The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
Navy Estimate of Sl2S,94z,I5S
Includes S3,OOO,OOO for
ArmOr and Vessels


and s1o,6OO.oOO for postal and other
deficiencies. The estimates today were
distributed as follows:
War department S2o5. .257. .546.
Interior department, Slss Isl s55.
Treasury department, sl4l ,5ss: :ss7
Agricultural department. ls,es1,O66
Navy department. SIPS 90, 15e.
Commerce and labor, S16.27o.slO.
District Of Columbia Sls,eo2,Te6.
Legislative, SIS. 42e. sos.
State, s.. .sT5 C576.
Independent Offices including interstate COM
merce commission, 81, ,6SS 69b.
Postofhoe department proper Sl.e91,4so.
Deficiency in postal revenues estimate
Executive. secs, 10.
Territorial governments, S2o2, l5o.
The secretary's estimates for Pacific
coast and Hawaiian improvements are;
Shellhouse and quarters. Mare island, $4,000;
work on torpedo station. Paeihc coast Sz9.uuO'
crens tory ard building naval training s9ato1'
$500. roads and improvements at Mare island.
10000, dredging power plant, drydock ana
Puget sound including completion OF dry
dock SQSQ coo: improvements Of construction
plant Mere island $4,000: increase Of collier
70 be constructed on Pacific coast, S5Sl,00oi i'm
c1rnuIetion Of roStoface Ssnts Cruz SO 0O0 sea
coast batteries. $3.50. eco: searchliEhts. hsrbor
defense. Hawaii. $4,000; continuing eonstrue-
zion sea cosst defenscs. Hawaii, s25o,ooo;
construction. Fort Mason 500 600: improvement
Los Angeles hsrbOr S2F0.oO0; Oakland harbor,
Sl5e090; Humboldt bay. SlSo,O0U. Mokeluhhe
river. $1,000. Petaluma creek. Sll-OOO; SacTa-
mento river. $4,000 San Joaquin river, $4,000;
suisun channel. $3.50: HO harbor. $250.0Oo;
kahului harbor. $50. 600; aids TO navigation in
Alaska s60. 600: san Pedro breakwater light sta
zion. $50 600, Fort Point fog signal. $1,000;
1lght station Anacopa island. 500 600: Santa
Pnrhara light station. $4,000: Point Iona light
Ets1ion. S1T.5o0; Point Pinos light station,
ks5.ooo: Trinidad head light station. sl2. 900;
lighting pesrl Harbor $50 600; light station,
r .qrdson rock. Santa Barbara islands. Sl40.
100; santa Cruz light station. SIS, 600; improve
imnrorement. Yosemite park. Ssl 600: immi-
grafton ferry boat. San Francisco, s25, 600.
Among the general items are;
Increase in the navy, $2S,294,04S. in
cluding $12.S40,42S for construction and
steam machinery and armor and arma-
ment 10 the proposed building program
for 1912, and S3,0o0,000 for armor and
vessels already authorized.
For hulls and outfits of vessels and
steam machinery Of vessels, $6,03l7S6
IS asked. For submarines, torpedo
boats and subsurface destroyers, $780,
83z, an estimate OF S53I,0O0 is made
because OF the two feet colliers.
An appropriation OF s., ,OOO,0 is asked
70 enable the secretary Of the navy TO
establish depots for coal and other fuel
The estimate for naval barracks and
quarters in the Philippines is $780, 600
in place Of S375,Oo0, and $4,000 is esti-
mated for wireless experiments in the
Philippine islands.
For dummy guns and mortars for
instruction OF the coast artillery. $780,
600 is asked.
There is $780, 600 increase for the
Alaska Canada boundary works and
sS7 600 for enforcement Of the insecti-
eide act.
There are many items Of appropria-
tions. aggregating $2S-S4S,39e civil and
s4O4Is.s5s under war department.
The amounts are sl.000,000 for con-
tinuing the postoff1ce building at Den
yer. Col $500 for a site and con-
tinuation OF appraisers building at
Boston. S550.000 for continuing New
Orleans postoffice and courthouse; ST.,
zoe 600 for New York postofice con-
struction, $4,000 for Oklahoma City
postoflce s350,00O for reconstruction
Of Richmond. Va. postofice and court
house. sl.253696 for a site and erection
Of q building for the bureau OF engrav-
ing and printing at Washington, D. c.,
100000 for postofice at York, Pa,
100000 for commencing a postoffice
building in Washington. d. C, and
S500.000 for commencing erection of
building for the state, justice and COM
merce and labor departments in this
city: $3.50. 900 for building two revenue
cutters for which s15O,000 was appro-
priated previously.
For the defense Of the isthmian
canaI the estimates ask s7,O0O0OO. and
ask authority for S19.54e,S43 in all for
this fortifcation project, with a view
OF completion within three years.
The estima tes cary $4,000 900 for
naval establishment in the canal zone.
The total appropriations asked for the
canal service reach s56,92S,S47.
For surveys Of rivers and harbors
100000 is asked. The rivers and har-
bors estimates for the next fiscal wear
so,
duction of sl,763,000, and as against
S4I.339,113 appropriated for the same
purpose in the current fiscal year
Income Tax Gains Ground
WASHINGTON. Dec. e.-That four
out Of the FIVE states whose legisla-
lures have pronounced against the in
come tax amendment to the constitu-
tion as provided by the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law will reconsider their decision
and align themselves with the states
supporting the provision, is the opinion
of its author, Senator Norris Brown
Of Nebraska.
Brown is very confident also that the
amendment will be ratified By the
legislatures of more than the requisite
three-f0urths of the states during the
present winter. Already eight states
Alabama. South Carolina. Illinois Mary
land, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma
and Ceorgia-have passed ratification
resolutions.
New York, Rhode Island, Massachu-
setts. Virginia and Louisiana have re-
fused to indorse the proposed amend
ment. but Brown declares there is rea-
son to believe the legislatures of those
states, with probably one exception.
viii reconsider and ratify.
The week after election Senator
Brown wrote to all governors urging
their cooperation in the campaign for
the amendment and inclosing a copy of
the ratification resolution. He has had
replies from a large majority of them
who favor the amendment and viii in
their MESA ges recommend the ratifica-
tion. Among others is a strong letter
from Governor elect Foss- Of Massachu-
sets.
BY only one governor has an adverse
position been taken. and he represents
a state which voted adversely last
winter.
zoo Nominations Sent In
\ WASHINGTON. Dec. e.-Among sew
Nral hundred nominations sent to the
senate by the president today were