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Show SAVE BILLIONS 0(1 II CQNJRACTS Canceled Orders Result in Large Sum Returned to Treasury. Most of Construction Work : Stopped After Armistice Armi-stice Signed. -U'ASl flX ITOX, I e . H : r u c a r y iJ.iker told the ff-n.itfi ritiaii-e committed commit-ted today that through (ontnu-t cnneella-MniiM cnneella-MniiM the wur department expects to syvo approximately 7,2fiU.O"in.On of the irl.i;l.auii,oo() voted I'.v congress (or the finny during the war. Llarlif-r in the (lav th: house appro-I.ii)iiiuiiK appro-I.ii)iiiuiiK romnditee. whU-h is hivesUat-1 hivesUat-1 1 ik to d. -tannine what part of war appropriations appro-priations ran he returned to tut? treasury, UMih- publh: a tatt'Mi'-Ht from Mr. Maker showing an estimated paving of about iwi'ivi- billion of dollars, or nearly half I h.i total a)pi oprial ions. Millions for Treasury. Chairman Sherh-y explained later, how-rvr, how-rvr, that thlti estimate was made some linif iimo and Hiat revised figures furnished fur-nished by the war di'parlnient showed an ihlliuatrd Having of ahouL seven billions of -ilolL-irs. "of necessity Ihe figures change from dfry lo day," explained Mr. Sherley, "but it would seem that something more than Hrv-H billions of the appropriations for the tinny could bo converted buck into the U-'-lisury." Tho war secretary told the senate .finance .fi-nance committee today, members of the c.ojnmlUro said, that congress will need to appropriate, only about Jl.lUO.OUU.um) to cover contracts made under the SS.000,-MtJO.rwO SS.000,-MtJO.rwO of authorizations provided by congress con-gress apd for which no actual appropria-i appropria-i Luits (lave been made. Divided Among States. 'The secretary's statement to th? house appi onrintlons committee said the department's depart-ment's disbursements to date in the. I'nited Slates total $!), 51t,OUO,fiOO and those In Kranco ?l,ItP,OUO,OUU. Mr. Baker previously had informed the- committee of i unl i act cancel la l ions aggregating about Sli.bOfi.OnO.OUO. These include: Powder, 275,000, otifl; - artillery. $750,-Ohm.iiuU; $750,-Ohm.iiuU; motor vehicles, $2s2,OOO.nOO; tex-l tex-l tins. $Jri l,OUt),000; airplane parts, $2.",I.-miO.000; $2.",I.-miO.000; gas defense equipment, $100, UOU,-IH'O. UOU,-IH'O. Contracts for rifles, shoes, harness, rubber goods, chemicals, barbed wire and Ktet- and iron products, aggregating mil-linns mil-linns of dollars, also have been cancelled. Torty per cent of the cancellations have been divided among states, Mr. Baker said, enumerating; those in Massachusetts as amounting to $231.n0O.imir; Michigan. ?rt3.000.f1(K); Connecticut, 555,000,000; New Vork. Pennsylvania. Ohio and Missouri. S:tJ,i)Oii,(nui each; Illinois and Tennessee, .S5j, 000,000 ach: Indium, $44.000(uOO: New Juncy, J25.yO0,'i0tt; Rhode Island, Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin. .Maine, New Hampshire and Minne-svn, Minne-svn, $11,000,000 each; Maryland, $2,200.- 000; Virginia, $.'.,5otj,oQO, and California. $(, P'f', l 'r-para t ions for the ram -dilation of arinv cor. t rail h were unwr'aken he ior t)i.) "signing of the arnnstico, Mr. Baker r-'Ia tl r;' that, uniferenees on t ,iL question ques-tion w-re held wuh I he war indu.M rles board on November !'. ,M.i i. u fa rt t.n-rs wor hi :.g on i-on i.ra-ts that are TO be cornpb-l .-d. S-'T'-iary l'a.-j l'a.-j ker said, had hf-n a hh is ted in many in-; in-; stances by permission b.-mg given for ci-j ci-j vilian orders to take precede i ice over yov-i yov-i ernment ordi-rs. j The army, l. yaid, has "lowdr in ex- CfHH of its needs." "I am much embarrassed," the Bicre-tarv Bicre-tarv added, "as to ho v. to ftort. the amount, of powder and explosives which A'e have " Operation of He Muse Shoals nitrate plant probably Viit be continued, he said. Work on the cantonment at Kayettevllle, Mo., Is intended to be continued with the pl.ie.. be 'omjng a permanent part of the annv training s.stem. The cantonmeii t at Ilalelyh, N, C, he said, would he abandoned. Mr. Baiter also said there is I necenjlty for the 'Neville Island plant, under construction In the Ohio river, and to he, lined for ma k Inpr powder and guns. Most construction work of the wax department, de-partment, however, was stopped soon a fier t lie; siKii i ni? of I lie armistice, Mr. Baker mid the committee. Contracts for purchases In Kngland and Krance, he said, are also being cancelled, and orders to cease work on many projects proj-ects were given by General Pershing he-fore he-fore he reeeied similar orders directing ; such action from the. war department. |