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Show : HAPPENINGS UN- l DER THECAL m TALPOME ? J 3? .? WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (BpeeuV WL CoreBpondencc.) The appropriation ' '. " sub committee on military affairs of ? i! 1 lbo" house' under thVdlrcctfon of1 ' jjjb Congressman Daniel R. Anthony of , Kansas, the chairman, la hard at i , ,i work -whipping; the annual' array bill ' , . Into shape! Drastic economy la ev- ' i .. ident as thu estimates of Secretary It y, y Baker are cohsldorcd and passed up- t V on by the committee. Lump sum appropriations aro being eliminated , ' " i- wherever possible, and specific sums a -' i ,?r, for specific purposes aro hemp allot- y S - ' I v led for the rarious branches of army W ffi A activity. The only deviation from, ! j$Li .'' that rul Is In tho appropriation for f Sk'V pay.'whero it la necessary to provide $K'" an amount sufficient to compensate I ' '''! 'he entire personnel from which thn i ft ife $ secretary pan niako drafts as tho r "aV money is needed. In splto of 'the f r fact that the house and senate have K$ ' I,aaBed a resolutou limiting the stzo ' '' a of lne nrm" t0 175.000 men. it Is un- Yf '! dcrstood to be tho purpose of the ". npproprlatlonn committee to furulBh i raoncy enough for only 150,000 am- $'" f ount,nB to a further icductlon of , jS 25,000; Officers, too, wilt bo cut to W "& ibout "16,000." It will be up to the L'Br' ;? ew secretary of war In tho Hard- P'Jfpf ' Iv ,nR ndraln,8lratlon to make practical sMif? S application of tho reductions mado Biu&L.'3 ln Practically orery Item of..lbo ex- KSSpTj? eeutrve estimates. ? f 4 TfltK SUM, TO onitvi) OK' '','' - la 11 possible that the extra aes- ! fi alon or tho sejiate. to b called 1m- raedlatcly-aftcr President elect Hard'' Ing is Inaugurated,, will merge Into tho oxtra ocoslon of congress that it la predicted will-be called aboutftbreci weeks lator. "Thee will bo many Important Im-portant nominations to be confirmed, which will hare to be referred to committees and fsefve carcfurcon-slderatjSnj' carcfurcon-slderatjSnj' Mr., Harding will be called upon to name four members of the Interstate commerce commission,' ; i .before they will bo given somilorjal i endorsement. Senator Albert B, Cum ,nilns, chairman of that committee.) states that, there aro thirty ..or forty " v I oher highly Important nominations to be made by the new president, all of which will take time to confirm. Of coursn the cabinet appointments head tho list, but their confirmation is usually considered a , matter of routine, as it is conceded to be, the rlfiht of a president to select his per-sonul per-sonul advisers without senatorial opposition. op-position. TIIURK MAY 11K A HKItATK I Congressman William J. Graham of Illinois, chairman of the special committee that has 'been Investigating Investigat-ing expenditures of the war department, depart-ment, Is busily at work preparing his I final report to tho house. It Is said I that it will contain Borne highly interesting in-teresting disclosmos as to so wo of the transactions Involved in disponing dispon-ing of war Industries and surplus materials. ma-terials. It Is Mr. Graham's Intention to seek the appointment of a special assistant attorney general under thn now administration, whose duty it shall be to Inctulre Into some of the war department sales with a view to recovering monay thereon. The congressman con-gressman believes that tho goyern-ment goyern-ment cane get back hbndredx of millions mil-lions of'dollars Ihiough a vigorous prosecution of those cases. A6 one Instance of the ridiculously low prio ns accepted by the secretary of war, Mr, Oraham cites tho powdor plant xt Old Hickory, Tennessee, upon which tho.govcrnmont expanded J00,'-' 500,00.0 but which never produced a pound -pf pow4?r for use, in tho war. On October-12, 1920, the plant was sold to (ho Nashville, Jnusrlal. Corporation Cor-poration for $3,506,000 tluynorern-. ment receiving only $200.0,00 eash and thn balance In v ten car; G per cent notes, The man wljo negotiated the sale for he Rovernmftnt wa later lat-er decorated, with a distinguished service medal for his service in disposing dis-posing of army property "at exceptionally excep-tionally advantageous prices" |