The herald., 1893-12-05
a nooK or EsrImArEs.
Anticipated Expenditures for the Fise
Year l804-5.

AhtStpnttu A4ponuttut1H tot tho tbc"i
Year l8945.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-The book oil
estimates for appropriations for the
fiscal year OF lS945 was sent to congress
today. The amount estimated to be me-
cessary to carry on the government for
the fiscal year is SAIL, ,s79.0il, against
estimates for 1894 of $42l, ,6l2, ,2l5, and
appropriations for '94 of s432,-
456,526. The estimates for '95
are made up as follows :
executive, $2o3. $50; legislative, 81 9O3,-
723; state, $l,S53,638 treasury, $780,
455. $3.50; war, 500, ,277 ,499; navy, $685.
SSS, ,774; interior, $50. .229. 220; post
office, rs. .Sa7 S66; agriculture, s2,2S3. :
S43; labor, $l6l. $40; justice, 70, 273, ,345.
Forty-three thousand dollars is asked
to pay the salaries of the examining
force Of 80 clerks OF the civil services
commission investigating pension cases !;
$500, 600 is asked, as against 5000, ,0U0 ap-
propriated.
The amount asked for salaries and ex-
penses OF the bureau of animal industry
Is 500, 600, decrease of $3.50, 900 from
the appropriation for the present year.
The amount asked for the purchase and
distribution of seeds is $35, 900, as
against Sl35, 900 the present year. For
the Continental railway commission
$780, 900 is asked; ior ordnance
supplies OF the army, $6l5, 1921, an in-
crease OF $l20, ordinance stores of
the navy, $3.50, 900, against S200,0 ,000
gun plant at the Washington navy yard,
Sly, 200; equipment of vessels, 81, ,000,-
900, against 1925, 600; steam machinery
for the Chicago, Hartford and the tugs
Standish and Speedwell, $3.50, 600; arm
ament and aTmor of domestic manutac.
ture for vessels authorized, So, 800, 900.
The total estimate is 10, 93i, 1856, as
against $79,S2,0ll for the present year.
In pension appropriations the princi-
pal change is reduction of So, 600, coo
in pension payments.
For the enforcement of the Chinese
exclusion act $3.50. 900 is asked; repairs
and preserving public buildings, $225,-
600. The total for public buildings
under the treasury department is ST.
$50, 1876, against $3.50, SOC for the present
year.
For the Gray's Harbor light station
$50, 500 is asked; navy yard at Brooklyn,
$l40, 900; navy yard at League island,
$685. 600; navy yard at Mare island,
S37,Oll.
For rivers and harbors $12,510,000 is
estimated, an increase of more than
s5,000.000 over the appropriations for
the current year. OF this amount ST.
800, 900 is expended upon works directed
by congress. Some of the items are:
For the Benicia arsenal, California, $685.
500 gun and mortar batteries, 81 $685.
1877 sites OF fortifcations and sea coast
defenses, $500.000; torpedo barber de-
fense, $l0l $50; armament of fortifica-
tions, $4,370, ,437, against sl,63S, ,405 for
the present year; $7,43S,4l ia asked
for Notifications and other works
of defense. s5.000,0 900 over the present
year; SIG, $4,000 is asked for in com
peneation of postmasters; an increase
of 81 $3.50, 600; free delivery, $12 .327 6S5,
an increase OF over a million; railway
postal service, s26, 900. 900, an increase of
So, 100000. The estimated postal de-
fciency is $5,97l ,736, for which an ap-
is asked; for the expenses
of the territorial courts OF Utah, an
increase from $35, 900 to $4,000.
A note accompanying the statement
of the appropriations made for the pres
ent year to pay the bounty on sugar,
says: "The secretary of the treasury
having recommended the repeal OF the
sugar bounty law, no estimate is made
for 1895. In case the law is not repealed,
S1l, 900, 600 will be required for tine pur-
pOse,'