The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-13

OF ammunition, installation OF firs
control, building Of storehouses, etc..
brings the total for the defense Of the
canal to s7,67e,34O.
For Pay OF Army And Navy.
For the pay Of the Army $1,00Ss
9sS. .676 is asked. For this year $S44,
639.11S was appropriated. For pur
chase of food, however, only $2ss ,406..
655 is sought, az against $401. 100000
appropriated for this year.
To transport the Army from camps
to the seaboard and thence to France
sSOe. .532, ,O26 Is sought. Purchase and
manufacture of clothing for the Army
WIN require s8S3,172.14s, the depart
ment's estimate said.
For the Medical Corps $157 Iii, 1894
is asked, the sum to include the pur.
chase OF gas masks; ,027,00o,0oo for
engineer equipment for field service,
$1,OO0,000 for military maps, $500 ,00G,
900 for small arms ammunition, $75.-
100000 for ammunition for small
arms target practice, $50,000,000 for
rine and revolver manufacture at ma.
tional armories, S1,531,02S for machine
guns.
For guns and ammunition for home
guard organizations the department
requested $4,500,000.
Thirty.fve million dollars is re-
quested to build a signal service store.
house In France.
For the pay of the Navy s213,229, 900
is asked; for improving and equip
ping navy yards for construction OF
ships, S4.000,OO0; for ammunition, $32,'
100000; for new batteries for certain
war vessels, $3S,3O9,0 900; for an am.
munition reserve $33,O00,000; for tor
pedoes, $1,O0O,O0O.
To Bring Home Dead.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is asked to bring home the
bodies Of the navy's dead, while $5.
100000 is the estimate put on the
needs of the navy's medical division
for the year. For arming and equip
ping the Naval Militia and Naval Re.
serve Secretary Daniels asks s1,727,
900. Expansion Of the Great Lakes
Training Station at Chicago will re
quire $725,00O, while improvements al
the other naval training stations will
total s2,655, 5000.
Daniels asked s22,153,00 for pay OF
the Marine Corps, with $3S,95S,00o
more for clothing and provisions for
the Soldiers OF the sea-"
Improvement of rivers and harbors
is estimated to cost s29.507.55O, as
against $34,S31,150 appropriated for
this year. This includes s2,475,000
for improvement Of New York har
Dor; $1,155,000 for the Delaware
River; s1,540,000 for Norfolk harbor;
s1,4O0,O00 for improving and main.
tanning the passes of the Mississippi
River; s5.OO0,000 for locks and dams
on the Ohio River below Pittsburgh
with view to obtaining a navigable
depth OF nine feet.
Estimated Pension Department
needs TO rthe year are S157060, 900. q
decrease of 100000 over the sum
appropriated for this year.
Collection Of war taxes, exclusive
Of the munitions, will cost $4,000, 900
Secretary McAdoo estimated. This
is double the sum appropriated for
this year. Collection Of munitions
taxes will require 100000, and the
income tax s3,700,000.
Expenses Of administering the War
Risk Insurance law will be $4,000, 900
for the year, McAdoo estimated. The
bulk of this is salaries of $500 EN-.
ployes, which totals s3.250,000.
This estimate" McAdoo said, "is
based on close study OF the ex.
penses Of the Pension Bureau and a
number Of large insurance com.
panies."