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Show H KOIt THE DJSAIILKI) M In making the appropriations for the government M service for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1921, H , Congress made liberal allotments for hospitals for H disaglcd soldier. A bill passed the House appropriu- Hj ting $12,500,000 for thu construction of hoipltalo, H , anil tliu senattt added nn amendment sotting aside H $0,100,000 more for Hie puichase of privately owned H hospital" already under Iouho to tho government. In H addition, Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr. of Now H York secured thendoptlon of nn amendment author H Irlng tho President "to assign for llw use, permanent B or temporary, of tho Public Health Service, under tho I Jurisdiction of the secretary of ihetreosury, such land or buildings now owned by the United States which, In his Judgment can bo used more efllclently for the , en re of patients of the Huioau of War Itluk Iusuiance. |