St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-14
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
a Careful Estimate Shows That Congress
Will Dole Out Less Money This Year
Than Usual.
At Least 1000 Persons Expected to At
tend the Reception Of the President
and Mrs. Cleveland.
How the Cincinnati Commercial Ga.
zette Got Il Libel Suit--A Labor
Sermon in tho Street.
Mrs. Samuel L. Vining to Receive
$1,OOO.OOO Prom the Govern
ment--Other News.
Grand Total of Appropriations.

Grand Total of Appropriations.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-All the APP
preparation bills, with one or two excep-
lions, have now taken shape, so that the
grand total of appropriations this season
can be Appropriated. The grand total is
likely to be under, rather than over, that
OF recent congresses. One or two items
are taken into consideration which were
not provided for in the last congress. For
instance, this year there is river and har-
Dor bill. which adds SIS, 600, 900 to the list.
While there is an increase in the postoffice
bill OF about million and half dollars,
the army bill is less than it was last season
by $1,600,00 The consular and
diplomatic bill is slightly increased, and
may be increased further before it is sent
to the senate. The legislative bill shows a
considerable increase, but at the hands of
the house will receive considerable pruning.
The uncertain item this year is the miscel-
laneous appropriations. Last year these
amounted to 50, 10000 If the Blair bill
should pass this year, making draft of
$1,000, 600 annually upon the treasury, this
item would Of course be very largely in
creased. Last year the grand total was
$217, 5S1, 900. For the first session Of the
forty-eighth congress it was S193, sol, 600,
which included S13, 900, 600 river and har-
Dor bill and miscellaneous appropriations
five times what they were in the preceding
session, at the close of the forty-seventh
congress. Yet the grand total in 1884 at
the close of the forty-seventh congress
was $3.50, 100000, considerably beyond
what it will be this year.
COL. MORRISON.
in speaking of the appropriations, said to
day:
with few exceptions the bills run about as
they did last year, but there has been gen.
eral deduction all along the line. The legisla-
tive bill, taken together with the urgent de-
ficiency and the increase in the general de-
ficiency bill, presents the greatest increase.
The army bill is less, the postoffice bill is not
nearly as large as it might reasonably have
been expected to be, and of course we have
the S15,OO0,O00 item for rivers and harbors.''
Mr.. Morrison, is this general deduction
due to the rules proposed by yourself at the
beginning of the session.
mo; the rules had nothing to do with it.
The reduction is due simply to the vigilance
OF the Democratic leaders of the house and
the general policy on that side to keep ex-
penses down."
Mr.. Holman, who is the great objector
ON the appropriations committee, said:
If the senate will be forbearing we will
present grand total considerably under
that of styear. We do not mean to starve
any branch of the government, but we have
steadily opposed allowing any unnecessary
expense, and 1 think that fewer steals have
got past congress this session than for years
We shall go back to our homes after the adj
journment and be able to say that we have
saved the government many millions Of dol
lars and cut the expenses down only where
they ought to be.