New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-06
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF TIE UNITED STATES
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Rstlmates Of the Departments.
fFtom the st. Louis Democrat
WAsHINGroN, December 1.-The follow
ing are the annual estimates so far as fur
nished to the chairman Of the Committee on
Approximations: The estimates for the War
Department, as made up ut the different
bureaus, amounted to 81, 785, ABS y. Sec
rotary Belknap reduced these bureau esti-
for the current year were $29, 32l 1867 o.
The reduction made by the Secretary is
principally owing to his estimating for
average regiments and not for full regiments.
The act Of July Is, 1870, limits the number
of enlisted men to thirty thousand, contem-
plating, probably, full and not skeleton
The foregoing estimates for the War De-
partmcnt include the Military Academy, for
which $3l4, 1863 20 was appropriated for the
current year by separate bill.
The War Department also estimates to
meet special acts of Congress, such as that
providing for reports upon the weather OBJ
servations and storm signals, that for the
support Of Bureau Of Freedmen and Refu-
gees, and that for refunding to States their
expenses incurred in raising volunteers, etc.,
$685., ISL. Some of these items have here
tOfore been known as indefinite, but are now
by act Of July IL, 1870, specially estimated
for.
The War Department also asks for fortif-
cations and other works Of military defense,
geographical surveys, ETC., $685., 200; for
rivers and harbors, $685., $50; for public
Columbia, ISL $780, for Washington aque-
duet, $4,903, 33O-these last four items
amounting to $l3, CSC, 139.
The Navy Department estimates, after
revision by Secretary Robson, amount to
$50, 683 ,3l7 II. The amount appropriated
for the navy for the current year was 49,
26O, go %, which amount was exclusive of
the sum for navy yards Of $664, 900. This
appropriation is included in the above
estimates.
The Navy Department also asks an ap-'
preparation Of $l,344, 494, to meet the de-
fciency for the current year, mostly in the
bureau Of provisions and clothing.
The Pension Office asks $50, OOO, 900, if the
unexpended balances which are peculiar
here can be used; otherwise it will require
$4,000, 900, and the same amount appro-
priated for the current year.
The amount asked for legislative; execu-
tive and Judiciary departments, as revised
at the Treasury Department, is go, 848, 95l /.
"a. The amount appropriated for the eur
rent year was ~, 489, 326 81, of which the
estimate for the patent Office is $50, $50,
and for agricultural department s229, 24O.
Amounts to be required under title of
|'sundry civil services" it is impossible to es-
innate ut present with any degree of accu-
racy.
The estimates for the pOstofice depart
ment may be lapproximated from a state
ment given in the report today. The Post
master General estimates that deficiency for
the year ending June 30, 1870, will be 49,
969, 38S, to which must be added at least the
amount now annually appropriated for sub
sides @725, 900. The deficiency appropria-
ton for the current year was S3,740,0OO.
All the foreign estimates are in strict con-
formity with the requirements of the law of
July H. 1870, sections five, six and seven,
and are exclusive OF any uncxpended bal
ances. This fact should be kept in mind.
The estimates include NO additional sums
such a. have formerly been covered under |
the heads of balances available" or "unex-
pended balances"
These estimates made at the Departments !
have since been subjected to a revision and |
reduction in the Treasury Department, and |
it is given out by the Secretary that the |
total estimates for the next fiscal year will |
be two hundred and eighty millions, exclr- |
sive Of all balances 0ffOrmer appropriations, |
these having reverted to the general treas |
ury under the provisions heretofore referred |
to of the act OF July IL, 1870.
Some Of the statisticians of the Treasury |
Department have been trying to figure out |
why it is that appropriations for the civil |
service so invariably run short
1t has been found that in the consular |
branch alone the government loses hundreds |
of thousands of dollars annually, by reason
OF the frequent changes of consuls and |
consular agents. These changes have been |
tratiOns than any before. Thus it is rule |
when a new consul ia anDOiufn1 70 a11ovv