Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-19
UNCLE SAM ASKS
FOR MORE FUNDS
More Than $8,OOO,OOO Addi.
tionaI Needed to Carry on
Government Affairs.
DISTRICT FILES REQUEST
FOR EXTRA THOUSANDS
Needs, in Detail, Laid Before House
Appropriations Committee by
Secretary McAdoo.

Uncle Sam needs S, DOE, ,27545 more t.
run the government than was appropriat
ed at the last Congress-needs some Of il
in pressing haste-and the detail Of its
needs are today before the House appro
pnatiOns committee in the form of sup.
Elemental estimates from Secretary Nc
Adoo of the Treasury Department. o,
this big sum, at least $6,O0O,O 900 is Of di.
rect personal importance to the residents
of the District of Columbia, and $35. 495. 81
is asked for specifically for pressing
needs of the District government.
The big deficiency request is divided
| among bureaus and departments as fol
| lows:
Public printer. $500. 50: executive office
$500; civil service commission, $44 900
State Department, $4,000; Treasury De-
| partment, $4,000; public buildings under
| Treasury Department, 81 ,353, ,661; territory
of Alaska $2.267. 20; Smithsonian Institu-
| ton, $1,000; interstate commerce commits
! sion. 81 ,535, 600; District of Columbia
S3o, 1857; War Department. $780,. 4S5. %
Navy Department, $142,6oO.OI; Interior
Department: R9'4lls3; Department OF
| Commerce, 81 49,, 800; Department Of La
Dor. s262.OOO; Department of Justice.
S1G7. 1870; Post Office Department, postal
| service, soO,OOU
million dollars, owing to the army
for money spent in aiding the food suf-
! ferers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys,
is contained in the estimate; $3.50, 600 spent
I by the Navy for the same purpose is ask
ed for; million and a half is requested
| by the interstate commerce commission
| for the. work of ascertaining the physical
value of the railroads of the country so
| that rate laws may be made with some
definite regard to their equity. The last
| Congress in it's closing minutes appro-
priated 100000 for that work, but that
sum has been found to be ridiculously
small. Money is asked for with which to
| start the Department of Labor working,
and million dollars is asked for to re-
| place. ordnance stores destroyed in Ben
ecla arsenal in California. in recent
! fire. Money to replace the property lost
in the fire of May 13 when the geological
| survey suffered considerable damage is
estimated for in Secretary McAdoo's let
! ter.
Money for District of Columbia.
The sum Of s. 900 is necessary to pay
the salaries of three members of the
new excise board of the District OF Co
lumbia. The letter states that the Com
missioners believe that $4.SO0 already ap
propriated for salaries Of the old excise
board, can be used this year for the new
board Other District items are:
Amount to pay deputy coroner for
services during the absence of the cor
oner, $50; contingent and miscellaneous
expenses, including coroners office, ad-
vertising. judicial expenses, etc, 81 29S. 80
The Commissioners ask that the appro-
priation for dust prevention, cleaning
streets and snow removal be made avail
able for the purchase and maintenance
of bicycles; for additional amounts re-
uuired to meet the objects set forth in
the Appropriation for wrfts of lunacy,
| $6J4.1 10
The sum of sl.sOO is asked for mainte
nance of the Industrial Home School; and
the board of childrens guardians needs
s2O,6167O, for the board Of orphans.
chiefly.
Refunds Of erroneous collections. wrong
assessments. etc, are figured at $1,240.62
Jury fees of the Supreme Court of the
District are set at $500. and miscel-
laneous expenses Of the court will need
S3J more to balance the books.
Request From White House.
From the White House comes the re-
quest for deficiency appropriation Of
$25OO for books, stationery, etc, al
though exactly ten times that sum
was provided in the last legislative.
executive and judicial appropriation
| bill.
The civil service commission needs
an Immediate appropriation of $4,000,
according to the commissioners. who
explain that this money is needed to
! fourth class postmasters at more than
! $3.50 a year as provided for in recent
| executive orders The Post Office De-
partment estimates that there will be
more than 2l.OOO post offices affected,
| and the commission supposes that there
| will be at least three applicants for
| every post office.
| The public printer asks for $8O9S9 to
| piece out the twO-hundred-th Thousand
| dollar appropriation granted him for
the payment of employees on holidays
| Two pages of very close, fine print,
| signed by Secretary of State Bryan, ac-
| company the request of the department
| for $4,000 TO enable this government
| TO bear its share of the International
| attempt to suppress the opium evil.
| MInts and assay Offices ask for $4,000
Tor an additional amount for express
or postal charges on bullion and coin
sent from one office to the other
| The public health service finds that
$4,000 was not enough for travelling
expenses and transportation, and wants
$4,000 more
! The establishment of an ice patrol in
the north Atlantic makes it impossi BILE
Tor the revenue cutter service to get
along with its s2295.0 900, and it is es-
tlmated that $4,000 will be necessary to
| 'hV SeHcCd ana Miami to chase
lcebergs in April. May and June The
CHASING is now about over and the bills
| VIII have to be paid
Life-Saving Service Needs Funds.
The Hfe- saving service spent $4,000
which II had not counted on in the
mood season In the middle west. and
that amount is asked for in the Sec
| retary's letter.
W. Is. Daskam. chief of the division of
public moneys is quoted in the esti-
mates, asking for $4,000 more for
contingent expenses of the Treasury.
Mr. Daskam says that the increase in
expenditures was caused by trans
fers In consequence of the disastrous
floods and expenditures made necessary
on account of the new method of nav
ing government warrants and checks.
the cost of transferring clerks from
the several subtreasuries to Washing
ton and obtaining labor-saying de-
vices"
The cost of collecting revenue took q
Jump in the last few months and
$4,000 Is set the defictencv AL
though nearly $1,000 was appro-
priated for this purpose
More than half a million dollars ;s