Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-05
GAGE ESTIMATES EXPENSE
Secretary Furnishes a Reospitulation of the
Needed Appropriations,
INCREASE OF THlR1Y-ElGHT MILLIONS
Omaha and blair Come In for Recon-.
mendntion on Public Buildings
One Million for the
Missouri River.

WASHINGTON Dec. 4-The secretary o
the treasury today transmitted to the house
Of representatives estimates Of appropriation:
required for the service of the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1901 The aggregate OF the
appropriations estimated for is S63l, ,0S1 994
an increase over the estimates for the pres
ent fiscal year of S3S, ,O33 6l6 and an increase
over the appropriations for the present fiscal
year of S34, ,235, O24.
Following is the total recapitulation by
departments of the estimates for next year
cents omitted. Estimates for 1901 Legis-
lative, s94, 436, ,257 executive, 1857, l4O; State
department S2,13327S; Treasury depart
ment S162,171,442; War department., $190
ISL Navy department, ST6, 469 500; In
terror department, S174 $50 sal; Postoffice
department, S4,5S1, ,6S5 Department of Agri-
culture, S4,3O6,257; Department OF Labor
$1729SO; Department Of Justice s6279,5T0;
grand total, 1851 ,OS1, ,994.
Appropriations for 1900: Legislative, $40,
23,152; executive, S215, ,7OS; State depart
ment, s24,O3961S; Treasury department.
Sl65 S91, ,41O; War department s16S OSS, ,35S;
Navy department, $51 ,925. 200; Interior d.
partment, S167502, 515; Postofflce depart
ment, $1,539,S $751; Department of Agriculture
s3,726,O94; Department Of Labor, $l72,9
Department of Justice, $S,S22,O77; grand
total 1896, ,S469 $40.
slight Decrease in Pensions.
Among the estimates for the next fiscal
year are the following: Army and navy
pensions, $144, ,O00, 900; expenses OF pension
examining surgeons, 100000; all other ex-
penses, $500, ,2S2, making the total on account
g & mt l.. q L..
than the appropriations ror the current
year.
New Jail, penitentiary and other buildings
at sitka Alaska, $4,000; laboratory Marine
hospital service, $50 900; government build
lngs al Aberdeen, S. D., $43,500; Abilene,
Tex, $37,5OO; Altoona, Pa, s75 600; Annap
oils, Md, $50 900; Baltimore, 100000 Beau
mont, Tex, $37,5OO; Blair, Neb., $21 500;
Bristol, Tenn, $25 900; Brunswick, Ca. s25,-
900; Butte. Mont, $4,000; Cleveland, o.
$500 900; Chicago, $5OO,OOO Dubuque, Ia.
$50, 900; Elgin, H., $4,000; Elizabeth City,
N. c.. $25, 900; Elmira, N. Y, $4,000; Fergus
Falls, Mimi, 1850; Fitchburg, Mass, $780,
600; Freeport, ILL.,. $37, 500; Helena, Mont,
$129 1877; indianapolis, $500, ,0OO jamestown,
N. Y, s37,5OO; Janesvlle, Wis, $4,000;
Joliet, ILL.,, $50, ,OOO Joplin. Mo-, $25 900; Kan
S25, 900; Lockport, ~ Y, $25, 900; Los
Angeles, Cal, 100000; Menominee, Mich,
s25 900; Monmouth ILL.,. s23,5OO; New
$50, 900; New Iberia, La, s25, 900; Newport,
VT, $4,000; Newport News, Va, s65, ,OOO
Norwich, Conn, S25 900; Oakland, Cal, $780,
600; Omaha Neb., s35O,OOO; Philadelphia
mint $351,37 Rome, N. Y, $4,000; St.
Cloud, Mimi, $25, 900; Salem, Ore. s25,OOO;
streator H., $4,000; Tampa, Fla, S1OO,OO0
Winston, N. c., $4,000; quarantine station.
Savannah, Ga, 100000; quarantine station,
San Diego, Cal, $23, ,75O quarantine station,
San Francisco, $137,500.
RiII for Navy and Fortifcntions.
Important increases in appropriations are
asked for improvements and extensions CT
the following navy yards and naval stations
For the navy yard at Portsmouth, N H.,
$6O2 600, increase nearly $500, 900; navy yard
at Boston, ,79S, 300 increase about s1,4O0,-
900; naval station New Lordon. $50, 900, in-
crease, $4,000; navy yard Brooklyn, ST.
977, 900, increase nearly 100000; navy yard
League Island, Pa, Sl,963,O ,O92, increase. ST.
1853, 900; navy yard Washington, $75,O17, in
crease, $67O, 900; navy yard Norfolk, Va.
81 ,640, ,OO0 increase 81 900, 900; naval station
Port Royal, S. c., 1882 900, increase, s735, ,OOO
naval station Key West, SLIT 900; naval
station San Juan. Porto Rico, $50, ,000 navy
yard Pensacola, Fla, $29,500; naval reserva-
tion Algiers, La, $145, 900; navy yard, Mare
Island, Cal, s1,152, 700; naval station Puget
Sound, Wash, $226O65; dredging Dry
Tortugas, Fla, 5000, 900; maintenance naval
station Havana, Cuba, $4,000; dry dock at
Algiers, La, $4,000; toward completion of
dry docks at Portsmouth, n. H., $200,000
Boston, $400,O0O League Island, 100000;
Mare Island, 5000, 900; for buildings for
cadets quarters at the Naval academy,
Annapolis, not to exceed in total cost $3,-
5S6, 000-$S50, 900; power house, Naval
academy, 5000, 600; storage warehouse, work
shops, ETC., at Naval academy, 5000, 900; con-
tinuation of sea wall at Naval academy,
100000; foundations for gun battery and
beacons, 100000; brick subway, S25, 900; for
purchase of land adjacent to Naval academy,
$311 900: for four new double houses, $75,-
600; for purchase of additional land
adjacent to government hospital for the in
sane at Washington, $245,OO0.
Construction of gun and mortar batteries,
including works for the defense OF ports OF
Porto Rico, pneumatic dynamite batteries,
etc. s5,9SO,O ,OOOi installation of range posi-
tion finders, $150000; sites for fortihcations
and seacoast defenses. 100000; armament of
fortifcations, $5,916, ,O3S; total amount asked
for fortihcations and other works of de-
fense, $119, ,72s, ,93S. .-.
For the construction of buildings at
military posts, barracks and quarters for the
artillery in connection with the project for
seaCoast defenses, S2,0OOOOO; for construc-
tion of ice plants at military posts in Cuba,
Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines,
100000; improvements Of Yellowstone ma
tonal park, 100000; Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga national parks, 100000; Gettysburg
national park, 100000; Shiloh national
military park, $4,000; Vicksburg national
park $65 900
Under the Missouri river commission ST.
100000 is asked for, and under the Mis-
sisslppi river commission SO, 100000
SENATE FINANCIAL MEASURE.
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