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FLOOD SUFFERERS.
Mr. RAHM, from the Committee on Finance, returned the flood sufferers' relief bill [H. R. 419] with a recommendation that it be amended so that so none of the money shall be expended except to relieve present necessities in the way of board, clothing, bedding and medicine; reducing the amount to $60,000, and allowing pay to members of the Relief Board for expenses, and a per diem to the Lieutenant Governor; and that all unexpended moneys be returned to the Treasury April 1.
Mr. SPANN thought this commission should employ men at $1.25 a day and thus extend relief and work at the same time to sufferers.
