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Show HOUSE APPROVES I SUNDRYCIVIL BILL j MEASURE CARRIES $2,915,000,000, INCLUDING $50,000,000 FUND DISBURSED BY WILSON. Nearly Two Billions Set Aside for Use of Shipping Board for Construction Construc-tion of Vessels. Fund Devoted to Repair of Enemy Ships. Washington. The sundry civil bill, -arrying SI. 7(11.7(11.0111) fur the shipbuilding ship-building program. .-.""( ),( X M i,( K M i fur the president's emergency war fund ami 1.250,000 for the committee on public information, was passed by the house .lime 17. without a record vole. lr now goes to the senate. The measure carries a total of $2,-915.000,00(1. $2,-915.000,00(1. of which mure than 52.-000.000 52.-000.000 was added by tle house, including in-cluding the funds for the president and the information committee, and 1. 000.000 for Mississippi river Hood control. The appropriations for the president and the information committee were approved by the house appropriations committee and attached as amendments amend-ments to the hill, with both Democrats and Republicans supporting them. Be-fore Be-fore passing-the measure, however, the house amended it so that none of the information committee appropriation can be used to pay salaries of men of draft age. unless they lire physically disqualified for military service. .Most of the nearly two billions provided pro-vided for the shipping board is for construction of ships, in this country and abroad, with 87.000, 000 for establishing estab-lishing ship yards; 8rO,tMK),OO0 for operating oper-ating ships heretofore acquired, and $0,250.(1(10 for recruiting and instructing instruct-ing ships' officers. Other appropriations include $7,500.-000 $7,500.-000 for the food ad'-Oinistration ; ?,.-. ?,.-. 500.000 fur the fuel administration; $3,500,000 for the war trade hoard; $2,800,000 for the department of labor; $1,150,000 for the war industries hoard; $!)1X).(KHI for the alien property custodian; custo-dian; $400,000 for the council of national na-tional defense, and $200,000 for the national advisory committee for aeronautics. aero-nautics. One of the purposes to which a considerable con-siderable part of the presidential und has been devoted was the repair of enemy en-emy merchant ships damaged by their crews before they were taken over by the government. This work now is completed. The president pointed out that war agencies which at the outset were supported by the emergency fund now could he taken care of through specific appropriations in the regular way. |