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DEF1o1ENoT BILL OF sss4 ,oss.sas.
8els. 109. 5b1 As for war ENpenaes-Tstal VVa1
Deficiencies Date, $3.50, 8R0. 1RO.
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Deficiencies to Date $3.50, sss. $50.
WAsH1NGToN, June 15.-The Committee on
Appropriations to-day reported to tho House
the General Deficiency bill. 1t is tho largest
ever reported in the history OF Congress- carry
Ing total of S2240 032 ,323.3s divided among
tho several departments as follows: Executive
Office, $1,000; State Department, $4,000;
Treasury Department, $l,757.569; Fish Com
mission, $500: Government in the Territories,
$500; Smithsonian Institution, $466; District OF
Columbia, $79.3o5; War Department, $54,4s5t
Navy Department, $63.76o; Interior Depart
ment, Sl47,s26: Post Office Department. $685.
out OF postal revenues. $2,545. SOC; Depart
ment of Justice, $344720; Capitol police, S1o,-
900; House of Representatives, $119, ,992: Gov
ernlnent Printing Office. $2,674; Judgments,
United States courts, $H,o46; judgments.
Court OF Claims. $433, SOL; judgments. Indian
depreciation claims. $1O6,sS6; war expenses,
$2lsl92,75l; audited claims by Treasury off,
cialS, $50, 700; audited claims (war). $46,53s.
The committee say: Tho accompanying bill
10 the last of tho general appropriation bills
TO be reported to the House at this session. all
of the others having already been disposed of
by the House, and all are now laws except the
District of Columbia, Indian, and Sundry Civil,
which lattor have passed both houses and
in conference. In addition to the
amount appropriated by the accompanying bill,
appropriations have been made during the Sos
sion to supply deficiencies aggregating S115.-
356, 1865, making in all for deficiencies $780,
3sS,4so.23. of which sum the amount of $32l,-
1s3.453.62 is distinctively for war expenses,
and is Independent OF amounts carried In the
naval and tortibcation acts and in the naval
auxiliary act, eppropriatinE $4,000. 900. De.
sum total of deficiencies actual and proposed bV
the accompanying, bill. there remains only Sls,-
| 2O5. 5.O26.61 for ordinary deficiencies of which
| the sum of 5000, S7246 is for pensions"
The bill provides Q relaxation of the regula-
ton regarding annual and sick leaves OF depart
| ment employees, by giving the heads of depart
ments discretion to grant thirty days annual
given , thirty days sick leave T In the the same n
! year. The acceptance of the invitation to take
! part in the International fisheries exposition aS
| bergen this year is repealed. Payment Is au.
| thorzed OF 1000 to the heirs Of Louis Moreno,
a Mexican, lynched At Yreka, Ca Tho salary
, nue is made $500.
The following appropriations are made: To
| collect the customs revenues, 81 ,000, 900; for
| the prevention of epidemics 5000, 900; to sottlo
! the claims OF Texas, $l0l. 113: to reimburse D.
lars, $50; s1pra sers ~arShouso. NSW '!E York. &
! 100000; inland mail transportation. 81 $685.
can claims, SIC. 900; Hugh T. Taggart, special
attorney in Potomac River front cases, $25 5.booi
allowances to parties to contested election cases
| in Fifty fifth Congress. $69711.
War expenditures include the following ap-
pro9riatiGoanso; Zoo NSEy oUy Dopartment. emergency
/ Bureau OF Equipment, $6,324 ,975; Bureau of
| Supplies and Accounts, Sl,65O O00 Bureau Of
Of steam Engineering. $3.50 900; Bureau Of
| Medicine and surgery, 100000; Bureau Of
Yards and Docks. 81 l,5l5.5 800; War Departments
| proper. $24209O; pay Of troops. Sl4 .099 ,ss1;
plies and transportation OF troops, 81. 600, 900;
| clothing and camp equipage see. 200, 900: con.
| tngencies, $20O.0oO; Medical Department.,
| $3JI 900; Ordnance Department.. ammunition,
| cations. $l,0Jo09s; Engineer Department..
| 100000; gun and mortar batteries. g.. 2.962,.
900: torpedOes for harbor defence, ST. 1886. 900;
total for the navy. 500, 1878; total for the
| army. $l7S.317.S76
| Other war expenditures are: Additional tenn.
| porary force in the internal revenue ofice.
$500. .O00 Coast and Geodetic Survey, R5, 900;
| printing and binding in the Treasury Depart.
| ment, $25,O 900.
In the effort to carry out the provisions OF the
| War Revenue bill and OF the Urgent Deficiency
| bill, authorizing the appointment OF temporary
| agents and clerks in the War and Treasury de-
themselves seriously hampered by the decision
| of the Civil Service Commission that these
| agents and clerks must he appointe in accord
| ancc with the law of 1888. after examination
/ directly in onposnOn to the intent of Congress,
| often declared In the course OF the discussion OF
! the sey raj bills, and particularly exaspcrating
| to the internal revenue officials. who arc driven
| upon them in the necessity TO put the rev onuO
| law into operation by the 1st prox.
| To carry out tho intention OF Congress and to
| prevent the commission from " holding up" the
| Government by denying 1t Tho facilities for car
| ryinG on the war. tine Committee on Appropria.
| tons inserted a provision In tho Deficiency bill
| investing the several heads of the departm ents
| with authority and power to appoint these tom
| rorarv employees for period not exceeding one
year without regard TO the provisions Of the
Civil Service law