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Part of The American Chamber of Commerce Journal

Title: The Government
Language: English
Year: 1954
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Fulltext: The Business View A monthly review of facts, trends, forecasts, by Manila businessmen The Government From Official Source * FEBRUARY 1 — President Ramon Magsaysay receives U. S. Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens and General John E. Hull, commander of the United States forces, and after a con ference attended by a number of other high American and Filipino diplomatic and military officials, gives a luncheon in their honor at tended by a larger group; the President expresses high praise of the American officials in the Philippines, including Ambassador Raymond A. Spruance. Secretary Stevens suggesting that the President visit the United States, Mr. Magsaysay states: “Not now. I have home work to do.” The President certifies to Congress the urgency of enacting two measures, one to revive the authority of the President to fix the ceiling prices of commodities and creating a price administration board com posed of a chairman vice-chairman (who would be the General Manager of PRISCO and act as price administrator), and three members repre senting the consumers, producers, afnd distributors, and the other appropriating 75,426,314 for maintaining the additional public school classes started last October and November. The President is informed by Central Bank Governor Miguel Cuarderno, Jr. that steps have been taken to carry out his decision to permit large-scale importation of frozen beef, meat products, and live stock under the supervision of PRISCO, meat importers to agree they will net charge more than 5% over the landed cost if the commodity can be immediately distributed, a reasonable charge to be added if storage is necessary; arrangements have been completed for the first shipment of frozen beef to leave Australia on February 12; the dollar allocation for corned beef will be increased by 100% for the current semester; the Bank will also grant foreign exchange to tanners for the importation cf hides to replace carabao hides. The President, admitting he erred in his previous appointment of Mateo Ferrer as Acting Assistant Director of the Bureau of Printing, appoints instead, on the basis of his 47 years of efficient service, Pedro Enriquez. The President inducts into office the members of the Peace and Amelioration Fund Commission. Malacanang releases a statement of the assets and liabilities of Under-Secretary of Justice Jesus G. Barrera and his wife, the assets, chiefly real estatp, amounting to Pl,184,045 and the liabilities to 7209,684. Feb. 2 — The President tells a delegation of the Citizens Committee for Good Government, who interceded for Major Jose Crisol, recently relieved as Director of the National Bureau of Investigation, that he had no alternative as Crisol had disregarded two orders to come to confer with him in Baguio, saying that he was "too busy”. The President visits the offices of the Bureau of Immigration in a building still only partly rehabilitated and instructs Commissioner Luis P. Torres to consult with Budget Commissioner Dominador Aytona on his needs; he discusses with the Commissioner the case of some 90 Chinese recommended for deportation by the Deportation Board, of whom only 27 have been accepted by the Taipeh, Formosa, authorities the rest being refused entry on the grounds that they are alleged com munists. The President inducts Perfecto E. Laguio as acting Under-Secre tary of Commerce and Industry, vice S. R. Mendinueto, resigned. Feb. 3 —The President is informed by Central Bank Governor Miguel Cuademo that three entities have already been authorized to open letters of credit to import frozen meat and live cattle,—Philip pine Cold Stores (Basilio King and Pablo Yap Tanco), 547,000 for frozen beef and mutton from Australia; UNIFRICA Cooperative Wholesale Association (Rufino P. Halili, President), 56,000 for frozenbeef from New Zealand and Australia; and Philippine Hides Associa tion, Inc. (L. Mayoralgo, President) 598,000 for 1,000 head of cattle from Australia. The President visits the Bulacan Agricultural High School and announces he will call a meeting of agricultural school officials to discuss a complete reorganization of the curricula of these schools; he states also that land has been set aside in the area (Sitio Akle, San Ildefonso, Bulacan) for the settlement of surrendered Huks, some 3,000 families, the first task of the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Project. The President leaves Manila aboard the yacht Pagasa accompanied by a number of Filipino officials