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Show AMENDED BILL IS PASSEDBY HOUSE FOURTEEN MILLIONS FOR REHABILITATION RE-HABILITATION OF FIGHTERS INCLUDED IN MEASURE. Original Measure of $6,000,000 Vetoed by President Wilson on the Grounds of Not Being Sufficient Suf-ficient Sum. Washington. Amended to provide $14,000,000 instead of $0,000,000 for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, sailors and marines, the sundry civil appropriation bill, which was vetoed by the president, was passed by the house Thursday and sent to the senate. sen-ate. The original measure was vetoed by the president on the ground that the $6,000,000 was insufficient to care properly for the country's wounded men. To meet his objection, the house appropriations committee increased the amount to $12,000,000. Democrats insisted on a larger sum and, after Representative Buchanan, Democrat, of Texas, moved to recommit the bill with instructions to increase the amount to $18,000,000, Republican Leader Mondell offered a substitute to the motion, increasing the amount to $14,000,000. This was carried, 201 to 194. Urging congressional investigation of the coal situation, government officials of-ficials and coal operators told the house rules committee that a fuel shortage was impending. "Coal men fear the situation may get away from them, and that prices may rise $5 or $6 a ton," declared C. E. Lesher of the geological "survey. "Their advertising of the situation is in the hope that this may be averted, for they know that the condition would reflect on them." Anthracite production since January 1 was 10,600,000 tons less than last year and bituminous 74,700,000 tons, Lesher said, due to lack of demand. |