The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

tCHSe ana Other tOrt1hCatlOn work
by establishment the amounts asked
| were:
Department Figures.
Legislative, $7,773,372.
Executive, $3O,8O7, sos.
Judicial, 81 ,36S,5OO.
Agriculture, $24,15o,O8o.
Foreign intercourse, $5,426,6oo.
Military, $l62,354,259.
Naval, $211, $1,000.
Indian affairs, $1O,175.O3
Pensions, 500, 565.OOO.
Panama canal, $27,535,46o.
Public works, $1O4,644,68o
Postal service, 1910 364.87o.
Miscellaneous, $98, 290,563.
074673.
The postal service estimate is de-
ductlble from the total because its
receipts are turned back to the treas
ury. That leaves sos, 492, o2o as the
actual total of appropriations con.
grcss is asked to make, or $167,853,-
4Ol more than last year.
Not a Decrease.
Not a single establishment Of the~
government asked for less than was
given last year. Many requests were
made for increases because of the de-
velopments of the war in Europe.
The state department asked for
many increases, including one hun
lrcd and forty-two thousand dollars
tor additional clerical force in the de-
partment, twenty-five thousand dol
lars tor transportation and substen-
ance and two hundred thousand
dollars instead of the seventy-five
thousand dollars asked before to en-
able the president to meet unforeseen
emergencies arising in the diplomatic
and consular service.
Tax Collection Costly.
A large item in the treasury de- |
partments increase is two million |
two hundred thousand dollars for col |
lectrng the income tax, an increase of
one million dollars over last wear
winch, among other things, will be
used to hire 485 deputy collectors at
sixteen hundred dollars per year as
compared with ~ collectors in 1918
The department of commerce asked
ior many increases for gathering in
formation at home and abroad on
commerce industry and manufacture
Among the items included are two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
promote and develop the commercial
interests of the United States, and one
hundred thousand dollars to be de
voted to the same ends with particular
reference to South and Central Amer
lea.
Inspection Service. /
An echo of the Eastland steamship
Disaster is heard in request for an
increase of ifty-fve thousand dollars
Tor the steamboat inspection service ,
and OF three thousand dollars for en- +
oloyment OF inspectors to prevent /
overcrowding of passenger vessels. {
Labor conciliators, the labor deDart- I
nent says, will need seventv-6ve !
thousand dollars this year in place OF r
twenty-five thousand dollars. r
he department of agriculture ask q
"a ior two million five hundred thous- Il
md dollars, the same as last wear for
Eradication of foot and mouth disease r
ma one hundred and ten thousand +
wo hundred and sixty dollars so er-&n
orce the insecticide act. :
postmaster General Burleson again v
proposes to condnct the rural free de-
very service for less that it has cost |,
7 previous years. His estimate for n
ne service IS put at forty-eipht mil ],
ION live hundred thousand doIIars -
ompared with ifty-three million dol. o.
lrs Appropriated for the wear which !
nds june 30th next. IN" ;. -
ne interstate commerce commis- II
ION asked generally for little more -
nan last year but wants three million =,
,ork '''u'lioi' t'
Inc federal trade commission which ~
anne into being last March, asked for n