The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-03-29
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From The New York Tribuusj
The appropriations voted by the second
session OF the 39th Congress TO pay for
the current expenses of the Govern.
ment during tho coming year, and to sup.
ply the deficiencies of the last fiscal period,
amount TO the pretty little sWm Of Sl44 Tg3-
037 81. The army takes S23, ,3Sl ,654 tho
navy, sic I93, ,24A : Mr.. Seward receives
two allowances OF $50, 900 each for hiR Ata
llntic cable bills aud tho PostIuas ster-(sen-
oral gets $4,000 worth OF twine. The
Military Academy at West Point is very
literally provided Tor, at an expense Of
S26S,9l3, of which that eininently useless
body the Beard OF Visitors, consume SIS 900,
and another S5, 900 is applied to any enlarge.
mcnt OF the cadets laundry, which we
should think ought to he big enough now
To keep that dapper little company Of sol.
ditrs as clean as a row Of new pins.
The printing of our government money
costs 800, 900 the management Of the loans
aud notes cannot be effected for less than
81 COO, 900 and for the detection of coun-
lorlcits we havea bill of Sl5O,000. Our
expensive old friend Pub. Doc. dances in
to the tune of 81, 60 1893, of itself. Next
to the salary of Andrew Johnson, the charge
under which il stiikes us We get the poor
est equivalent for our money, is that Il
S3l4 ,6y5 for the department Of agricul-
tdre The Purchase aud distribution Of
9 'eds which uobo ly wants coat $4,000,
and the botanical garden, where MIR. Coms
missioner Newland raises hot-house flowers
for Congress- is su!pt rted at All outlay OF
Sl0,675. Ten thousand dollars for bou.
! quetsi But after all that is no; worse than
the " legislative" appropriation Of SlQ,230
! Tor horses and carriages-a little bit OF lax
! I.,A., l.. a. =. 4. H..
common council OF New York were unri.
valod. -tH. 5...r.t
The most bewldering thing of oil is the
list of appropriations for keeping our pub.
lie Offices warm. Here, for example, we
have $4,000 for heating the supreme court
room; $1,000 for heating the cadets mesa.
! room at West Point $4,000 for heating
and vcn,ilatiug their barracks $40 900
| worth of heating apparatus for public
| buildings; 81 900 worth of ditto for the lie
brary OF Congress S5 900 worth of fuel for
the White House; $4,000 worth Of fuel
and lights for Congress; $500 for heating
the Capitol $1,000 Tor fuel again at the
White House and Capitol. How in the
world it is possible in single winter TO
consume such enormous quantities of coal
IL problem quite beyond our compre chen.
sion. There il an item for lighting tho Cap.
| itol and White House, besides which the
illuminatian Of the Rotunda by electricity
involves an annual expense of $4,000, and
the government has to pay an electrician
81 200a year to attend to it. f.....t ~
The standing and familiar outrage of I II,
which comes next to pub. doc in atrocity
is the appropriation for the Congressional
Glote. On this costly luxury the Senate
expends no less than SS5 ,l57, and the houss
$l20,s92-a grand total Of S206.049. But
this swindls is to be stopped, Congress hav'
ing already given notice of tts intention to
break off the contract with the proprietors
of that concern as soon as the two years
warning which they az required to allow
have expired.