Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 36

36 * THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. ¢, TUESDAY, DECEMBER" 2, 1924 - Budget Estimate of $7,865,271 for D. C. Education Is Submitted tg Congress More Than Million Increase ~ For Public Schools Is Asked Estimate for FiScal Year Covers Salaries:; New Text Books, Repair of Buildings Estimates fbr 7 Reduced and 3 Are Increased President’s Budget Figures $59,225,935.72 Than for Present Fiscal Year. Less Departments Senate Raised and House Cut Down. (Continued from First Page.): . This includes increases from $6,500 to $22,800 in the appropriations for operations. On July 1, 1924, the beginning of the fiscal vear 1923, there was an unex- pended balance of $43,232 from the appropriation made In the act of Jime 10, 182 It is expected that 2 of this balance will be ex- P 925, leaving $12,500 avall- able for 1923, in additlon to the esti- mate of $22,800 for operations. There is an in e from $2,301.79 to $4,500 for payments to the States, and a reduction from $4,500 to §4,000 for printing and binding. Federad Trade Figure Cut $60,000. Jor the Federal Trade Commission the recommendation is $950.000, a re- duction of $60.000. This includes re- tions from $560,058 to $820,558 for employes involvi a reduction in ' v from to 297 in view of the state of completion of the proj- remaining before from traveling net ing $87,266.12 for expense: from 0no &nd binding, ¥ the General Accounting Office the budget estimate is $3,701,980, a duction of $97,892. This Includes uctions from $3,474,852 to $3.384, for per: 1 services; from 400.000 to $295.000 for contingent “xpenses: from $25,000 to $22,000 for printing and binding. Wor the Housing Corperation $743 asked, a reduction of $13 ¢ includes reductions from $48,700 for salaries: from $6,000 to 0 for contingent expenses: from s 0 to $1.000 for printing and bindinz: from $33.000 to $32.000 for collecting money from sale of prop- erty; from $700,000 to $572.600 for ration of Government hotels for crnment workers; from $4,000 to maintenance of - unsold rom $8,000 to $7.400 for miscellaneous expenses of sales, and the elin fon of a $5,000 appropri- ation for appraisals. The. reduction of $12 00 in the appropriation for the rnment hotels is the result of serving the guests in one dining room instead of two. 1L.C €. Gets Increase. For the Interstate Commerce Com- 3,500 is asked, & net in- craa This includes re- ductions from $2.143,760 to 32,100,000 in tie general aporopriation for expendi- tures ne sary in the execution of laws to - regalate ., involving a re- duction in personnel from 798 to 777 employes; from $125.000 to $124,000 for printing and binding: and in- ses from ,284 to $600,000 for 18 additional employes to provide for adequately policing the accounts of carriers; from $375,000 to $500,000 for the promotion of safety of em- pioyes and travelers upon railroads, to adjust the compensation of 1 chief inspe assistant chlef inspectors spectors of rates pald to Toce inspectors, to provide for 1% additional inspectors to inspect the fnstallation of train control and block signat de es ordered by the com- mission, and to provide adequate travel_expenses for all Inspectors; from §300,000 to $450,000 for loco- motive Inspectors, to adjust the com- ation of 1 chief inspector, 2 nt chief inspectors and 50 in- spectors as provided by law, to em- additional inspectors author- ized By the act of June 7, 1924, to provide adequate allowances and traveling expenses for all inspectors, and to provide for the employment of 1 attorney and 2 additional clerks to handle legal work and increased clerical work. or valuation of property of car- riers an estimate of $1,000,000 is sub- taitted for 1926 to enable the commis- gion to p cute the recapture of ex- + s and for carrying on a progressive program in bringing to completion the work of valuation of the assets of carriers. If the sup- plemental estimate of $350,000 for this Item is passed by Congress in the second deficiency act, 1924, now pending, $1,000,320 will be . available for the fiscal year 1925, is Air Committee Is Granted Increase. For the National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics the budget estimate is $534,000, a net increase of $64,000. 'his includes an increase from $157,000 (o $522,000 for operations and a reduction from $13,000 to 312,000 for printing snd binding. The in- crease of $65,000 for operations pro- vides for an additional laboratory building at Langley Fleld, Hampton, Va., at a cost of $40,000, an increase from 115 employes to 129 employes in the field service at a cost of $30,- . and a net reduction of. $5.955 In miscellaneous cxpenses. The addi- tional personnel will provide a ser joe test section to tafke care of spe- clal investigations for the War, Navy and Post.-Office Department: without interfering with the careful- 1y plannad’ programs of research into the more fundamental problems of meronautics. Sl ¥or the Railroad Labor Board, $2%,- 505, a reduction of $25,395. This includes reductions from £246,940 to $231,920 for personal serv- tues, involving a reduction of four in the mumber of employes and adjust- “ment ‘of salaries to a-basis compar- able with rates in other government activities; from $63,260 to $53.885 for expenses; from $12,000 to $11,000. for printing and binding. For the Smithsonian Institution the budget estimation is’ $817,890, a re- dyction of $51,211. This includes teductions {fom $801,- €25 to '$592,483 for persomal ‘services, iayolving 4 reduction from 410 to 399 in the, number of employes; from . £2.000 to $1,500 for purchase of books, Deriodicals,. . etc.; ‘from _$80,000 'to $67,000 for printing and binding; from $75.276 to $56,807 for supplies, materfals, repairs and miscellaneous cxpenses. 4 TFor. the, State, War and Navy De- partment Bulldings, .the budget esti- mate , is. $2,342,800, a reduction of -$115,%35. . “fhis. includes reductions.. from $1,719,426 to $1.693,980 for personnel, involving a reduction from 1,687 to 1,564 in the number. of employes; from $§710,939 to $641,200 for fuel, lights, Tepaits and miscellaneous ex- penses; from $2,750 to $2,700 for printing and binding, and a supple- mental estimate of $25,000 for re- placing _and repairing elevators in State, War "and Navy Department Buildings _submitted for 1925, for which no corresponding amount is contained-in the 1928 estimates. For the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Flect Corporation, $24,- | 330,000 is recommended, a reduction of 38;014,000. The . factors: contributing to this reduction - of $6,014,000 as . between the 1835 appropriation and the 1926 estimate for the Emergency Fleet Corporation are in the mainm as fol- the division | to $18,000 for printing | Jows: (a) Reduction In the number of managing operators In order to avoid duplication and overlapping wherever possible, and the cansolida- tion, curtallment and reduction in the number of trade routes heretofore maintained; (b) changing the farm of contract with managing operators. eliminating &1l allowances except fixed commissions on revenue earned; (c) reduction in the number of spot ships heretofore maintained in read- iness for operation on short notice: (d) speeding up the turn around of ships; (e) further fuel conservatlon on the basis of standard performance charts showing consumption of each vessel in operation for comparison with other vessels; (f) further reduc- tion in advertising expenses;.