Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-10
ESTIMATES FOR NEXT YEAR.
Mr.. CARLISLE SUBMITS
HIS FIGURES.
NEEDS OF THE NATION.
Over s4sI,OOO,OoO Called For by the
Various Branches of the Governments
Much Money for Coast De-
lenses = Appropriations Are
Asked for Many Public
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
NEEDS OF THE NATION.

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-Secretary Car
Isle to-day transmitted to the speaker
of the House of Representatives the es-
Inmates of appropriations required for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898.
They are recapitulated by titles as fol-
lows:
Legislative establishment-s4, &c.,
$40.
Executive establishmenti-S19 $685.
O59.
Judicial establishments 1907, 120.
Foreign intercourse-S2, Os2, 72s.
Military simultaneously 202, $3.50.
Naval simultaneously ,434, 773.
Indian affairs-S7, 270,525.
Pensions-S141, 1928, $50.
Public work-S31, 437, O6l.
Postal service-$t, 29S, 1894.
Miscellaneous-S36, 344,216.
Permanent annual appropriations
1920, O7s,2 2O
Total-S421 ,718, $40.
The estimates for the present fiscal
year amounted to $41S, O91, O73, and the
appropriations, including the defcien-
cies and miscellaneous, to S432, 42l, sos.
Under the head of public works, APP
preparations are asked for many public
buildings, including the following:
Kansas City, Mo-, pOstoffice, etc, $685.
600; Milwaukee, Wis, postoffice, etc,
S400,000; Omaha, Neb., court house,
$25, 200, and 500, 1000 for the extension
of the limit of the cost Of the site and
building
Under the head of Notifications and
other works of defense, $4,000, 900 are
asked for the construction under re-
cent acts OF Congress of gun and NOR
tar batteries; 100000 for sites for
Notifications and sea-coast defenses;
Sl05,000 for the preservation and re-
pair of notifications; 500, 900 for the
construction of sea-walls and the en-
bankments; S5,15O,00O for torpedoes
for h Dor defense and so, no, 1856 for
armament for Notifications, which in
clude 81 III, 326 for steel for sea-coast
guns, SLIPS, 900 for steel breech load
ing mortars and 81, 597, 1856 for reserve
supply of powder and projectiles. The
total estimate for Notifications and
other works of defense is SIS, 1915, ESQ
an increase of over 100 per cent over
the appropriations for the present
fiscal year. For the construction of
buildings and enlargement of military
posts 81, 900, 900 Is asked for.
The total estimate for rivers and
harbors are IS, 349, 900 and the total for
public works of all kinds S31, 49,, 061.
A statement is appended showing the
total amounts required for the inn
provement of rivers and harbors under
the acts of 1890, 1892 and 1896, but
which are not yet under contract.
These amount to about ST., 500, 900.
Among other appropriations asked
for are the following: For the recoin-
age of uncurrent silver coins, $3.50, 900;
maintaining and improving national
cemeteries, 800, 900; headstones for
graves of soldiers, $4,000; cables for
harbor defenses, $4,000; for main
tenance of national homes for disabled
volunteer soldiers, S2,6lS,215 for state
and territorial homes, 1926, 900; for the
surveying of public lands, 1926, 900; for
payment of salaries, fees and expenses
of United States marshals and their
deputies, Sl,200,0OO; for furnishing
artificial limbs and transportation,
$780, 900; for special experimental work
in ballooning for the use of the signal
cOrnS $40 non