Evening star., 1926-02-01
Board of Tax Appeals.

Board of Tax Appeals.
The sum of SIS, $50 is recommended
for salaries and expenses of the
United States Board of Tax Appeals.
The estimate on which the appropria-
ton for the current fiscal year was
based was made up in the Fall of 1924
shortly after the creation of the board.
There was no experience upon which
to base an estimate and no way of
predicting how much business the
board would be called upon to handle.
Up to September. 1924. only 123 cases
had been filed. By January l, 1926,
| the number of cases filed had reached
10.530 and 4,500 had been disposed of.
Cases are now being filed at fairly
| uniform rate of 200 per week. The
board has perfected It's organization
and stabilized the work to such an
| extent that a fairly good estimate
| may be made of what the expenses
| will be, and 1t is believed that the sum
| recommended in the bill will enable
| It to complete the fiscal year 1925
and handle the work in an expeditions
and efficient manner.
The sum of $4,000 Is recon-
| mended to enable the director of pub
| lie buildings and public parks to make
| necessary urgent repairs TO the tenn
porary wooden office buildings erected
| during the war. y recent survey indi-
Gates that the underpinning has
rotted in many places to such an eX-
tent that it would be unsafe to con-
| tinue longer without replacement.
The sum of $4,000. 900 is recon-
mended for veteran hospital construc-
| ton pursuant to authorizations here
| tofore granted, and $70,000,O00 is
recommended for an addition to the
adjusted service certificate fund.
The sum of $16S,3 ,312 is recon-
mended to enable the Secretary Of
Agriculture to adjust the telegraph
| rates between the Weather Bureau
and the telegraph company for mes
sages and use of wires in handling
Weather Bureau business during the
fiscal year 1925.
The sum of $22.9Oo,000 is carried
for Federal aid in the construction
Of rural post roads. and $3,775 900 Is
granted for work on forest roads and
trails in forest reserves in 20 States.
For the Census Office the sum Of
| $3.50, 900 is included for additional
work on the quinquennial census OF
agriculture.
An additional amount of $500, 900 is
| carried for the Bureau of Immigra-
| ton. OF this sum S150,000 is allotted
| to the border patrol work to prevent
smuggling of aliens and $450,000 Is
| estimated to be expended for deporta-
| ton Of aliens found to be In the
country illegally and other immgra-
| ton expenses.
Under authority OF the act of
February 9, 1925, $1,7S7.751.36 is
recommended for payment to the
| Chippewa Indians Of Minnesota for
lands ceded to the Indians and set
tied on by whites who were relieved
by act of Congress from paying for
| the land at $1.25 per acre, as had been
previously required by law.
| Commencement of construction on
! the Kittitas division of the Yakima
reclamation project, Washington. is
provided by the inclusion of 81 900 900.
| For the completion Of the repair
and fitting-out pier at the Puget
| Sound CWash) Navy Yard, the sum
Of $40, 900 Is recommended.
An appropriation of $340, 900 for the
Bureau of Aeronautics Of the Navy
Department is provided to purchase
! training planes to furnish aviation
training for 400 graduates of the
Naval Academy who will finish their
academy course In June. The appro-
priation provides for the purchase Of
16 planes, "a engines and spare parts
for planes and engines.
| For Postal Service.
The total amount recommended for
the postal service is 500, ,5S4. so,
practically all of which is on account
of salary increases.
On account of increased postal
business additional sums are recon-
mended for clerks at first and second
f, post offices and carriers for the city
delivery service. The amount of
s1,302,675 will provide approximately
LAO additional clerks and $1552,679
| will DrOyido aDprOximately 900 mora
| carriers.
The sum of $210, 900 is recommended
to enable the Air Mail Service to pur-
chase Is additional planes of 1000
pounds carrier capacity Funds are
| also made available to permit the i'm
mediate removal to headquarters of
! the Air Mail Service from Omaha to
| Washington.
For the refund of internal revenue
taxes Illegally collected the sum Of
$149, ,250, 900 is carried.
The Coast Guard is given $7,674,-
491 SO, practically all of which is due
to the increased duties in connection
with the prevention of the smuggling
Of liquor and combating the activities
of the rum runner" The amounts
carried in the bill are divided
$780, 900 for the acquisition of addi-
tional vessels. S1,S42 ,207 for the main
| tenance, repair and operation of
these vessels during the portion of
the fiscal year 1927 that they will be
in commission and $1,932,28496 for
the fiscal year 1925 to provide for the
additional personnel and maintenance
expenses of the present fleet.
The sum Of 1852 800 is recommend
ed for the customs service to carry
the present organization and keep it
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