Evening star., 1924-12-02

$l,ISU Is occurred HeeUeu.
from 3s,o25,ooo to $IO,50O,0oo for
Ordinance and ordnance stores to
provide for increased repairs and
maintenance and installation OF i'm
provements iE ordnance equipment
and Are control appliances; from
| tenance, Bureau of Supplies and Ac-
counts" due to increased quantity of
| freight to be moved by commercial
carriers to fleets in the Pacific Ocean ;
| from $l4,S00,000 to ,$la,i60.o0O for
Fuel and transportation due par
TALLY to increase in cost Of fuel and
also to provide for greater average
steaming distance for capital ships;
! from $6,2lT.500 to S6,75o.oo0 for
| Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and
Docks" to provide for necessary re-
pairs and minor improvements to
shore stations: and for Aviation"
| from SIS, 5,150,000 (being Si4.590,000 for
aviation proper and $560,000 for public
| works items) to 31S.s00.o00 (beins
$l4.so0.000 for direct appropriation
for aviation proper and $+,l0e,0oo for
obligation by contract to be appro-
priated In subsequent years. due to
| necessity Of providing for a material
Increase in the number OF new air
craft and also to furnish sufficient
work to assist In maintaining the air
craft industry which should be kept
alive because of its importance as a
part OF the national defense program.
| state Department
| Reductions Explained.
The reductions OF sl34lO3.1s in the
! estimates for the Department of State
! include reductions from $4,000 to
| S38,6o5 for contingent expenses of the
! department; from S1b4,1S5 TO sl4s.1S5
| for printing and binding: from $780,
900 TO. s713,162 for contingent ex-
! peuses Of foreign missions: from
| $3.50, 900 to S96S.900 for contingent ex-
| penses OF United States consuiates;
| from 100000 TO sl50.000 for the re-
| lief and protection OF American sea-
men: from 100000 TO S450,o0o for
| immigration OF aliens: from $4,000
! to $4,000 for salaries of Diplomatic.
| Consular and Foreign Service officers
| while receiving instruction and in
transit; from &275,00 to $250,000 for
| transportation of Diplomatic. Consul
| lar and Foreign Service officers: $43,-
! 900 for the payment Of one years
| salary to widows and heirs OF Diplo-
matte, Consular and Foreign Service
| officers who die abroad mot asked for
! 1920: from SIS. 900 to $4,000 for trans
| porting remains of Diplomatic. Con-
sular and Foreign Service officers and
| clerks to their homes for interment:
! from sl25.000 to $a5. 900 for post al
| lowances to Diplomatic. Consular and
| Foreign Service officers: from sSs.75o
| to s64750 for arbitration of out
| standing pecuniary claims between
| United States and Great Britain; from
| S5,02S to S3,352 for the International
| Research Council; from Sls2,14 to
| Sl47,536 for Mixed Claims Commits
sion. United States and Germany:
| $2.6o0 for expenses of the Seventh
| Pan American Sanitary Conference
| (not asked for, 1920; $4,000 for ex
| penses Of conference for the control
| OF traffic in habit-forming narcotic
drugs (not asked for 1s2S) $4,000
| for expenses of the twenty-third con-
| ference of the Interparliamentary
| Union mot asked for 1920: $4,000
| for expenses of a commission on the
equitable use of the waters of the
| Rio Gran0e not asked for 1920: and
| increases from s53,os0 to sSs.sss for
passport bureaus: from $4,000 to
| $4,000 for salaries of charges
| d'affaires ad interim and vice consuls
| in charge; from $4,000 to S25. 200 for
expenses OF foreign service inspectors:
| from s2.ss2.2s9 to S2,sl1,o0o for SAL
| aries Of foreign service officers: from
| $3.50 to 1885 for annual expenses of
t6pe SpdTtel JASHt, COdSl VI hoI otto,
| from $4,000 to $43.200 for the Inter-
| national Boundary Commission. United
| States and Mexico: from 100000 to
$127,231.4s for the Pan -Ameri-
can Union; from $2s.577 to s54,-
| $40 for the International Institute of
Agriculture at Rome, Italy: from
| s171.e3o to s275.000 for the General
and Special Claims Commissions,
| United States and Mexico: $4,000 for
the International Fisheries Commits
sion, established under treaty be-
| tween United States and Great Brit
ain, concluded March 2, 1928: from
| s2s.9oo to $33.10o for salaries and ex-
penses, United States Court for
| China: from $4,000 to $4,000 for
prisons for American copvicts; $s9-
595.74 for Pan-American Union
quotas Especial fund, no amount es-
timated for 1929; $15,444 for Ger
| man Governments moiety. expenses
Mixed Claims Commission Especial
| Treasury Operation
| to Cost Sle,slS,oO0 Less.
: The reduction Of s16,s10,359 in ap-
| propriations for the Treasury De-
partment includes increase from $751;
$50 to $1,021,044 for the ONCE of the
chief clerk and superintendent due
principally to an increase in the esti-
mate for stationery for the Internal
| Revenue Service: from $439,160 to
$532,sS6 for the Division Of Bookkeep-
ing and Warrants, an increase Of $93,-
| 226, of which $4,000 is for contingent
! expenses, public moneys, $4,000 for
| recoiDage of minor coins, and $4,000
| for recoinage of silver coins; from
$2,3l5l7o to $2,544,50o for the con-
trolier of the currency, net increase
of $227,330, the special fund for sal
| aries and expenses of national bank
examiners being increased $250,000:
from $1s,S44,129 to $20,597,835 for the
Coast Guard, an apparent increase of
| $1,653,70S,. due to the fact that the
| 1925 estimate is based on full-year
| program of arresting rum-running G
| activities, whereas the 1925 program
was for but a part of the year; from
s5,s45.675 to S7,37s,430 for the Bureau
| of Engraving and Printing, an in
| crease Of $1,432.765, due to the neces-
sity for increasing the output Of eur
-rency, particularly of 81 bills: from
pervising chitect, an increase of
$471.So4, dusolargely to the increasing
| necessity fer repairing, painting and
| rsmodeling Of old buildings and to
new buildings being placed in opera
tion leach year; and reductions from
| t166, $40 to $125,960 for tho general
supply committee, due to diminishing
| activities in the handling of surplus
materials: from $6,S6s.430 to &s,66S, $50
for the Public. Debt Service, a reduce
tion of $iss,470 in personnel, fiscal
| operations, and issues of Federal Re-
serve, farm loan,, and intermediate
| credit bank securities; from $685.
s91, $40 to $36.27s.700 for the Customs
Service, reduction of $712,s40, OF
which about $320,680 is due to de-
creased activities and the remainder r
to estimated reductions in refunds
under permanent indefinite appropria.