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Show MILLION DOLLARS ! FOR LIQUOR FIGHT CONGRESS APPROPRIATES BIG SUM OF MONEY FOR TWO DEPARTMENTS Big Additional Amount for War on Rum Will Give Job to 300 More Federal Agents In Field Wash Ington, Nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars la carried in the annual supply hill Tor tho treasury and postofliro departments reported by the. house appropriation eommit-tce. eommit-tce. Tho exact ainoimt Is $729,S."iS-451, $729,S."iS-451, an Inereaso of $ IS, 170, W.I ovor total appropriations for tlie two departments de-partments for the current fiscal year, hut $5,-l-17,090 less than budget esti-mates. esti-mates. Of tho total $000,970,2 10 Is for tho posl.ofNeo department $2 1,757,187 more than was appropriated a year ago and 1 1 (i.O.'Uj less than budget recommendations and $ 1 1,SS2,2U5 for a treasury. The treasury department allotment allot-ment does not tako Into consideration $1,399,051,075 of permanent and In. definite- appropriations which do not require annual congressional action. It does however, include $10,029,770 for enforcement of 1 prohihitions 0-0,770 more than was granted last year. Tho const guard, which is charged with curbing rum smuggling, hy sea, Is diluted $10,051,0-19 or $793,SS1 less than was appropriated for the current year, and tho customs service is allowed al-lowed $13,874,1-10 or $1,555,0-10 more than was appropriated a year ago. Of the postoffice allotment major Items aro .$124,037,100 for clerk hire in the first and second class postoft'iees ; $.S7,000,O00 for the pay of city letter carriers; $101,500,000 to pay railroads for the transportation of mail; $47,-400,000 $47,-400,000 for the transportation of mail ; $47,400,000 for tho maintaining of the railway mail service and $SS,250,000 for the pay of rural letter carriers. Airplane mail service it allotted $1,-D00,000, $1,-D00,000, the amount voted a year ago. In its report the committee pointed out in comparing totals with these of last year, that the bill does not carry the $240 bonus granted clerks for the current fiscal year. It is also declared declar-ed that the Increased appropriation tor enforcement of the prohibition and narcotic laws would enable the treasury to employ 300 additional prohibition agents and 145 more agents to ho used in preventing the Illegal use of narcotics. In the bill is an item of $51,000 entitled en-titled "floating expenses," which the report explained would be used to purchase fast motor launches, costing from $300 to $5000 for use against rum runners. The increased volume of imports the report said, makes it Imperative that additional funds ihe granted the customs service. The amount recommended, recom-mended, it was said, would place 1128 additional employes on the payroll 250 of them at the port of New York bringing the field force of the customs cus-toms service up to S5SS employes. Discussing postoffice revenue the report said that for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, it would appropriate $5GS,G30,000, leaving an estimated deficit of about $28,000,000. Revenues next year, it was estimated will increase 7.5 per cent. On the basis of the appropriation carried in the bill, this would entail a deficit of slightly more than $2,000,000 next year. |