(g) fur- ther reduction In personnel and ad- ministrative expenses; (h) improve- ment in frelght rates: (i) closer supervision of and reduction in re- pair costs: (§) and by the applica- tion of improved methods of opera- tion, closer control and more rigid supervision of all activities con- nected with the administration of the affalrs of the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration generally. The authorization to use the pro- ceeds of sales for liquidation penses has been reduced from $6,000,- 000 for 1925 to §4,000,000 for 1926. Tarift Commission en’ $35,000 Raine. For the Tariff Commission the budget estimate is $121,500, a net in- crease of $38,260. This includes increases from 3$575.- 831 to $398,800 for persomnel services. involving an increase from 213 to 226 in_the number of empiov from $79,209 to 396,200 for traveling e penses; and roduction from $18,200 to $17,000 for miscellaneous expenses, and from $10,000 to $8,500 for print- | ing and binding. For the United States Geographic Board the budgel recommends $300. a reduction of $350. This appropriation is for printing and binding the decisions and reports of the board. The reduction of $79,257,898 In the budget for the United States Veterans' Bureau, as mentioned above, includes a number of reductions and one Im- portant increase, explained in the budget as follows: A reduction from $48.015.000 to $4 500 000 for salaries and expenses, In. cluding reductions in_ major items: from $45,529.259 to $42.656,316 for salaries; from $523,004 to $176,190 for stationery and office supplies; from $164,966 to $127,880 for teiegraph and telephone service; from 31,724,195 to $1,112,936 for travel expenses of em- ployes: from $124,940 to $58.025 for light, power and electricity, and from '$1,370,327 to $969 441 for rents. A reduction from $275.000 to $200.- 000 for printing and binding. occa- sloned by reduced requirements fer these purposes. A reduction from $161,717,794 ($83.- 000,000 direct appropriation for 1 plus unexpended balances of $78.717.- 749 from prior vears) to $127,000,000 for military and naval compensation. The appropriation act for 1925 pro- vides that balances of prlor years' appropriations for this purpese sha'l cease to be available for expendjturs after June 30. 1925, hence the appro- priation for 1926 should be the total amount required for that year. The amount _expended for compensation in 1924 was $115,400.572.80. It ls esti- mated that the increased compensa- tion rates authorized in the World War Veterans Act, 1924, will increase the requirements for 192§ by approxi- mately $12,000,000. Medical and Honpltal Services to Get Lesn. A reduction from $42,000,000 to $35 000,000 ~ for medical and hospit services; involving reductions from $12,291.790 to $9.190,000 on account of reduced-requirements for supplies and materiels; from $3,326.000 to $2,707 190 for travel expenses; from $4,07 780 to $1,792,300 for equipment, and from $16,253.920 to $13,583.240 for special and miscellaneous payments in which are Included hospitalization of patients in contract and other hos- pitals not_operated by the Veterans Rureau. ‘The transfer of patients from these hospitals to new Veterans' Bureau hospitals reduces the amount necessary ju this tem. These re- ductions, however, will be partially offset by the cost of operating, for the full fiscal year 1926, five new ho: pitals to be opened in the fiscal year 1925 and,,for part of the fiscal year 1926, five new hespitals to be opened in that year. A reduction from $§9,000,000 to $38,- 000,000 for vocational rehabilitation. The 1925 estimate was based.upon a monthly - average of 52,984 trainees. The monthly average number trainees for the fiscal year 1926 esti- mated by the Veterans' Bureau is 21,535, entailing estimated expendi- tures for major items of $45,468,523 for allowances, $3,698,378 for tuition, $854,626 for scientific and educationai supplies and equipment, and of $349.- 444 for the complete elimination of Tents. A reduction from $127,817.898 to $62,000.000 for World War adjusted compensation, An esfimate of $127,- 817,898 for the flscal year 1923, to continue available until expended, was submitted for corsideration in connection with the second deficlency bill for 1924. This amount was based upon. the estimated number of appli- cations that would be submitted un- der the provisions of the adjusted compensation act. Jt appears at thi time that the number of applicants will be considerably less than origi- nally estimated, and $62,000,000 s in- ciuded in the 1926 budget to provide, together with the 1925 unexpended balance, for estimated 1928 require- ments. E A reduction’ of $6.350,000 for the construction of -additional hospital facilities, which was submitted as a supplemental estimate for considera- tion In connection .with the second de- ficiency bil, but for ‘which no amount i:’ included. in the budget estimate for 1925, ‘ - z An .increase frowm 388,000,000 fo $98,000,000 for milltary and naval insurance. Premium payments revert to_thls appropriation and are .avail- eble for disbursement until expended in settlement of insurance claims. At the close of the fiscal year 1924 an upexpended balance of $10,253,237 con- tinued avallable for 1925. 1t ls esti- mated the balande at the close of 1925 continuing available in 1926 will be $2,250,000. Premlum collections in the Department of Agriculture is due primarily to an increase from $13,- 000,000 to $80,000,000 for the con- structiop of rural post roads. When | the budget for 1925 was submitted it was estimated that the unexpended balances from prior years at the close of the fiscal year 1924 would be $80,000.000, and as the expenditures for 1925 ‘were estimated at §93,000,000, an estimate of appropriation- for $13,- 000,000 for 1925 was submitted. Tt is now estimated that unexpeuded bal- ’Lnen at the close of the fiscal year 1925 will be $4.000,000, and as expendi tures for 1926 are estimated at $84.000,000 an_estimate of appropria tion for $80,000.000 1s Included in the budget for 1926. The net increase inciudes the follow- ing new ftema: Foyr hundred thousand dollars for upper Missinstppi River wild |life and fish refuge (act approved June 7, 1924), 350,000 for co-operative. farm forestry (reforestation act epproved June 7. 