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Show BIG CUT I0E IN SALARY BILL BY COMMITTEE Measure Carries $112,728.-438 $112,728.-438 or $23,724,196 Less Than Asked For $10,000,000 WANTED TO ENFORCE DRY LAW Sub-Committee Recommends Steps to Save Uncle Sam Fifteen Millions "WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 The legls-: legls-: lntive, executive and Judicial appro-; appro-; prl'.ition bill, the big salary measure, i reported nut today bv the house appropriations ap-propriations committee, carried a total to-tal of 1112.728,438, or $j:t.7'.'t 196 less than departments aS)CSd for and 728.771 below tho amount appropriated appropri-ated for the current year. As an indication of the wartime In-creo.Se In-creo.Se the bill s total in 1 3 1 ". was $36,-910.799 $36,-910.799 An appropriation of $10,000,000 was recommended for the bureau Of internal revenue, to be used largely In enforcement of prohibition. ! The largest cuts in n ppropriatlons for departments, as Compared with I those of last year were: Treasury de-' de-' nartment 6,906,6m; department of commerce $3.807.2."i0; war depart-I depart-I ment $-,9-'7,870. and iav department ; $38:. 770. Th sub-comml!$.e.' estimated that 'an additional $lf.,000,000 would bo saved If congress folbiwed the recom-i recom-i mendatlon of the sub-committee that i the $240 annual bonus granted fi ib r:.I ! employe not apply in the ease of em- ploySS whose pay In adjustable In te-I te-I cord with commercial tates. Practically all of the amount cut from tho department of commerce was due to a reduction of $3,785,000 j in tho allowance for the census bu-! bu-! rcau. No decrease in the number of cm-i cm-i ploycs In the bureuu of war rick in-! in-! surance is required, but Ihe bureau's appropriation was reduced from $10.-I $10.-I 321,400 to 17.146.400. |