The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-08
APPROPRIATIONS ESTIMATES

house Immediately adjourned until To-
| morrow.
ApPRoPRIATiONsE ESTIMATES
| Four Hundred and Twenty-Five Millions
Reported by Secretary Carlisle
Washington, Dec. 7-Secretary Car
Isle has transmitted to the speaker of
the house OF representatives the esti-
mates OF appropriations required for the
| fiscal year ending June so, 1888. They are
recapitulated by titles as follows. cents
/ being omitted: Legislative establish
nent, s4,379, $50; executive establishment,
| SIS, ESP; judicial establishment, $780,
| 120; foreign intercourse. s2,oS2,I2 mill
| tary esta blishment s24, 292, $50; naval es-
| Enlistment s32.432,773; Indian affairs,
s7.279,525; pensions s1n ,32s.5So; public
works So, 49,, 961; postai service, s1,2SS,-
| 334: miscellaneous 1854 PIG; permanent
annual appropriations Sl20,01S,2 30. Total
S421, 1880.
| The estimates for the present fiscal
| year amount to $3.50 ,073. and the ap-
preparations for the present fiscal year
| including the deficiencies and misceilan-
eous, amounted TO s432, 421,605
Under the head of public works appro-
priations for $40 900 or over are asked
for public buildings as follows: Ale
gheny, Pa, postoffce, $4,000; Boise CITY,
Idaho, postoffice, etc, S130,269; Cheyenne,
Wyo., postofice, etc, $1S6,9S9; Denver,
Colo, mint buildings, 100000; Helena,
Mont, court house, etc, S22l,160; Kan
sas City, No, postoffice, ETC., $266, 900:
Meridian, Miss, postohice, $4,000; Mi
waukee, Wis, postohice, etc, 100000;
Newport, KY, postoffice, etc, $4,000:
Omaha, Neb, court house, $3.50, 900; also
s1O0. 900 for extension of cost of site and
building at Omaha: Pottsville, Pa, post
Office, $4,000; Portland, Ore, custom
house 5000, 900; Pueblo, Colo, postofffce.
$4,000, South Omaha, Neb., postoffice,
s75, GOO: 81. Paul. Mimi, postoffice, etc.,
s125. 900; San Francisco, court house, etc,
s100, 900; Savannah, Ga, court house, $llo,-
O00
The appropriations for these purposes
for the present fiscal year amounted to
League Island navy yard, Pennslyva-
MIA, S293, 222 is asked. For housing tor
pedo vessels at navy yards s225.000 is ask
ed. Under the head of Notifications AMI
other works OF defense 100000 is ask
ed for the construction under recent acts
of congress Of gun and mortar batteries;
100000 Cor sites for Notifications and
sea coast defenses; 100000 for the pres
ervation and repair OF Notifications; $685.
600 for the construction Of sea walls and
entertainments; s5,l50,000 for torpedoes
for harbor defense and S9,l70,156 for
armament for Notifications, which in
cludes sl.117326 for steel and seacoast
guns. SLIPS 600 for steel breach-loadinS
mortars and 1857 ,686 for reserve supply
of powder and projectiles. The total es-
Inmates for Notifications and other
works of defense is ISIS, 25S, which is
an increase of over 100 per cent over the
appropriations OF the present fiscal year.
For the constructions Of buildings and
engagements of military posts $1,000, coo
is asked for.
Appropriations under recent acts are
asked for as follows: Improvements at
Yellowstone National park, 5000; for
the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Ma
tional park, $145,000; Gettysburg Ma
tional park $4,000 and $S7.5O0 for the
Shiloh National military park. Under
the act of June 3, 1896, appropriations for
rivers and harbors are requested as fol-
lows: Improving harbor at Savannah
Ga, 100000; improving Cumberland
Sound, Georgia and Florida, 100000; i'm
proving harbor at Galveston, Tex, $780,
000 improving Humboldt harbor, CALI
fornia, $500 900; ship channel connecting
the great lakes between Chicago, Duluth
and Buffalo, 81 $780, 600.
The secretary of war in a note states
that the above sums are required TO meet
the payments for al the works under
continuous contracts at the time fixed by
law FOR filing these estimates with the
secretary of the treasury. For exanin-
atoms, surveys and contingencies Of riv-
ers and harbors s1O0, 900 Is asked. The to-
tai estimates for rivers and harbor is
S5,3i9, 600 and the total for public works
of all kinds SCI ,437, 06l.
A statement is appended showing the
total amounts required for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors under the
acts of $780, 1892 and 1896, but which are
not yet under contract. These amount
to about 17.5e0,O00.
The estimates for army and navy PEN
sions aggregate S140,00G,000. There is al
so an appropriation of $780, 900 asked for
to enable the United States government.
to take part in the international EXPOSE
ton to be held in Paris in 1900.
Other appropriations are requested as
follows: For the construction of
steamer for service in Alaska, $4,000:
for the establishment Of auxiliary fish
culture stations on the ST. Johns, Flori-
da and other eastern rivers, $500. 900; for
the re-co:nage of uncurrent silver coins,
$50 900; maintaining and improving ma
tional cemeteries S100, coo; headstones for
graves of soldiers s25, 900; cables for har-
Dor defenses $4,000; for maintenance,
etc, OF national homes for disabled vol
unteer soldiers, s2,61S.216; for state and
territorial homes SS25 900; for surveying
of public lands 1925, 600; for payment OF
salaries, fees and expenses of United
States n1arshals and their deputies ST.
200. 900; for furnishing artificial limbs
and transportation $iS3.005; for special
experimental work in ballooning for use
of the signal CORPS $4,000.