The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-01
Immense Appropriations Are
Needed for the Mainten-
ance of Government
ESTIMATES SENT
TO HOUSE TO-DAY
By Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury
Department Total Falls Nearly
S4O,00OOOo Below the Estimates for
the Last Fiscal Year.

WASHINGTON. Dee IL ongrcss is
asked to appropriate just $SoSGS1, ,11O
To operate the government Of the United
States dufing the fiscal year 1919, ac.
cordlng to the estimates prepared BY
each deparemcnt and sent to the House
today to Secretary McAdoo Of the treas
ury With this vast sum the govern
mcnt will maintain the bdttlcshps and
forts and the armies IN the states and III
the countries that border the seven seas;
it viii keep the scales OF justice balanced:
cndcayor 10 retain the friendship of for
eign nations: look after domestic prosper
ity and seek at intervals TO discover new
ways in which to better health, improve
living conditions and investigate the mer
its OF the thousand new things in indus
try and commerce that come to its atten-
The estimates submitted today are
So ,S64 ,O67 III excess Of the appropra-
tions for the last fiscal year, but their
total falls SO ~, ,O66 below the est
mates of that year The estimates are as
follows Legislative establishment. 81 ,1:}3.
331 executive establishment, $50, sos, 2GS;
| judicial establishments 81 .242. no. depart
mcnt of agriculture, Sl9.o6l 3D.: foreign
intercourse, Sl.447oI2: military establish
ment 500 93I. .544; naval establishment.
! S1;9 .S31 !-,3: Indian affairs. Sln20S. So /,
pensions SlGa. 10000; public works,
! S9T, ,9l7 .592: miscellaneous SS4.3g3, ,213;
post office department. including the par
eel post. S30G, ,913 Ill
Permanent annual appropriations,
/ Si31 1876. .4O1 for the preservation and
completion of vessels already in commits
sion or authorized the navy department
wants SS.25000O; for tie hull> and ma
clinery of the two hattleship~ and eight
torpedo boat destroycr~ which Secretary
Daniels wishes to build in the fiscal ycm
19l419t5. 81 $4,000: for armor and ar
mameml ui vessels authorized. $l0.09i
lCC0 The sum of $1,000 Is wanted fol
naval defense mines ana appliances
I&15O.OUO ior experimental work In higl
explosives: $4,000 for the naval sta
tiou at Pearl Harhor. lIayval. md $50.
I0G0 for additions to facilities aud for th,
purchase Of additional ground at til,
naval proving ground. Indian Head, Nd.
Just below Washington 10 extend til,
naval gun factory in Washington S40o.
1000 Is asked.
Many increases are sought fer TIL
army. OF these a large number are eN
planned in the estimates by the Statemeu
that the army itself i larger than il liza
been heretofore One Of the principa
military items is $500 600 for militar
aeronautics OF which S15u.00O is To b
| spent for H. aeroplancS. declarcd to /
necessary If the luited States i to kee
abreast in this science and "he prepare
to cope with other hrst class powers j
case of war
, The estimates f,r the organized mil
tia arc larger 10y many millions than ]
: previous years Sums of S1.:iJ0.0A T.
Z field camps Of instruction. S4OI .2-u 70
i equipment Of coast artillery armories
81. 10ooOo for field artillery material an
S.. eco 900 for ammunition for such arti
lcry for militia are asked
For armament in Notifications tho est
mate Is s.. SOC. 500. an increase Of MOI
: than S3000.ONO over last year I'll
$1,000. 600 is to he expended in the pu
chase manufacture and test Of ammun
ton for mountain field and siege canno
6 and large part Of the remainder i to |
used in altering old style field guns.
Although the Panama canal probab
will be in operation long before the clo
S of the fiscal year Of 1915 the war depar
0 ment estimates that $26.:}26,9S1 must
k appropriated for the canal that yea
z which Is about $1,000 900 more than &
II current appropriation According to 4
a estimates the number of the employees
Il the organization through the 1914 fsc
1 year was 22,0o0 while IN the fiscal ye
of 1919 the number will be about Is, 10