The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-22
ECONOMY is THE WORD
Sundry Civil Appropriations Are
Scaled Down.
CUT OF EIGHT MILLIONS
Only 100000 for the Paris Exposition.
Military Posts Reduced From a.
600 600 to 42o.ooo-Severe
Restrictions Imposed.

washington. Feb. 21.-A sweeping re-
duction of more than IS 600, 600 from the
amount carried by the current law Is
made in the sundry civil appropriation
bill. reported to the house to-day, tae
aggregate appropriation carried beins
s44, 749, S93.
The total is S1S. 234, al less than the
regular and supplemental fiscal esti-
mates made for the fiscal year 1899, and
IS. SCI. $50 less than the appropriations
made for the current fiscal year. The
bill imposes number of new iimlta-
lions and places all court houses, Gus
tom houses. postofiices. appraisers
stores. barge offices, sub treasures ana
public buildings heretofore erected "r
purchased, being constructed or here
afterafter erected or purchased out of
any appropriation under the control OF
the treasury, together with the sites,
under the exclusive jurisdiction ana
control and in the custody OF the secre-
tary of the treasury. 1t repeats the
requirement in the settlement OF claims
for pay. bounty, prize money or othef
moneys due private soldiers, sailors or
marines or their representatives, the
allowances for them being stated IN
separate certificate. 1t limits the ex-
penditures for the erection OF the par
racks and quarters for artillery, IN con-
nection with the project adopted Tor sea
coast defenses, at any one point. 10
$50. 900 for one battery port. and S25,0oo
Tor each additional battery from any
appropriation. unless special authority
of congress be granted
The bill prohibits expenditures TOT
surveying any public domain wltnin
any of the forest reserves except wnere
necessary to designate their exterior
boundaries, and of such land within re-
serves as is covered by legal claims
initiated prior to proclamation of the
reservation For arsenals and armofies
S193,315 is appropriated, an increase on
s54 765 from the current year; for mill
fary posts S420. 900 estimates called Tor
80 DOC. O00l: work on rivers and harbors
under authorized contracts. Sl32lo.ol3,
a reduction of So, 36I .S99; survey OF deep
waterways between the great lakes ana
the Atlantic ocean, S225,oO an increase
of 5000; public buildings, $3,l32,soo
reduction of 81, 1884; for the light
house establishment, s3,006,000, an in
grease of s1I2.535, and for the Paris ex-
nosition. 100000: National Soldiers
homes, 81, sls. 531. an increase OF S253.o0o
over the current law.
Other items are: Life saving service,
S1593o75; lighthouse, beacons and sig
mails, 1854, 200, a. reduction of $232, 140;
revenue cutter service. $l.l0000O: to re-
enforce the Chinese exclusion act,
100000; surveying public lands, S325,-
600; for expenses of collecting revenue
from public lands, sS27,0O0, including a
new item of $4,000 to protect and
administer forest reservations; expenses
of United States courts, $4,S46.Ol2,
reduction of over half a million dollars
from the current law.
The bill carries $225 900 for the deep
mater ways commission, no estimate
having been submitted by the war de-
partment, but only 100000 for the Paris
Exposition. for which $500 was recon-
mended: s420, 900 for the enlargement of
military forts $4,000 recommended):
s13,210,613 for river and harbor work
{s1S.093 007 recommendedD, the chief
items being as follows: Humboldt bay,
California, 500, 900; Savannah, $4,000;
Cumberland sound. Georgia and Florida,
$3.50 600: Buffalo, \, Y, $4S9. 746; Della
tware bay, $500 200; Wyawa bay, s450.000;
Sabine Pass, Texas, 100000; Duluth,
MINI, s770,13S; Oakland. Cal, $133,000;
san Pedro Cal, $4,000, with pro-
wiso making the construction of the har-
Dor in accordance with the plan of the
board appointed by the president.
Locks and dams-Allegheny river,
$500, 900; Monongahela river, w. Va,
$500, 900: Cumberland river, above Nash
Willie, s250.0o Kentucky river, 100000;
Il
dams Nos. 2, 3, 4 and s, between Davis
ISLAND dam and dam No. 6, $595,000: Chi
cago river, $500, 600; Illinois and Missls-
sippi canal, $l,427, T40; waterway from
Keweenaw bay to Lake Superior, $3.50,
900; Mississippi river, from the mouth
of the Ohio to St. Paul. 1913, 1888; frcn
the mouth of the Missouri to st. Paul
SS26, 666: from the head of the passes &c
the mouth of the Ohio, Sl,9S3.333: fol
protecting the bank at Charlottesville
MO, 100000 t$30,00 of which is to pro
tect the banks at st. Joseph, and $4,000
lat the mouth OF the Little Blue).
The appropriations for public build
engs, including marine hospitals anC
quarantine stations, aggregate So, 122, so
Recommended 3413.212), a reduction o
81 .s94 from the current law The!
include Boise City, Idaho, completing
building) $32. 282; continuing the post
toffice at Buffalo, n. ", under the pres
emit limit of cost. s4o0. 900; rental of quar-
tiers at Chicago, $1s,s45: continuing tn
building at Chicago. s1.000.000; continu
ing the building at Cheyenne. sss.S53
completing the mint building at Denver
Colo, 5000, 900: completing the immigra
hion station at Ellis island, 100000: con
tinuing the building at San Francisco
H500, 900; $3.50 900 for general repairs {
public buildings. An increase of $3.50
Us made to the general appropriation TO
coast survey work on account of tn
WORK 10 DE ilaue III AldShd. All dplio
preparation OF $4,000 is made for com
pleting the coast survey steamer TO
service in Alaska and Aleutian island
and $50, 900 for her outfit.
The bill carries SIS. 900 for the purpos
of continuing the investigation of fu
seals. The item appropriating 500 0(
for the Paris exposition, empowers th
president TO appoint a commissions
general at $4,000 per year, an assistai
commissioner general at $1,000. and
secretary general at $4,000 10 represer
the United States, and an advisor
board of nine commissioners TO serS
without salary or compensation Il
expenses. The terms of the three ger
eral officers shall be for three year
each and their actual travelling expens,
shall be paid. The total expense of II
United States for all purposes incident