Show W WORK RK URGE URGES URGES' INCREASE E IN INAR WAR AR PENSIONS I IS Secretary S of Interior Also I Recommends New Reclamation Reclamation mation Policy Proposes purvey Survey of Patent Office Dec 6 An G.-An An Increase Increase Increase In- In crease in Civil ChU war pensions was Advocated advocated ad by Secretary Work ork of ot the I Inferior in department In his annual 1 r report port rt submitted today to the t dent Ie lIe summarized In a paragraph li h s repeated repeated t-repeated declaration for lor a ae anew at new et e reclamation policy notified the t i president that he proposed soon to undertake a survey of ot conditions in inthe inthe the thep p patent tent office asked for addi addI- additional oral facilities for Howard It a negro institution here under l government supervision and COncluded concluded concluded con COn- with a sentence pointing out I th that t although the departments department's appropriation ap- ap had been reduced by the fast ast congress the budget bureau noW proposed an additional cut of ot for tor the coming year The e reclamation problem was de descrIbed described described de- de scribed by Mr Work as presenting I situation The reclamation law ho said that the cost of ot Ion of ot each cach project shall be pa paid d Catkin in a a. year twenty-year period In n hit iri- iri t of or fixed amounts and andIS andI'S IS I'S so the tho annual provides annual nance l tande e. e cost including oper operation h hail n l be paid annually by the water vater I sus s. s Out of ot the twenty-eight twenty pros pro's pro pro- pro pro-I s 's s constructed or in the course of ot I construction only one of these prop pro pro- pro pro-I lefts p is has fully tully complied with this 1 notwithstanding that I elief extending time of ot payment on tree occasions has been granted I It y t congress A number of ot them are are areA aren I n A state of or financial insolvency inking it impossible for the government gov gov- I l' l ment to recover the money Ing anted In- In g teel ted in them while white other projects I fn-I rein such fi- fi a dubious stalo stale that It I difficult to to- presage at the pres pres- I n time whether they will ulti ultimately Ulti-I Ulti In lel ely pay payout out In order to ascer- ascer n the tho true condition I have ha ap- ap 11 4 po a special committee of ot advisers ad ad- sers composed of disinterested I of national prominence fa fam familiar fa- fa 1 m liar with irrl irrigation atlon matters who have h begun an exhaustive analysis o the he the entire reclamation require- require mets to ts methods and policies As Asas Aso As' As Ast o t as their work is completed I to submit their report with I to the president So does dOcs es not mean that the theory reclamation Is unu un- un u d. d It Jt m merely rely means that a new newn n icy must mut be developed that w will guard the future so so that the n may proceed in a more morer moree der e r lid md id like business manner n ii t red of 01 o the arid and lauds laud of o the the West est In Jn the Uie pension Office the secre- secre tary said so much work has ac accumulated accumulated ac- ac I I cumulated due to increased de demands demands demands de- de mands on the part of ot the public that applications are laid away for about ten months before any action I is Initiated toward their examina examina- tion He added that the need for fora a comprehensive survey of ot con conditions conditions condi condi- l- l there which I expect to undertake un un- un- un at atthe the tho first opportunity was a parent apparent Increased facilities at Howard university the report declared were of paramount public importance The Institution is one of ot two in inI inthe inthe the country he said provides I training for physicians and andI I dentists and rec recent nt statistics have shown that there is but ore one negro I doctor to members embe s of ot the race I Imd I and md only one dentist to I II The interior departments department's receipts I for the fiscal year ea r of ot 1923 were given by the secretary as I compared to in the I year eal previous Most lost of the increase II j came from royalties from oil leases on Indian lands |