Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-06

The navy's total is distributed princi-
pally In this way:
Pay Of officers and inen A26, 900, 900; avia-
tion $94,000.000; pay provisions and cloth
Ing for the marine corps $61 000, 900; recruit
ing transportation and Quitting recruits
S15, 10000.
For the food administration, 5000, 900
IL estimated; for the fuel administration.
$2,5O0.OOo.
No estimate appears for the committee
on public Information. the expenses of
which are being paid out Of the Presi-
dents $l00.0O000O war emergency fund.
In the treasury department, the gross
Of the war risk insurance bureau which
now includes insurance for the lives of
soldiers and sailors and merchant crews,
as we'll as merchant ships. calls for an
estimate OF 34,00O.O00.
In the bureau Of fisheries items are SUBJ
mitted for the extension or establishment
OF hatcherles in Berkshire, Mass, st.
Johnsbury. VT, and Woods Hole, Mass.
For Alaskan railways, more than 100000
IL asked.
Many estimates are submitted for the
national parks. the sums in all cases
being increased.
In the department of justice, the prin-
cipal increases are to provide for prose-
cution of crimes against the United
States. One million dollars Is asked for
that work.
Virtually all the increases in the de-
partment of agriculture are to cover the
work Of stimulating food production and
furthering the preservation Of plant and
animal life az a war measure. They in
clude the annual SIS 5000 appropriation
for federal aid and good roads.
The cost of imDrOvement md main.
tenance Of harbors and waterways utilized
In the handling Of the country's water
borne commerce was estimated to Con-
gress to-day at $29.5l5, 697 for the fiscal
year 1919.
That is reduction Of more than IS, 900 900
from the amount appropriated for the
current year. AS usual the largest sum
estimated was for the Mississippi river, a
total Of $l2.112, 900. for the Ohio river, So
10000 was proposed, and for the harbor
Of New York where the largest portion
of the country's foreign commerce is
handled. 100000, which includes provision
for improvement on the Hudson and East
rivers, estimates for the latter water.
way amounting to $25O0.0O0.
For improving the narrows Of Lake
Champlain. $20O. 900 is asked.
Harbor estimates include: Boston, $40
000
Washington. Dec. 3-Representatiye
Linthicum Of the foreign affairs commit
tee to-day introduced a joint resolution
providing that men Of the army and navy
be permitted to receive decoration from
foreign governments at war with Ger
many.
a OF arI -
Congress should be permitted to appoint
| five mdshipmen to the Naval Academy
instead Of three Secretary Daniels sug-
gested to-day in recommending to Con-
gress enlargement of next years class
Washington. Dec. 3.-Secretary Redfeld
| reported to Congress to-day that data
| compiled for Food Administrator Hoover
, showed that the fisheries bureau had saved
100000 fish in the overlooked lands of
the Mississippi river. from Homer, Mimi,
to Friar Point. Miss. during the past As
cal year. The report said 1t would be pos
sible to save at least $4,000, 600 fish every
year at very small expense.
| Washington. Dec. 3.-Creation of a de-
partment of fisheries with cabinet status
and with the shipping board reorganized
as one Of its bureaus-that Of merchant
marine-was proposed in bill introduced
to-day by Representative Walsh of Mas
sachusetts.
Washington. Dec. 3.--Repeal Of the pro.
vision in the war revenue act under which
the salaries of members of Congress are
exempt from the income tax was proposed
to-day in bills introduced by Representa-.
tives Mott and Snyder of New York