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Show oo NO MONEY First Big- Supply Bill Omits Western Mints and Assay Offices. I Washington, Dec. i.-yThc first big1 supply bill of the present session oi , congress, tho legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill, was reported report-ed to the house today by the appropriations appropri-ations committee. The measure, carries $3197,105.50, a decrease of $319,027.8&lffrpm the corresponding bllJ'Jn Ino previous session ses-sion The estimates of tho secretary of the treasury. $3G,5H.59D.-J0, were cut more than a million dollars by the committee. As presented to tho full committee commit-tee by tho subcommittee which framed It, the bill included a provision by Representative Burleson of Texas, making former presidents members at largo of the house, with a salary of $17,500. But the full committee disapproved and it -was struck out of the bill. The commerce court is not provided lor in the measure The court asked ask-ed for $54,500 for tho coming fiscal year, but the committeo would not allow al-low the item. President-elect Wilson probably will get the regular annual allowance of $25,000 for traveling expenses. The committee Included In the bill a provision putting tho clerks of the bouse on tho house pay rolls and paying pay-ing them direct. At present members draw $1,500 a year for clerk hire and pay their own clerks. Tho bill omits all appropriations for the mint at Carson, Nov., and assay as-say offices at Charleston, S. C, Boise, Idaho, Helena, Mont., and Salt Lake City, Utah. on |