Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-12-06

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| paragraphs.
The expenditures by requisition under the
| direction of the War Department during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, were as fol
| lows:
Salaries, contingent expenses and
Military establishment Army "''''''' IL
and Military Academy. ... 1880 9T6 IL
| Public works, including river and
harbor improvements. ........ 1869 33T 81
miscellaneous objects. ............. 4,154,736 So
and the sum of Sl,e6s, Isl 80 was credited un-
der the act of March 8, 1879 go Statutes, 420),
| to the subsidized Pacific railroads. for trans
portation services rendered the War Depart
ment during the fiscal year 1888, and prior
years.
The appropriations for the fiscal year 1884
are as follows:
Salaries, contingent expenses,
Miiit ana postage 2l24S. III f6
N aifftsfy Tcademy. s4951, ,557 10
Publfc works. .....;................ 1895, ,34 so
Miscellaneous objects, including
Signal Service. ce.................. 2641 1928 or
Total. ....... $3l 1855, ,a52 O3
Ihe estimates FOR the fiscal year ending
June 81, 1885, as revised by me are as follows:
Salaries, contingent expenses,
and postage, including one
third of the estimate of the
superintendent of the State,
War, and Navy Department
Military establishment Army ''''' -
and Military Academy. .. 27,I36, ,l52 Al
Public works, including river and
harbor improvements. ..... 100000 62
Miscellaneous objects, including
Signal Service. 3,e7s,9ss AZ
41,tSsO
The principal items of increase of the ,s esti. j.
mates for salaries over the appropriations for
tne present nscal year are for two clerks and
three laborers in the Office of the Secretary
nifty additional clerks in the Signal Office,
clerks in the Bureau of Military Justice An
increase of compensation Is again recon-
mended for the chief clerk disbursing clerk
chiefs of divisions, and stenographer in the
office of the Secretary, and it is thought emf
nnently just that these officers should receive
the moderate compensation requested for the
responsible and arduous duties per-
clerks and three laborers for the office
of the Secretary of War are required
for the stationery division, the division
OF miscellaneous supplies, and the library.
A large reduction has been made in purchas-
ing the stationery and supplies required for
this office and the bureaus Of the department
by making contracts with the lowest bidder
upon each article, The distribution of the
official records of the rebellion, devolved upon
the Secretary's office by the act of August I,
1882, (22 Statutes, 800, has also greatly in
creased the labor of the office, particularly of
Iue llDTdFldu, WHO QtlIlnE the past year has
received 10000 volumes of these records, and
has mailed to separate addresses over 10000
volumes, keeping record of each volume SO
sent.
The appropriations for the support of the
Signal Service for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1883, have been found insufficient, and esti-
mates will be submitted to supply the de-
hciencies. Some difficulty was experienced
in carrying out the provisions of the act of
August 7, 1882 az Statutes, 3l9), which limited
the expenditures to 100000 from appropri-
ations for support Of the army, in addition to
the specific appropriations for that service
Thirty-eight days of the fiscal year had al
ready expired, and, although the best efforts
or the department were exercised to keep the
expenditures within the limit of the appro-
priations, its endeavors were not completely
successful y
Of the army the Secretary says: The report
est in being the last annual report that GEN.
eral Sherman will make. At his own request
he has been relieved from the command of the
army, preparatory to his retirement from ac-
tive service under the act of 1882 He has
therefore thought it best to refrain from
making any new recommendations in his re-
port, leaving that duty to his successor in the
command of the army, Lieutenant General
Sheridan. He, however, calls attention
to and renews former recommends
tion that new organization be adopted
for the regiments of infantry so that
each shall be composed of twelve COM
panies, making three battalions of four COM
panies each, each company having one hun
these battalions shall be maintained on a per-
s. Z Id