The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-24
APPROPRIATION bills.
Senate Committee Wants
Them Acted ON Promptly.
DISCUSSING SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
No Appropriation for the Purpose Of
Guarding Against Cholera This Year.
Senate VIII Increase Lighthouse
Estimates-Other Increases Expected


WASHINGTON, March 2i.--The Senate
committee on appropriations is
taking up appropriation bills
very promptly after their receipt
with the purpose of having them acted
upon as soon as possible i'm the Senate to
the end that the adjournment OF Congress
can be accomplished when the tariff bills
shall be disposed OF. The fortifications bill
was the first of the appropriation
measures to be received from the House
and it has already been re-
ported to the Senate. Sub-com-
inittees of the full committee are
now considering the pension and District
of Columbia appropriation bills, and as
soon as these are out of the way, will take
up the sundry civil bin which has just
been received.
The sundry Civil Bill.
There is probably more popular interest
In the sundry civil than in any
of the other appropriation bills,
as it affects larger variety
of interests, and it is more likely to be
amended in important particulars than
any other. 80
reduction from last years appropriations
of almost S9500,000 and il is not
probable that the Senate will increase it so
as to bring the figures up TO those OF last
year. The principal item of decrease
in the bill this year is the appropriation
for rivers and harbors amounting as it does
to S5,SS6, 1853. The House gave this year
for the purpose $500, 900, which is the
full amount OF the department estimates,
80 that there was no pressure for an in
crease on account OF this appropriation.
Another important item in the sundry
civil bill of last year was $033,000, on
account of the Columbian Expedition,
which swelled the total to that extent.
Contracts have also been let for number
of public buildings which will
defer appropriations upon them and
probably justify the decrease
of s451,0 made by the House.
The appropriation of 100000 made last
year for the purpose of guarding against
the cholera was also unusual, and a large
portion of it was unused, leaving il un-
necessary to make any appropriation on
that score this year
There are other items, however, upon
which there will be strong pressure for
additions by the Senate. The estimate of
the department for light houses, for sig
nails, etc, called for s7e3,e0C, while the
House provided only y2S6, 900. The estimate
on the expenditure necessary in surveying
the public lands was scaled from $500 900
TO $1,000; that on armCries and arscnals
from 10000; to S1S7,000; for milf
tary postl fromy0i,00O to s200,0 900.
There IS alsp big reduction from
the estimates for the expenses of
the federal courts, the estimates
on the fees for marshal being reduced
from $4,000 to $3.50 1000; th.t of clerks
from s2e8, 900 to S175 900; of commissioners
from S265 O00 % 100000; of witnesses from
81, 10000 to S750O and for the support
OF prisoners f,om s750,00O 10 $4,000.
II is more tb,n Likely that there will be
pressure f.om all these sources for aEsia-
4 ~ fof int ,,H
- made The United States courts are
now complaining OF a shortage OF funds in
many inslnuCps