and also Gen. T. M. Cannon, JUSMAG chief, and Counselor W. B. Lacy of the American Embassy. Feb. 4 — The President and his party reach Romblon on his way to Catbalogan, Samar, where he will open an athletic meet. He inspects the Romblon marble quarries and, informed that the U. S. Battle Monu ments Commission which ordered 18,000 marble crosses, has accepted only around SO of some 1,000 delivered because the rest were not pure white, states he will take up the matter with the proper authorities; he states he will instruct the Defense Department not to buy any more foreign marble as the Romblon marble is of excellent quality. Aboard the Pagasa the President resumes his conferences with budget officials. Feb. 5— The President, aboard the Pagasa, appoints the fol lowing as members of the Philippine National Red Cross Board of Governors. Secretary of Health Paulino Garcia, Secretary of Education Pastor Endencia, Secretaiy of Justice Pedro Tuason, Chief of Staff General Jesus Vargas, Social Welfare Administrator Pacita M. Warns, and Secretary of Finance Jaime Hernandez. The President and his party touch at the small island town Zumarraga, off the west coast of Samar, for an inspection. Visiting a store he asks the storekeeper to show him his sales book which it took him 15 minutes to produce. The President and his party arrive at Tacloban, Leyte, where he again visits a Chinese-owned store and asks for the sales book which he found in apparently good order. Assistant Executive Secretary Mariano Yenko, Jr. inducts into office the new members of the Board of the National Rice and Com Corporation, those who took the oath being Placido L. Mapa, Victor Buencamino, Felix de la Costa, and Luis Ortiz; Governor Juan O. Chioco, Chairman of the Board and General Manager, was present during the ceremony. Feb. 6 — The Pagasa having steamed back to Masbate during the night to enable the budget officials with the President, headed by Commissioner Dominador Aytona, to take a plane to Manila to have the Budget on which they had been working printed for submission to Congress, confers with Governor Vicente Quisumbing and other Mas bate officials, expressing his pleasure over their work in carrying out the rural uplift program. The President aboard the Pagasa appoints former Secretary of Public Works and Communications Sotero Cabahug, now a member of the Cebu Provincial Board, acting Economic Coordinator; he ap points Court of Appeals Justice Roberto Concepcion and former Senator Ramon Diokno as associate justices cf the Supreme Court; and he ap points Judge Querube G. Makalintal as Solicitor-General in the place of Juan R. Liwag, resigned. He designates Jesus M. Cui as Acting Governor of Cebu as Governor Sergio Osmena, Jr. is on an extended leave of absence in the United States. Feb. 7 — The President and his party reach Cebu where, at former President Osmena’s residence, he inducts Mr. Cabahug as acting Eco nomic Administrator and Mr. Cui acting Governor of Cebu. In a conference with Cebu officials he instructs Under-Secretary Vicente Orosa of the Department of Public Works and Communications to send a dredge to Cebu immediately to deepen the harbor there. Feb. 8 — The President returns to Manila aboard the presiden tial plane Pagasa from Cebu after an unscheduled stop at Calapan, Mindoro Oriental. The President receives some 70 of the 145 sur viving delegates to the Constitutional Convention who framed the Constitution of the Philippines 19 years ago. The President announces the composition of the Council of State,— Vice-President Carlos P. Garcia, Senate President Eulogio Rodriguez, Sr., Speaker Jose B. Laurel, Jr., the members of the Cabinet, Senate President pro tempore Manuel Briones, Speaker pro tempore Daniel Romualdez, Majority Floor Leader Senator Cipiianc Primicias, Ma jority Floor Leader Representative Arturo Tolentino, the Chairman of the National Economic Council (who, according to previous an nouncement, will be Filemon C. Rodriguez), the President of the Gover nors’ League, former President Sergio Osmena, Senator Jose P. Laurel, Sr., former Governor Juan O. Chioco (NARIC General Manager), Ponce Enrile, and Datu Mantil. Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources Salvador Araneta reports to the President that the rat infestation in Cotabato is worst in the Liguasan Marsh area where the density is estimated as 10,000 rats per hectare and that at Marbel it is 300 and at Banga 100 rats per hec tare; the President directs that every possible means of extermination be explored. Feb. 9 — The President submits to Congress his Budget Message for the fiscal year 1955 and a Budget calling for a total expenditure of 7668,269,860, as compared to the 1954 fiscal year authorization of P639.916.653, but estimating that the excess of income over the pro posed expenditure will be 7269,860, as against an estimated deficit of 780,298,148 for the 1954 fiscal year. The accun/ulated deficit, as if June 30, 1954, is estimated at 7304,866,479, in respect to which the Message states: “We shall block and later liquidate this accumulated deficit as fast as possible, setting aside, if necessary, a yearly amortiza tion of the entire amount.” The Message recommends the extension of the tax laws which have expired or are due to expire this year, this to include Republic Act No. 590, which raised the individual income tax rates and which expired on December 31, 1952. The total sum of 7143,857,000 expected to be derived from the extension of these laws has been included in the estimated income of 7668,539,050. The Budget increases the appropriations for the Department of National Defense by 76,314,400, for the Department of Education by over 712,000,000, for the Department of Agriculture by 77,000,'000, for the Department 94 of Health by over P5,000,000, for the Department of Finance by P2,500,000, and for the University of the Philippines by P600.000. For the Economic Development Program, utilizing United States aid through the Foreign Operations Administration, P19,836,805 for the operation and maintenance of existing projects and ?26,880,000 special appro priations have been provided under Counterpart Funds for the fiscal year 1955 as compared with P 7,798,540 during the 1954 fiscal year. (See page 96). The President inducts Messrs. Concepcion and Diokno into office as associate justices of the Supreme Court, taking advantage of the occasion to say that the Supreme Court “saved democracy in the Philippines by its vigorous decisions on important cases.” At a ceremony in Malacanang, the President presents Spanish Ambassador Antonio Gullon Gomez with a bound set of reproductions of the Rizal documents given to the Philippines last year by the Spanish Minister of External Affairs, Alberto Martin Artajo. The President is informed by B. G. Gaston, Acting General Man ager cf the LASEDECO that some 300 settlers and their families to talling some 1200 people who fled from the rat-infested areas in Marbel and Takurong, Cotabato, have been transferred tc Wao, Lanao. Feb. 10 — The Peace and Amelioration Fund Commission holds its first meeting and discusses plans to raise Pl,000,000 this year to be used for the purchase of loose fire-arms and for other purposes connected with the campaign against dissidents and subversive organizations. Feb. 11—The President meets with the reconstituted Council of State in its first meeting at which agreement is reached on a number of matters including the need of expanding and improving the domestic operations of the Philippine Air Lines, Inc. The President asks the Council to study the question of PAL’s international operations, the continuation of which, he states, would require the immediate acquisition of four new DC-7 planes costing a total of Pl'0,000,000; he points out also that with the general conversion to jet planes, PAL would need around P30,000,000 in from five to ten years; PAL is al ready under obligation to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for P3,200,000 and to the Philippine National Bank for P3,000,000; the Government has been subsidizing the international operations by paying air-mail rate® of Pl per mile, which represents an annual cost to the Bureau of Posts of P3,000,000, and may rise to P4,000,000 if the rate cf Pl.25, proposed by PAL, is adopted; on the other side of the ledger, the President states, is the fact that “PAL’s international arm, by virtue of its efficiency, quality of service, and safety record, has brought prestige and honor to the Philippines; it has been a source of pride to Filipinos at home and abroad.” The Council cf State agrees on a second matter, that the National Rice and Corn Corporation should be authorized to undertake a large-scale buying of palay, the President appointing a committee of three (NARIC General Manager Chioco, Secretary of Finance Jaime Hernandez, and Budget Commis sioner Dominador Aytona) to determine the buying price; Chiooo in forms the Council that he has reduced the NARIC personnel drastically to cut expenses and that the Corporation at present has 80,000 cavans of palay and 600,000 cavans of imported rice stored in its warehouses. Feb. 12 — The President receives the preliminary report of the fact-finding committee on the Bureau of Customs, which report recom mends, among other things the immediate liquidation of accounts receivable computed at P2,500,000 with perhaps another Pl,000,000 still to be