Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-04
100000 MEN
in NEW ARMY
WAR DEPARTMENTS NEW BUD
GET PROVIDES FOR THAT
NUMBER.

| Washington, D. c., Dec. 3.-A wal
budget OF more than eleven billion dol
lars, to pay army and navy costs dur
ing the fiscal year 1919, faced congress
today when the governments esti
mates were presented. The sum rep
resents only the strictly military ex
penses that can be estimated so fal
in advance and is more than two and
half billions larger than similar ap
preparations made for the year 1917
is. So far as the estimates show il
provides only for raising and main
tanning an army of 100000 men and
| carrying out naval and coast fortified
ton projects already authorized.
The chief item in the budget is for
| military establishment of the army, to
cost $6,615,936,553, an increase of ST..
365,907, 500 over the total of army ap
preparations made at the last session
The only means of determining the
size of the army provided for is in the
estimate Of 81 ,0oS, 933, 676 for pay. This
is $3.50 ,294,558 greater than appropria-
tions obtained last session for the pay
OF $4,000 officers and 1,2OS,30O en-
listed of the line and $4,000 enlisted
men OF the various auxiliary corps.
MONEY FOR COMPLICATIONS.
The estimates call for staff officers
as follows:
Staff BAT, adjutant generals depart
ment 2S1, inspector general 246, en-
gineers 400, ordnance 1000, quarter
master $500, medical $4,000, judge ad-
vocate general 800, signal corps Gn-
Guiding aviation) l1,941.
With these large staff increases and
foreign service pay increases totalling
nearly $80,000,0OO also estimated for,
1t appears clear that the total increase
in the pay item does not cover any
material extension of the original mil
itary program of an army of 1900 900
men.
Fertilization estimates take second
place with total Of s3,332,445,122, or
an increase of $1,155,102,S74 over ap-
preparations obtained last year. The
navy is third with total estimates of
81, 039,860,502, decrease of $552,977,-
357. The naval figures probably do
not include however, new ships that
will be asked for whenever building
facilities are available.
BIG INCREASES ASKED.
Striking items In Secretary Bakers
estimates are s5,116,Ol8 for additional
civil employees at the war department:
$2,000,000 for the military information
section of the general staff, doubling
the present appropriation; $1,13S,907,-
6O9 for the signal corps, which is
SS99,172,64S In excess of the existing
appropriation including the special
$640,000,000 aviation measure; So
224,335,000 for army transportation
and supplies, an increase Of $324,OOe.-
900 mostly for clothing and camp
equipment; $2S,755,991 for the pur-
chase OF cavalry and artillery horses,
a decrease Of $37,355,O and showing
restrictions placed upon use of ami
mails for the army in France due to
transportation difficulties; $157,I11,-
1884 for the medical department to in
clude $17,000,O00 for new motor am
balances and Sill 100000 for medical
and hospital supplies, also $24,O0O,-
900 for veterinarian supplies, the total
being an increase Of $26,331 1874; $685.
100000 for engineer equipment for
troops, which includes the gas and
flame devices, star rockets, hand gren-
AIDES and signal lights of all kinds;
1892, 900, 900 for engineer operations in
the field, an increase of $500, 100000
and covering bridge railway and road
building and operating equipment;
1890, 100000 for ammunition, an in
crease of s175,000, 900; $S3,400,000 for
ordnance repairs, which covers the ex-
penses of operating the great base
arsenal in France; $237, $4,000 for
the purchase of machine guns; $751;
0N0
Is $4,500,000 for arms and ammunition
for the home guard and $6,O1s,000 is
asked to conduct civilian training
corps.
AVIATION BILL IS LARGE.
For the military academy a total Of
$5,713,254 is sought, some 100000
being for expenditure ON buildings and
grounds.
Secretary Daniels estimates for the
navy show that the store of guns and
is being gathered rapidly
and that estimates have been reduced
in many particulars under appropria-
tons received last year. The chief
increase is in pay, the total being
S213 ,229,551 against $126,532,4 4S. Pro- /
visions also call for more at $64,4S5,- |
353 against s4l,SS5,935. Marine corps
pay estimates have risen to S22,153,370 /
against $13,531 ,S02.
Naval aviation calls for $4,000, 900, |
an increase of more than $4,000, 900; !
'or arming naval vessels and merchant |
ships, $3S,309,523 is asked, against !
e74,593,523 obtained during the last |
session; the torpedo item is reduced !
from $12,291, $50 to 100000: reserve |
ordnance supplies from $S1 ,417,000 to
e33, 600, 900.
In the fortications estimates are |
carried items for the purchase of man
fracture of heavy and field ordnance |
If all types and the majority of the !
army's artillery equipment is provided i
lnder this heading Two items for |