Evening star., 1921-11-03
President, in Letter to House,
Now Places Total at
s3,940,0O 100000.
S6Oe,000, 900 AGGREGATE
REDUCTIONS FOR YEAR
Executive Summarizes Supple
mental and Deficiency Esti-
mates of Appropriation.

Estimated expenditures OF tHe SoN-
ernment for the fiscal year 1922 are
now placed at s3,94O. 100000, reduc-
ton of $94,OOO,00O from the August 10
estimate of 100000. President
Harding has informed Congress in a
letter to Speaker Gillett
The new estimate was presented by
the President in connection with de-
ficiency estimates Of appropriations
of s1S7,922,576.74, which, Mr.. Harding
said, were taken into consideration
in arriving at the new estimate LOT
1922 expenditures.
The President in his letter fixed the
expected aggregate reduction in eX-
penditureS for the current year at
S6O9. .000. 900.
The original revised estimate of eX-
peuditures. amounting to S4,3ao,otU.-
o0g. the letter pointed out. was sup
mitted by Secretary Mellon to the
House ways and means committee
last August 4. before which. the letter
added. the results of the imposition
of executive pressure upon the spend
ing departments. inaugurated at the
meeting called by the president OF
the body of the business organization
OF the government, had not been fully
developed" that estimate in itself, the
letter added, meant "a substantial re-
duction in current revenues ana eN-
penditures below the fiscal year 1921.
Revised Estimate August 10.
An additional revised estimate was
announced August 10, the letter said.
This was that it had been determined to
reduce the ordinary expenditures
by at least $3.50 000. 900 below the revised
estimates presented by the Treasury on
August A." This, taken with arrange
ments made as to pubic debt eXpendl-
k\-
900, or to a total of 81 03i 100000
In fixing the figure of 81, ,034 .e00,-
900 as the estimated total expenditure
for the fiscal year 1922" the letter con-
tinued. The expenditures under the sup
Elemental and deficiency appropriations
of s1s7s22,576.74 herein asked for were,
in the main, taken into consideration.
1t is possible, however, to now state
that the expected aggregate reduc-
ton in expenditures for the fiscal
year 1922 on the above basis is s439.-
OO0,0 900 instead of $359,060, ,0a1. ADD
ed othis the reduction OF S17b.00f,-
900 provided for out of other public
debt receipts, as above, makes the
expected aggregate reduction IN ex-
penditures for the current fiscal year
S6O9, 100000 instead of 'S52O.e00,eo0.
With the expenditures under the sup
Elemental and deficiency appropriation
Of S1S7,922.576.74 asked for herein,
taken into consideration, the detail of
now received from the various de-
partments and establishments. stands
at $3.50. 100000. a reduction of $si.-
6GO.O0O from the August 10 estimate
OF s4.U34, 100000
Mr. Harding summarized the
supplemental and deficiency estimates
oil appropriation as follows: Legis-
lative. S167.61S: State Department,
S2S4I04; Treasury Department. s27,-
O9S, 500: War Department.. $2.G14,70o;
Navy Department, $27.376.113.01; In
terror Department. $6,512.17: Post
Office. S6925.9340S; Agriculture,
s6S734671: Commerce. s1.734; Labor,
sSS2.76O.75; Justice. s945.9O0.31; Inter-
state Commerce Commission, $780,
5S1.O2: District of Columbia, S214,-
$500; Shipping Board, $1.316.05;
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commits
sion. S25.0O0; u. S. Veterans Bureau.
S120,94S,S03.44; Smithsonian Institu-
ton. $4,000. and L. S. Board of
Mediation and Cancellation. $4,000,
making q total of $1S1,922. .576.14.