The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-08-30
WORK OF CONGRESS.
DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT.

the amount appropriated by the ses-
sion OF congress just closing, as com :
pared with past sessions. The
statement represents the views of
the democratic majority in the COM
mittee, and in the house on the
economy of government expenses.
Mr.. Sayers' statement reads as fol-
lows:
The appropriations made during
the extraordinary session and the first
regular session of the present con-
gress including permanent appropri-
atlons, show reduction of t2s, 1886, :
$50 under the appropriations made
last session Of the last congress; and
deducting the amount of the river
and harbor bill $11 1913, 1sO, which
should be done for the purpose Of
comparison, inasmuch as no river
and ffarbor bill was passed by the
last congress at it's last session, the
reduction is 0,3O9, 1863.
AS compared with the laws passed
at the last session of the last con-
gress, the following reductions are
shown in the table: Agricultural bill,
$1O1, ,478; army bill, $882, 1855; legis-
lative, etc., bill, which carries in the
main the great salary list of the gov
ernment, $557, ,5O7; military acad-
emy bill, $28, ,oS3; pension appropri-
alton bill, $14,949, $50; sundry civil
bill, $7,5O8, ,535; on account Of def
ciencies, $40, ,458, ,440; on account of
permanent appropriations Gncluding
$11, 100000 for sugar bounty, which
is abolished, and s45O,O0O expenses
under election laws that are re-
pealed), $14, 1893, ,593. Total reduc-
tion, $4s, 1924, ,119.
The bills showing increases over
the last laws are as follows: Diplo-
matte and consular bill, $8473; Dis
trict of Columbia bill, $131, 1863;
fortiHcation bill, $128,949; Indian
bill, $1,475, ,40s; naval bill, same,
$3,22S, ,0e5; post Office bill, SS,232,-
285; river and harbor bill, total,
$11, ,47s, 1870; miscellaneous, $29, 500.
Total increase, $40, ,788.229.
The secretary Of the treasury, in
submitting the annual estimates to
congress in December last, stated
that he had included therein no
amount for the payment of the
bounty on sugar, but that II the law
authorizing it's payment should not be
repealed 1t would be necessary to
add to the estimates for 1895, for
permanent appropriations, the sum
of $11, 100000. But in July last the
commissioner of internal revenue
estimated that the sum required to
pay this bounty, if not repealed,
would be $780, 900 for the fiscal
year 1895, and $17, 100000 for the
fiscal year 1896.
The expenditures made for bounty
on sugar have been as follows: Fis-
cal year 1892, 1850, ,O2s; fiscal year
1893, $9,589, ,532; fiscal year 1894,
$13,O73,879.
The post office bill makes the us
ual increase incident to the growth
of the country and its comm srcial
interests, the number Of post offices
having increased during the period
between June 80, 1890, and June 80,
1894, by 7404; the number Of post
routes by 4514; the miles Of annual
travel in transporting the mails by
74,671, 1875, the length of post routes
by 20, 1877 miles, the annual revenues
from the service by s15, 5,O98, 1856, and
the total annual expenditures by
$1s,952, 500.
The sundry civil bill carries $S,-
400, 200 toward payments under con-
tracts for river and harbor works
authorized under laws passed during
the Atty first and fifty second con-
crosses. For river and harbor work
there was appropriated at this ses-
sion, including the amount carried
by the river and harbor bill, e11,-
473, ,l80, and tS, 400, 900 for contracts
in the sundry civil bill, the total sum
of sls,s7s, ,1sO.
During the first session of the last
congress there was appropriated by
the river and harbor bill ~, ,095, 1888
more than was appropriated at this
session.
At the present session there has
been appropriated the sum Of s1,-
5000 toward meeting the river and
harbor contracts authorized by the
Atty first congress and 81, 100, 900 to-
wards said contracts authorized by
the fifty second congress, leaving s6, :
448,779 of the former and $l4, 1888, :
86s of the latter, or s19,712,147 in
all Of river and hsrbor contracts yet
to be appropriated for.
To finally equip and complete and
arm the fifty new vessels Of the navy
built or authorized, 1t is estimated
that there will yet have to be appro-
priated the further sum OF $2S, ,080,
874, making total Of Sl12, 2,062, 1853,
which the new navy, as now author
lied, will cost.
A subioined statement shows tina,
Of the appropriations made at thii
session, 1854 were required unde,
laws passed during the Atty -firsl
congress, that only ssA,b74, ,isi were
Z an,ro nr}ntad hv the 0pst aaaaton n,