Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-02
PEACE TIME COST
Of RUNNING j. 6.
IS FIVE BILLIONS


Washington, Dec. 1.-The record
billion dollar congresses Of ordinary
peace times faded into the past today
when Secretary Glass, presenting the
annual estimates, proposed appropria-
tions of practically five billion dollars
for conducting the peace time actiVi-
ties of the government during the fis-
cal year 1921,
According to these figures it will
cost more than five times as much to
conduct the peace time affairs OF gov
ernment as II did in the year immedi-
ately preceding the world war.
The greatest individual estimates for
expenditure, of course, however, go to
the army and the navy. The yearly in
terest on the war debt, however, is
SLOT, 800, 600, which sum alone Is
greater than all the appropriations for
all purposes whatsoever of any peace
time congress,
The estimated appropriations for
principal government departments
were y. esented as follows
Legislative (congress), $9,025, ,297,26.
Executive (White House and gov
ernment departments), $l49,ll1, ,463.-
II.
Judicial, 1854, 30.
Army, s9S9.57S, ,65I20.
Navy, s542,091. .S04.S0
Pensions, s215,030,000.
Public works, $2S3,921, ,St0l7.
Miscellaneous, $s33,717,63
Foreign intercourse, S11,24S, ,250.91.
| The total of all estimates. including
some comparatively minor items not
| included in the foregoing, is S4,S6a,-
I4i0,0$I.62, the greatest sum ever
asked of any congress when the coun-
| try was not actually at war.
| The billion dollar estimate for the
army includes some $S5,000,000 for
the national guard. The normal peace
! time estimate for the army before the
war was between ten and fifteen mil
lions The $542,000,000 estimate for
the navy includes provision for the
program of increase and Is compare
BILE to an annual estimate of some fiji
teen millions before the war.
The estimates for miscellaneous ex-
penditures contain some tremendous
sums. For the treasury department
more than $247,000, 900 is asked, which
goes largely to the enforcement oil
prohibition and the collection of in
come, corporation and excess profits
/ taxes. For the shipping board nearly
| $44S, 900, 900 is asked to wind up its
program of restoring the American
flag to the seas.
| One item, which has appeared
perenially in estimates without evel
becoming an actuality appears agar
this year with promise of being taker
seriously. 1t is an estimate Of $2s7,
100000 toward sinking fund, which
ultimately is to retire the public debt
which includes some thirty billions
spent on the war.
Estimates for rivers and harbor!
appropriations included:
Mississippi river, mouth of Missouri
river to Minneapolis, $4,000 Mis-
souri, river. Kansas City to mouth
S2,100.000.
San Francisco, 5000; Oakland har
Dor, s234,000; Richmond, 100000
San Pablo bay, $103. 400; Humbold
harbor and bay, s706.000; Sacramento
river, $75, 900; Coos bay, $125,000; va
quina bay and harbor $4,000; Co
lumbia river to Snake river, $2750O
Snake river. $4,000; Columbia rivel
at mouth, $165,000; Columbia anf
lower Willamette rivers below Van
couver and Portland, $655,000; Will
lamette river above Portland anc
). Yamhill river, s45,500; Lewis river
$4,000; Cowlitz river, $1,000; Gray'
|, Harbor. $600,000 Puget sound, 500
900; Nome, Alaska. $4,000; Honolulu
harbor, s15O,0O0; Hilo harbor, $780,,
900. Willapa river and harbor, 5000,
600,