The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-17

lated by titles as follows, cents being
Omitted:
Legislative establishment .....S 4.310,S2O
Executive establishment ....... 1875 9 .952
judicial establishment @1. 120
Foreign Intercourse ........ 2,0S2, 12S
Military establishment ......... "a. 202, $3.50
Naval establishment ........... 81. 434, 113
!ndlan Affairs ................ 1,2lo.o2o
IenSlonS ............. ....... lfl,3-S,ooO
IuDllc WOrkS .................. ol.43I ,OOl
IoStal service ............... l,ISS,334
Miscellaneous ............ ..... 36,344,216
Permanent annual appropria-
lions ...-.......... .......... 120.OIS,22O
Iotai .............. .......$42l, 'lo,ooo
The estimates for the present fiscal year
amounted to S41S,O91 ,073, and the appro-
priations for the present fiscal year. in
GLIDING deficiencies and miscellaneous
items. amounted to S432, 421 800.
Under the head of public works. appro-
priations, for $4,000 or over. are asked
for public buildings, as follows:
Postofice. Allegheny. Pa..........S 5000
Postoffice, etc. Boise City. Idaho. 100. 800
postofice. etc. Cheyenne. Wyo.... $4,000
Mint Building, Denver. Col. ....... 900, 600
Court house, etc. Helena, Mont. . . 227. 7GO
POstOffice, etc, Kansas City, Mo-. 286, 900
POstotice, Meridian, Miss. ......... 1900
Postofnce, etc, Milwaukee,, Wis. e. 400, 900
Postoflice, etc, Newport, Ky. 10000
Court house. Omaha, Ncb. ......... $4,000
Of site and building at Omaha. 100. 900
POStofiice, pottsyille. pa....,.,. 40, 900
Custom house. Portland, Ore. 2OO,O 900
Postoffice, Pueblo, Colo. 1901 900
Postoffice, South Omaha, Neb. ..... 1900
PostOffice, etc, st. Paul. Minn..... 1850
Cal ..'.... ............. 1OO,O 600
Court house. Savannah. Ga. ........ $4,000
For constructing relief-light vessel
for the fourth and fifth light
hnnsn 1tctrt.tS SD(kD
Depot for sixth lighthouse district. $1,000
station. Sand Island. Ala. CO, 1000
Also for the construction of light and
fog signal stations as follows:
On fisherman's shoals, near Rock ISL
and, in Lake Michigan ..........$5O, 600
On Chapman shoal, in st. Lawrence
new channel 10000
On Middle Island, Michigan. ........ - 5000
Lake Superior, Michigan. .......... 10000
Steam fender, etc. for third light o. ooo
ON no Psint p. ArvSellc, California. $1,000
The total appropriations asked for
lighthouses, beacons and fog signals is
S1,3S4.7 S5. The appropriations for these
purposes for the present fiscal year
amounted to $1SO,0OO. For improvements
ut the League Island nav yard, Pennsyl-
vania. $293,2 ODD are asked.
For housing torpedo vessels at navy
yards S225, 900 is asked for. Under the
head of Qualifications and other works of
defense 100000 is asked for the con-
struction. under recent acts of Congress.
of gun and mortar batteries: 100000 for
sites for Notifications and seacoast de-
lenses; 100000 for the preservation and
repair of fortifications; 33.OOO for the
construction of sea walls and embank-
ments; $4,000 for torpedoes for harbor
defense. and 50, 77O. 1876 for ornaments
for Notifications, which include SILL
326 for steel seacoast guns: $ ,12S,OOO
for steel breach-loading mortars, and ST.
J97 CSC for reserve supply of powder n
projectiles.
The total estimates for Notifications
and other works of defense are $15.S15.-
c56. which is an increase of over 100
per cent. over the appropriations for the
present fiscal year. For the construction
of buildings at and enlargement of mill
tary posts S1.OOO,OOO is asked.
Appropriations under recent acts are
asked for as follows: improvements at
Yellowstone National Park. $4,000; for
the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Ma
tional Park, S145,OOO; Gettysburg Ma
tional Park. S75.OOO. and $751; 800 for the
Shiloh National Military Park.
Under the act of June 3, 1896, appro-
priations for rivers and harbors are re-
quested as follows:
Improving harbor at Savannah, Gas 400, 900
Improving Cumberland SouIA,
Georgia and Florida. ........... 400, 600
Improving harbor at Galveston. Tex 500. 900
Imnrnvinu HpmholIt harLor and
bay, California ................ 0 1000
Ship channel connecting the great
lakes between Chicago, Duluth
ana Buffalo ................ ,U0O,OU
The Secretary of War;, in Il note, states
that the above sums are required to meet
the payments for all the works under
continuous contracts at the time fixed by
law for filing these estimates with the
Secretary of the Treasury.
For examinations, surveys and contin-
gencies of rivers and harbors. 100000
is asked. The total estimates for rivers
and harbors is SJ,349.OOO. and the total
for public works of all kinds SD 49,. O61.
\ statement is appended, showing the to-
tai mounts required for the improve
mrnt of rivers and harbors under the
acts of 1880. 1892 and 1896. but which
are not yet under contract. These
amount to about 81 ,OOO.lDO
The estimates for army and navy pen
sions aggregate $4,000 900. There is
also an appropriation of S35O,OOO asked
for to enable the United States Govern
ment to take part in the international ex-
position to be held in Paris in 1900. 9th
er appropriations are requested, as follows:
For the construction of Il steamer
for service In Alaska. ........S 5000
For the establishment of auxiliary
fish culture stations on THE st.
Johns (Florida) and other east
ern rivers 10000
For the recoinage of uncurrcnt sill
YER coins 25O .OOO
Maintaining and improving nation
al cemeteries .................. 100. 900
HeadStones for graves Of soldiers. -,
Gables for harbor defenses. ...... 20, "