Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — PASS SUPPLY BILLS [ARTICLE]

PASS SUPPLY BILLS

ADMINISTRATION’S WATER POWER MEASURE IS APPROVED. Appropriation* O. K.'d Include A*my •111 for $775,000,000 and Sundry Civil Bill for $605,000,000. Washington, July 3.—Although pre»tfential approval cannot be secured un:jl President Wilson reaches here from Paris, no embarrassment to government departments from lack of funds s expected as a result of the action jf congress in enacting all approprlitlon bills needed by the various agencies of the government for the new fiscal year that began yesterday. After being In session until midnight, the house and senate finally reached on bills that have been in dispute for weeks. The measures as passed included the trmy bill carrying $775,000,000, the sundry civil bill carrying $005,000,000, the District of Columbia annual budget )t $15,000,000 and a deficiency measure of $25,000,000. The water power bill as passed An the house Is substantially as repotted from committee. It provides for the lease to states, municipalities or corporations of water power sites on navigable rivers, public lands and public reserves for periods not to. exceed fifty years. The right to recapture the site at the end of that period on payment of reasonable compensation Is reserved to the government. - Representative Raker, Democrat of California, demanded a separate vote on an amendment to the bill providing for the repeal of the provision of the rivers and harbors act creating a commission to investigate the water resources of the country. The amendment was carried by a vote of 132 to 8.