Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-07
SUM
DEMANDED Of
CONGRESS
TREASURY ESTIMATES
$748,4t4, 861 IS NEEDED
This Amount viii Run Govern
ment for Fiscal Year Ending
June 80 1922 Is Less Than
Last Year.

ny Morning journal special Leased wire1
Washington, Dec. 6.-The estimates
of appropriations required for every
branch of the federal government in
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1912,
aggregate $7iS,414.S61, were submit-
ted to congress today by Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh. This total
stands against estimates Of $745,0e7,-
1877 and appropriations Of $s05,2s4.-
513 for the current fiscal year, which
included more than Sl0,000,000 for
the census and Si0,600,O00 for postal
and other deficiencies.
The estimates today We're distribut-
ed as follows;
War department, 205,257,546.
Interior department, $1S9,15l,S75.
Treasury department $141, ,599,997.
Agricultural department, Sl9,6Sl,-
066.
Navy department, $12S,942,15S.
Commerce and labor, $16.276,970.
District of Columbia, $ls,602,7S6.
Legislative, $13,426, SOC.
Justice S10,063.576.
State, $4,S75,576.
Independent office including inter-
seate commerce commission, S2,6SS,-
COS.
Postoffice department proper ST.
697,490.
Deficiency in postal revenues, no
estimate.
Executive. s99s,170.
Territorial governments, $202,150.
There are no striking features in
this years estimates.
Among the items are.
Increase In the navy. $23,294,04S,
fpa6tIfnns 3Iu SIU dyR for qpnGtpuation
and steam machinery and armor and
armament in the proposed building
program for 1912, and 100000 for
armor and vessels already authorize
ed,
For bulls and outfits of vessels and
steam. machinery heretofore authoriz-
ed $6,031, ,7S6 Is asked. For submarine
torpedo boats and sub-surface de-
stroyers, SS9S S34. An estimate OF $751;
600 is made because Of two fleet col
liers already authorized. 1t is point
cd out that IN order to construct a
collier on the Pacific coast in the gov
ernment yard congress must Increase
the limit OF cost from Sl,000,0O0 to
S1,500,000.
A lump appropriation of $1,000
600 is asked to enable the secretary
of the navy to establish at such places
as he may deem necessary suitable
depots for coal and other fuel. The
estimate for naval barracks and quar-
ters in the Philippines is 100000, in
place OF the present appropriation of
$375, 900, and $4,000 is estimated for
wireless experiments In the Philippine
islands.
For dummy guns and mortars for
instruction OF the coast artillery
S300, 900 is asked For a torpedo sta
ton near the Pacific coast S2bO,O0O
is asked in addition to the s145,O0O
for this year There Is a
100000 increase for the Alaska
Canadian boundary works and $4,000
for enforcement of the insecticide act.
There are many items of appropria-
tions needed for public works of yari-
Gus kinds, aggregating S2S,S4s,399
civil. ana $94,419,9S9 under war de-
partment.
For the defense Of the Isthmian
canal the estimates ask $7,000,OOO to
be Immediately available and ask au-
thority for 9,546,S43 in all for this
fertilization project with view to
completion within three years. This
work will include sites, emplaee-
ments, guns, carriages, searchlights,
camps and posts.
The estimates also carry $2,0O0,OOO
available for creation OF
a naval establishment in the canal
zone as a necessary part of the de-
fences. The total appropriations ask
I'd for the canal service reach $56,-
l2S.S47.
For examinations, surveys and con-
ingencies of rivers and harbors for
which there may be no special ap-
$500. 900 is asked. The
otal rivers and harbors estimates for
he work in the next fiscal year ag-
.recate S22.62T.361 which is a reduc-
ion of Si,763. 900 by the direction of
secretary Dickinson, and as against
.41,339.113 appropriated for the
anne purpose in the current fiscal
ear.
For Ellis Island immigration sta
ion, New York. $500, zoe is asked.