Evening star., 1935-01-07
FARMER BENEFIT
PAYMENTS CUT
Budget Sets Tentative Fig
ure of $570,00O,C 600
for A. A. A.
BY the Associated Press.

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A big slash under the current rate
Of benefit payments to farmers was
envisioned by President Roosevelt
today in his budget message to Con-
gress on the financial year of 1885.
Figures purposely we're made tenta-
tive, but for costs of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration in the
fiscal II months ending June 80, 1886,
the budget asked s570,000.000. This
compared with estimated expenditures
in the present financial period ending
next June of 1881 ,O22, 900 of which
s725, ,801 600 was allotted to rental
and benefit payments"
But in submitting these figures, the
President and his agricultural advis-
ers emphasized that sit is impossible
to forecast, with any reasonable de-
gree of accuracy, the work that will
be carried on in the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1885,"
May Cease Entirely.
"If the national economic emer-
gency in relation to agriculture should
end" the budget said, "and this fact
should be proclaimed by the President,
operations under the act would cease
entirely"
The $4,000, 900 estimate also was
the figure used in forecasting process
ing tax collections in the 1896 year.
These collections for the current
period which still has six months to
run were put at $3.50 9,269 900.
The grand total of expenditures for
all agricultural purposes in 1886 was
forecast at s653,278, 900 as compared
with estimates for the current year of
l,l66 .679 900. Aside from the drop
in benefit payments, some of this diff
ference was attributed to a revised
classification of expenditures.
Road Fund Cut.
A decline of s102 ,oe2 ,655 in the ap-
preparation for the Bureau of Public
Roads was said by the President to
be compensated by road work funds
| in the general public works program
for 1886. Only s8,559,256 will be
given the bureau directly in the an
nual appropriation compared with
sl10,530.0o0 this year.
The A. A. A. will be forced to pay
its operating costs out of processing
tax collections during 1886 since the
$3.50, 900, 900 appropriated by Congress
for this purpose last year was dropped
| from the estimates.
Other reductions included Sc, ,906.-
992 in miscellaneous expenses and
$154,555 in running the Bureau of BIZ
illogical Survey. made possible by the
revenue expected from the sale of
duck stamps.
Forest Service Increased.
These cuts were partially offset by
increases of S2,162,978 for the Forest
, Service, chiefly to maintain improve
ments in national forests made by the
c. c. c., public works and emergency
relief workers; s1.867,584 for the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry, chiefly to
improve and extend meat inspection
services; $l,149,044 to the Bureau of
Entomology to extend its fight on
insect pests aand plant diseases and
1928, 124 for the Bureau of Plant In
dustry to set up plant reserve sta
tions for revegetation and soil pro-
lection.
The President estimated that of
the $8,164 100000 expended for re-
covery and relief from February /,
1882. to November 80, 1884, S1,337,-
100000 had been spent for agricul-
tural aid in the form of rental and
benefit payments, drought relief
grants and employment, surplus pur-
chases. drought relief purchases and
direct relief to farmers.