Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-03
ESTIMATES ron NEXT YEAR.
Secretary Cariis Tells Congress
How Much is Needed.

HOW Much fs Neehcu.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The secretary OF
the treasury today transmitted to congress
the estimates of appropriations required for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1897, as fur
nished by the several executive departments,
which aggregate sl1S O9i 07S. The appropria-
tions for the present fiscal year amounted to
s4l2,7 ,26i. The estimates Ior the fiscal
year 1897 are recapitulated by titles as fol-
lows, cents omitted:
Legislative establishment, s3,SS0 ,5S1: exec
utve establishment, 500 ,lc3 PAP; judicial -
tablshment, s52S,92O; foreign intercourse
81, ,6i9, O5S; military establishment. s24,526.-
96S; naval establishment, s27,5S3 ,675; Indian
affairs sS,75o,75S; pensions, slil SS4,b10;
public works. s2S,57i OPS; postal service. So
O24,7 49, miscellaneous, sS6, $685. ,6Sl; perma-
nent annual appropriations, Sll9OS4, ,l6O;
grand total, siiS ,o73.
Under the head of public works appropria-
tions above $4,000 are asked for public
buildings as follows: Allegheny, Pa, $75,-
600; Boise City, Idaho. 800, 900; Buffalo, N.
Y. 5000 900; Cheyenne, Wyo, 100000; Den
yer. Cello. mint, sloo, 900; Detroit, Mich,
sl65.S64; Helena, Mont; 100000; Kansas
City, 100000; Newport, Ky, $4,000; Omaha,
Neb, sl25 600; Pottsvlle, Pa, sio,OoO South
Omaha, Neb., $4,000; st. Paul, Mimi, $780,
900; San Francisco 100000: Savannah, Ga,
100000; Sioux city. Ia. $4,000; also for
constructing lighthouses and light vessels as
pital, s26,400; Cape Lookout Shoals light
ship North Carolina $40 900: Cape Fear, N.
c.. light station, $4,000; Galv.s Jetty
light, Texas, $4,000; Manistique light Michi-
gan, 1000; Poe Reef lightship, Straits of
light. California. s35.OOO; Yerber Buena
lights, California, $4,000 Also for improve
ments at navy yards as follows: Naval sta
ticn, Port Royal. S. G., 1898, 1872; Mare Is
land Cal. navy yard. 1902, Asa: naval station,
inrl
slO1 600 The total cost to be s1.125.000.
Among the appropriations asked for by
the secretary of war are the following: Re-
construction of Rock Island bridge, Rock
Island, ILL.,, 1890, 1000; construction of gun and
mortar batteries, 81, 1885, ,000 sites for forti-
flcations. $25O,C0O; torpedoes for harbor de-
fense 100000; armament of Notifications,
S4 SIC, ,443; improvement Watertown arsenal,
Mass, $31 900; for use Of board of ordnance
Notifications in making needful purchases and
experiments and tests Of more effective guns,
armor plate, etc, 100000: United States
military academy, S1S5,477 construction of
buildings, ETC., at military posts. 81 100000;
improvements in Yellowstone National park,
$40, 900; Chickamauga and Chattanooga Ma
tional parks, $4,000: Shiloh National Mill
tary park, S75, 900; Gettysburg park, $50 000
The estimates for the improvement Of rivers
and harbors, aggregatlng $2S.271 800 have
already been made public. Maintaining and
improving national cemeteries, $2l9 500; arti-
hcial limbs, apparatus, etc., S0Io,OOo Inc
surgeon general in a note explanatory of
this estimate says there are on file in his
Office 9 $3.50 cases entitled to benefit under the
laws relating to artificial limbs 3,16i cases
are of amputated legs, the commutation for
which is $75 in each case, and 6,769 cases of
other amputations and loss Of use of limbs.
The commutaton for each in these cases is
$50.
For the publication of the records Of the
war of the rebellion $175,000 is asked for.
Among the appropriations asked for by the
secretary Of the interior are: To meet ex-
penses Of protecting timber on public lands,
ETC., $150,000 The amount appropriated for
this purpose last year was 100000. Survey
ing public lands. 1881 $50; education Of chill
dren in Alaska, $40, 900; reindeer for Alaska,
81, 500; expenses United States courts Indian
Territory $210,600; international boundary
commission between United States and
Mexico, completing survey, s35. 900; repairs to
the United States steamship Chicago, $500. 900;
to begin work on new machinery for United
States steamship Atlanta. $150,000; transpor-
tation of mails by electric and cable cars on
routes not exceeding twenty miles in length,
5000, 900.
The estimated amount of the deficiency in
the postal revenues for the next fiscal year
is $5.024.779.