Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1918-12-09
Maintenance And Repair.

Maintenance And Repair.
For the general maintenance and re-
pair of buildings at the Naval Acad-
compared with $557,O00 appropriated
for the current year. Rent of build
ings and the use of the Academy,
So, 900 was asked For the civic estab-
lishment at the Naval Academy $751;
610 is asked, compared with $643, ,112
appropriated for the current year. The
sum of $752,610 includes $364 160 for
pay of professors and others, COM
pared with $329,460 previously grant
ed; 12.300 for the department of cleo
trical engineering and physics, COM
pared with $10.332; $4,320 for the de-
partmsnt of seamanship, compared
with $2,330, and $500 for the de-
partment of marine engineering and
naval construction, compared with
$33, ,1S1.20 previously granted. For the
department of buildings and grounds.
$34,930 is asked; for the commissary
department. $121, $50, and for employ
ment of such additional temporary
force in the various departments of the
Academy as the Secretary of the Navy
deems necessary on account of the ex-
listing emergency, $150O00 is sought.
Agricultural Department
The estimates of the Department of
Agriculture call for an appropriation
of $124560 for necessary expenses for
scientific Investigations of diseases in
animals, including the maintenance
and improvement of the experimental
station at Bethesda, Md. For the Office
of the assistant treasurer at Baltimore
$32, 700 is asked for salaries, as COM
pared with $31, 500 for the current
year. The only change in this office
is request for one additional clerk of
Glass at $1,000 a year For the
Bryans Point fishery station $4,140 is
asked, and for the preservation of An
tietam battlefield, $4,000
Other items specifically shown for
Baltimore are IL assistant steamboat
inspectors at S2.350 each, total $2S,200.
Shipping service commissioner at Bal
timore, $1,000; one clerk in his Office
at $1,000 and two clerks at 5000 each,
clerks at Baltimore in the wireless
enforcement service.
For Army And Navy.
War expenses persisting in peace
times, but falling off rapidly will make
the Governments outlay in the fiscal
year, beginning next July /, S7,443,-
415,S3S, of which $5.212, 100000 will go
to the War and Navy Departments,
$S9S.000,000 to pay interest on war
debt and $579, 100000 for continuing
the building of merchant marine.
These expenses compare with the
S24.599. 100000 appropriations for the
current year, ending next June 80,
with the $1S.00O, ,0O0, 900 which proba-
bly, will be actually spent this year and
with the ordinary annual expenses of
about billion dollars before the war
The adavnce estimates are neces-
sarily rough, and many departments
expect to cut them down during the
next few months as committees of Con-
gress work over the figures in drafting
appropriation bills. Heretofore an
nual estimates have exceeded the ap-
preparation authorizations, and the ac-
tual expenditures have annually been
considerably less than the appropria-
tions Secretary McAdoo transmitted
without comment the estimates of var
ious departments as submitted to him
and compiled at the Treasury
The War Department wants $685.
100000 next year for bringing the
army home from Europe, maintaining
part of the force, continuing fortifica-
tions and other purposes, and the
Navy Department estimates its needs
at $2,656. 100000, even more than this
year.
For Building Ships.
The Shipping Board asks $500. .OOO.-
900 for building ships already au-
thorized by Congress. s60.000,000 for
operation of vessels. ST.. .451. 900 for re-
cruiting and training officers and
crews, and 81 Ass, 900 for incidental ad
ministration expenses.
The item of 1898. .0O0,0 900 as interest
on public debt includes provision for
meeting the semi-annual payments on
Liberty Bonds already outstanding and
those to be issued in the near future,
and this sum is not subject to any
great alteration.
There is small provision for post
Offices and other public buildings and
for river and harbor improvements.
Only s1,567 900 is included in the esti-
mates for buildings, and practically all
of this is for continuing construction
already under way. Similarly, about
half of the s1s.S7s.0 900 for rivers and
harbors is for maintenance or continu-
alton of existing projects; $5,0O0.000 is
asked as general fund for use BY the
Secretary of War, and s4,00O,000 for
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