Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-01-10 | Page 2 | Fund Measure Given to House

FUND MEASURE GIVEN TO HOUSE WASHINGTON. Jan. 10 CTV-The CTV-The house appropriations committee commit-tee approved. In general, today President Roosevelt's recommendations recommenda-tions for Immediate emergency defense de-fense and neutrality outlays and proposed that congress provide 1267.197,908 for the army, navy, coast guard and federal bureau of Investigation. The money would go for work already started or expected to be undertaken during the remainder of the fiscal year ending June SO, In connection with neutrality pa-tiols, pa-tiols, lnu eases tn and training of military personnel, and counterespionage. counter-espionage. The whole outlay was proposed under the president's proclamation of a state of limited national emergency emer-gency at the start of European war last September. Reporting an emergency appropriation appro-priation bill to the house, the committee com-mittee cut (4.101,619 from 1271,-999,931 1271,-999,931 recommended by the executive execu-tive branch. The largest reduction was 13.024 .173 In the Item of food for the army. The committee said there had been an excess appropriated appro-priated for this purpose In earlier appropriation by Is for this fiscal year, making the cut more or less a bookkeeping transaction, .