The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-02
Secretary McAdOO Sends to
Congress Estimates Pre-
pared by Each Depart
ment

pdA cu NY LdCl DEPART
ment
Washington. December 1.-Congress is
asked to appropriate just 81 1,1OS, ,6s1, III to
operate the government Of the United
States during the fiscal year 1915, accord
ing TO the estimates prepared by each de-
partment and sent to the House today by
Secretary McAdoo of the treasury
With this vast sum the government will
maintain the battleships and forts ana
thearmies in the states and in the coun-
tries that border the seven seas; 1t viii
keep the scales of justice balanced, en-
deavor to retain the friendship of foreign
nations, look after domestic prosperity
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 notice.
Big Excess Shown
The estimates submitted today are $22-
S64,067 in excess of the appropriations for
the last fiscal year, but their total falls
S39, 025,O66 below the estimates for that
year. Exclusive of the postoffice the esti-
mates are as follows:
Postoffice department, including the
parcels post, $306,053.117
Legislative establishment, S7,5S3,3Sl
Executive establishment, 30,S09,26S.
Judicial establishment, S1,242,110
Department of agriculture, $1906l, 332.
Foreign Intercourse, $4, ,447,042.
Military establishment, $1O5 937,54.
Naval establishment sls9.Ssl,953.
Indian affairs, $10,2OS, $50.
Pensions S169 10000
Public works, ss791l592.
Miscellaneous, $S4,393 213.
Permanent annual appropriations, $751;
1856 407
For the preservation and completion of
vessels already in commission or au-
thorized, the navy department wants
IS, ,250O00; for hulls and machinery of the
two battleships and eight torpedo boat de-
stroyers which Secretary Daniels wishes
to build in the fiscal year 1914-15 $7,S00,00O;
for armor and armament of vessels au-
thorized, $l0,091O00.
The sum of 100000 is wanted for naval
defense mines and appliances and $150,0c0
for experimental work in high explosives.
To extend the. naval gun factory i'll
Washington. 100000 is requested
Many Increases Sought
Many increases are sought for the army.
One of the principal military items is
100000 for military aeronautics of which
$150,000 is to be spent for 10 aeroplanes,
declared to be necessary if the United
States is to keep abreast in this science.
The estimates for the organized militia
are larger by many millions than in previ-
Gus years, Sums of $1,350,0O0 for field
camps of instruction, $40i 250 for equip
ment of coast artillery armories, 100000
for field artillery material and $3OO0,0O0
for ammunition for such artillery for
militia are requested
For armament in fortification the esti-
mate is $5.S06S0G, an increase of more
than $3.00000O over last year, This $1,000,
600 is to be expended in the purchase,
manufacture and test of ammunition for
| mountain, field and sege cannon and
large part of the remainder is to be used
in altering cid style field and coast artil-
| lery guns.
The estimate for continuing sea coast
defenses in the Philippines and Hawaii
Island is put at s95l,632
Although the Panama canal probably
will be in operation long before the close
of the fiscal year of 1915, the war de-
partment estimates that $26 9s5 must be
appropriated for the canal that year,
which is about S5,000.00O more than the
current appropriation
According to the estimates the number
of employees in the organization through
the 1914 fiscal year was 1900 while in
the fiscal year 1915 the number will be
about 1900.
The organization on the Isthmus and in
Washington two years ago cost a little
more than 100000 and with 1900 en-
ployes off the rolls this sum swll be re-
oh, loA
For miscellaneous material Cor the
canal 80 $4,000 is requested and S., 55l $50
is wanted for Notifications. OF the APP
preparation for Notifications $126S.5S0 is to
be spent for army armories to prove ac-
commodations in all for 10 companies of
coast artillery and $7s0,S25 is for installa
ton of 10 six-inch guns, seven 14-inch
guns and 2S Pinch mortars.
Special Attorneys Salaries
one of the most interesting items in
the long list of estimates is that of $4f5,
800 for salaries and expenses of special
attorneys examiners and agents of the
bureau of corporations, an increase of
$780, 900 over last year.
In a note accompanying the request for |
this additional sum Congress is told:
1.-THE increase is due entirely to the plan !
projected for additional work to be done
by the bureau of corporations. This plan
has to do with the facts on stocks and |
bond issues, holding companies interlock-
ing directorates, ETC.; the economy and
efficiency of trusts and interstate colpo- !
rations and conflicting state laws
The bureau of corporations, Congress is !
reminded, was authorized to investigate
the business of interstate concerns in the
act creating it.
The proposed trust investigation would
seek to show whether the modern trust
or System or monopolistic units can do
the required work more cheaply and adj
vantageously than smaller competitive
units.
The department of Congress asks for