1924), and $50.000 for co-opera- tive distribution of forest planting stock (reforestation act approved June 7, 1624). The net increase also includés increases from $401.900 to $660,000 for co-operative fire protection (refor tation act approved June 7, 1024) from $2,893,923 to $2,877,973 for ad- ministration and protection of mna- tional forests; from $241,070 .to $280,000 for suppressing the spread of the Jupanese beetle; from $326,000 to $348,225 for enimal husbandry investi- gatlons; from $818,640 to $1,000 000 for acquisition of additional forest lands. and reductions from $6,000,000 to $3 and highways; from $387,510 to $286,140 for eradication of the pink boll of cotton: from $8,416,705 to 28,540 for salaries In the Depart- ment of Agriculture; from $2.427,600 to $2,375,000 for tuberculosis indem- from $717.074 to $699,451 for cradicating cattle ticks; from $448,- 413 to $431,363 for eradicating hog cholera: from $411,315 to $375,000 for burberry eradication: from $25,000 to $5,000 for the Natlonal Forest Reser- vation Commission; from $276.760 to $261,586 for farm management and tarm practice, and a reduction of $3,500,000 for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease, which was submitted as an emergency supple- mental estimate for 1925 but was not included in the estimate for 1926. Commerce Departm Reduction In $3,108,041. For the Department of, Commerce the net reduction of $3,106,041 in- cludes reductions from $225.000 to $200,000 for contingent expenses; from $5.347.470 to $1,874,000 for the Bureau of the Census, invo!ving the omission of the appropriatipn for taking the census of agriculture, which amounted fn 1925 to $3,500,000, and an increase from $825.000 to $980,- 500 for coliecting statistics to provide for the blennial census of manufac- tures; from 1120 to $1.750.410 Standards, involv- Ing reductions of $5,060 for testing structural materials, $5,000 for in- vestigation of public utility stand- ards, $4.480 for investigation = of optical giass, and $8,000 for rope in- { vestigation, 'and an increase from $500.000 to $511,760 for salarfes of the bureau; from 70.844 to $2 for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Involving reductions of $53,150 for field expenses and $5.634 for pay and allowances of officers and men on vessels: and increases from $475.000 to $500.000 for printing and binding: from 32,835,503 to $2,914.884 for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. involving reduction from $94,000 to $50.000 for crude rubb vestigation, and increases from 136 to $315.861 for commercial attaches, trom $412.600 to $432,600 for promoting commerce in_Kurope and other areas: from 3238544 to $243.- 3¢ for promoting commerce in_the Far Kast; from $695,034 to $618,054 for export Industries: from $50.780 to 75,800 for raw material investiga- tions; from §. $35,000 for transportation of families and effects of officers and employ and. from $25.550 to $30,000 for investigation of foreign trade restrictions: from $1,- 050.030 to $1.057,470 for the Steam- bout Inspection Service, involying In- creases of $2.100 for salaries of the bureau and $4,340 for contingent vx- penses: from $502.383 to $326,240 for the Bureau of Navigation, involving increases from $36,140 (o ‘362,960 for salaries of the bureau and from $205,- 238 to $220.525 for enforcement of wireless communication laws; from $9.453,380 to $9,877,980 for the Bureau of Lighthouses, involving Increases of $59.700 for salaries of lighthouse keepers, $18,020 for salaries, house service, $20,000 for ret and $127,000 for public works; from $1,508,645 to $1.543.940 for the Bureau of Fisheries, involving a reduction of $15,995 for miscellaneous expenses, by omitting an_appropriation of $15.000 made for 1925 for improvements of Saratoga. Wyo. fish hatchery, and Increases of $28,000 for Alaska gen- eral service to enable the bureau to transport supplies to the Pribilof Is- lands, and $25.000 to carry into effect the provisions of the act to establish the upper Mississippi wild life and fish refuge, approved June 7, 1924. Interfor Department Estimates Are Lower. The net reduction of $26.333:667.69 for the Depurtment of the Interior, as mentioned #bove, Includes reductions from $34,469.281 to $33.8 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, involving reductions from $388,640 to $351.500 for salaries, from $1,699, 367,900 for irrigation, from $3 3 to '$5,741,260 for support of Indian schoole, and from $26,613458 to $26.- 426,367.67 for all. other general and miscellancous expenses of the Indlan service; fram $224.616.000 to $199.116.- 000 for the Bureau of Pensions, in- valving reductions from $1.547.000 to $1,486,000 for salaries, from $22.500,000 to $197,000,000 for Army and Navy pensions, and increases from $119,000 to $120,000 for current expenses, and from $450,000 to $510,000 for fees of examining surgeons: from $2.808,800 to $2.763,420 for the Patent Office. in- volving reductions for equipment; from $12,378,589 to $9,777,257 for the Bureau of Reclamation, involving re- ductions from $11,242,900 to $7.884,000 for existing reclamation projects, and increases from $1,125,000 to $1.875.000 for new projects; from $1,735,423 to $1,654,585 for the Geological Survey due to reduction in personnel; from 32,103,268 to $1,876,560 for the Bureau of Mines due chiefly to reduction in personnel; from $385.000 to $221,000 for Howard University, including a reduction of $157,000 for buildings and an fncrease from $207,600 to $221,000 for building tmprovements and equipment; from $327,890 to $235,137 for currént expenses of ter- ritorial governments, due to no expendi- tures for biennial sessions of legis- latures in 1926; from $2,066,000 (di- rect appropriation of $1,027,400 plus estimated unexpended balances of $929,000) to $2,000,000 for malinte- nance and operation of railroads in Alaska; and increages from $1.694,24p to $1,828,855 for the office of the Sec- retary, Involving _increa from $403,640 to $435,750for salaries of employes ‘transferred from other bu- reaus of the department; from $1.- 125,000 t6 $1,293,500 for printing and binding due te printing requiremants of the Patent Office and a reduction trom $165,000 to $169,300 for contin- gent and miscellaneous’ “expenses; from $5,907.800 to $6,245,290 for the General Land Office. involving in- creases from $2,707,200 to $3,661,700 in permanént and indefinite appro- priatioris, and reductions from $885, 920 to $805,000 for salaries, from §50, 500 to $43,300 for misc pen and from $2,264,180 to $1. 