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TREASURY AND POST OFFICE APPROPRIATIONS^ 1953 
comparison with the corresponding budget estimates and 1952 
appropriations: 
Treasury 
Department 
Post Office 
Department 
Total 
Appropriations, 1952--- 
$619,373,000 
693,045,000 
648, 655,000 
-f29, 282,000 
-44,390,000 
$2,340, 800,000 
2, 822,100,000 
2, 793, 800, 000 
+453,000,000 
-28,300,000 
$2,960,173,000 
3, 515,145,000 
3, 442, 455,000 
+482,282,000 
-72, 690,000 
Bill 1953 --- ---- — 
Bill'compared with 1952 appropriations- 
Bill compared with 1953 estimates--.--- 
In addition to the above regular annual appropriations there is 
included in the bill authorization for the Export-Import Bank of 
Washington to use $1,125,000 of its corporate funds for administrative 
expenses. This represents an increase of $175,000 over the 1952 
authorization, but a decrease of $6,000 in the 1953 budget estimate. 
SUMMARY OF THE BILL ' 
The total of the regular annual appropriations, carried in Titles I 
and II of the bill, is $3,442,455,000, a reduction of $72,690,000 in 
the budget estimates for direct appropriation. The amount recom¬ 
mended in the bill is, however, $482,282,000 more than the amount of 
regular annual appropriations for 1952 for these Departments. 
Comparisons with 1952 appropriations, however, are misleading to 
the extent that there are currently pending before the committee 
approximately $392,900,000 in supplemental requests for 1952 
based on actions over which the Departments have little or no coiitrol, 
namely: approximately $265,700,000 for increased pay resulting from 
passage pf Public Laws 201 and 204, 82nd Congress; approximately 
$27 200 000 for costs incident to the granting of increased annual 
leave to’postal employees pursuant to Public Law 233, 82nd Congress, 
and $100,000,000 required to cover costs incmred as a result of the 
Interstate Commerce Commission’s recent decision establishing higher 
railway mail pay rates. i, j +i. 
Were the pending supplemental to be approved as submitted, tne 
increase over 1952, as recommended by the committee in the accom¬ 
panying bill, would be $89,400,000. Thus, the recommendation 
for 1953 constitutes in large measure requirements to meet statutory or 
regulatory provisions, with but modest allowance for additional em¬ 
ployment over and above the levels to be achieved in 1952. 
The Committee, in reviewing the budget estimates of the treasury 
and Post Office Departments, has critically examined each proposal to 
insure that (1) employment is kept at a minimum, wherever possible 
not exceeding that permitted in 1952; (2) nonessential expenditures 
are excluded; and (3) improvements in methods, procedures, and 
processes are adequately reflected as savings. Exceptions to these 
general rules of analysis were made with respect to sjmcihc functions 
as indicated below with reference to the particular Bureau or item 
concerned. The Committee has also taken into account the savings 
made possible as a result of the adoption of the graduated, leave law 
as applied to classified employees of the Government. 
