The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-22
Great Cuts Made In Appropriations
For National Defense.
THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL
WHAT 1T Is DESIGNED TO COVER
THIS YEAR.
Repeats Certain Laws and Limits Ex-
penditures In the Whole Catalogue
of Government Machinery = APP
preparations For Boise, Cheyenne
and Denver Public Buildings.

/ Washington. Feb. 21-A sweeping re-
duction of over ss,0oO,OOO from the
amount carried by the current law is
made in the sundry civil appropriation
bill, reported to the house today. the
aggregate appropriation carried being
$44. 749, 1893.
The total is 1924, Sal less than the
regular and supplemental official esti-
mates made for the fiscal year 1899, and
SS,86l, $50 less than the appropriations
made for the current fiscal year. The
bill imposes a number of new limita-
tons and places all court houses, Gus
tom houses, postoffices, appraisers
stores, barge offices, sub-treasuries and
public buildings heretofore erected or
purchased, being constructed or here
after erected or purchased out of any
appropriation under the control of the
treasury, together with the sites, I'M
der the exclusive jurisdiction and con-
troll and in the custody of the secretary
of the treasury.
MADE LIMITS EXPENDITURES.
1t repeats the requirement that in the
settlement Of claims for pay, bounty,
prize money or other moneys due pri-
Vate soldiers, sailors or marines, or
their representatives, the allowances for
fees beng stated in a separate certifi-
cate. Limits the expenditures for the
erection of barracks and quarters for
artillery, in connection with the project
adopted for sea coast defenses at any
one point to $4,000 for one battery port,
and 5000 each additional battery from
any appropriation, unless special au-
thOrity of congress be grantde.
The bill prohibits expenditures for
surveying any public domain within
any of the forest reserves except where
necessary to designate their exterior
boundaries, and OF such land within re-
serves as covered by legal claims in
itiated prior to proclamation of the res
ervation.
SOME ITEMS.
For arsenaIs and armories, S193,375 is
appropriated, an increase of S54. 765 from
the current year for military posts.
$4,000 estimates called for $2,000000),
work on rivers and harbors under au-
thorized contracts, $l3, 210,613, a reduc-
ton of IS, SCI 1893; survey of deep water
ways between the great lakes and the
Atlantic ocean, 1925, 900; increase of
$4,000; public buildings, $S,132. 500; re-
duction of 81, 1873, 1874; for the lighthouse
establishment, $3,006, 600; increase of
$112,535, and for the Paris exposition,
100000; national soldiers homes, 81
S19, 531, an increase of $25S.000 over the
current law.
Other items are: Live-saving service,
81 593, 075; lighthouse beacons and sig
nails, S154,000, a reduction of S232, 140;
revenue cutter service, 81, 100, 600; to re-
enforce the Chinese exclusion act, $780,
600; surveying public lands, 1925, 600; for
expenses of collecting revenue from
public land sales, $S27, 900; including a
new item of $4,000 to protect and adj
minister forest reservations; expenses
of United States courts, 4,Sf6, 012, a re-
duction of over half a million dollars
from the current law: suppressing
counterfeiting and other crimes, $780,
600; back pay and bounty claims certi- |
fed by the treasury to be due, $524,-
600.
WESTERN BUILDINGS.
The appropriations for public build
ngs including marine hospitals and
quarantine stations, aggregate $3,132.-
500 recommended S3,413.272), a reduc-
ton of 81, 191, 1894 from the current law. /
They include Boise City, Idaho (com- /
Dleting building). $32,3S2 completing |
building at Cheyenne, SIS, S53; complet- |
ng mint building at Denver, Colo, !
900, 600.
San increase of $4,000 is made in the |
general appropriation for coast survey |
work on account of the work to be |
made in Alaska.