The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-11
WHERE THE
MONEY GOES.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation
Bill
AS Reported by the Committee
Carries
A TOTAL OF $5O.664.743.
TOpeka'S POstOffice Didn't Get
=. Cent
Nor Does Any Other Town In
Kansas.
A TOTAL OF $5O,664,743

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE house
committee on appropriations today fin
ished the Sundry civil Appropriation bill
for the next fiscal year. The bill car
ries a total of $50, 664,743. This is S.
141,0 less than the estimates and $18,-
ga, 100 more than the appropriations for
the current year; ST., 529, O53 of the ap-
preparation are for carrying out river
and harbor contracts and S4.O72, 795 for
public buildings. The principal items
for carrying on woI;- on public bull
ings are: Allegheny, Pa, $55. 900; Boise
City. Idaho, $1,000 Buffalo, N. Y,
$500, 900; Cheyenne, Wyo., 500 600;
Denver, Col. Cmint), $780, 900; Helena,
Mont, 100000; Kansas City. Mo. $685.
900; Milwaukee, Wis, 100000; New
York city, appraisers warehouse, $780,
600; Newport, Ky, $4,000; Portland,
Ore, 100000; Pueblo, Col, $3.50, 900;
South Omaha, Neb., $4,000; St. Paul,
Mimi, 1925, 600; San Francisco, 500. 900,
and Savannah, Ga, $4,000. The limit
of cost of the Omaha, Neb., building is
increased 500, 900 and $125, 900 is appro-
priated for finishing it.
The largest sums for harbor work
contracted for by the secretary of war
include: Philadelphia harbor, for re-
moval of Smiths windmill and petty
islands, and shoals, 1854, 900; Galveston,
$500, 600; the Hudson river, $500, 900; i'm
provement of channel connecting the
great lakes between Chicago, Duluth
and Buffalo. 81 ,090, 900; Humboldt bay,
Cal, $400 900; Savannah, Ga, $40O, 900;
Cumberland sound, Georgia and Flor
ida, s400, 600; Boston, $500, coo; Buffalo,
$55O,000; Dunlxirk, N Y, sS9S;O0O; Della
ware bay, Delaware, $3.50, goo; Winyaw
bay, South Carolina, 100000; Sabine
pass Texas, $400, 900; Cleveland, $780,
600; Milwaukee, $16S. 600: Duluth and
Superior, $500, COO; Gray's Harbor, Wash
ington, S400, 900.
The river appropriations include AL
legheny river, Pennsylvania. locks and
dams at Herr island, also Six Mile ISL
and and Springdale, 100000; Upper
Monongahela, six locks and dams, $780,
600; Yazoo and Vicksburg harbors, $780,
Bayou PlaQuemine, La, 100000; Cum
berland above Nashville, three locks,
$500. 900; falls of the Ohio at Louisville
S4OO 900; Ohio river, for dam No. 6 at
mouth of Beaver river, $500, 900: Chicago
river. $113, 900; Illinois and Mississippi
canal, s., 000, coo; waterway from Ke-
vance bay to Lake Superior, $500 600;
Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio
to St. Paul, $673, 1888, not more than $780,,
900 of the sum to be used to prevent the
Mississippi breaking into the Cache
river near Beach ridge at Cairo, Ill;
from mouth of Missouri river to St
Paul. 1926. $50, including 100000 for sand
bar at Dubuque and $4,000 for sandbar
at Muscatine. Ia; Mississippi from the
head of the passes to mouth OF the
Ohio, 81, $50, 1888; Missouri from mouth
to Sioux City, $500, 600, including $25. 900
for repair work at Nebraska City; Will
lamette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon,
$3.50, 900.
Senator Davis from the committee
on commerce today reported with a ia
Vorable recommendation the amend
ment to the sundry civil bill introduced
by Senator Davis, making an appropri-
alton for the survey of a deep water
way between the great lakes and the
Atlantic tidewater. The amendment
was amended go as to require an esti-
mate of the cost of such a canal as is
required, as well as an examination
and a survey. so as to make 100000 of
the s15O,0O0 appropriated immediately
available and SO as to require that the
work be done by a board of three army
engineers. The committee report is
written and recommends that the sur
vey should be proceeded with as rapid
w as possible.