The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-14

tive mansion, g ,5OO, care, repair and re
furnishing White House, expended unde
direction Of the president, $4,000. lightin,
the White House, Sl4 900: care of Washing
ton monument, $4,000; national GENE
teries, 500. 600; to continue work of fur
nishing headstones for unmarked grave
of Union soldiers, $4,000; artificial linn s
500 600; publication of official records c
war 500 600 national soldiers bones
S2,947 COO
Uncle Sans courts cost him good dea
of money: Marshals and their deputies
SJ75.U0O: district attorneys, $3.50 600. fees c
clerks, $175.OO0. fees of commissioners
SlGO.090; jurors. S650000: witnesses, 81 eco.
Coz: support of prisoners. $375. Ol0 bailifTs
Sl35.000; stenographers, ETC.. sl50.0O9; in
all
United states courts. Sj,139 lR
Some more items: Continuing work or
new library of congress, $600 600; public
printing and binding, S2,6l0.O0O. constrUc
ton and enlargement of military posts
S745 900. new road in Yellowstone park
$75, 0J0; improving harbor at Philadelphia
$4,000 Baltimore, 1851 900; Galveston,
$780, 600; St. Mary's River canal. $500. Geo
and Hay Lake channel, 100000
Total sundry civil list $37 4l0, 369
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 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 a half millions go to pay the
officers and sailors. Bureau of ordnance,
repairs, practice, etc. 500, 600; coal, cord
age, anchors, etc., for vessels, 81 200, 600;
navy yards and docks, ST, $50, 600; provisions
and clothing, 81 ,200, 600; construction and
repair, 81, 045. 600; steam engineering, S710.-
600; marine corps, $3.50, 600 For the in
crease of the navy there is s16,607 900, as
follows: Big guns, 100000; equipment,
$500, coo; cranes, Sl00,000 construction and
machinery OF new vessels, $l2, 107, 600, max
ing in all
For the navy department. $31 ,541 654
The army does not cost so much as this.
Some of the items of cost of the military
establishment are: Pay of officers of the
line, So, 146, 900; pay of enlisted men, 1876
900; pay of the general staff, 81, 600, 600; re-
tired officers, $l.300,0O0 retired enlisted
men, $l35 900; subsistence of the army,
81, 745000; quartermasters supplies, s., 67S,-
COO: quarterInasters' employees, $675, 600;
purchase of horses, S150.000; army trans
portation, 81, 100000; barracks and quar-
tiers, s725000; clothing, camp and garrison
equipage, 81, 10000; medical department,
$4,000; ordnance and ammunition, 1920
600; recruiting 100000. Total cost Of
The army S2f, 613, $50
OF course congress, which must furnish
the authority for paying everybody, does
not forget to pay itself Senators draw
s44O,OOO salary and $4,000 mileage; repre-
sentatives, 81, 100,0 600 salaries, $4,000 mile
age. The senate spends for clerks and en-
ployees $57S,0J0 or about s., 500 per senator;
the house spends for the same purpose
$634. 600, or less than s., 900 per representa-
tive The cost of taking the stenographic
report of the proceedings of the house is
SIG, 900; Of the senate, So, 600 The yearly
expenses Of the Congressional library is
81, 000. Total yearly cost Of
When we come to the executive depart
ments we find that the throne does not cost
much in country like ours. A modest
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, S4l 900; department of
state S139000; navy department (execu-
tive), 1896, 600; general postoffice (executive),
1896, 600; department of justice, 1882 900; |
department of labor, 100000 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 800 clerks, the war department
executive offices cost a large sum in
with the navy department |
81, 1913 900, of which more than 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 liz Washington. 1t is, in fact,
4 number of bureaus in one-the land
office at 100000, the Indian Office ct $llO,-
300, the pension Office at 81, $4,000, and the
patent Office at 1850, 000-combining to
swell the grand total of the interior de.
1artment to 81, 100000. The treasury de-
is another great bureau, costing
s, 230, 600 a year, not including $4,000. 600
or collecting the internal revenue, 1920. 900
or cost of subtreasuries, nor 81 ,OSO, 600 for
hints and assay offices. The supreme
court and other federal courts cost sos, 600
year, in addition to the sums already
,iven in the sundry civil list, making the
otal stand:
legislative, executive and judicial So, 90, 674
Uncle Sam has his wards in the great
poor, untutored In6ians-to look
'ut for along with all his other cares They
ost him pretty penny too. This year
hey are unusually expensive on account
# recent agreements made with them by
which the white men obtained their lands.
Nearly million dollars goes in this way
o the Crows, s., 100000 TO the Sisseton and
\ ahpeton Sioux, 81, 100000 to the Chey-
nnes and Arapahoes, S2,991, 900 to the
,hoctaws and Chickasaws, a total with
ONE smaller sums of SS,6I7, 900, besides 50,
to fulfill treaty speculation5 made
q the past. The salaries and current ex-
enses of Indian agents amount to S225,-
%. To support the various tribes there
Ias paid ont directly $780, 900; incidental
expenses, SOS, 600; miscellaneous, 81 ,037,-
Do; support of Indian schools. s., 2l6, 600.
all for
lolans $50 "a
The government enjoys here at Wash
lgton the luxury of federal city. But
'ncle Sam has TO pay for it-one- half of
II the expenses of the District of Column
Ia Is his share-and the amount this year
s., 79S, 562
Waxing rich as he is, and inclined to be
independent, Uncle Sam has at
st concluded it would be the part of wis
ON to take some measures TO protect his