The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-05
|THE ESTIMATED
APPROPRIATIONS.
Amount Required to Garry on
the Government.
MARKED DECREASE SHOWN.
What viii Be Needed TO Exclude the
Chinese.
The Expenses of the Territorial Courts of
Utah Increased From s35, 900 TO
s7O,Ooo-The Sugar Bounty
Pension Reduced.

Washington, Dec. 4.-The book of
estimates for appropriations for
the fiscal year, 1S94-5, was
sent to Congress today. The amount
estimated necessary to carry on the
government for the fiscal year is s411. :
S79,0n against estimates for 1884 of
s421, 612,2 15, and appropriations for 1894
of 1882, 456. The estimates for 1895 are
made up as follows: Executive, $685.
2SO; legislative, 1908, 72s; state, ST.
S5S,6SS; treasury, s12O. Asa, $3.50; war, sS5,-
7,4ss; navy, s2S,SSS,774; interior, $780,
|22s,22o; postoffice, sS,Ss7.sS6; agricuI-
ture, s2,2S3,S4s; labor, $161. $40; justice,
S6,273, 345. Forty-three thousand dol
lars is asked to pay the salaries Of the
examining force of thirty clerks OF the
civil service commission. For the in
Ivest1gation of pension cases $50000 is
asked as against 5000, 900 appropriated.
The amount asked for salaries and ex-
penses of the bureau of animal indus
try is 100000, decrease of $4,000
from the appropriation for the pres
ent year. The amount asked for pur-
chase and distribution is $4,000 against
S135,000 for the present year.
For the continental railway
commission 100000 is asked;
ordinance supplies for the army,
lS6l5,62l, an increase of $120 621: ordn-
Iance stores navy $780, 900 against
100000; gun plant, Washington navy
yard, $117,000; equipment of vessels
u. OO0,O00 against 1926, 600; steam ma
chinery for the Chicago Hartford and
tugs Standish and Speedwell, 1896. 900: :
armament and armor of the domestic
manufacture for vessels, authorized
IS, 100000 Total estimate S6.93l. 156 as
against S7,098,011 the present year. The
pension appropriations are principal
changes, there being a reduction of
IS, 100000 pension payments.
For the enforcement of the Chinese
exclusion act $3.50, 900; repairs and pre-
serving public buildings. 1926, 900. Total
for public buildings under the treasury
department s1,659.18o against $3.50, 500
for the present year. Grays HarbOr
light station, $500; navy yard Brook
lyn, $4,000; navy yard League is
land. $4,000; navy yard Mare island,
s37 oil; rivers and harbors, $12, $40. 900;
an estimated increase of more
than five millions over the ap-
preparations for the current year.
OF this amount s7,50O,e00 is ex-
pended upon works directed by Con-
gress Some items are: For Benicia
arsenal California, 500, 500; gun and
mortar batteries, 1888, 12s: sites, forth
1c6t10nS ana sea coast .de1enSeS, SOUO,-
900; torpedoes, harbor defence. SOL, $50;
armament Notifications 1870. 4S7. The
appropriations for the present year are
81 ,63S, 405; s7,43S. 41S is asked for fortifi-
cations and other works Of defense,
s., 900 over the present year; S16.-
250, 900 is asked for compensation Of
postmasters, an increase OF 81, $50 900;
free delivery 1892, 685. an increase of
over million; railway postal car SER
vice s26 200, 600. an increase of 81, 400, 600.
The estimated postal deficiency is
IS, 81, 1856. for which an appropriation is
asked. The expense of the territorial
courts in Utah increase from $4,000 to
$4,000. a note accompanying the
statement of appropriations made dur
! ing the present year to pay sugar
bounty is: "The secretary Of the treas
ury having recommended the repeal Of
the sugar bounty law, no estimate is
made for 1895 In case the law is not
| that purpose"