Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-08-23
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n. Chairman OF the House Commit-
toe ON Appropriations shows
1phat Congress- Has Appropriated,
md Gives Comparisons.
Washington, Aug. IS. = Chairman
Sayrcs. Of the house committee on ap-
nropriations, has completed an official
statement Of the amount appropriated
by the session Of congress just closing,
as compared with past sessions. The
statement represents the views OF the
Democratic majority in the committee
md in the house of the economy OF
government expenses. Mr.. Sayres'
statement reads as follows:
The appropriations made during tue
extraordinary session and the first reg
ular session of the present congress,
E including permanent appropriations
: show a reduction of $685. S9 under
the appropriations made ut the last
session of congress, and deducting the
amount of the river and harbor bill,
$11,373,1S which should be done for
the purpose Of comparison, inasmuch
as no river and harbor bill was passed
nv the last congress at its last session,
the reduction is $4O,2O0, 169. AS COM
nared with the laws passed at the last
session Of the last congress the follow
,1,;g reductions are shown as follows:
Agricultural bill, SOL, 476; army bill,
$632, 1885,; legislative, ETC., bill, which
carries in the main the great salary
list of the government, ,507; mill
tary academy bill, $780, O33; pension bill,
S14,9A0,7SO: sundry civil bill, $780,
535: on account Of deficiencies, $lO,-
45G.44O: on account Of permanent up.
propriations including $11,0OO,OOO for
sugar bounty, which is abolished, ana
$45O,OOO expenses under election laws
that are repealed, S14,593,593. Total
reductions, $4S,624, 110.
The bills showing increases over the
last laws are as follows: Diplomatic
and consular bill, $G,473; District OF
Columbia bill, $131,369; fertilization
till, $12G,949; Indian bill, $1,475,4OS;
naval bill, same, So, Do, 065; postottice
bill, SO ,22332,2S5; river and harbor bill,
total, $11, ,lS0; miscellaneous, $780,
500. Total increase, $19,7S9,229.
The secretary Of the treasury in sub
hitting the annual estimates to con-
gress in December last, stated that he
had included therein no amount for
the payment of the bounty Oh sugar,
Lut that if the law authorizing its pay
ment should not be repealed, it would
be necessary to add to the estimates
for 1895 for permanent appropriations
the sum of $11,OOO,00O. But in July
last the commissioner of internal reve-
nue. estimated that the sum required
to pay this bounty, if not repealed,
would be $15,2O0,O0O for the fiscal year
1895 and $17,5OO,OOO for 1896. The en-
penditlres made for bounty on sugar
have been as follows: Fiscal year
1892, $7,55O,OoS; fiscal year 1893, &c.
569,532; fiscal year 1894, S13,O73,379.
The postofficc bill makes the usual
Increase incident to the growth of the
country and its commercial interests,
the number Of postofices having in
creased during the period between
June 80, 1890, and June 80, 1894, by
7,404; the number Of post routes by
4,514: the miles of annual travel in
transporting the mails by 74,615,375;
the length Of post routes by 2G,737
miles; the annual revenues from the
service by $15N9S, 1855, and the total
annual expenditures by $17,952,509
The sundry civil bill carries $S,4OO,OOO
toward payment under contracts for
river and harbor works authorized I'M
der laws passed during the Fifty-6rst
and Fifty-secOnd congresses.
For river and harbor work there was
appropriated at this session, including
the amount carried by the river and
harbor bill, $11 ,473, $50, and $S,4OO,OOO
for contracts in the sundry civil "6ill,
the total sum of $19,S73,1SO During
the first session of the last congress
there was appropriated by the river
and harbor bill $2,O95,O more than
was appropriated at this session.
At the present session there has been
appropriated the sum of $1,000. 900 to-
ward meeting the river and harbor con-
tracts authorized by the Fifty-first con-
gress, and $7,1OO,OOO toward such con-
tracts authorized by the Fifty-second
congress, leaving S5,44S,779 of the
former and $14,263,3GS Of the latter,
or $19,712,147 in all of the river and
harbor contracts vet to be appropri-
ated for.
To finally equip and complete the
n1ty new vessels of the navy it is esti-
mated that there will ret have to be
appropriated the further sum of $685.
OSO914, making total of S112.O62,-
i63 which the new navy as now au-
thorized will cost
subjoined statement shows that of
the appropriations made at this ses-
sion $50, Al were required under laws
passed during the Fifty-trst congress;
that only $34,574,191 We're appropri-
atcd by the first session Of the Fifty
hrst congress under those laws: that
OF the appropriations made during the
two sessions of the last congress $780,
1868 We're the result Of those laws,
and that only $127,3O9,111 were ap-
propriated at both sessions of the Eff
ty-hrst congress under those laws which