The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-04
PRESIDENT HOPES
 ID GUT EXPENSES
 BY $439,OOO,OO0
Estimates Given Congress With Supplemental Appro- priation Estimates Total
 ing $188,o00,000
By AssocInted Prnss

ministration expects to effect a TO- dnetion In government expenditures for the fiscal year of 1922 of s439.- 100000 instead of it's previous esti- mated reduction of ss5o. .OoO, ,o00. President Harding informed Congress through letter to Speaker Gillett. made public today.
 On the basis of the latest estimates received from the various depart- ments and establishments, tho Presi- dent said the total of expenditures for the next fiscal year now stands at S3,s4O, ,000, ,00o, a reduction of s94,00o,- 900 from the estimate of s4.034, ,0O0,- oo0, submitted to Congress on Au- gust l.
 The Presidents estimates were sub- mitted in connection with the trans mission of supplemental and dehci- eney estimates of appropriations amounting to nearly sISS.Oo0,Ooo. which he said were taken into con- sideration in arriving at the expendi- lures total for next year.
 Presidents Letter
 The Presidents letter said
 T have the honor to transmit here- with for the consideration of Con- gress supplemental and deficiency es- inmates of appropriations in the sum of S1S7,922.576.74.
 "As a factor in their consideration it is to be noted that on August 4, 1921, the Secretary of the Treasury stated to the committee on ways and means that according to the latest advices received from the spending departments and after taking into ac- count all estimated reductions in ex- penditures reported to date. the treas ury estimates that the total ex- pendure for the fiscal year, 1922, for which provision should be made, out of the current revenues of the gov ernment will be about $4.550, ,000, ,00O. This in itself would mean a substan- tial reduction in current revenues and expenditures below the fiscal year. 1921.
 "At the time this statement was made by the Secretary of the Treas ury the results of the imposition or executive pressure upon the spend- ing departments inaugurated at the meeting called by the body had not i been developed On August 10, 1921, after conference, announcement was made that the administration, in co- operation with the committee on ways and means had determined 10 reduce the ordinary expenditures Of 1 the government for the fiscal year, i 1G22s by at least $35o, 000,oo0 tAiow the revised estimates presented by the | treasury on August 4. It was also announced that the treasury would provide for two items of estimated public debt expenditure for the fiscal 1 year 1922. out of other department receipts during the year to the extent of sl70,000.000. Thus the expected aggregate reduction in the expendi- ture for the fiscal year on the above basis was announced at s520.000.000, leaving the estimated expenditure for the fiscal year 1922 as of date August 10. 1921, about s4,034 100000.
 Larger Reduction
 'In fixing the figure of s4.034. .00O.- 900 as the estimated total expenditure for the fiscal year, 1922. the expendi lures under the supplemental and de- i ficiency appropriations of slS7,922,- 576 "A asked for herein. were in the main taken into consideration. It is possible, however, to now state that the expected aggregate reduction in expenditures for the fiscal year 1922 on the dDpNS DdSlSt IS 7toVsVVVgVuO instead of 5o.0OO.0OO
 Added to this the reduction of Sl70. 100000 provided for out of other prblic debt receipts. as above, makes the expected aggregate reduction in expenditures for the current fiscal year S609 1000. .000, instead of s52O,- 900, 900. With the expenditures un- der the supplemental and dificiency appropriation of $1S7,922. .575.74 asked for herein, taken into consideration, the detail of estimated expenditures for 1929. as now received from the various departments and establish ments. stands at s3040, ,0O0.0o0. re- duction of s94.000,00O from the Au- gust TO estimate of s4,034 900. 900" MT. Harding summarized the sup- plemental and deficiency estimates of appropriation as follows: Legisla- tive, sl67.61S; state department. s2s4I04; treasury department, S2I.- 0eS 500; war department. s2,0l4,700; navy department. S27.376.113. 01; jn- terior department, s6,512 IT; postof- flee, s6,925,934.0S: agriculture. s6ST.- 3i6 II: commerce. $1.734; labor. SSS2,- 760 .75; justice, s945.900. 3i; interstate commerce commission, S336,5Sl .02; District of Columbia. s214.353 .2t; shipping board. s1.316.05; Arlington memorial bridge commlssl s25.ooo, United States veterans bureau. s120.- 94S.S03 A; Smithsonian institution. $2.3O0, and United States board of mediation and conciliation. sS,o0o, making a total of $1S7,922,576 "A.