The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-09-14

900 expenses under election laws
that are repealed, $r4,3o3593 total,
$4S,6a4,1io.
The bills showing increase over the
last laws are as follows Diplomatic
and consular bill, $6,473; District Of
Columbia bill, $I3I,36o fortihcations
bill, Sra6,94o; Indian bill, $r,47s,.
4oS; naval bill, same, $3,aa,,o6s ;
postoffice bill, $3,a3a,aSs; river and
harbor bill, total, $II,473,ISo mis-.
cellaneous, $ao,5oo total increase,
SI9,788,22o.
The Secretary Of the Treasury, in
submitting the annual estimates to
Congress, in December last, stated he
had included therein no amount for
the payment of the bounty on sugar,
but that if the law authorizing its pay
ment should not be repealed it would
be necessary to add to the estimates
for 1S95,for permanent appropriations,
the sum OF SII, 200, 900. But in July
last the commissioner of internal reve.
nue. estimated the sum required to
pay this bounty, if not repealed,
would be $I5,aoo,ooo for the fiscal
year 1895 ard $I7,5oo,ooo for the
fiscal year 1896. The expenditures
made for bounty on sugar have been
as follows: Fiscal year 1892, $7,sso,-
oaS : fiscal year 1893, So, 56o,5S2 {;
fiscal year for 1894, SI3,o73,S7o.
The postoffice 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, 1899, and June 80, 1894, by
7,4o4 the number of post routes by
ASIA; the miles of annual travel in
transporting the mails by 746I5,375
the length of post routes by a6,737
miles the annual revenues from the
service by I5,oos,I55, and the total
annual expenditures by $17,oa5,5oo.
The sundry civil bill carries So, 4oo,-
900 toward payments under contracts
for river and harbor works authorized
under laws passed during the Fifty
first and Fifty.second Congresses.
For river and harbor work there
was appropriated this session, includ-
ing the amount carried by the river
and harbor bill, $II,473,ISo, and SS,
100000 for contracts in the sundry
civil bill, the total sum of $Io,873,I8o.
During the first session of the last
Congress there was appropriated by
the river and harbor bill So, 5,o3S
more than was appropriated at this
session. AT the present session there
has been appropriated the sum of ST.,
800, 900 toward meeting the river and
harbor contracts authorized by the
Fifty-first Congress, and $7,Ioo, 900
toward such contracts authorized by
the Fifty. second Congress, leaving
$s,44S,7oq of the former and $I4,a a63-
36S of the latter, or $Io,7I2,I47 in
all Of river and harbor contracts yet
to be appropriated for.
To finally equip and complete and
arm the fifty new vessels of the navy,
built or authorized, it is estimated
there will yet have to be appropriated
the further sum Of $23,o8o,o7 max.
ing total of $IIa.o6a,I ,I63 which the
new navy as now authorized will cost,
A subjoined statement shows that of
the appropriations made or required
under laws passed during the Fifty
first Congress, that only $34574,Io1
were appropriated by the first session
of the Fifty-frst Congress under those
laws that of the appropriations made
during the two sessions of the last
Congress SI75,736,6IS were the re-
suit of those laws, and that only SI27,-
3o9,III were appropriated at both
sessions of the Fifty-hrst Congress
under those laws which it passed
entailing such enormous obligations
upon its successors.
During the present session of Cor
gress the salaried list of the govern
ment has been reduced by more than
GOO in number and over $7oo,oo in
annual cost, and more salaries have
been reduced than increased. Mr..
Sayres attaches elaborate tables to
the statement which give in great de-
tail the points he has summarized
herein.-RanSaS Citu Times.