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Show operations in the field, $892,000,000; engineer en-gineer equipment of troops, $133,000,000; military surveys and maps, $1,000,000; arming and equipping of national guard. $366,000; ordnance equipment of the home guards, $1,500,000; ordnance and quartermaster supplies for schools and colleges, $1,233,205. HMD PUSSES UPON WAR APPROPRIATION Expected That Army Bill Will Be Reported Substantially Substan-tially in Present Form. WASHINGTON, May 14. The house military committee today began passing finally upon items in the annual army appropriation bill to be reported to the house this week. It is expected that the measure will be reported substantially in its present form, carrying $11,771,666,84S. This is an increase -over the original estimate es-timate of $4,743,230,929, to meet the 'expenses 'ex-penses of the expanded war programme. Appropriations for the support of the army during the present fiscal year were a little more than ?5, 000, 000,000. The largest increase in Secretary Baker's latest estimates over those formerly for-merly submitted is $706,486,991 for ordnance ord-nance ' stores ammunition. Three large items were decreased, the original estimate esti-mate of $1,832,515,020 for clothing and camp and garrison equippage being cut by $602,324,932, the ?1.13S, 240,315 for army signal service by $98,752,211, and the $6,-01S.O0O $6,-01S.O0O for civilian military by $3,378,000. New items inserted since Secretary Baker's recent statement to the committee commit-tee ' include $15,702,000 for maintenance of the provost marshal general's office, $500,000,000 for an authorization for ord-iance ord-iance supplies, in addition to the direct appropriation, and $143,603,037 for storage and shipping facilities, as part of the army subsistence plans. Some of the big sums carried by the bill follow: Pay for the army, $1;5S9,950,745; ordnance ord-nance service, $30,000,000; small arms target practice, $159,23,725; manufacture of arms, $257,324,825; ordnance stores and suDplies, $443,699,260: automatic machine rifles, $574,S70.000; armored motor carsT $347,972,500; medical and hospital department, depart-ment, $157,111,894; shooting galleries and ranges, $4,620,438; subsistence of the army, $1.420, SS2, 575 : transportation, $1,-251,592,903; $1,-251,592,903; horse for cavalry, artillery, etc., $77,484,081 ; barracks and quarters, $1S7,190,SOO; roads, walks, wharves and drainage, $35,117,175; construction and repair re-pair - of hospitals, $83,653,612; engineer |