785,200 for genersl.expenses of the public land service due to the pro- posed abolition of the affices of sur- veyors general and consolidation of certain local land offices; from §1, 982,637 to $3,170,909 for the National Park Service; involving an ‘increase of $1,600,000 for road constructien, and a reduction ‘from $1,982,657 to $1,670,000 in the items for: adminis- tration and protection of the na- tional parks; from $3,328,115 to $3, Bureau of Educatian tives of Alaska; from $1.293,000° to $1,308,000 for St. Elisabeth’s Hospl- from $109,000 to $113,400 for the Columbfa 1nstitution for the Deaf | 1aneous $14,400 f;)r_ Rent “Of Deeds Offices Asked in Budget Included in the items under contingent and miscellaneous ex- pei In the District budget sent to Congress today is found a rec- ommendation of $14,400 for rent of offices of the Recorder of Deeds. For the Public Employment Service $9,400 is recommended with a proviso that it be pald +wholly out of the revenues of the District. An emergency fund of $4,000 s recommended to be expended only for such emergencies as riot, pestilence, public Insanitary con- ditions, calamity by floods, or fire or storm. An_appropridtion of $5,000 is recommended to be made available for marking traffiic lines in the the congested sections of the city and the enters of roadways at curves and on the crests of hills, —_—_— $147,000 Is Asked For Playgrounds Under New Budget Out of the total* of $147,000 for playgrounds recommended the District budget submitted to Congress today $76,000 is for personal services under the new classified salary schedule. For general maintenance, improvement, equipment and supplies $40,000 1s recommended. For the maintenance and contin- t expenses of keeping the public 00l playgrounds open during the summer months, $21,000 is sought. For supplies, repairs, maintenance and other expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000 is asked. For personal services at the Bath- ing Beach, $1,320 is recommended. For temporary ,services, supplies and maintenance, _including. life guards and supplies for boathouses, 51,500 is asked. For repairs to buildings at the pools and upkeep of the grounds, $1,780 I3 declared needed. — e & from $174,700 to $202,930 men’s Hospital, including a new item for enlarging and remodeling the nurses’ home. ; Juxtice Department Gets 82,288,205 More. The net increase of $2,288,205.50 for the Department of Justice Includes increases from $4,225.681 to $5,432.- 400 for the depgrtment proper as dis- tinguished from the courts and penal institutions, involving Increases from $55,287 to $63,000 for contingent ex- penses occasioned by the creation of Ahe finger print bureau and the Pu- e Lands Board, from $200,000 to $225,000 for printing .and binding, from $203.930 to $225.000 for enforce- ment of anti-trust laws. from $10,000 to $10.500 for enforcement of aets to regulate commerce, from $500,000 to $1,725,000 for investigation and prose- cution of war frauds, and $39,000 for the Pueblo Lands Board recentl ated. and reductions from $584,040 to $580.000 for salaries, from $7.700 to $6.700 for purchase of books, from $96,930 to §93,200 for conduct of cus- toms cases, from $79,500 to $375,000 for defense of clalms, and from $2,- 4,500 for detection and prosecution of crimes; from $14.- 882430 to $15.662.212 for United States courts due to the normal an- nual increases in the mctivities of the courts: from $3.521,505.60 to $3,833.- 210 for penal tutions, involving Increases from $703,020 to $730,000 for the Leavenworth Penitentiary. from $725.925.50 to $764000 for the Atianta_Penitentiary, from $187.660 to $201,500 for the McNeil Island Pen- itentiary. from $82.710 to $85.710 for the Nagional Training School for Boys, from $1.799,380 to $2,035.000 for support of United States prisoners. and from $15,890 to $17.000 for in- spection of prisons and prisoners. for Freed- Labor Department Cut $341,086. For the Department of Labor the reduction of $341.086.47 inciudes re- ductions from $203.165 to $198,720 for salaries and expenses of Commissioners of Conciliation: from $36,500 to $35.500 for contingent expenses of the depart- ment: from $215.000 to $213.000 for printing and binding: from $72,840 to $70.000 for mliscellaneous axpenses, Bureau of Labor Statisties: from $5.084.865 to $4.550.000 for the ex- penses of regulating Inunigration; from $100,000 to $73.000 for remod- eling nd repairing nmigrant s tion from $108,920 to $100,000 fo salaries, Bureau of Nutursijzation: from $638.200 to $830,000 for expenses. Bureau of Natural- ization: from $117,820 to $110,000 for sa‘ari Chiidren's Bureau: from $136.080 to $185.000 for investigation of child welfaro: from $72,000 to $8: 000 for general expenses, Chiidren Bureau; from $1,019,172 to $1,000.000 for promotion of the welfare and hy- glene of maternity and infancy; from $107,380 to $105.000 for ralaries and expenses. Women's Bureau, and from $224,364 to $205.000 for the Employ- ment Service, Department of Labor. Navy of 86,000 Me Contemplated met. o $289,783,978 estimated for the y for the present enlisted ngth of 86,000 men. It will main- tain approximately the same number af ships In columission as for the fiscal vear 1925: will increase the average steaming distance of battie- ships from 19,400 miles (latest esti- mate for 1925) to 23,700 miles, while the other classes of combatant ships are expected to cover about the same mileage as now estimated for 182 will provide for the Naval Reserve force on practically the same basis as for 1925; contemplates a reduction In the enlisted strength of the Marine Corps_from 19,500sto 15,000 men; will provide for continuing work at & normal rate of speed on all new ships under construction within the limi- tation of authorized cost: will pro- vide for laying down two of the re- malning five fleet submarines author- ized in 1916; will provide for material increases in the purchase and pro- duction of new aircraft; will provide for substantial increases in the main- tenance appropriations for the pur- pose of making additional repalrs and improvements to the fleet with a view of increasing 4ts efficiency, and con- templates a reduction in the number of classified dgpartmental employes within the District of Columbia. The net reduction: of $23,423,279 In- cludes reductions from $3,500,000 to $1/725,000 for ‘“pay, miscellaneous,” due principally to the transfer of the subheads covering mileage and trav- eling expenses of officers and their dependents, midshipmen and female nurses to “transportation and recruit- ing"”; from $22,590,000 ($9,590,000 di- rect appropriation.and approximately $1,000,000 - transferred from ‘“‘pro- ons—Navy, 1924") to $19,800,000 “provisions, Navy,” due to the fact that expenditures for 1925 are estimated at $20,100,000 and a further reduction is estimated for 1926 to be accomplished through administra- tiori; from $1,840,000 to $1,730,000 for “medical department,” due chiefly to estimated Increase in reimbursement from the Veterans' Bureau for hos- pitalization of war from $3,128,000 to $2,620.500 fo lic works, yards and dock: $16,452,689 to $15,400,000 for = “‘pay Marine Corps,” and from $8,911,800 to $8,400,000 for ‘“general expense Marine Corps,” due principally to a contemplated reduction in the en- listed strength from 19.500 to 18,000 men; from $30,960,000 (38,450,000 di- rect appropriation plus $22,500,000 transferredd from Naval Supply Ae- eount Fund)-to $7.444,000 for “Increase of the javy,” of which $2,000,000 is included for the purpose of commen ing work on two of the five fleet -sub- marines authorized In 1916 and not yet lald down and. the balance ef $5,444,000 is for continuing work on vessels now under conatruction which is all that will be needed for 1926 unless and until certain further legt lative authority is obtained; and in- creases from $324,000 ($270,150 direct and $53,850 contingent an ditions) to $425,000 for “Tempora Government West Indian_ Islan being $300,000 for the usual purpos and $125,000 to start work on a water supply project; from §3,600,000 to $4,! 