Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-16

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paper on which internal revenue stamps
are printed costs $4,000 a year. Dis
tinctive paper for government securities
costs $40,0 900.
Three items, which show Uncle Sans
Importance rs Il landlords: Custodians and
j%anitors for buildings under control of the
treasury department., outside the District
of Columbia, 1926, 900; furniture and re-
pairs, 5000. 600: fuel, lights and water.
S775,O OO.
A few interesting items: Educating chill
dren of Alaska, $50, 1000; repairs of Capitol,
O,OOO; lighting Capitol grounds, $40, 600;
taking and compiling eleventh census,
1000, 600; new pavement in front of execu-
tive mansion, $780,; care, repair and re-
furnishing White House, expended under
direction of the president, sS5 600: lighting
the White House, $4,000; care of Washing
ton monument, $4,000: national ceme-
t~eries, sos, 600; to continue work of fur
nishing headstones for unmarked graves
of Union soldiers, $4,000; artificial limbs,
$2OO, 600; publication of official records of
war, $235 600; national soldiers homes.
S2,947, 900.
Uncle Sans courts cost him a good deal
of money: Marshals and their deputies,
$685. 900; district attorneys, $3.50, 900; fees of
clerks, S175 ,000; fees of commissioners,
$10O, 600; jurors, $3.50, 900; witnesses, 81 ,000,-
600; support of prisoners, 1915, 600; bailiffs,
S135 600; stenographers, etc., $500 0 in
all
United States courts. .................. S3,739, lW
Some more items: Continuing work on
new library of congress, 100000 public
printing and binding, $2,61O, 600; construc-
ton and enlargement of military posts,
S745 900; new Dad in Yellowstone park,
$4,000; improving harbor at Philadelphia,
100000; Baltimore, sl5l 900; Galveston,
5000, 900; St. Mary's River canal, 5000, 600.
and Hay Lake channel, $780, 900.
Total sundry civil list. ............. SS37 ,41O,3G3
Evidence of the growing Importance of
the American. navy is found in the fact
that for the first time perhaps in the his
tory of the government the sum spent
this year on the navy will exceed the cost
of the army. Uncle Sam is now spending
more than two and a half million dollars a
month on his naval establishment, and the
chances are that in the near future he will
find it necessary to spend much more.
Seven and Il half millions go to pay the
officers and sailors. Bureau of ordnance,
repairs, practice, ETC., 100000; coal. cord
age, anchors, etc., for vessels, 81, 900, 600;
navy yards and docks, s., 450, 900; provisions
and clothing, 81, 200,0 900; construction and
repair, 81 ,045, 900; steam engineering, S71O.-
600; marine corps, $780, 900. For the in
crease of the navy there is $16,6O7, goo, us
follows: Big guns, 81, 600, 0OO; equipment,
$40O, 600; cranes, 500, 900; construction and
machinery of new vessels, S12. 107, 900, max
ing in all
For the navy department. ........... S3l. 81, 654
Tho wv, 4, 1ooc mt ooet ca ~,,,nb ~, +l:.
Some of the items of cost of the military
establishment are: Pay Of officers of the
line, So, TAG, 600; pay of enlisted men, s 1875
600; pay of the general staff, 81, GOO, 600; re-
tired officers, 81. 300, 600; retired enlisted
men, sl35, 600: subsistence of the army,
S 1,745,000; quartermasters' supplies, $ 2,67S,-
900; quartermasters' employees, s675, 900;
purchase of horses, $780, 00; army trans
portation, $, $50, 600; barracks and quar-
tiers, $125, 600; clothing, camp and garrison
equipage, 81, It's, 600: medical department,
$215, 600; ordnance and ammunition, $780,
600; recruiting, $500 900. Total cost Of
The S24, Gl3,520
Of course congress, which must furnish
the authority for paying everybody, does
not forget to pay itself. Senators draw
$440, 600 salary and s45,0O mileage; repre-
sentatives, 81, zoe, 900 salaries, Sis, 900 mile
age. The senate spends for clerks and EN-
ployees S57s, 900, or about 81, 800 per senator;
the house spends for the same purpose
1894, 900, or less than $4,000 per representa-
tive. The cost of taking the stenographic
report of the proceedings of the house is
S26, 1000; of the senate, $4,000. The yearly
expenses of the Congressional library is
So, 900. Total yearly cost Of
congress. M d(H Nn
When we com to the executive depart
ments we find that the throne does not cost
much in a country like ours. A modest
$l02,20 0 covers the entire expenses of the
presidential office, salary, clerk hire, sta
tionery, etc. This sum includes the vice
presidents salary. the private secretary's
and the pay of doorkeepers and ushers at
the executive mansion. Cost of the civil
service commission, $4,000; department of
state, $4,000; navy department (execu-
tive), $500 900; general postoffice ~[executive),
1896, 600; department of justice, 1882, coo;
department of labor, S160, 900. On account
of its possession and management of the
records of the war, which are being con.
stantly searched in behalf of pensioners by
a force of 500 clerks, the war department
executive offices cost a large sum in
comparison with the navy department
81, 793, 900, of which more thar a mil
lion goes to the record and pension di-
vision. The department of the interior
is the most expensive bureau which Uncle
Sam keeps in Washington. 1t is, in fact,
a number of bureaus in one-the land
office at 5000 900. the Indian office at Sl1O,-
600, the pension office at 50, lis, 900, and the
patent Office at $3.50, OOO-combining to
swell the grand total of the interior de-
partment to "a, s0O,O OO. The treasury de-
partment is another great bureau, costing
$3,230,00O a year, not including 81, 1000, 600
for collecting the internal revenue, $2O, 900
for cost of subtreasuries, nor 81, OsO, 900 for
minis and assay Offices. The supreme
court and other federal courts cost 1856, 600
a year, in addition to the sums already
given in the sundry civil list, making the
total stand:
Legislative. executive and judicial. .$2s. OF ,e74
Uncle Sam has his wards in the great
west-the poor, untutored ~Indians-to look
out for along with all his other cares. They
cost him a pretty penny too. This year
they are unusually expensive on account