The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-05
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Appropriations for 1000.


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Pension and building Estimates.
year are the following:
Army and navy pensions, $4,000, 1900; ex-
penses OF pension examining surgeons, ST.
100000; all other expenses, $5ao.2s2 making
the total on account Of pensions $146, $50
232. This Is $3.50 less than the approrria-
tons for the current year New jail, pen
itentiary and other buildings at Sitka.
tel service, $4,000; government buildings
at Abilene. Tex. $500; Beaumont, Tex,
SsS5oo; Butte Mont; $1,000; Chicago. $500
90; Helena. Mont. Sis. Isl: fndianarolis,
s5o6.oo0 Leadvilie, Col, $4,000 Los Anss.
les. CAL, 500 200, Oakland. Cal. $4,000;
oms Is s NsS go oce ahiladelph,s mint
ton. San Diego Zeal. s2s ioo. quarantine
station. San Francisco, si37.5Oo; nxed aids
TO navigation, to cost over 10000 each. as
follows:
Light and Fog stations.
Sabine bank light station. Texas $4,000:
light and fog signal station. Sabine Pass.
Point Buchon, Cal. $4,000; Humboldt bay.
coast. $1,000; light vessel OF Cape Mendo 1
cino, Cal, $50, 900; light and fog signal sta
ton, mouth Columbia river Oregon. s2.-
same, Semiahmoo, WASH. $4,000.
Navy Yards and stations.
Important increases In appropriations are
asked for improvements and extensions of
the following navy yards and naval sta
tons:
For the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H.,
100000. increase nearly 100000; navy yard
at Boston. 81, 100, Increase 81. 400, 600; ma
val station. New. London. $4,000. increase
$500; marry navy yard q % d sGooniyn M 1o in
navy yard, washington. ss75.oi7, increase
$4,000; navy yard. Norfolk. Va. sl,64o-
Royal, s. C.. $4,000, increase ss5. go: navy
station Key West, S117, 600; naval station
San Juan. Porto Rico, $4,000: navy yard
at Giers. La, si45, 600; navy yard, Mare is-
land, Cal, N.152, 700; naval station Puget
Sound; sS,0S5; dredging Dry Tortugas.
vana, Cuba, 5000; drydock at Algiere. La.
$G50.000 toward completion drydock at
Portsmouth. N. H.. $500 600; Boston. $500.
League island. 100000; Mare island. s2o0.oOo
For Special Purpose.
The buildings for cadets quarters at the
coed in total cost 1856. 900. $4,000 power
house naval academy, 100000: storage
warehouse, workshops. etc, at naval
at naval academy. $500 900; foundations for
gun battery and beacons, $4,000; brick
subway, $1,000; for purchase Of land ada
cent to academy I'm ~ $1,000; for four new
For purchases Of additional land ada
cent to government hospital for insane at
Washington, t2450O0; construction of gun
Tense of ports at Porto Rico, pneumatic
dynamite batteries, ETC., S., 900: install
lation of range and position finders, $780,
600; sites for Notifications and sea coast
$685. armament of Notifications. 1885,
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FOrtihcations and Parks.
Total amount asked for Notifications and
other works of defense, s1l, 72ss3s; for the
m, ST rtin Of I'M al tnr
barracks. ETC., for artillery in connection
with project for sea coast defense, $1,000
600; for construction of ice plants at mill
tary posts in Cuba. Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines, 100000 improvement of
Yellowstone national park. s310.000 Chick
amauga and Chattanooga national parks,
Shiloh national park, s55, 900; Vicksburg ma
tional park, $4,000.
Rivers and Harbors.
Among the river and harbor improve
ments estimated for under continuous con-
tracts on which the sum asked for is $780,
Oakland. Cal. harbor. $4,000; San Fran
cisco harbor, $4,000; San Pedro harbor.
$4,000 Everett Wash s,,z hn $4,000;
Also the following river and harbor i'm
provements:
Mouth of Brazos river, Texas, 100000;
Or, 100000; Columbia river at the Cas-
cades. Or, $4,000: waterway connecting
Puget sound with Lakes Union and
Washington, 100000.
Also harbor improvements as follows:
San Diego. Cal, 100000; San Luis Obs
DO, Cal, $4,000.
The total amount estimated for under
the title of public works Is SIG, 4le,225, as
against $40, 6O3. 466, the amount OF the cur
rent appropriations.
OF the sum appropriated during the
current year on account of the state de-
partment s2o.o00,00O was paid to Spain un-
der the treaty of Paris.