000 for “Transportation and recruiting,’ chiefly due to tranm of items for ge, ‘etc., from , miscellane- as _noted above regarding d crease under that title; from $17,550 000 to $19,500,000 for “Engineering, to provide for more repairs and im- rovements' to the machinery of the ‘n ;” ¥rom "§15,605,000 to $17,900,000 for “Construction and repair of 18,” to provide Tor more repairs and improvements to vessels of the fleet; N stre| r | iscei- | $9,025,000 to $10,500,000 for “Ordnance and ordnance stores” to provide for increased repairs and maintenance and installation of im- provements ir ordnance equipment and fire control appliances; - from $9,800,000 to $9,900,000 for “Main- tenance, Bureau of Supplies and Ac- counts,” due to increased quantity of trieght to be moved by commercial carriers to fleets in the Ocean; from $14,300,000 to $1 000 for “Fuel and transportation” ‘due pur- tially to increase in cost of fuel and also to provide for greater average steaming distance for capital ships; from $6,217,500 to $6,750,000 for faintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” to provide for necessary re- pairs and minor’ improvements t shore stations; and for “Avlatio from $15,150,000 (being $14,590,000 for aviation proper and $560,000 for public works items) to $18,000,000 (being $14,800,000 for direct appropriation for aviation proper and $4,100,000 for obligation by contract to be appro- priated In subsequent years) due to necessity of providing Tor a materfal 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 from The reductions of $134,103.78 in the { estimates for the Department of State include reductions from $40,000 to $38.605 for contingent expenses | department; from $164,785 to $149,785 for printing and bindirg; from $720.- 000 to. $713,162 for contingent ex- | penses of foreign missions; from $980,000 to $965,900 for contingent ex- penses of United States consulates from $200,000 to $150,000 for the re- lief and protection of American sea- men: from $500,000 to $450,000 for tmmigration of aliens: from $40.000 to $30.000 for salaries of Diplomatic, Consular and Forelgn Service officers while receiving instruction and in transit; from $275,000 to $260,000 for transportation of Diplomatic, Consu- lar and Foreign Service officers: $43,- 000 for the payment of one year's | salary to widows and heirs of biplo- | matic, Consular and Foreign Service | officers who die abroad (not asked for 1926); from $5.000 to $4.000 for trans- porting remains of Diplomatic, Con- sular and Foreign Service officers and clerks to their homes for intarment: from $126.000 to $25000 for post al- lowances to Dipiomatic, Consular and Fore:gn Service officers; from $86.750 v $64.750 for arbitration of out- standing pecuniary claims between nited States and Great Britain: from $5,028 to $3.352 for the International Research Council; from $182,140 to $147,536 for Mixed Claims Commis sion, Unlted States and Germany; $2.600 for expenses of the Seventh Pan Amerfcan Sanitary Conference (not asked for, 1928); $35,000 for ex- penses of conference for the control of traffic in habit-forming narcotic drugs (not asked for 1926): $50,000 for expenses of the twenty-third con- ference of the 1lamentary Union (not $20,000 for expenses of a commission on the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grange (not asked for 1926); and increases from $63,030 to $63,698 for passport bureaus: from $40.000 to $45,000 for salaries of charges d'affaires ad interim and vice consuls in charge; from $22,000 to $25,000 for axpensés of forelgn service inspector: from $2.882,299 to $2,911,000 for sa aries of foreign service officers: from 3250 to $386 for annual expenses of Cape Spartel Light, coast of Morocco; from $40,000 to $43.200 for the Inter- national Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico: from $120,000 to $127,231.48 for the n-Amer can Unfon; from $29, to" $64 340 for the International Tnstitute o Agriculture at Rome, Italy: from $171,930 to $275,000 for the General and Speclal Claims Commissions. United States and Mexico: §15,000 for the International Fisheries Commis- slon, established under treaty be- tween United States and Great Brit- ain. concluded March 2, 1923: from $28,900 to $33,100 for salaries and ex- ponses, United States Court for Chin; from $15,000 to $20,000 for prisons for American convicts; $89- 595.74 for Pan-American Union quotas (special fund, no amount es- timated for 1825); $15,444 for Ger- man Government's moiety, expenses Mixed Claims Commission (special tund, no_amount estimated for 1925). Treasury Operation to Cont $16,516,000 Less. The reduction of $16,810,359 in ap- propriations for the Treasury De- partment Includes increase from $95 250 to $1,021,044 for the office 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 $632.886 for the Division of Bookkeep- ing and Warrants, an increase of $93, 226, of which $40,000 is for contingent expenses, public moneys, $5,000 for recoinage.of minor coins, and $50,000 for recolnage of silver coins; from 17,170 to §2,344,600 for the con- troler of the currency, a net increase of $227,330, the special fund for sal- arles and expenses of national bank examiners being increased $250,000; from $18,944,129 to $20,597,835 for the Coast Guard, an apparent increase of $1,653,708,. due .to the -fact that the 1926 ¢stimate is based on a full-year program of _arresting rum-running activities, whereas the 1926 program -was for but a part of the year; from $5,945.678 to 37,378,430 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 -$1 bills: from $12,242,882. pervising. $471.604, dudWargely to the increasing necessity for repairing, paliting and remodeling of old bulldings and to new buildings being plgced in opera- tion ;each year; and reductions from $155,620 to $125,980 for the general ply committes, due to diminishing ctiyities in the handling of surplus materials; from $6,868.430 to $6,668,960 for the Public Debt. Service, a reduc- tlon of $49,470 in personnel, flscal operations; and issues of Federal Re- serve, farm loan, and intermediate credit bank securities; from $36, 91,640 to $36,275,700 for the Customs Service, a reduction of $§712,840, of which about $320,000 is due to' de- creased activities and the remainder to estimated reductions in' refunds under permanent indefinite approprii 3 $1,747,300 to $1,682, the ‘office of the treasurer of the Unjted States, due to reduced ac- f the | $12,714,486 for the su- | hitect, an increase of tivities and reorganization economies; from $89,494,236 to $61,143,740 for the Internal Revenue Service, @ reduction of $19,350,496, .which includes an item of $16,140,000 in the second de- ficlency bill for 1925 for 25 per cent refund of income taxes, about §3,000, 000 for salaries due to better organi- zation and increased efficiency, and reduced expenditures from permasent Indefinite appropriations and speclal funds; from $9,620,497 to $9,127,057 fer the Public Health Service, due prin- cipally to a reduction in activities and curtailment of State aid in certain matters. War Department Estimates in Detail. Under the hudget estimate of $338,- 551,230 for the War Department in addition to which recommendation is made for the reappropriation of an unexpended balance of $203,255.95 and for contract authorization ‘of $2,150,- 000—the amount estimated for main- tenance and operation of the Regu- lar Army will provide for a force of 12,000 officers and an average enlisted strength throughout the year of ap- proximately 118,000 exclusive of the Philippine Scoute. It will also pro- vide for the traliring of 14,650 reserve officers and 770 reserve enlisted men for a period of 15 days, the same as for the current fiseal vear, and 352 reserve officers for a perlod of more than 15 days, as against 615 officers during the current fiscal year; for the attendance of 29,000 men at citizens' military training -camps as against 33,900 during the current year; for an average enrollment of 113,000 stu- dents in the Reserve Officers’ Traln- ing Corps units as against 119,000 duringgthe current year: and will en- able the Militla Bureau to maintain an average strength throughout the vear of 173,500 as against 177,000 es- timated for the current year. Tn the cases of the Reserve Officers’ Train- ing Corps and the citizens' military training camps the total funds avail- able for 1925 have been reduced in the budget for 1926 by only $13,820. The reduction in the number of stu- dents and trainees is due to a lei amount of free issues of suppli which will be avallable from sur- plus war stocks during 1926, Appropriations Cover Camp M The budget esti; essentlals connected with the muinte- nance and operation of active military Dosts, camps and statfons as now con- stituted. Pending action by Congrer upon the call made on the War Depart- ment In the act of June 7, 1924, for comprehensive plan for necessary pes manent construction at military posts * % % based on using funds received from the sale of surplus War Depart- ment real estate, and for the sale of such property now owned by the War Department as, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, is no longer needed for military purposes,” no estimates for new construction at military posts have been included in the budget. Provision is made for necessary Army transportation, including the operation of the Army Transport Service; for the purchase of 2,039 horses for the Army to replace others incapacitated by old age; for the expenditure of $175,000 for the procurement of new automobiles toward the replacement of worn-out machines; {for the proper upkeep of existing forti- fications ggd accessorles, and for the carrying Wrward of the general plan | for the protection of the Panama Canal {and the Hawaiian Islands. For the Air Service $17,061,191 is es- timated, $14,911,i91 being for direct ap- propriation and-$2.150,000 for obligation ontract, as against a total of §14,- 19 available for the current year. will enable the Alr Service to make Ireasonabte progress ‘oward cutting down its’ present shortage In heavi thansair craft and at the same time a sist 1A keeping ative the afrcraft {ndu: try for in time of emergency. In this estimate proviston is made for initi- ating the removal of thé Alr Service activities from inadequate rented facili- ties at McCook Fleld, Dayton, Ohio, to & more €uitable site in the same vicinity donated to the Government by private individuals. For the United States Military Acad- emy provision is made for essentials connected with its maintenance and op- eration and, in addition, $350,000 js provided toward the construction of a new cadet mess hall, dormitory, cadet store and drawing academy. Cemeteriex and Memor! Funds recommended will care for the various nonmilitary £ctivities of the War Department, such as national cem- eteries, national military parks, national monuments and memorials, the Alaskan cable system, and the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges and trails in Alaska. For rivers and harbors $40.000,080 is estimated for maintenance and improve- ment of existing river and harbor works, in addition to $5,437,600 which will be available for permanent spe- cific and indefinite appropriations; for flopd control on . the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers, $10,000,000 and $500,- 200, respectively, are estimated; the “otal provided for all items of river and harbor improvement being $39.277,990, as compared with $59,871,621 for the surrent year. The estimate for completing the con- struction of Dam No. 2 at Muscle Shoals is $6,541,590, which covers con- tract obligations heretofore authorized by Congress. Of this sum $3,040,390 is carried in the budget for '1926. The estimate for the National Home for’ Distabled Volunteer Soldiers Is $193,- 362 below the amount available for 1925. This difference cofprises net reductions made in eight different items of appro- priation for the maintenance and opera- tion of the 10 homes and for the ald to State homes. The item of subsistance for the home ls increased by $137,340. The amount estimated for ghe Pan- ama Canal, $8,735,366, exceeds the ap- propriation for 1925, plus the amount proposed for reclassification “of field salarles, by $1,306,220. This increase is necessitated by reason of the non- availability in 1926 ofe funds from “savings”" and ‘“depreciation Teserve' acoounts of the Panama Canal. Besides the normal operating expenses for maintaining and operating the canal, its sanitation and civll government, the estimate includes $710,000 for compidting the new power plant at Miraflores, $400,000 for improving the Gatun-Colon Water system, and §35,000 for mprove- ment and repair of the Panama water supply system. Post Ofice Department In Granted