The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-15
UNITED STATES
 HAS ITS BIGGEST
 BUDGET OF PEACE
Big Increases Will Be Asked For Defense Appropria-
 tions.

tionS.
 Washington, Oct 15-The largest ! estimates of Government expenditures l ever submitted to a Secretary of the | United States Treasury in time of l peace will be presentedA for the next fiscal year today for discussion by ] Congressional committees in advance | of the regular session. They will be | examined in detail by President Will son and his Cabinet next week. With an estimated increase for na- tional defense of about $15O.000, 900 | over last year, together with the cost l of new tasks imposed on the State department and other Government | branches by reason of the European war, it is probable that the amount of estimated expenditures will foot up about $1,240, 100000. If Congress agrees to the Admin l listration plan for strength ening the army and navy, 1t will have to pro vide for the additional revenue legis- 1ation or the executive branch of the Government must issue bonds.
 Although Secretary McAdoo has made no estimate of receipts for the fiscal year beginning July 1. 1916, in which the increased expenditures will ] take effect, officials are convinced that they cannot count upon more than $750. .00O.o0o for the twelve
 
 income will not exceed 700,000soOO.
 New Revenue Measures
 Congress is toSbe asked to pass two revenue bills early in the coming ses- sion, one extending the emergency war tax, which expires Dec. 1, and the other providing for retention of the present duty on sugar beyond next May. when 1t would go on the free list. Passing these measures, how ever, would not increase the present revenues With both in effect. at present there has been a deficit of $36.e0o, 900.
 Estimates for the government de navy are practically the same as last year.s Additional force in the diplo- matic and consular service, and at the State Department, and extraordin- ary expenses abroad in the work be- ing done by American Embassies and Legations, will require an increase of about 1,3oO, 900 for the State De- pertinent The $2,0O0.0O0 appro- priated by Congress as an emergency war fund for use of that Gepartme@t has been nearly all spent, but much of it already has been or will be re- imbursed, so that the transportation will not represent any real expense.
 Enormous Deficit Probable.
 The ordinary disbursements Of the sN. $7320O0, O00 If the receipts are as9 much as $750,0oo.000 in the coming year, and the appropriations of all government departments but the state, war and navy remain the same, there still will be. with the added budget fort national defense, an estimated deficit of more than $135, 5,O00,000.
 The Secretary of the Treasury now has authority to issue Panama Canal bonds to the amount of $24O, 900. poo. That would be a temporary remedy, however, and may notbe resorted to if the administration proceeds on the theory that the governm ent will main tain the same rate of expenditures for national defense during coming years. | as now is being proposed for the next session of Congress.
 Ho1neand Foreign Trade
 Estimates for the Department of 1 Commerce will show. an increase over last years total s16.774,e0O, if theyl are agreed upon in the form now before Secretary Redf1eld. The prin- cipaI request for more money will come from the Bureau of Foreign and | Domestic Comnerce, which desires to | take advantage iof the opportunity af- forded because the war extended it's foreign trade organization. Secretary Redfeld probably will ask for the funds necessary for that work. The Coast and Geodetfc Survey has taken up with the Secretary the question of securing an appropriation for a thorough survey of the Alaskan coast.
 The Department of Labor eontern- plates few changes in its, estimates. which last year amounted to $4,443,-I 0O0- Secretary WilsOr is consider ing a reduction fin the estimates for the Bureau of Immigration, which has found it's activities materially cur tailed by the falling off of. inamigra- ton caused by the European war. Post Office Department Needs.
 The estimate for the Post Office Department will be slightly above the S299s 000,0 900 estimate for the present year. The increase is credited to the |, automatic promotions of carriers and clerks provided for by Congress. h. creased pay for railway transporta- ton in the Middle States as result of the new weighing statistics and the natural growth of the system. The estimate for ocean mail transportation is the same as the current appropria- dons no allowance being made for the growth of the service as an offset to the war The estimates for the de- partment as a whole were prepared with a. view to resumption of normal peace conditions.
 In the interior department the sesti- mates are less than the appropriation of $21G,00O.000 for the current year, excluding $8,OeO.000 for construction of the government railroad in Alaska
 Secretary Houston had not com pleted last night his estimates for the Department of Agriculture, but they will not vary much from the pres ent appropriation of about $24,- OOO,O0o-