The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
$1,000 for an Indianapolis Sewer and
$4,000 for Barracks at the Ma
rion Soldiers Home.
MR.. CARLISLE in HOT WATER
Denounced by Whisky Distillers
and Anti-BOnd Men.
Political Effect of the Wilson Tariff Bill
VOORHEES, and Lamb and Mr.. Tay-
lOr at Outs Over an Office.
special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-The sundry civil
appropriation bill, which was reported from
the appropriations committee to the House
to-day, appropriates $500 for improvements
at the Indianapolis arsenal-for a sewer to
connect the city sewer on Clifford avenue
Accompanying this item of appropriation is
note taken from the estimates of the
Secretary of the Treasury, declaring this
sewer connection to be a necessity, etc.
The Secretary's recommendation was given
in full some weeks ago by your corre-
spondent.
The bill also appropriates So. coo for
barracks at the Marion National Soldiers
Home, and reduces the salaries which
paid to officers at National
Homes for disabled soldiers, fixing the salary
of the president at $4,000, instead of $1,000;
assistant inspector-general at $500, a
duction Of $500, and making the salaries of
the secretary and treasurer 1900 each. 1t
provides that officers at these homes shall
be hereafter paid cents per mile for rail-
road travel in lieu of all other expenses,
and that they shall receive no other compen-
sation or pay for any services or duties con-
nected with the home than the mileage
and salary; that, hereafter. there shall be
an annual inspection OF national homes
to ascertain their general condition and of
their book accounts, and the inspector shall
report in detail to the Secretary Of War;
who in turn shall transmit the reports to
Congress. There is appropriated for the
soldiers home at Dayton, c., $77,6SS less
than the current appropriation. The bill
appropriates $500 for the purchase of an
oil portrait of ex-President Benjamin Har-
rison, to be placed in the White House.
The bill apprppriates a total OF $50, ,29l, ,3s2
for the fiscal year 1895. The bill for 1894
carried SAL, 1881 or 50, 400 92S more than for
this year. Estimates for 1895 submitted to
the appropriations committee were $3S,3S1,-
COZ. The greatest saving is In the item OF
river and harbor work, for the carrying on
of which sS,S00,0O0 is recommended, while
for 1894 the amount was S14,166 153. For
public buildings and grounds the appropria-
ton drops to $6i7O00. from $1,077,500 for
1894, although the estimates for 1895 were
s.. .4ls. .1S5.--Qther importsi reductions from
1894 in current expenses are: Artificial
limbs for soldiers, from $4,000 to $4,000;
claims. back pay and bounties to soldiers,
from s75O.O0O to $4,000; lighthouses from
$3.50 500 to $2S6,e0o. The principal new appro-
priation is $150,OO0 for new vessels for the
revenue service OF the river and harbor
items, S3,il5000 is TO meet contracts for
improving the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers. In Connection with the appropriations
for public buildings the Assistant Treasur-
is given authority for constructing d
part postoffice and courthouse at Kansas
City, Mo-, and the federal buildings at
Omaha and Sioux City, Ia Pay of cadets
in revenue ships is fixed at $500 and one
ration day. The Secretary of the Treas
ury iS directed to reorganlZe the office force
of the coast and Seodetic survey to bring
the total salaries within $4,000. Consd-
cradle legislation on the national soldiers
homes is engrafted in the BILL In connec-
ton with the appropriation for defense in
Indian depredations claims the Attorney
general is authorized to dispose of those
cases given priority by the act of March
3, 1891, and to prepare the defense for the
government in cases in which claimants
have closed their proof.
The bill makes provision for the continu-
ing of improvements for river and harbors
which contracts have been made as fol-
lows: Philadelphia harbor. $4,000; Gal
weston harbor, $500 900: Hay Lake channel
and st. Mary's river, Michigan, s120, 600;
Hudson river, New York, $l45,0O0; MSsissip-
pi river, from the mouth of the Ohio to the
mouth of the Missouri S75S. 1888; Mississippi
Minneapolis $685. st. Mary's river, at
the falls, Michigan. $5O0,O0O; Charleston har-
Dor, $3.50 go: Savannah harbor, Georgia
1915 600; Mobile harbor. Alabama, $3.50 900
Mississippi river, from the head of the
passes to the mouth of the Ohio river, un-
der the Mississippi river commission, 81,
6s5 coo; Missouri river, from the mouth TO
Sioux City, Iowa, under the Missouri river
commission, $3.50 600, of which $4,000 may be
expended above Sioux City.