recorded; the report deplores the faulty procedures which resulted in this accumulation of unpaid and unbilled accounts; the report also criticizes the “totally inadequate” physical facilities of the Bureau and the obsolete customs laws and rules and regulations; it requests immediate aid in the amount of P185.000 for essential in stallations and services in customs houses throughout the country. The President receives a delegation of the Philippine Contractors Association which is holding its eighth annual convention, and mentions to them a P400,000,000 concrete highway construction project and the expected establishment of another cement factory by private interests which, he states, will bring the cost of cement down to less than P2 a bag; he also tells them of government plans for the construction of more practical public markets. The President, in the evening, receives former Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo, who arrived in Manila from the United States earlier in the day. Feb. 13 — The President holds a conference with leaders of Con gress on the proposed reorganization of the government, with a view to simplicity, economy, and efficiency; it is agreed that pending the ap proval by Congress of a reorganization plan, the President proceed within the .powers granted him by existing law. The President nominates Justice J. B. L. Reyes as Presiding Jus tice of the Court of Appeals to replace Justice Pompeyo Diaz, who resigned. Feb. 14 — The President instructs all government officials to “double-check" all orders, directives, instructions, recommendations, etc., purported to be coming from him or from the key-men in Mala canang, as, he states, their names are being used by impersonators; he urges private entities to do the same. Malacanang releases a statement by Col. Osmundo Mondonedo to the effect that he has talked with Casto Alejandrino, “who is cur rently the supremo of the Huks, following persistent overtures for a conference made by the Huk leaders.” He states he met Alejandrino on January 19, about 10 kilometers north of Lucban, and talked with him for two hours, and that the President “has been apprised of all these developments from their inception. . . When the President was informed after the elections that the Huk leaders were persistently seeking to establish contact with his representatives, he authorized me to listen to them. My contact with the Huks has not been terminated.” Feb. 15 — The President inducts into office Valeriano Gatuslao who was designated acting Governor of Negros Occidental. A Malacanang spokesman confirms that top communists have sought to open negotiations, but that it appears from their latest state ments that their “arrogance has r.ot abated” though there is still hope that some of their followers might take the opportunity to return to a peaceful life. A later Malacanang release reveals that the Huk leaders “pro posed” the following: (1) “Freedom of movement for a'l citizens” and (2) “the rescinding of the order outlawing the PKM, the HMB, and all ether organizations under suspicion of being Communist-led.” The Government’s representative rejected this proposal outright, and laid down the following terms: (1) The Huks to lay down their arms at the rate of 20% of all ranks each month; (2) those charged with crimes to stand trial; (3) aid in the re-settlement of those cleared or pardoned. The Huks have been given time up to Monday, February 22, to answer. Feb. 16 — The President announces that the Huks will have until Monday, February 22, to accept the Government’s terms of surrender and that suspension of military operations in the Infanta, Mauban, and Lucban area, ordered about a month age at the time of the meeting of Col. Osmundo Mondonedo and the Huk leader Casto Alejandrino, will remain in force unless the Huks are taking operational advantage of the cease-fire; the President has ordered that a report that the Huks seized two towns in the area be checked. The President confers with NARIC officials and instructs them to continue purchasing palay in order to stabilize the price and bring it within easier reach of consumers of low income; he emphasizes that only honest and efficient employees should be hired; steps will be taken to provide the NARIC with'the necessary funds. Earlier he conferred with Mayor Conrado Estrella, of Rosales, Pangasinan, who reported on a 3-day conference of the mayors of the province held at Lingayen and told him that a resolution had been passed supporting his order to ban the slaughter of carabaos for one year and also another resolution urging him to set a new floor price for rice as current prices are too low to give the farmers a fair return. The President