Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1909 — TAFT ORDERS $36,000,000 CUT [ARTICLE]

TAFT ORDERS $36,000,000 CUT

Wants Substantial Reduction In the War Department Estimates. Washington, May 25. President Taft has sent back to the war department the estimates submitted to him for the support of the military establishment for the fiscal year 1911 and Indicated his desire that they should be cut approximately $36,000,000. The estimates were prepared during Secretary Dickinson’s visit to Panama and carefully scrutinized by Acting Secretary Oliver, who reduced them to $171,650,000—518,000,000 less than the estimates for 1910, but about $16,000,000 more than the appropriations for that year.