Increase. For the Post Office Department an increase of $33,730,809.75 is recom- mended, bringing the average for this great communications rvice in the world up to $637,876,005. The cost of the postal service in- creases from year to year coincident With the growth of the country, and in general the increases in the budget estimates are due to the larger vol- Ume of malil to be handled'and the expansion of postal activities. "The net increase of $23,730,80: includes increases from $975,000 to $1,160,000 for printing and binding; from ' $46,000,000 to $46,600,000 for compensation of postmasters; from $124,937,100 to $130,000,000 for clerks and other employes in first and sec- ‘ond’class post offices; from 35,759,150 to $6,200,000 to watchmen, messen- gers and laborers; from $14,416,600 to $15,176,000 for rent, light and fuel; from ‘925,000 to $975,000 for miscel- Janeous ltems at first and second class post offices; from $87,398,000 to $92,000,000 for city delivery varriers; from- $4,400,000 to $4,850,000 for lowance for clerks at third class post Gffices; from $980,000:t0 $1,050,000 for car fare and bicycle allowances; from $6,100,000 to 37,800,000 for spectal fees; from °$104,450,000 to for' railroad transporta- “|be presented. and Other Necessary Expenses. For the District of Columbia public schools the District budget submitted to Congress today recommends ap- propriations aggregating $7,865.271, as against $6,190,745 for the current fis- cal year. This iIncludes the salaries of the superintendent, $6,000; sistant superintendents at $3,750 each; business manager. to be in charge of the business administration of the public school system, and to be ap- pointed by and responsible to the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, $3,750; director of inter- mediate instruction, 13 supervising principals, supervisor of manual train- ing and director of primary instruc- tion, 16 in all, at a minimum salary of $2,400 each: in all, $55.650. For personal services of adminis- trative and supervisory officers under new salary schedule and for other employes of the Board of Education, a total of $611,750 is asked. The budget coutains a proviso from the current law that no part of this sum shall Le available for the payment of salary of any superintendent, assist- ant superintendent, director of inter- medlate instruction or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics. disrespect of the Holy Bible, or that ours is an infe- rior form of government. For personal srevices of 66 em- ployes in accordance with the classj- fication act a total of $95,740 is rec- ommended. This includes seven new positions—six junior clerk stenogra- phers at $1,320 and one junior laborer at $900. Salaries of Teachers. For salaries in the department of schvool attendance and work permits, covering 12 positions, a total of $19,- 700 is recommended. This. includes one new posiilon of director at $3.200. For sularies of teachers add libra- rians, a total of 3$5.168,000 is recom- mended. This includes 2,576 teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principal of the Central High School, $3,500: Provided, That the principal of the Central High School shall be placed at a basic salary of $3.500 per annum and shall be en- titled to an increase of $100 per an- num for five years. Two assistant principals, one for the Central High School and one for the McKinley Manual Training High School, at $2,400 each: Provided, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an in- crease of $100 per annum for five years. Principals of normal, high and man- ual training high schools, eight, at $2,700 each Principals of junior high schools, elght, at $2.700 each. Seven assistant principals. who shall be deans of girls of the Central High School, Eastern High School, Dunbar High School, Business High Sehool. Western High School,McKin- ley Manual Training School and Arm- strong Manual Traiing High School, at $2.400 each: Provided, That said as- sistant principals shall be placed at & basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to'an increase of $100 per annum for five years. Directors of musie, drawing; physi- cal culture, domestic science, dome tic att, kindergartens and penm ship.-seven, at $2.000 each: Provid@. That the director of penmanehip, who shall be an instructor in the normal high school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,000 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years, Assistant director of primary ip- struction, $1,800. Assistant directors of music, draw- —_—————— for salaries of railway mail employes from §1.150,000 to $1,222,000 for mis- cellaneous expenses, Rallway Mail Service, from $7,500,000 to $8,500,000 for foreign mail transportation; {rom $40,000 to $100,000 for indemnities on international mail; from $200.000 to $850,0000 for stationery; from $1,303,- 500 to $1,600.000 for post office equip- ment and supplies; and from $560,000 to $600,000 for labor saving devices; and reductions from $600,000 to $300, 000 for transportation and delivery of* equipment, material and supplies; from $2.750,000 to 00,000 for air- plane mail service‘between New York and,San Francisco: from $2.775,000 to $2,675.000 for travel allowances of railway postal clerks; from $8,100,- 000 to §8,000,000 for manufacture of postage stamps, postal cards and stamped envelopes: from $4,500,000 to $4,000,000 for indemnities, domestic mail; from $518,600 to $470,000. for twine and tying devices; from $1,960,- 000 to $1,800,000 for manufacture of mail bags and equipment; from $12.- 900,000 to $12,800,000 for star rout an@-from $88,250,000 to $88,200,000 for rural delivery service. As against the increase in budget estimates for 1936 of $28,730,809:75 it is now apparent that certain iteps of appropriations for 1925 will'be in- suMcient for the needs of the service for that year, and that estimates for supplemental appropriations aggre- gating over $5,500.000 will hereafter 1t these are approved and tranemitted to Congress, the, in- crease in the budget estimates for 1928 over the appropriation for 1925 will be reduced to approximately $15,230,000. The revenues of the postal service for the fiscal year 1926 have been estimated- conservatively at §647,410,- 000. The budget estimates for that year contemplate expenditures of $637,376,005. On this basis there should be a postal surplus in 1926 of $10,038,995. For interest on the public debt the estimated expenditure during the next fiscal year is $830,000,000, which is a reduction of $33,000,000, due to the continued curtailment of the out- standing . principal of the public debt. * The estimated . expenditure ~during the mext fiscal year on retirement of the public debt required to be made from ordinary recelpts fs $484,766,130, or a net increase of $12,959,729. This includes increases from $310,- 000,000 to $323,175,000 in the cumulg- tiye sinking fund, in conformity with the requirements of law that the ap- propriation shaJl be increased each fiscal year by the amount of interest which would have been payable dur- ing that year on the 'debt redeemed through the operation of the sinking fund during such year; from $23,045,- 000 to $25.066,800° for redemption of bonds received as payments of prin- cipal of war loans by foreign govern-. ments as the result of refunding operations. and reductions from $6;- 000,000 to nothing for redemption of bonds and notes received in payment of estate taxes, due to the fact thet the bonds which it had been antici- pated would be received for the pur- pose are ‘mow above par on -the market and consequently ~are not Iikely to be used in liquidation of estate taxes; and from $6.000,000 to $500,000 for obligations retired from Federal reserve bank franchiss:.tax receipts dus to decressed earnings of the banks, Ing. phywical culture, domestic sci- ence, domestic art, kindergartens and penmanship, seven, at $1,800 eath: Provided, That the assistant director of penmanship, who shall be an in- structor in the normal school and an assistant director In the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum, and shall be entitled to an Increase of $50 per annum for five years. Assistant supervisor of training, $1,800. Heads of departments in high and manual training high schools in group B of class 6, 16, at $2,200 each. Normal, high and manual training high schools, promoted for superfor work, group B of class 6, 63, at $2,200 each. Group A of class 6, including principals of grade manual training schools, 506, at §1,440 each. Class 5, 245, at $1,200 each, includ- ing administrative principals, voca- tional trade instructors and teachers of Americanization work Clase 4, 595, at $1,200 each " Class 3, 651, at $1,200 each Class 2, 532, at $1,200 ea-h Class 1, 00 eacl Salaries on Playgrounds.’ For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and play- grounds who may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools $30,000 is recommended. For payment of annuiti is_recommended. For an actual valuation of the teachers' retirement fund as required by Congress an appropriation of*$2,000 1s asked. For salagies of teachers of night schools, including teachers of indus- trial, commercial and trade instruc- tion, $90.000 is recommended. For contingent expenses, Including the purchase of supplies for classes in industrial, commencial and trade instruction, $4.500 is recommended For expenses tending the instruc- tion of deaf and dumb persons ad- mitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District, $23,000. manual $61,000 Tultion of Mutes. For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf mutes helonging to the District, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners under the supervision of the Board of Educa- tion, $4.500. For instruction of blind children of the District in Maryland or some other State under contract as above, $9.500 For Americanization work and in- structicn of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, $10,000. For salarles of the director, general secrotarias and community secretaries of community center work. $32,300 is recommended. For salaries of 419 employes school buildings and srounds, $465 is recommended. An additional $12 for elevan new positions, bringi the total up to §475,400, is mended, Hyglone and Sanitation. For hyglene and sanita: 39 employes, $63.000 ts recommended. For the maintenance of three dental clinics In the public schools, $1,000. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade now on half time and to provide for estimated Increased enroliment under the compulsory education law-and for suppifes. for atypical and ungraded classes a tota] of $4,500 is asked. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular puplis, $4.000 is recommen- ded and an additional §3.000 for trans- portation for puplls attending such schools. For the purchase and repai niture, tools, machinery. book paratus. in manual training, is_recommended. For fuel, gas. electric power, $300.000 is asked. A total of $67.651 is recommended for furniture. including planos window shades, for buildings a additions to buildings, equipment for kindergartens, and tools and furnish- ings for manual training. cooking and sewing schools. follows: Arm- strong Manual Training School and addition thereto ($100,000:) $25.000; (Western High School and additions thereto, “$82.363: eight-room =chool buflding on Spring Road site, $4.58¢ eight-room addition to the Tenlex School, $7.388:) sixteen-room bu and assembly hall to replace Joh Cook School, $14,061; addition to farland Junior High School. $5. elght-room buflding at Fifth and Buchanan Streets. $5,306: equipment and furnishing of Health School for tubercular pupils, $6,000; three kindergartens, $3,000; two sewing schools, $1,200; two housekeeping and cooking schools, $3,000; two cooking schools, $2,000; two manual-training shops, $3,000. For contingent expenses, including furniture, repalr of furniture, pay of cabinet maker. statlonery, printing, ice and other necessary items, $77,000 1s recommended. i $175,000 for Text Books. For text books and school supplies for the use of pupils of the first eight grades to be distributed by the super- intendent- of . public schools under regulations made. by the Board of Education, $175,000 -is recommended. For kindergarten supplies, zj_,‘noo. for purchase of United Stater flags, $1.200; for establishment and mainte- nance of school gardens, $3,000. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures specimens, technical books, etc., for the maintenance of laboratories of the department of physics, chemistry biology and general science in the several high schools, junior hig schools and normal schools, is recommended. Rent of Buildings. For the rent of school buildings and grounds, $20,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating plumbing and ventllating apparatus. and installation of sanitary drinking fountains In buildings not supplied witt same, and maintenance of moto trucks, $375,000. ior mainienance and repair of on hundred school playgrounds, $4,500. For equipment, grading and impro Ing eight additional school vards fo playgrounds, $4,000. For repair, replacement and exten sion of the squipment and furniturs of the old Eastern High School, Je® ferson . School, Randall School and Powell School to adapt them for us- as junior high schools, §21,000. 3 ASKS MORE FOR SCHOOL. Budget Officials Seek $85.710 f1 Boys' Training Institution. For the National Training School, fe Boys. $85.710 is_recommended in 't budget given Congresa today, which Is an increase aver the $60,436 for the cur- rent flscal year. Of this amount $67,010 is for salaries and $13,700 for support of inmates. A $