Excerpt from District of Columbia Appropriation Bill, 1919: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Second Session on H. R. 11692 Senator smith 0 Maryland. I should like to as the commissioners if, in making their estimates of increase, they took into consideration the $120 that would be given? Commissioner brownlow. We made our estimates, of course, last October. Senator smith of Maryland. That was before that increase was granted by the House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.