Evening star., 1916-04-07
Must Build Up
Money Measures,

money measures. must bui,d I'm the
various appropria ton measures in their
properly correlated form. The process
| of sitting the estimates that each item
| may take it's right place in the proper
appropriation measure is gigantic
task. for the classifications of the
| Treasury are not always the classical
| tions of Congress.
| After the legislative. executive and
| judicial departments of the government
| have forwarded their estimates to the
Treasury, they are divided into various
| classes: Civil establishment, Depart
! ment of Agriculture, foreign inter-
course, military establishment, naval
| establishment. Indian affairs. pensions.
| public works. postal service. miscel-
| lumbia and permanent annual appro
priations.
These headings are vague to the un-
| initiated For instance. under civil es-
tablishment are found the estimates for
| the Senate and the House of Repre-
the Botanic Garden. for the execu-
| tive, for the Department of State.
| for the Treasury Department. the
State, War and Navy Department
building, for the War Department. for
| the Navy Department. for the Depart
ment of Interior, for the Post Office De-
partment. for the Department of Com
merce. for the Department of Labor.
for the Department of Justice, for the
judiciary. .sr
as pertaining to the activities of the
government at the seat of the govern
ment and elsewhere where there are in
dependent or semi-independent perma-
| nent establishments. There are some
, variations from this exact form in va
rious bureau estimates, where field
work expenditures are included, while
| in most other cases they are separately
estimated for.
The Department of Agriculture esti-
mates for all its activities, afield and
| in Washington, separately from the
| civil establishment estimates.
Estimates for the diplomatic and con-
| sular service, for various international
commissions
Under Title of and repre-
Foreign Intercourse. ;utarno.,o on . !
! al conferences and congresses and en-
tire foreign activities are separated
from the general budget for the state
department and appear under the title
Foreign Intercourse"
The military establishment refers en-
tirely to the expenditures for the army,
| the Military Academy and for arming
| and equipptns the militia. under the
| charge of the War Department.
The naval establishment is a sepa-
activities under the Navy Department
Expenditures for Indian affairs and
| for pensions are separately considered
from departmental expenditures
Ito o-Ir.
| for all construction projects under
| whatever branch of the government
| There is federal building construction,
building Of revenue cutters and other
matters under the Treasury Depart
| ment; construction Of fortifcations and
defenses. armament and munitions,
| rivers and harbors Improvements, civil
| and public works and miscellaneous
projects under the War Department:
| Panama canal construction and main
| park improvements. expenditures for
| reclamation and forestry under the In
terror Department; lighthouse con-
| struction and maintenance, operations
Department of Commerce work; on the
| Immigration stations, under the De-
| partment of Labor; and peniten-
| tiary projects and courthouse repairs
postal service is separated from the ex-
penses for the Post once Department.
Under the general heading miscel-
laneous are many activities. Here are
given the expend-
Many Other itures of the pub
lie printer. ex-
0S'i'i'ies Aas'e"' penditures under
the chief executive. the allowance for his
travelling expenses and various presiden-
ttal commissions; for maintenance of the
coast guard service outside of Wash
ington, for the bureau of engraving
and printing, for the public health
service, for the maintenance of fed
leral buildings, for the field service of
the internal revenue bureau, for the
Icustoms service; miscellaneous ex-
penses under the Trfasury Depart
ment, for the Smithsonian Institution.
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