The record-union., 1896-10-19
Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Millions
Asked For.
The Estimated Amount Required to
Run the War Department Next
Year is About Fifty-Three Mill
Done Toward Coast DefenSeS I'm
der the Last Appropriation rlade
for That Purpose by Congress.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Secretary
Lamont will tomorrow transmit to the
Secretary of the Treasury his estimates
of the appropriations required for the
War Department for the next fiscal
year. The aggregate is So, so, ,63S.
The estimate for the running expenses
Of the war office in Washington is
81 AGA ,236, showing a reduction in the
annual expenses for salaries and con-
tingencies in that office of $621 ,942 from
the estimates of four years ago. The
other estimates in detail are as fol-
lows Pay of the army as fixed by law,
S13, 522, $50; subsistence of the army,
ST ,6J9, S3I; Quartermaster'S supplies,
5000, 600; incidental expenses of the
army, S6000O0: barracks and quar-
ters, including hospitals, $3.50, ,OuO;
shooting ranges, S2o,0O0; cavalry and
artillery horses, S13O,0O0; army trans
portation, $2,5O00 900; clothing, 81, 100
600; medical supplies, $40, 200; ord
nance department, 81, 131 900; Military
Academy, S321 ,S12; arsenals, S139, l96;
military posts, national cemeteries and
national parks, 81, ,55S, $50; national sol
diers' homes, SO, 443,314; artificial limbs
for soldiers of the late war, S19l 900;
public buildings and grounds in Wash
ington, S139, ,992; miscellaneous items,
S402, 900; rivers and harbors, So,34.,,-
0D0 to meet payments on existing con-
tracts the department at this time be-
ing unable to say what sum will be re-
uuired by future contracts for which
authority exists. The estimate for for
tifcations and sea coast defenses has
been increased to S15S 2S5, ,2SI In this
connection Secretary Lamont makes a
statement showing the advances that
have been made and the results that
have been achieved by the increase he
asks.
On the 1st of July, 1897. there will
have been completed defenSes with
armament as follows: Thirteen 12-inch
guns, thirty seven 10-inch eight S-inch
and four rapid-fire guns, and eighty
12-inch mortars. OF these, seven T.
inch, nineteen 10-inch, fifteen S-inch,
four rapid-fire and thirty-twO 12-inch
mortar implacementS are to be con-
structed under contract, while the re-
naming ones are now being built by
the engineer department with hired la
Dor.
The following statement shows the
condition of the coast defenseS after
the expenditures authorized by the Act
of June 16, 1894, Gmplacements with
guns and mortars that should be in
pc sition): Portland. Me-, two l2-inch,
five 10-inch guns, and twelve 12-inch
rnortars; increase since March, 1893,
two 12-inch, three 10-inch guns and
twelve Pinch mortars. Portsmouth,
two S-inch guns, increase two S-inch
guns. Boston, seven 1O-inch and two
rapid fire guns and sixteen l2-inch
mortars; increase, three 1O-inch guns
and two rapid fire guns. Narragansett
Bay, four 10-inch guns and sixteen -
ii'ch mortars; increase, four IO-inch
guns and sixteen 12-inch mortars.
Eastern entrance to Long Island Sound,
two 12-inch guns, all increase. New
York, six S-inch, sixteen 1O-inch, two
12-inch, six rapid fire guns and thirty
two 12-inch mortars; increase, one s.
inch, thirteen 10-nch and four rapid
fire guns. Philadelphia, three 1O-nch
and three 12-inch guns, all increase
Baltimore three S-inch, one 12-inch
three rapid fire guns and eight Pinch
mortars, all increase. Washington
three 1O-inch and two S-inch guns; in
crease, one 10-inch and two S-inch
guns. Hampton Roads. three 10-inch
guns and sixteen Pinch mortars: in
crease. sixteen 12-inch mortars. Will
mington, two S-inch guns, all increase
Charleston, two 10-inch guns and six
teen 12-inch mortars, all increase. Sa-
vannah, four S-inch guns, all increase
Key West, two S-inch, four 1O-inch
guns and sixteen 12-inch mortars, all
increase. Pensacola, three 10-inch
.
guns, all increase. New Orleans, two
10-inch guns, all increase. Galveston,
two 10-inch, one rapid fire gun and
eight 12-inch mortars, all increase.
San Diego, two 1O-inch guns, all in
crease. San Francisco. three 10-inch.
nine 12-inch, two rapid fire guns and
sixteen 12-inch mortars; increase, three
1O-inch, seven 12-inch and two rapid
fire guns. Columbia River, two S-inch,
three 10-inch and two rapid fire guns,
all increase. Puget Sound, four 10
inch and two 12-inch guns, all increase.
Under the appropriation of June 6,
1896, there are now being procured or
will be procured the following car
riages: At the Government factory.
five S-inch, five 10-inch and five 70
inch, all disappearing, and eight -
inch disappearing; in separate
shops, sixteen S-inch and thirty l0-inch
disappearing carriages, and sixty
seven 12-inch mortar carriages
By the time a new appropriation can
become available all the details of
every type of carriage will have been
fully determined. With sufficient
money, therefore. the limit to future
rapidity of progress in coast defense
is the combined annual capacity of
public and private plants to supply
ordnance material. Upon this fact is
based the departments estimates for
the ensuing year. These estimates
will provide the following: Guns-One
16-inch gun (finishing and assembling,
forgings already provided), twenty-one
sets 12-inch gun forgings, twenty-one
sets 1O-inch gun forgings, one hun
dred and forty-four all steel 12-inch
mortars complete, fifty-five 6-pounder
rapid firing guns with mounts and 200
rounds per gun and twenty 5-inch
rapid fire guns with mounts, and 100
rounds per gun.