Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-08

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With the expectation that the Postal
Service will continue to be self-sus-
tanning the postal item of s297, 1855, 164
will be deducted as it is returned to
the Treasury from postal earnings
leaving the actual total of expenditures
at s793,419,970.
AS there is such a comparatively
small change in the estimates there is
also comparatively little change in the
items of fixed charges and new esti-
mates for expenditures have been re-
duced to the minimum. While the rule
is one of reductions, the army and
navy establishments alone show in
creases of any note. The army esti-
mate is increased to sos, S66, $50 as
against a current appropriation of
$101, 977 ,S02; the naval estimate Is $142,-
619,033 against a current appropriation
of $141 1885,, 217.
Estimates for the Legislative Es-
Establishment include salaries and ex-
penses of Congress-. The executive
estimates include the President, Vice
President and the Civil Service Com
mission. Practically no changes are
shown there.
changes are some slight Increases in
salaries. in contingent expenses for
the Diplomatic and Consular Service
growing out of the Mexican situation
and the European war.
In the Treasury Department the ex-
pense of collecting the income tax is
estimated at 900, a decrease of
s2S0000. Estimates are presented for
maintaining the western minis and
assay offices, against which each ses-
sion of Congress brings fight.
In the Department of Commerce a
new item is one of $3,0o0,000 for an
agricultural census. $1,4S3, 500 is asked
for lighthouses. beacons and fog sig
nails, $4,000 is estimated for investi-
eating costs of production, and 100000
Is estimated for promoting commerce
| in South and Central America. This
latter item is double the amount APP
propriated last year.
In the Department of Labor the es-
innate for the work of Commissioners
of Cancellation on Labor Disputes
would be raised from $4,000 to SIS, 000
1 For study of the extent of indus
| trial unemployment in the United
States, $4,000 is estimated.
! In the Department of Agriculture
the principal special items, aside from
/ the fixed charges of operation, are
100000 for quarantine work to fight
\ the foot-and-mouth disease; 1895, 900 to
/ fight the cattle tick in the South
! s645,000 to enforce the pure food law;
81 100000 for cooperative farm demon
stration work; 100000 for live stock
experiments in Southern countries
where sugar cane has been the prin-
1 cipal product; $4,000 for dairy expert
ments in the semi-arid and irrigated
| regions of the West, and s240,000 to en-
courage improved farm management
methods. For free distribution of
seeds $252,540 is asked. The total es-
innate for the Forest Service is $685.
| 256. For the enforcement of the new
law to regulate dealings in cotton flu
lures and to carry on the investigation
Of marketing and distribution of food
products, $376,595 is asked.
In the army estimates, 100000 is
provided for the new aviation corps,
100000 for buildings and grounds of
the Military Academy at West Point
and $150co0 for automatic machine
rifles. The sum for militia maneuveres
Is reduced a million dollars and left
at $25o.0Oo; 100000 is asked for bar
racks and quarters in the Philippines;
$S25,00O for small arms target practice;
$25O,000 for the manufacture of arms.
For public works in the War Depart
ment $62,00O,O0O is estimated, of which
$4,000, 900 is for rivers and harbors, an
increase of s27.000,000 over last year S
estimate. For Notifications and other
works of defense. s5,sOO,ooO, a slight
increase over last year, is estimated
Further construction and maintenance