Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-28
WASHINGTON.
,aoi,I Corre,pondence Of the LrDeER.l

1UUNNAL
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The sun
dry civil appropriation bill just re-
ported to the house, contains, as will be
seen from the subjoined figures, an
amout of $4O,00O for continuing work
on the Memphis custom house. The
bill recommends an aggregate appro-
priation of $50, 1887, while the es-
Inmates submitted to the committee
amounted to s24, Despite
this, the present bill exceeds the
amount appropriated for 1880
by 1885, 953,47. This bill,
which, is for the fiscal year
beginning July LIST, 1880, and ending
June Both. 1881, recommends among
the new items, the following apprO-
priations:
To continue the work upon the
Washington monument, $l50,000 (the
estimates submitted for the compile
ton of the monument are $677 900,
the work to require four years.; for
the Mississippi river commission, $780,
900; for the motive water power, $780,
900; for the continuation of ethnologi-
cal researches under the direction Of
the Smithonian institute, $4,000; for
the purchase of the Confederate post
office records, $4,000, under the direc-
ton of the treasury department. For
public buildings an aggregate appro-
%priatlon of $2.S46,543.14 is recon-
mended, including appropriations for
new buildings and for con-
tinuing work upon those already in
course of erection, as follows: Bos-
ton, Mass, $780, 900; Cincinnati, o.,
S350,0OO; Philadelphia, S350,0O0; Al
bany, N. Y, 100000; Hartford, Conn,
49, 600; Fall River, Mass, $4,000;
Harrisburg, Penn, $4,000; Nash
vile, Tenn, $40 900; Pittsburg, Pa,
$75, 900; St. Louis, Mo-, $350,000;
Utica, n. Y, 49, 600; Tope-
ka, Kan, $4,000; San Francisco,
S35, 900; Memphis, Tenn, $4,000;
New Orleans, $4,000; Atlanta, Ca,
S15, 900; Evansville, Ind, $4,000;
Kansas City, $25, 900; Little Rock,
Ark, $500 Austin, Texas, $4,000;
continuing work upon the new war,
navy, and state department buildings
at Washington, $450,000; other build
ings at Washington, $2Ol, 54314.
Among the other prominent items
Of the bill are these: To meet the
expenses of enumeration and compi-
lation attendant upon the taking of
the tenth census, $2,S75,000; for pub
lie printing and binding, 81, 800, 1000;
(i%ncluding $750,0O0 for the proceed
ings and debates of congress); for
expenses Of engraving and printing
government notes, bonds, stamps, &C.,
$4,000; to enable the secretary of
the treasury to provide suitqble ac-
commodations for the storage of coin,
S100, 900; for current expenses of the
government hospital for insane, $685.
900; Smithsonian institute preserya-
ton of collections, $50, for the
completion Of the work of the entumo-
logical commission ininvestigation of
the grasshopper and cotton worm,
5000 for construction and repairs
at the different navy yards and sta
tions, 100000. The principal items
for defraying the expenses of the su-
preme, circuit and district courts OF
the United States are separated and
itemized as follows: For payment Of
district attorneys and their assistants,
$350,000; for fees of clerks, $3.50, 600;
for fees of United States commission
ers, S14O,0OO for fees of jurors, $lOO,-
900; for fees Of witnesses, $550,000; for
support Of United States prisoners,
500, goo; for rent Of United States
court rooms, $4,000; for expenses Of
bailiffs and other miscellaneous expen-
ses, $500, 000-in all $2,175,000.
The amount to be appropriated for
the payment Of United States marshals
is left blank as reported to the house,
but will be inserted hereafter.
SALTUs MoHEGAN.