Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-11

A Balance of Ss,iO7,4o1.35 m the Navy
DEPARTMENT..

Department.
wAsnINeyeN,: b. c., December 4-Thc
amount bEspptopriations applicable to
the current expenses of the first six
months ofthe fiscal year was S7,255, 2S3 4S.
the amount for the last six months of said
year endingy June 80, 1885, $3.50, 253 50,
making thefotal amount 13,4s5, 537 80, in
which is INCLUDED S47 1862 transferred from
navy yard Brooklyn, n. Y, 1884, to that
appropriation 1885 per appropriation war
rant No. 1888, $4,000 from machinery
double turreted monitors, indefinite, to
steam engineering, 1885, per appropria-
ton warrant No. $780, and S2,19l.ST pay
miscellaneous 1885, appropriated to sup
ply deficiencies for said fiscal year per
appropriation warrant No. 39l.
There was balance on hand at the
commencement of the fiscal year on ac-
count of pay of the navy and pay of the
marine corps of s2,407 ,49l .35 The total
gross amount, therefore, which was avail
able for the year was Sl5, 1913 02S.6S, There
should, however, be deducted from this
amount the sum of S59,Sl3, appropriated
for the naval asylum as that sum was
brought to the credit of the asylum Feb
ruary %, 1885, by requistion in its favor,
and is included in the exhibit of eXpendl-
lures chargeable to navy appropriations
/
from the amount drawn in that month,
also 81 ,4O7 ,212 81 due to general account of
advances, which leaves a balance of Sl4,-
42j 942 81 available for the year, being
81 ,5O4 ,S2S % less than the amount avail
able for the fiscal year ending June
| 30, 1854.
The net amount drawn from the treasu
ry by warrant during the last fiscal year
was Sl3, 331 ,S6Ti2, as shown by the books
of the department, which leaves balance
undrawn of 81 ,0SS, 5000 to this should he
added the net amount uneXpended in the
hands of pay officers on said June 80, lSSj
| as,shoWn by the Office of the fourth audi
| tor, 81 2G5, 51O.64, leaves an aggregate
| balance uneXpended of 1913 3, G4513, which
stood to the credit of the department at
the beginning Of the present fiscal year.
/ That is, the total net expenditure for the
/ fiscal year ending June 80, 1883, was that
much less than the appropriations. The
annexed table shows the amount of eN-
! penditures by warrant and the amount re.
| funded, as well also as that expended
from the close of the year to November
|, 1855.
The appropriations available for the
present fiscal year, commencing July l.
1850, are Sl3 800, 1O4 95. The amount drawn
by warrant from the treasury from july /
1888, to November l,lSS5, deducting that
refunded, is S4,2S5, 30 The amount
drawn by warrant during the same perlOo
of last year was -, 3S3, PA %.
The amount of appropriations applica
bic to the current expenses OF the tlSca
year ending, June 30, 1850, was Sl3,iS5,
531.33
The squadrons and their commander.
are specified reports are given of TIA,
chiefs of bureaus of yards and docks
equipment and recruiting, navigation
ordnance, construction and repair, steam
engineering medicine and surgery marine
corps, photographic office, naval academy
= observatory and war college. The est
mates for the navy for the fiscal year end
, ing June 30, 1887, amount to $50, l04 ,695 II
in which sum are embraced estimates 10
new objects, not those ordinarily for tn
service, amounting to Sl6,O69, 43O2i, leaV
ing for the customary purpose of the sci
vice Sl9034, 1+i.9l. They embrace for III
? crease of the navy SlO, DOB 10 fOrthe com
pletion and. armament of the double-tul
reted monitors 81 POP .656 and for publ
+ works and improvements at the yards an
| statlops 81 236S. 331 Il.
Upon my accession to Office the depart
i ment had in process of construction, undo
contract with Mr.. John Roach, three moo
+ ern steel cruisers and one despatch boa
: They constituted the first attempt of tn
n navy department for many years to COZ
struct a war vessel up to the modern IT
a qure,nents. They should be looked upO
t and judged as such, AS such they VII
f | trust, he found in the main creditabe
q those who have been engaged in thei
/ creation. They will certainly, if the
= have been well built, be an improvement
!. upon the previous work of the departmer
y but it is not profitable to consider them q
4 standards of excellence for future worl
a nor was it to be expected that they wOul
a be.
y The rewards which the service afford
at the present time for the more merltor
4 Gus officers are inadequate. | common
q to your attention the considerations az
4
), the service by my predecessor i'll Office
his annual reports OF 1852 and lSSi.
- \ most intelligent effort has been mac
Il by Congress within the last three years
+ gather information upon the subjects
l., heavy ordnance and war ships, aud a.
II the best method Of developing IN IN
r United States the industries cOnnectt
Il Herewith. The elaborate aud most vail
- able Investigations of the gun fOundl
!, board, and the more recent ones of Il
: committees OF the two houses and Of II
q Notifications board in the present yea
n will place the country in the possession
l. the latest information, and, ! doubt no
.r mark an era in the history OF legislutiC
\ upon these subjects Cruising ships, HOY
% ever, we must have, unless the policy
4. continuing repairs upon worthless ships
n to continue, or unless we are to aband(
~ the national duty of atiordiug the securi
q and protection OF our presence and pow
IS throughout the world wherever our pc
V pie sOjourn.
d The organization of the department
II dwelt upon at length, and Mr.. Whitney
a. idea of its reconstruction, and suggestion
10 for the removal of existing difficulties III
N drawbacks, constitute the bulk Of the l
IS port
II
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