Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-15
HALF BILLION
FOR DEFENSE
President ,',proves Five
Year 'nstruetion
rosram.
DF .s4ILs OF PLAN
ARE NOT ANNOUNCED
Expenditures to Bs Evenly Distributed
Over Five Years and First Years
Work TO Include Two supsrdrsad.
naushts and Two Battle Cruisers
Interior Department. Estima ates Less
Than Last Year.

Washington. Oct. 15.-President WILL
son today approved Secretary Daniels
recommendation for a Ave year con-
struction program for tho navy to cast
$500. .000, 900.
The exact amount to be appropriated
for each of the five years has not been
decided. but the first years program
calls for two dreadnaughts and two
battle cruisers.
The national defense plan cs the adj
ministration, calling for an expenditure
in the next fiscal year OF more than
500, ,000.0 600 for army. navy and FORTH
cations was completed TODAY Secre-
tary Garrison has forwarded his esti-
mates, already approved by President
Wilson. to the secretary OF the treas
ury. and Secretary Daniels submitted
his estimates today after going over tho
final details with President Wilson.
Expenditures Evenly Distributed.
Secretary Daniels today discussed
with the president the question OF how
many battleships, battle cruisers and
smaller craft should be recommended
each year for the next five years for
which program has been mapped out
He and the president reached an
! agreement but the secretary said he
could give no figures until later 1t was
| learned, however. that the expenditures
will be distributed as evenly as possible
over the five years.
Reports of Secretaries Garrison and
Daniels will be made public in the next
few days. The navy estimates may be
| made public tomorrow and those OF the
army on Monday.
| Aeropianes and Laboratory.
For the navy a large building pro-
! gram Is prepared. 1t is planned to have
some aeroplanes for the navy built by
| the government,
| The secretary conferred in Orange. n.
d.. last night with Thomas A. Edison.
! chairman OF the naval consulting corn
mittee. regarding the committees rec
| ommendation for n large research la
boratory. The navy estimates will In
clude recommendation for an appro-
priation for research work. but Secre-
tary Daniels has not asked for s5.G00.-
| 600, the sum the COMMITTEES thought
should be spent for n laboratory.
Interior Department Asks Less.
Secretary Lane saw the president re-
| garding interior department estimates.
witch will total approximately S210.-
|
estimates last year. His estimates in
| clude s9.000.ooo for the Alaskan rail-
| road. s150.000 for the F'lathead Indian
| reservation reclamation project, be-
| tween $4,000 600 and 100000 on other
! irrigation works. sS.00o.0oo less than
| last year for pensions, about the same
amount as last year for the land office.
| n slight increase for the bureaus of
mines ana e,iuot,tica. and tIi0s-S :..nneY
| than last year for Indian work and ma
tional parks
| National Parks More Popular.
| The increase for national parks has
been made necessary from the fact that
| this year more than twice as many
| people visited the parks than did last
| year. Tho European war caused many
people TO visit the parks instead of go
| ing to Europe,
| Additional money for the employment
OF patent examiners also has been asked
! for by Secretary Lane.
| Secretary Lansing later discussed
! estimates for tho state department with
the president, He said he would ask for
! about 81 100000 more than the state de-
partmcnts estimates last year. Added
expenses growing out OF the European
] war and the Mexican trouble caused
the increase.
First Years Tentative Program.
The five year program wouid call for
sixteen capital ships-ten drcadnaughts
and six battle cruisers. In order to get
the best advantage of improvements In
construction and not to overtaN the ca
pacity of American navy yards. the first
years construction Will include two
dreadnaushts and two battle cruisers.
about twenty-five submarines. sixteen
} destroyers and probably five scout
} cruisers.
} 1t was said at the navy department
, that the first years program in Its final
/ form might be expanded to two dread
lnaushts and three battle cruisers.