The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-04
President Mckinley TO Go to the Cap
itoI This Morning and Attach His
Signature to Belated Measures.
TEXAS BAILEY DlSGRUNTLED
ANGRY AT DEMOCRATS WHO RE-
FUSED TO GUST GEN. WHEELER,
And Says He VIII Not Again Attempt
to Lead the Maynard Minority
I'm the Lower House.

WASHINGTON, March 4-The best esti-
mates available place the aggregate of the
appropriations of the present session or Con-
gress at $675, ,SS5, 4S9 OF this total the follow
ing items are determined as the bills max
ing the appropriations have become laws:
Agriculture, g. 726. .022; diplomatic and con-
sulars, s1,714553; fortifications, A,909,9O2; In
dian, $780, 755; legislative, ETC., 3,4O5, 40;
Military Academy. $575, ,174; pensions, S145, ,233,-
$780, postoffice. $1O66S4 1S3; urgent deficiencies,
$14a640; Spanish treaty obligation, $4,000, co.,
The total permanent appropriations Is also
fixed and is $12S. SIS, go.
AT 2 o'clock this morning the sundry civil,
naval river and harbor and District of CO.
iumbia bills were still in conference and the
final figures were not available. The figures
as the bills passed the Senate were as fol-
lows: District of Columbia, 81, $50 ,9o5; navy,
s52979, 469; sundry CIVIL SOL %, ,262; river and
harbor (about). $16.000.OO0. On the army and
sundry civil bills the latest figures available
were those showing the amounts appropri-
ated as the bills were reported to the Senate
from the committee on appropriations.
These were: Army, $50 43o.194 general de-
fciency. 81. .126, 254. To these figures should
be added the following: Omnibus claims
bills. $4,000; in aid of exposition, 1OOO 600;
miscellaneous. $4,000 The total appropri-
atlons for the last year were 1898, 2a SIS,
making the grand total for the Congress
81. .569. .117,104
The Nicaragua canal rider is the main
bone of contention in the sundry civil BILL
The conferees yesterday agreed to the fol-
lowing: A substitute for the Senate amend
ment giving full authority to the President
to investigate all isthmian canal routes, es-
pecially the Nicaragua and Panama routes.
He Is to have all the engineer and other
employees he may need for this purpose, and
is allowed to appoint the engineers either
from the army or civil life. He is then to
report his conclusions to the next Congress.
For this purpose an appropriation of 81, eco, =
OIL was decided on. The Senate, however,
refused to accept the compromise.
At this hour. $50 a m, conferences are
being held on the deficiency, the naval and
the river and harbor bills while the sundry
civil and the District of Columbia are still
unsettled.
At 2:l5 a. m. the Senate went into ex-
ecutive session. In executive session the
naval nominations were taken up and the
discussion was upon the cases of Admirals
Schley and Sampson. 1t was urged that the
list sent in to-day would place the men in
the order they ought to be and that the first
nominations I'm which Sampson was given
the preference, should be dropped. The Sen
ate decided to take up the naval nomina-
tions sent I'm to-day and they were confirmed
without opposition. These are the promo
tions resulting from the naval personnel
bill. 1t settles the Schley-Sampson con-
troversy by making each a rear admiral
with Schley two numbers in advance OF
Sampson.
The eonferees on the river and harbor bill
were unable to make any change in the bill
and 1t Will be reported back to the Senate
a. II was first agreed upon.
At O'Clock the conferees agreed to report
another disagreement on the armor plate
and the battle ship amendments of the Sen
ate on the naval bill. They agreed upon all
the other provisions. These two items will
be submitted to vote of the Senate