Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — ARMY EXPENSES DECREASED. [ARTICLE]

ARMY EXPENSES DECREASED.

(Secretary Root Submits Estimate for His Department. The Secretary of War has giv< n special attention to the estimates of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. These estimates, as submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be included in the book of estimates submitted to Congress, show it net decrease of $31,420,400 in the amounts asked for under all the different appropriations subject to the control of the War Department, ns compared with the estimates for 1903, and a net decrease of $20,947,960. as compared with the amounts appropriated for tT.e current fiscal year. The estimates for the military establishment shoM' a net reduction of $21,362.921 from 1 the estimates for 1903 and a net reduction of $14,297,119 from the total amount appropriated under this head for the present fiscal year. The largest items of decrease appear under the following titles of appropriation: Pay, etc., of the army. $3,013,431; subsistence of the army, $3,061,044: barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands, $1,000,000; army transportation, $9,000,000; cavalry and artillery horses, $150,000: military post exchanges, $500,000; army general hospital*, $200,000; contingent funds, $46,640. Excluding river and harbor improvements, the estimates for the War Department for each of the last five fiscal years show an average annual decrease from the estimates of the previous years of about $44,500,000. The increase of $1,410,000 for barracks and quarters is due to resumption of work on new and reconstruction of many of the old posts, rendered necessary by the increase in the regular army.