confers with Manila Hotel officials and approves the minimum lease-terms proposed by them. The President certifies to the Court of Industrial Relations th? labor dispute between two labor organizations and the Central Santos Lopez Co. Inc., one of the largest sugar centrals in the Visayas, where a strike was declared on February 11 by the Interisland Labor Organiza tion and the Philippine Labor Union. The President receives Ambassador Jose E. Romero, just returned from London. Feb. 17 — The President pays a surprise visit to Second Military Area headquarters at Camp Vicente Lim, Canlubang, Laguna, and issues a statement that alleged violations by the Huks of the cease-fire agreement “can not be proved” and that the truce will be maintained until the 22nd. The President also visits Camp Eldridge and the College of Agriculture at Los Banos. Feb. 18 — The President visits a number of towns in Nueva Ecija, including Munos, and later tells newsmen that the facilities of the Court of Industrial Relations are inadequate in dealing with tenancy problems and that he will assign one or two of the judges of the Court to Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, and Pampanga to hold spot trials there; he states he will also ask the Secretary of Justice, Pedro Tuason, and the Under-Secretary of Labor, Pantaleon Pelayo, to draft a bill for th? reorganization of the Court. The President instructs the LASEDECO to prosecute to the full extent of the law all delinquent debtors of the corporation; the books show accounts receivable of around P10,000,000, mostly for the sale or lease of farm machinery. Commissioner Sofronio Quimson, of the Civil Affairs Division, Office of the President, releases the recommendations of an 8-man com mittee designated at the Governors’ and Mayors’ Convention held at Malacanang last month, among them the re-establishment of the De partment of the Interior, the amendment cf Executive Order No. 405 to grant the provinces and cities greater autonomy in appointments, budgetting, and fixing salaries, a general standardization of salaries on the basis of income, the abolition of all special funds and their consolida tion into a provincial general fund, and empowerment of governors “to limit the outflow of prime commodities whenever the welfare of the province and of its inhabitants so demands.” Feb. 19 — The President announces the creation of a commission to study ways and means of helping the gold mining industry to be headed by Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources Salvador Araneta and with the following members: Judge John W. Hausscrmenn, Charles B. Foster, Central Bank Governor Miguel Cuademo, Ex-Deputy Governor Alfonso Calalang, Sixto Orosa, Director of Mines Demetrio Andres, Servillano Aquino, Antonio D. Garcia, and labor leader Luis Lardizabal. The Cabinet decides on the automatic retirement of government employees reaching 65 years and the automatic retirement of all such men retained in office by the previous Administration; the Cabinet further decides that in the case of the desired retention of men cf that age for their special qualifications, the Secretary .of the Department concerned should recommend his retention to the President one month before he reaches that age. 95 Feb. 20 — The President inspects the Cebu Portland Cement Company plant at Bacnotan, La Union, and then proceeds to Baguio. On the way he visits the farm of a Siamese farmer, Leejai Kaiankura, married to Filipino woman, who is raising 3 tons of tobacco leaf per hectare, and invites him to visit Malacanang and bring with him sug gestions which might aid other tobacco growers. . The President also revisits San Luis, Pampanga, and expresses great satisfaction with the resettlement program being carried out there, some 2,400 hectares having been already cleared and 36 families having established themselves; he praises Brig. Gen. Alfonso Arellano, Col. Cabal, and the army engineers and trainees engaged in the work. An official reception is held at Malacanang for the members of Congress. Feb. 22 — The President at a conference with the board of directors of the Philippine National Bank states that he is giving the board com plete and absolute discretion in the election of the permanent President of the Bank, in line with his policy of giving the governing bodies of government corporations full powers to conduct their own operations; he states he does not want “rubber-stamp boards.” The President receives and gives a luncheon in honor of Harold E. Stassen, Director of the U. S. Foreign Operations Administration, in Manila for a regional conference of the Mission Directors of various countries in this part of the world; in the afternoon