The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-07

maintaining the western mints and as
say offices, against which each session
Of Congress brings fight.
In the department of commerce
new item is one of $3,000,000 for an
agricultural census, 81, ,493, 500 is ask
ed for lighthouses, beaeons and fog
signals, $4,000 is estimated for in
vestigating costs of production and
100000 is estimated for promoting
commerce in South and Central Ameri-
ca. This latter item is double the
amount appropriated last year.
In the Department of Labor the
estimate for the work of commission
ers of Cancellation ON labor disputes
would be raised from $4,000 to $751;
600. For study of the extent of in
dustrial unemployment in the United
States, $4,000, is estimated.
To Fight Foot and Mouth Disease
In the Department of Agriculture the
principal special items, aside from the
fixed charges of operation, are $500,
900 for quarantine work to fight the
foot and mouth disease; $39S,000 tC
fight the cattle tick in the South;
$645,000 to enforce the pure food law;
S1.O00,000 for cooperative farm dem
onstration work. 100000 for live
stock experiments in Southern counties
where sugar cane has been the princi
pal product; $4,000 for dairy expert
ments in the semi-arid and irrigated
regions of the West, and $240,000 tc
encourage improved farm management
methods. For free distribution of seed:
$3.50, $40 is asked. The total esti
mate for the Forest Service is So,
54S,256. For the enforcement of the
new law the regulate dealings in cot
ton futures and to carry on the inves
tigation of marketing and distribution
of food products, s376,595 is asked.
Estimates for the Army
In the army estimates, 100000
I is provided for the new aviation corps
100000 for buildings and grounds Of
the Military Academy at West Poinr
and $150,000 for automatic machin,
rifles. The sum for militia maneuver:
is reduced a million dollars and left al
! S250,000; 100000 is asked for bar
racks and quarters in the Philippines
$S25,000 for small arms target prac
tiee; $250,000 for the manufacture OF
arms. For public works in the Wa,
Department 100000 is estimated
of which fftythree million dollars i:
for rivers and harbors, an increase Of
s27 100000 over last year S estimate
For Notifications and other works Of
! defense, S5.S00,000. slight increase
over last year, is estimated. Furthe!
construction and maintenance of tht
Panama Canal is estimated at S1S,
| 100000.
For Maintenance of Navy
In the Navy $23,S00,000 is asked
for increases heretofore authorized anC
! S19,000,900 is estimated for the 1915
| building program. The following sum
are estimated for navy yards:
Boston. s30.000; New York. S135,
000 Philadelphia, $4,000; Washing
ton, D. c.. $4,000; Norfolk, s305,
| 600, including a 100000 drydock
Charleston, S. c., 100000; Key West
$4,000; Mare Island, 5000; Puge
Sound, $4,000; for extension of tn,
powder factory at Indian Head, Nd.
S15S,000; naval magazine at For
Mihin, Pa, $4,000; naval magazin,
at Puget Sound, $5S, 900.
The estimate for arming the Nava
Militia is doubled making it s250,000
Drop in Pension Department
In the Interior Department pension
are estimated at s166,000,000, ;
threemillion dollar drop since las
/ year. An estimate of $9,000,000 TO
the Reclamation Service appears in tn
estimates for the first time. Congress
at the last session passed law re
quiring reclamation outlays to be mad
by appropriation.
For fortifying the Panama Canal
total of $763,000 is estimated an in
crease of half million dollars owe
last years appropriation. In this esti
mate is included $4,000 for search
lights and 100000 for reserve equip
ment.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion estimate is reduced $1,900,00C
because it does not include provision
for the physical valuation of work TO
which an estimate will be furnishe,
| later.
Enforcing of Anti-Tru Laws
The Department of Justice estimate