Evening star., 1939-01-05
President Asks $780, $4,000
In Budget for U. S. Defense;
Debt to Hit $4444,458,000,00
$1o,ooo,ooo,ooo
Estimates for 1910
Submitted
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,


gress today huge budget for the
fiscal year 1910. estimating govern
mental expenditures at approx
mately $4,000, 100000, receipts a.
$500 ,000, 900, a deficit of $3,326, ,OO0,-
600, and public debt on June 80,
1910 totaling $44,458 900 900.
One of the high points of the
budget message is the huge sums it
contemplates for national defense.
The message states the defense ex-
penditures in 1910 will amount to
s1,319,55o, 900, including S2l0,OOO,OO0
which Is part of an extra fund de-
signed to speed up the ornaments
program. Eventually this new phase
of the defense program will cost
$500, 100000, but only s21O,OOO,OOO
would be disbursed this year under
the Presidents plan.
He suggests enlargement of the
scope of the Social Security Act
and an additional public health pro-
gram which may still further in
crease governmental expenditures
The President reiterates his de-
mand for continued heavy govern
ment spending as an aid to re-
covery and to the unemployed.
He denies that the taxpayers
money has been thrown "out of the
window or into the sea- defending
his spending programs of the past
and urges that new system of
budget estimates be adopted which
will show the national wealth"
created by governmental expendi-
lures as an Offset to the annual
deficits and the public debt.
Under 1899 Fiscal Year.
Total governmental expenditures
for the fiscal year 1899, including
those for the Postal Service. the
District of Columbia, "and probable
supplemental items" are estimated
at $10.l90,311,4 ,483 The total is less
than the estimates for the fiscal
year l939-the present year-by
$738, 8,298, ,4Ss.
AS Tor the new national defense
program, the "breakdown"-the de-
tails-of this new program will not
be announced until the President
sends to Congress a special message
on national defense next week
probably Wednesday.
National defense expenditures
for 1940," says the President, will
amount to $1,319, $50, 900. This is an
increase of 5000 ,351 900 over the con-
templated expenditures for national
defense purposes in 1899 and rep
resents an increase of $99, ,351 900
for continuing the current program
and $210,000,000 on account of the
new s500,000O00 to be submitted at
later date"
For unemployment relief for the
fiscal year 1910 the budget estimates
$2,019 ,0000 900, as compared to 81
866, 100000 for the fiscal year 1899.
Included in the figures for 1889 are
1915, 100000 for supplemental w. P.
A. funds to run the agency until
July l. The budget message had
estimated this figure would be
s75O,OOO,00O.
The general budget summary car
ried in the message gives a some
what different IActure of the esti-
AAioeSA SlllCC ~ uOCS
not include expenditures for the
District of Columbia and the Postal
Service. which are offset by re-
ceipts of the District of Columbia
from taxation and by the receipts
of the Postal Service. The total
expenditures as shown in this sum-
mary for the fiscal year 1910 ex-
elusive of debt retirement, which
amounts to $10o,00O,O0O, total So
995 ,663 200. The estimate for the fis-
cal year 1899 is $9,492 1923 900 and the
actual expenditures for the fiscal
year 1888 $7625, 1922 1886.
Net Deficit Lower.
The net deficit, exclusive of debt
retirement for the fiscal year 1910.
is estimated at $3,326, ,343. 200. This is
considerably less than the net es-
timated deficit for 1899, which is
$3,972 ,259,0 900. The actual deficit for
the fiscal year 1888 was $1,384, ,16O,-
93137.
The estimated gross public debt at
the conclusion OF the fiscal year 1910
is $44, ,458, 100000, as compared to
the estimated gross debt of SAL ,132,-
100000 at the close of the present
(See U. S. BUDGET, Page AID