Mr. Stassen delivers a speech at the dedication of Rizal Hall, University of the Philippines, the reconstruction of which was recently completed with FOA assistance and which is to house the Institute of Public Administration, a joint University of the Philippines and University of Michigan enterprise. In the afternoon the President takes a special train for the Clark Field Air Base where he attends the traditional Washington Day dinner and delivers a short address on the policy of his Administration. Feb. 23 — The President holds a breakfast conference with mem bers of the House committee on appropriations during which it was agreed in principle to some cuts in the P668,000,000 budget provided essential government services are not impaired and the barrio improve ment program and other election commitments of the Administration are not hampered. The President confers with the special House amnesty committee and agreement is reached on a full-force campaign against the Huks, although the way will be left open to individual surrenders; the barrio improvement program will be intensified to expose the falsity of Huk propaganda. The President in a conference with tobacco planters urges a largescale production of Virginia tobacco of which the country is at present importing 11,000,000 pounds a year at a cost of around 59,000,000; the Philippines is now producing 3,000,000 annually. The President approves the request of General Manager Eduardo Taylor of the Cebu Portland Cement Company for a leave of absence pending the result of an investigation of charges presented against him “for the satisfaction of any interested party who may feel that my presence can unduly influence the result of the investigation.” "I am confident,” states Mr. Taylor, “that the charges against me will be proved to be without merit and I am more eager than my accusers that this case be brought to a speedy conclusion.” The President issues an evening announcement of the appointment of former Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo as “special and personal representative of the President”, with the personal rank of Ambassador; the appointment was made— “In view of the urgency indicated by press reports today of activities of the United States Congress in connection with Philippine affairs. . . It was indicated that the appointment entails assignment to specific missions having to do with matters currently under negotiation between the Philippines and the United States; among these, the proposals for the revision of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946, and the Rogers Act which concerns veterans' benefits. . . In his letter of instructions, President Magsaysay said that he assumed IGeneral Romulo’s Iwillingness to underThe following is the summary statement of the budget for the fiscal year 1955 compared with the budget for the fiscal year 1954: BALANCED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1955 F. Y. 1955 F. Y. 1954 INCOME— Proposed Authorized Ordinary........................................................ Extraordinary............................................... P666,748,050.00 1,791,000.00 P557.827,905.00 1,790,600.00 Total Income............................... P668.539.050.00 P559.618,505.00 EXPENDITURES— Ordinary operating expenses..................... Fixed expenditures...................................... Extraordinary expenditures...................... 444,391,545.00 68,152,760.00 101,725,555.00 416,592,155.00 65,285,140.00 92,458,922.16 General Appropriations..................... P614,269,860.00 P574.336,217.16 Public Works Funds................................... Counterpart Fund (Special a/c).............. Others............................................................ Deficiency appropriation for operations and maintenance of 3,000 classes......................... 15,000,000.00 32,000,000.00 17,000,000.00 51,893,500.00 39,824,907.90 94,803,820.28 5,426,314.00 678,269,860.00 766,284,759.34 Less—appropriations not programmed for expenditure during the fiscal year................ 10,000,000.00 126,368,105.85 Total expenditures.............................. 668,269,860.00 639,916,653.49 EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EX PENDITURES....................................... P 269.190.00 (P80.298.148.49) take these special duties as a civic responsibility. In declining appointment to any position in the regular government service, Genetai Romulo had referred Id fiis earlier public commitment not to seek or accept pablfe * <rtfiCe. 