LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
DECEMBER 4, 1912.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. JOHNSON of South Carolina, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following
[To accompany H. R. 26680.]
In presenting the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, the Committee on Appropriations submit the following in explanation thereof:
The estimates on which the bill is based will be found on pages 9 to 110, inclusive, of the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year 1914, and amount to $36,514,955.50.
The total appropriations made for the current fiscal year 1913 for the objects provided for in the accompanying bill amount_to $35,216,133.38, which sum includes $999,670, carried in the sundry civil, pension, and other appropriation acts for 1913, for various branches of the public service, that are taken up in the accompanying bill for 1914.
The bill reported herewith appropriates $34,898,505.50 and makes provision for 15,699 salaries.
Compared with the appropriations for the current year, 1913, and with the estimates submitted to Congress for the ensuing fiscal year, 1914, the following differences are shown:
It appropriates $317,627.88 less than was appropriated for the same service for the fiscal year 1913.
It appropriates $1,616,450 less than was submitted to Congress in the estimates of the executive departments.
It provides for 310 fewer salaries than were appropriated for this year, and 355 less than are specifically called for in the estimates.
As a part of this report there is submitted a comparative statement showing in parallel columns as to each item in the bill the current appropriation, the amount estimated for 1914, and the sum