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Show DEFICIENCY BILL IS SCALED DOWN WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 6. Urgent de-! de-! ficiency appropriation estimates for the I public health service and employees' 'eompcnsfi lion commission were reduced 'from $7,289,500 to $3,110,000 by the house appropriations committee, which today recommended $1,000.00(1 for a compensation compensa-tion fund and $li,0uo,000 to care for war risk insurance patients. The sundry crvll bill in July carried $4,000,000 for war risk needs, but an additional $2,000,000 is needed, tho committee' report re-port said, to sustain the service until the regular deficiency approriation bill is passed. |