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Show FOOD SUffl BILL npj HOUSE Final Passage Expected Monday; Little Progress Made in Senate. WASHINGTON", Way 26. Reduction by more than $3,U'"i0,0ijIi in appropriations bv the administration's food sur vey and stimulation bill was agreed to by the house today and consideration was virtually completed in committee of the whole. Final passage of the measure mea-sure carrving a total of $14,770,300 is expected Mondav. The senate debated a similar bill throughout the day without making material progress and the lime of passage there still is in doubt. All reductions? in the house measure were suggested by the agriculture committee. com-mittee. Two remain to be forniiilly adopted, adopt-ed, but th'-re probably will be no objection objec-tion to them. Those accepted today-were: today-were: For combatting diseases of livestock and enlarging production reduced from $2,010,000 to ,vS7,0iu; for fwr-d distribution distribu-tion and eradication of lnspta and plant diseases from ..VlO.OOO to $G,110.'(0, and for increasing food production and eliminating elimi-nating wastft from J4.5O0,0"0 to M.43S,-30'. M.43S,-30'. On Mondav the committee will recommend rec-ommend tbitt the food survey appropriation appropria-tion be reduced from S.'i.r.OO.ooo to $2,-5 $2,-5 '2 000 and the misrr-llancous section from $2.i00.6O0 to $756.200. ' Persons employed In carrying out the work provided for in the bill would be liable to military pervlce undr an amend ment offered by Repr'aentat i,-e McKen-zie McKen-zie of Illinois and adopted. The proposal followed rhnrgs by JU-publicaiis that unless un-less it were spclf id that such work could not be regarded as a cause for exemption, the bill would furnish 7;.00 new positions In which lmonrats could , make themaHvps secure from tlio draft. Lit tie progress w:ih made in the sen- at, although trtually thn entire day I j wna devoted to d.:hate. The bill will come up again Monday. owing to bjectloii8 to thA $K,4nn,ono appropriation carried In tho bill as introduced intro-duced In the sonata to fight cholera and othf-r dlseaf'-s among Itvf stork, ( 'halr-man 'halr-man Gore of the agricultural commit ten agreed during the debatu to a reduction to $1,100,000. WASHINGTON. May 2;, H-rhert C. Hoover, fhoHcn by I'r.-rddent WiIhoii to become food administrator when t he pending leginhi t ton is perfected, today defined hifi attitude on the prohibition of foodstuffs In brewing and dlHtllllng. Mr. Hoover Md It alwnyn must re borno In mind thnt the. proposed food administration adminis-tration la purely a war measure, de-Migned de-Migned find Intended for no purpose except ex-cept t he inol'ill.Et t lot i of the roimtry'H food reHonrreK to the ino."t efficient contribution con-tribution tO SlierPMH In w:i r find (hat the food administration would hold Its eye'i straight on its true objective mid t:'l;e no InteiT'-t v. ha te ei- In et hicji I fpu-H-tionn Involved iV tempor.mce or non-tefjiper.iri' non-tefjiper.iri' e. or ;my other question. "If I had to deM wlih the matter. ' said Mr. Hoover, "I should recommend lo the preHldent the n ppolnt ment of a committer- of a national mope mid entirely entire-ly independent view to determine exactly exact-ly how mueb navi ng In t h- con hii nipt Ion of rerealH could bo erferl. d by Hitch action. ac-tion. Such a committee woul J naturally tak evident, under proper condition)! and with fairnesri to all fi'h-.. yfler the finding of loll committee It would he necci: ary for the preRldent to weli;h tint i .mil h to be old a 1 ned n h aca hint other (pieMtlnnn, PU'h an the d Inloi-a t am of revenue reve-nue and IndiiMtry." |