'Tho^aasighmen^ Feb. 24 — Anndiinced that the President, 3ufferingcfoem»a slight fever caused-by a throat-infection, left Manila last night aboard tho Pagasa for Zambales where he was expected to stay for a few. days of rest. « * . . ■ * The President in a communication-sent to the Court of * Industrial Relations certifies to the existence of a Istrike declared bythe Philippine Marine Radio Officers Association which threatens to paralyze the entire coastwise shipping trade and requests the Court to bring about an immediate settlement; the strike was declared last November against ten local shipping companies. The Department of Foreign Affairs announces that 23 Chinese nationals, ordered deported by the President for various offenses, left the Philippines today on two Philippine Army planes for Taipei. “Continued cooperation between the Foreign Office and the Chinese Embassy is expected to enable the Philippine Government to proceed with the deportation of over 80 more presidential deportees who are now confined either at the Bureau of Immigration detention station or in the New Bilibid Prison at Muntinglupa." Feb. 25 — The President, after reading a news report of a plague which is killing rats in large numbers in South Africa, directs Dr. Walfrido de Leon, Chief Pathologist of the Government, to leave immediate ly for South Africa, to investigate the matter, or send some competent man in his place if he is unable to make the trip. Feb. 26 — The President receives an Arbor Day gift of port cedar and ponderosa pine seedlings from the Oregon State Forest Nursery and they are turned over the Bureau of Forestry for planting. Feb. 27 — Ambassador Romulo, accompanied by Mrs. Romulo, leaves for the United States. It is reported that Romulo will have his office at the Philippine Embassy in Washington and that no regular Ambassador will be appointed for some time, the Embassy to be under a charge d’affaires. The President proclaims a state of emergency in Cotabato because of the plague of rats; under the proclamation the prices of prime com modities will be controlled. A bill appropriating P2,000,000 to combat the rat infestation, just passed by Congress, will be signed by the Pres ident on Monday, it is announced. The President also signs a procla mation reserving some 27,000 hectares of the public domain for the EDCOR for distribution to ex-servicemen. PROPOSED GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES Fiscal Year 1955 Ordinary Senate...................................... P (a) Senate Electoral Tri House of Representatives... Office of the President......... Office of the Vice-President Dept, of Foreign Affairs.... Dept, of Finance................... Dept, of Justice..................... Dept, of Agriculture and Natural Resources........... Dept, of Public Works and Communications............... Dept, of Education............... Dept, of Labor...................... Dept, of National Defense . Dept, of Health..................... Dept, of Commerce and In Office of Economic CoordiGeneral Auding Office.......... University of the PhilPhilippine Normal College. . Central Luzon Agricultural Philippine College of ComMindanao Agricultural ColCommission on Elections. . . Supreme Court of the PhilCourt of Appeals................. Counterpart Funds............... Contingent Fund.................. Public Works Funds............ Counterpart Fund (Special Account)............................. Others...................................... 2,412,800.00 134,660.00 4,921,780.00 10,172,055.00 80,420.00 5,856,580.00 10,922,170.00 10,761,160.00 10,936,250.00 19,192,320.00 174,742,470.00 1,892,100.00 155,407,600.00 22,036,180.00 4,101,900.00 850,570.00 1,950,890.00 5,252,670.00 442,420.00 315,500.00 100,200.00 254,010.00 154,800.00 769,980.00 730.060.00 Fixed Expenditures Extraordinary P 91,000.00 189,000.00 1,436,050.00 2,300.00 136,000.00 55,372,450.00 582,000.00 399,630.00 843,000.00 7,566,050.00 64,600.00 374,200.00 589,800.00 221,000.00 569,650.00 600,000.00 6,000,000.00 45,000.00 26,670,530.00 150,000.00 130,580.00 89,000.00 8,600.00 28,000.00 29,500.00 57,690,375.00 10,000,000.00 32,000,000.00 17,000,000.00 Less: Appropriations programmed for penditure during fiscal year............ P444,391,545.00 P 68,152,760.00 P150.725.555.00 10,000,000.00 TOTALS................ P444.391.54S.00 P 68,152,760.00 P140,725,555.00 PUBLIC WORKS For new public works projects.................................................... f 15,000,000,00 Total expenditures................................................................................ .. P668,269,860.00 Excess of receipts over expenditures................................................... 269,190.00 Add—Surplus or (deficit) at the beginning of the year............... (205,169,620.00) Deficit at the end of the year........................................................ (P204.900.430.00) 96