Evening star., 1896-12-07

The estimates for the present fiscal year
amounted to $41s.09l,oT3, and the appro-
priation for the present fiscal year, in
Gliding deficiencies and miscellaneous,
amounted to $f32, 42l ,6O5
Public Works.
Under The head of public works appro-
priations for $4,000 OF over are asked for
public buildings follows:
Boise City, Idaho, post office. etc. $780,,
2G9; Buffalo, n. Y, post office, sGoo,doa;
Camden. N. j., post office, etc. slW.oo@;
CT mberland. Nd, SjO,oO0; Denver, Col,
mint building, sa0O,UU: Helena, Mont.
court house, etc, s227.76O; Kansas City,
Mo, pos. office, etc, $26G,WU; Milwaukee,
Wis, post Office. etc, s4W.G0; New York,
appraisers warehouse S3OOoOo; Portland,
Ore, custom house, $2OO,UUO; Pueblo, Col,
post office, $1.N,OOO; st. Paul, Mimi, post
office, etc, s125.OOO; San Francisco, court
house. etc, sloo,0D; savannah, Ga, court
house. $175.Oo0; Washington. ID. c., post Of
flee, $4,000; bureau Of engraving and
printing, storage, outbuilding and stable,
$4,000.
Lighthouses.
The total appropriations asked for light
houses, beacons and fog signals is 81 ,5Si, 80
The appropriations for these purposes for
the present fiscal year amounted to $1So,Vo0.
For Improvements at the League Island
navy yard, Pa, $293 Odd are asked: for the
I,rooklyn navy yard, $217,042. and for the
navy yard at Norfolk Va, $370,Vo0. For
housing torpedo vessels at navy yards,
5000 are asked. For excavating interior
court of Interior Department building for
steam-heating plant, &c, $40, 600 Addl-
tional accommodate tionS for 80 insane from
the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers, at the Government Hospital for
the Insane, $4,000.
Under the head of fortifications and other
.lNf< nAn had
the construction, under recent acts of Con-
gress, of gun and mortar batteries: sJoO.0oo
for sites for fortifications and seacoast de-
fenses; $lO5,UOW for the preservation and
repair of fortiffcations; $4,000 for the con-
structfon Of sea walls and embankments:
$15O000 for torpedoes for harbor defense,
and $9,71O,1 1856 for armament for foruhca-
tions which include 81, III .:26 for steel for
seacoast guns; 81, 12S 900 for steel breach
loading mortars and 81, ,597 .6s6 for reserve
supply of powder and projectiles. The total
estimates for fortifications and other works
of defense is $15,S15.2 .256, which is an in
crease of over 100 per cent over the appro-
priationS for the present fiscal year. For
the construction of buildings at and en-
largement of military posts S1,0p0,oo0 is
asked for. Appropriations under recent
acts are asked for as follows: Improve
ment at Yellowstone National Park $35-
600: for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga
National Park, s145,OO0; Gettysburg Ma
tional Park, $4,000, and SS1, 800 for the
Shiloh National Military Park.
Rivers and HarbOrs.
Under the act Of June 3, 1896, appropria-
tions for rivers and harbors are requested
as follows: Harbor of Refuge, at Point Ju-
dith, r. l., $300,OOO; improving channel in
Gowanus Bay, n. Y, $4O0,VU; improving
harbor between Philadelphia and Camden,
N. j., $559,O0O; improving harbor at Sa-
vannah, Ga, $4U,WUO; improving Cunber-
land Sound, Ga. and Fla, $4VO,VU; i'm
proving harbor at Galveston, Tex, sSUu,U
improving Humboldt harbor and Bay Cali
fornia, $4OO,OO0; improving Hudson river,
$JtUOO0; improving Newton Creek, n. Y,
s4U00O; ship channel, connecting the great
lakes between Chicago, Duluth and Buff
falo, 81, 100000. The Secretary of War, in
a note states that the above are the sums
required to meet payments for all the
works under continuous contracts at the
time fixed by law for filing these esti-
mates with the Secretary of the Treasury.
What, II any, further contracts will be en-
tered into under existing authority can
not at this time be determined.
The total estimate for rivers and har-
bors is $5,349OOO. and the total for public
works of all kinds S31. .437 ,O61. statement
is appended, showing the total amounts re-
Quired for the improvement of rivers and
harborS under the acts of 1SSO, 1892 and
1886, but which are not yet under contract.
The amount Of these is about $17, ,JU,OOO.
The estimates for army and navy pen
sions aggregate $140,0O0,OU. There is also
an appropriation of $3jO,0OO asked for to
enable the United States government to
take part in the international expositi On to
be held in Paris in 1900.