The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-12
THE ESTIMATES FOR 1898.
zHEY SHOW A PR0sPECT1VE DEEI-
CHENEY OF OYER $4,000, 600

1HEY SHOW A PROSPECTIVE DEF.
CI8SoY OF OYER $sf,0oo,0oO.
Rut These Estimates no Not Iseiude the
$4,000, 900 Estimated for Rivers and
Rarsors. OF which Over s1l ,oee.eeo d
Already Contr.ctea for. Nor the % .oeOs-
go Tor Pebble Buiidings. asd Leave
Nothing for Deaciescies which MAY
Arise and Miscellaneous Appropriation
for which No Estinntes Arc Made.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1L-In his annual report
Secretary Foster calculated that the revenues
for the coming fiscal year from all sources will
aggregate S445. 900. 900. while the sum total Of
estimated expenditures for tho public service.
according to the Presidents message and the
Secretarys report, is $4So. $4,000
II, therefore. Congress should appropriate
the public money to tho extent asked for In the
estimates. there would DO prospective
deficiency OF $34.OOO.OOO. In addition to
whatever actual deficiency may al
ready exist. The requirements OF the
sinking fund alone for the fiscal year 1893
will reach $49.OO0OO0. II these requirements
should DO suspended. and to suspend them
would be technically to Violate law and Gus
tom. then there would be an apparent surplus
Of S14.000.0O0 Of revenues over the estimated
expenditures. barring. OF course. whatever de-
flciency there may be now.
But the estimates for the fiscal year 1893 do
not include dollar for river and harbor work.
upon which the chief OF engineers estimates
the next fiscal year the aggregate sum
Of S5S. O64 $50. It should DO noted that In the
official book OF estimates. which has at last
been published and promulgated. the Score.
tary Of the Treasury does not recommend any
thing whatever for these improvements. He
contents himself with merely setting down the
items furnished by the chief OF engineers as
a statement" not an estimate. with an ex.
planatory note that the statement is not fur
nished as part Of the annual estimate
for the public service required by the
act of March 3. 1875. to be fur
nished by the Secretary Of War to
the Secretary OF the Treasury. but is inserted
as q convenient and customary summary OF
items taken from the annual report Of the
chief OF engineers for the fiscal year. showing.
under the provisions Of the act Of Congress
approved March 2. 1857. the amount that can
be proatably expended in the next fiscal year
on each Of the works mentioned" Among the
800 odd items embraced in this statement"
Of interest to New York and her near neigh
bcrs are these:
NsM Yo East
Y9a. sSS GOO; Great Cnassy River Ss cog: Harlem
.as Bower ss
River gap 100 ere.x water az Rouse Point Lake
]: ssg siScso Ss;sss sssiIss,:
ssSo 4 s sSsS
sS 0tk ns ss
&c., S.eos seFS
$50; harbor at saueert,es $500; Tsna wanda har.
sns Kill .na
5 s..s S'pSs
S%s. ssas a.'ss? a.
ss ss:Sse :. Ssss EssT ..oSoo Fl.
ssreoE a Five HsIs River, Conn. 1000 hsiSor q
s.:
sas frGSs and Browns
j. That the Chief Of. Engineers and the War
With this style Of presenting their estimates
ee taken for GRANTED. but the styie adopted TED
was absolutely necessary. as will clearly ap-
:ontracts to be entered into Tor Certain river
IT sxnF x aa total
liso authorized the construction Of certain
public buildings at a cost OF more than ST. |
ss thssfsr
s4sas Ss E 5
W. and * the LIABILITY p JUDGMENT. ana with
Will have either to suspend their instruction
= else repeal the laws authoriztns them, In
Ss Fl th the to sy Rs
90. and. aithclgh only s250,000 was appro-
}rtated. authority was granted to contract for |
70 money is recommended toward 1t for the |
coming fiscal year..
$50 Is reeommended to Be applied to o liz
%sSs$dy susSss;S% S,sse%
PRISONS; although an expenditure Of 81. 100000
ase Of the Mint. and expenditure Of si.e6D..
20 10000 appase1t DEFICIENCY mentioned
royements. q which the aggregate pledged
ega fs xe 81
Ion deficit Of over s53. 900. 900: and with the
gs n s%. q the sinking fund deficit Of
deficiencies that may arise during the year
not the arc nst sstm 81 the or
sunlly average $s.O0O.OO0 at each long SEES
ion q Congress: and It also leaves nothing to
'hiSh Congress may make on its own respon-
lbility In the way Of new public buildings or
bout 1O.OOO.O00 at each long session for sew
raj Congresses past o The Treasury Depart
lent estimates $l.642OOO for lighthouses. for
hitch It does not include In the sum total OF
submitted to Congress.
lot Much Choice Between Moran and Levy,
That the English fighters were over here to