2,257,514 below last year's amount. Major reductions include $147M for the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and denials for Justice Department prohibition enforcement, with cuts to war risk insurance, vocational education, military posts, and others.
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Washington, Dec. 29.—The sundry civil appropriations bill carrying a total of $383,611,292 or $420,914,10 less than was asked by the government departments, was reported today by the house appropriations committee.
It was the first of the big supply measures for the next fiscal year to be completed and its total was $2,257,514 less than the amount appropriated for similar purposes this year.
The largest single reduction, $147,000,000, applies to the shipping board emergency fleet corporation, the bill providing that the organization shall be supported out of various sources of income.
Indicating a desire to put government expenditures on a prewar basis, the committee first taking care of men disabled by war set aside only $160,611,292 for actual sundry civil expenses of the government, which was within $34,000,000 of the total amount appropriated in 1916.
Request from the department of justice for $300,000 for enforcement of the national prohibition law was denied. The sum of $15,000 was appropriated, however for suppressing liquor traffic in Alaska.
Other principal slashes in the bill included: War risk insurance, $87,000,000; vocational education, $13,000,000; military posts, $60,942,815; national cemeteries, $19,000,000; flood control Mississippi river, $3,330,000; nitrate plants, $10,000,000; Panama Canal, $7,187,255; immigration service, $2,567,589; employment service, $1,384,991; reclamation service, $5,809,000; public health service, $4,467,000.
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Washington
Event Date
Dec. 29.
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total appropriation $383,611,292; reductions including $147,000,000 for shipping board emergency fleet corporation, denial of $300,000 for national prohibition enforcement, $15,000 for alaska liquor traffic suppression; other cuts: war risk insurance $87,000,000, vocational education $13,000,000, military posts $60,942,815, national cemeteries $19,000,000, flood control mississippi river $3,330,000, nitrate plants $10,000,000, panama canal $7,187,255, immigration service $2,567,589, employment service $1,384,991, reclamation service $5,809,000, public health service $4,467,000.
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The sundry civil appropriations bill carrying a total of $383,611,292 or $420,914,10 less than was asked by the government departments, was reported today by the house appropriations committee. It was the first of the big supply measures for the next fiscal year to be completed and its total was $2,257,514 less than the amount appropriated for similar purposes this year. The largest single reduction, $147,000,000, applies to the shipping board emergency fleet corporation, the bill providing that the organization shall be supported out of various sources of income. Indicating a desire to put government expenditures on a prewar basis, the committee first taking care of men disabled by war set aside only $160,611,292 for actual sundry civil expenses of the government, which was within $34,000,000 of the total amount appropriated in 1916. Request from the department of justice for $300,000 for enforcement of the national prohibition law was denied. The sum of $15,000 was appropriated, however for suppressing liquor traffic in Alaska. Other principal slashes in the bill included: War risk insurance, $87,000,000; vocational education, $13,000,000; military posts, $60,942,815; national cemeteries, $19,000,000; flood control Mississippi river, $3,330,000; nitrate plants, $10,000,000; Panama Canal, $7,187,255; immigration service, $2,567,589; employment service, $1,384,991; reclamation service, $5,809,000; public health service, $4,467,000.