Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-06
s732,223,O75 TO
RUN THE NATION IN
1871, IS ESTIMATE
Sos, 37O,303 Less Than APP
preparations for the Cur
rent Fiscal Year.
PRESIDENTS ORDER Is
REASON FOR DECREASE
Departmental Officers Notified to
Cease padding Report--Fig'
ureS on Bedrock Basis.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.-That there
has been a careful scrutiny of the esti-
mates of appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1911, is shown by
the figures submitted to the House of
Representatives today by Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh.
The grand total of estimates for 1911
is 1872, 22S,075 which is sos, 970,S03 less
than the appropriations for the current
fiscal year and $12S, 066. 1873 under the
estimates submitted a year ago for 1910.
A general cut has been made wherever
possible and new work authorized only
where regarded as absolutely neces-
sary.
Heretofore it has been the practise of
departmental officers to pad" the esti-
mates. with the expectation that they
would be materially reduced before be-
ing finally passed by Congress. As soon
as President Taft came into office he
directed hat this practise be discon-
tinued, and rave notice to the men,
bers of his cabinet in the future all
estimates must be submitted on the
basis of the actual needs and require
ments of the service. The result is the
officials say that the figures submitted
today are down to a bedrock basis,
and will bear the closest examination
by the appropriation committee of both
houses of Congress. There is an increase
of nearly SIS, 600. 900 for the Isthmian
canal expenses.
yTI.a nGfi1,afaG in detail for fhn va Ri
GUS departments are (cents omitted:
Legislative, .$13, 1863. 1919; executive, $472,-
go; State department. S4.576.301; treas
ury. s136. 99S. sos: territorial govern
ments, S2S7, $50; independent offices. 81
400. sos; District of Columbia, S11, SS4, 92s:
war. 5000, ISL, 645: navy, Sill ,029, 914. In
terror, s191, 224,1S2; post Office depart
nent proper. 81. 695, $50: deficiency in
postal venue $40, GA. 122; department
agriculture. ST. s1. 1876; and
labor, s14,1S7,913; justice, s9,51s,64o.
Expenses of the postal service are
paid from the postal revenues and are
not estimated for.
The money order business has grown
TO such an extent that, in the opinion of
Postmaster-Genera Hitchcock, some
change in the method of auditing the
accounts is necessary in the interest of
economy and efficiency, so that he asks
for an appropriation Of $24,570 to pur-
chase adding machines.
For collecting the corporation tax
500. 0a0 is asked. Total estimates re-
quired on account of the forestry serv-
ice are $5,043. 700. of this amount $780,. 500
being for the protection of the &c, 000, 900
acres recently added to the national
forests.
Secretary of War Dickinson wants
$3.50, 900 for the expenses of the en-
campment and maneuvers of the or
ganized militia as against an appro-
p~riation of $3.50 0 for the current year,
the secretary explaining that the addi-
tional amount is rendered necessary
by the fact that in the season of 1910
the annual joint coast artillery and
militia exercises will be held as usual.
and also the biennial encampments and
of the mobile forces of the
militia and regular army. For build
ings and grounds at the West Point
Military ACADEMY, $1,070,2 52 is asked.
The S17. 435. 724 asked for under the
head of increase Of the navy is for the
completion, Quitting and armament of
vessels already authorized. For nod
ernizing turrets OF naval ships $564,0 900
is wanted. For public works under the
bureau of yards and docks, the esti-
mates include: Navy yard Boston,
S105. 900; naval station Guantanamo,
500. 900; navy yard Mare Island. S107.-
900; navy yard New York. $516, 900; navy
yard Norfolk, $4,000; naval station
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. S2,045, 900; navy
yard Philadelphia, $215, 600; navy yard
Puget Sound, 1885,, ZOO; for land for a
torpedo station near the Pacific coast
of the United States. s145. 400.
BY the Isthmian Canal Commission
$15,50 .036 Is asked for skilled and nm
skilled labor, an increase of more than
$1,000, 600 yer the amount provided for
the current year. and $50. 21S, 1888 is
asked for material. an increase of al
most $780, 0o, 900.
The total increase in Isthmian canal
expenses is from s93, 63S, 900 to $4s,06S, 524.
For public works under the war de-
parrment the estimates include $1,000
900 for the alteration and maintenance
of the sea coast artillery; 81, 319. 900 for
sea coast batteries in the Philippines to
be expended under the engineer de
partment: s1,9O0,0 900 for Notifications in
the insular possessions, under the
ordnance department: $500, 600 for store
houses at Manila; $183,0O0 for complet-
ing the military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth; $350,0o0 TO complete the army
supply depot at Fort Mason, California:
100000 for a cavalry post in Hawaiian
territory: $780, 900 for the improvement
of the Yellowstone National Park.
Under the head of rivers and har-
bors the larger estimates are: 1915, 900,
improving channel in Gowanus Bay, N.
X; s1s4, 900, harbor at Cleveland.
The interior department wants $780,
900 for protecting the public lands and
the attorney S2OO,0 900 for the detection
n prosecution OF crimes against the
government and the investigation of
the acts of officers OF the United States
and territorial courts.