The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-03

to have brought about unfortunate
conditions through the difficulty Of its
just enforcement.
His Recommendations.
Among his principal recommendations
to congress the secretary placed the
following:
Enlargement of the public health SER
vice and q closer cooperation with
state authorities to prevent and stamp
out epidemics Of disease.
Building Of four revenue cutters, for
need of which the secretary points out
the service IL seriously crippled
Consolidation Of the revenue cutter
and life-saving services into one or
ganization to be known as the coast
guard. Such a consolidation. the secre-
tary says, would increase the efficiency
OF each service with the idea that the
new coast guard should become a nrst
naval reserve in time Of war. Tho in
crease in cost would be about $400. 900.
In that connection the secretary also
recommends passage Of legislation for
the retirement of life-savers ON pen
sion, and declares that unless some such
measure IL made law, the efficiency Of
the service will be impaired and it will
become increasingly dimcult to OBJ
tain good men. He gives point to his
argument by showing that the revenue
cutter and life-saving services saved
4,42S lives in 1913 and salvaged propertv
woth moro than SIG. 000, 900.
Establishment Of revenue cutter
headquarters at Louisville or Cincin-
matt, at St Louis or some other point
on the upper Mississippi and at Hell
ena' Ark. or Vicksburg, Miss, is
urged az a measure for the saving Of
live In the floods time in the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys. Three light
0rAy1Rh6 N1YffaVR tn 80 n -
each are recommended. With the
rivers at normal stage they would be
used In patrol to enforce tho naviga-
ton and motor boat laws.
Tax on the Banks.
The report refers to the REQUIRE
ment that banks which hold govern
ment deposits made April 80, 1918.
pay interest at two per cent, declar-
Ing that 1t means an annual revenue
OF $z.ooO.oo0 to the government and
showing that II such a regulation had
been made in 1897 the government
would now have received in interest
more than $30.00O,00o.
me income tax is not dwelt upon at
length. but the report estimates that
$4,000 individuals arc subject to 1t
ana that corporations not heretofore
10000. =
Speaking OF scientific research by
the public health service the report
says: s,..ss =
"On account Of the announcements
OF discoveries Of alleged cures for tu-
berculosis and their bearing on public
health, important investigations Of
them have been undertaken. Studies
OF the Friedman treatment were
sufficiently advanced by May 16, 1918.
to justify a report that the OBSERVE
lions made up to that time did not
warrant the confidence In the remedy
which had been inspired by wide
spread publicity. This investigation
Is being continued, as are also studies
OF other preparations claimed as
cures"
Secretary McAdoo estimates that the
revenues for the fiscal year exclusive Of
postoffice receipts viii be STU. 900 900,
only $S.000.OO0 less than the estimates
for the fiscal year 1914. To make that
total he expects the customs to bring
IN $24S ,OOO. 900, ordinary internal revenue
1915 1000, 600 and the income tax $105 OOO,-
600. Of which SAC, 900 900 is to come from
corporations, the remainder from indi-
viduals.
From sales of public lands he expects
to cover into the treasury s., 0O0, 900 and
from miscellaneous sources $5e. O00. 900.
He expresses the belief that the orti-
nary receipts for 1918 will exceed the
disbursements sufficiently to pay out
about $26, 000, 600 from the treasury gen.
eral fund for the Panama canal.