The Washington herald., 1918-12-03
ASK 8 BILLION
TORUN NATION
Annual Budget Request
Shows Plan to Hoist Gov
ernment Salaries.

Government expenditures for next
year were officially estimated yester-
day at $s.oss. .6s7. .2sso7.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
yesterday transmitted to the House
this estimate of appropriations re-
quired for various departments of
the government during the nscal year
ending June 30, 1920.
1t includes the sinking fund require
nent and postal service appropria-
tons. The total is so, ,275, 7se, ,6ss. 81, less
than the total estimates for 1913,
which amounted to $50. 365453. .393Tl, and
81, ZIG. 526. SIG. 49-less than the actual
appropriations OF S25266, 1874. 1885, made
by Congress for the fiscal year Of
1919.
or the estimates submitted the Navy
Department asking 1855. So. .l2s.o5, leads
the list. with the War Department a
close second. asking $2.556. .os1 ,55l is.
The navy appropriation asked Is more
than double that of the original es-
innate for the navy for 1913, while the
War Departmentss request is only
about Is per cent of that originally
e'ANS0 ioh lSis anu dpoul 10 per cent
of what was finally actually appro-
priated for the military estassish-
ment In 1913.
Departmental Requests.
Tho Treasury Department asks
$l.427. Sis, s44.3s. Other depart
ment requests included: Executive,
s5.ss1.42o; State. s12,725,37s; Interior.
$a70.2s3.263; Agriculture. s5s.2s3.7S6;
Commerce, s3s,3ss,740; Labor, $685.
712,313; Justice. S141sso43; Postof-
fee Department, s2.05,2so; Postal
Service, payable from postal reve-
nues) s35s,3o7,577.
Estimates for the Panama Canal
were s12.216,114. Independent Of
| icers ask $6i4.275,7s0, and s16,S7S.-
41s is asked for the District of CO.
lumbia."
The Treasury estimates include in
creases in compensation for employees
aggregating 81, 900 for the next fs-
cal year. This Is in line with Nc
Adoo's recommendation to Congress
that Federal employees be granted az
ditional compensation to meet extraor-
dinary expense OF living in Washing
ton.
Sinking fund requirements, It is esti-
mated. will be s2S7. 90. $50. It rs under
stood this will be used in buying back
bonds of the liberty loan issues. The
Treasury is permitted. under the lib
erty loan acts, to purchase per cent
OF each issue of bonds during each
twelve months.
i For shipping Board.
Plans of the United States shipping
Board provide an expenditure of 81
sos. .71s.ooo
Ship construction will require $500,
0oO. 900 and operation $50. 200.
The Food and Fuel administrations
together ask s13,5oo.0oo. The Food Ad.
ministration asks s12,ooo.Ooo, of which
approximately 100000 is to be ex'
pended in propaganda work. and ar
estimated s1,15O,0oo in travelling ex.
penses.
The first indication of the govern
ment's plan to expand its diplomatic
and commercial stats abroad is given
in the State Departments estimate
An increase from ss1so00 to LOO, ,OOi
] annually is sought as clerical hire
| for United States consulates. Sec
retary Lansing also seeks more pay
and pay for a greater number of con-
suls, consuls general. vice consuls
and other such representatives Lam
sing would replace $50 consular agen-
cies with professional consuls at sal
aries of ranging up to $500. The
4 increase in salaries for the service
Lansing estimated at nearly s1.000, ,ooi
4 a year.