Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-04
Departments Report Given
to the Public.
THE YEAR
Appropriations Asked FOR in Order to
Carry Out the Work of the Differ
ent Bureaus--Butte is Down For a
Fund For its Public Building.

e. S'dAt tlSitSiiitlleU To tH1
house of representatives estimates Of
appropriations required for the service
or the fiscal year ending June 30, I9u1.
Ihe aggregate of the appropriations esti-
mated is 1851 .0St. 1914, an increase over tile
estimates for the present fiscal yea. Of
SoS,o33.b ST, and an increase over the ap-
preparations for the present fiscal wear
of s34 90. 02l.
Following is the total recapitulation
by departments of the estimates for next
year. cents omitted: Estimates for 1901:
Legislative. 1885. 257: executive, 1851, 14O:
state department, s.. ia, 27S: treasury de-
partment, S1e2.1!1.4i2; war department,
Sl9o, l-.oa1; navy department, $3.50, 112, S51;
navy department, $50 1853. $50: interior de-
part1nent, $174,G6o, Sal; postoffice depart
ment. Sf,5S1, 6S5; department of agricul-
ture. $4.3o6 PSI; department of labor,
s1I2,9so; department of justice, Sc, 279. $40.
Grand total. 1851 ,0S1, 1914.
Appropriations for 1900: Legislatiye.
$40, 322. Tsp: executive. $215, 70S: state de-
partInent. S240.5Ss: treasury department.,
$3.50, s9l. 40; war department. $163, OSS, 35S;
navy department. s91, 925, 200; interior de-
partment, $1o7.52.552; postottice depart
ment, M.i23,S51; department Of agricul-
ture, $3.'2S.C94 department of labor, S172,-
$50; department OF justice, IS, 1922, or.
Grand total, $500, SIG, $40.
Among the estimates for the next
fiscal year are the following: Army and
navy pensions, STA, 000, 900: expenses of
pension examining surgeons. 81, 700, 900;
all other expenses. $3.50, 232, making the
total on account of pensions. $145, $50, 232.
This is $3.50 less than the appropriations
for the current year. New Jail, peniten-
tlary and other buildings at Sitka,
Alaska, $l10,0DC; laboratory, marine hos
pital service. $40. coo; government build
lnss at Abilene, Texas, $27, 500; Beau
mont. Texas, 1860; Butte, Mont, $780,
ooo; Chicago. 500, 600; Cleveland, Ohio,
$?oo'ooo; Baltimore, 100000; Helena,
Mont, 1923, 49l; indianapolis, $500, 900;
Leadville, Colo, $4,000; Los Angeles,
Cal, sloo.0oo; Oakland, Cal, $4,000;
Omaha. Neb., S35o,Ooo; Philadelphia,
antine station. san Diego, Cal, s23, $50;
Quarantine station at San Francisco,
$4,000; fixed aids to navigation, to cost
over $4,000 each, as follows: Sabine
bank light station, Texas. $50, 900; light
and fog signal station, Sabine Pass,
Texas, 10000; light and fog signal sta,
ton, Point Ruchon. Cal, $33, coo; Hum
bo!ut bay. Cal, $25, coo; relief lisht vessel.
Pacific coast. $50, 600: light vessel off Cane
Mendocino, Cal, $780, 600; light and fog
signal station at the mouth of Columbia
liver, Oregon, 1924. 900; same, Burrows
island, Wasi,., SIC, 900; same, ]Semiahmoo,
Wash, $25, 0ON.
Important increases in appropriations
are asked for improvements and extern
sions OF the following nav yards and
naval stations: For the navy yard, at
Portsmouth. N. H., $780,, 900, increase
nearly $500 900; navy yard at Boston, ST.
91S,30O. Increase 81. 400, 600; naval station.
New London, $50. 900, increase $25, 900;
navy yard. brooklyn, $1,977 900, increase
nearly 1000 oo; nayy yard League
island. PENN, S,1963. 900, increase, $685.
600; navy yard, Washington, $s75,O71, in
crease, $4,000; navy yard, Norfolk, Va,
Sl,tio.Ooo, increase 81, 00O, 900; naval sta
ton Port Royal, S. c., 1882, 900, increase
$4,000; navy station, Key West, Sill, 900;
I naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico,
$5.3.9oo; navy yard Pensacola. Fla, $685.
500: naval reservation, Algiers. a $145,-
900: navy yard, Mare Island, Cal, 81, 152,-
700; naval station, Puget sound, $22S, O65;
dredging Dry T%ortugas, 5000, 600; main
tenaice naval station, Havana. Cuba,
$4,000; dry dock at Algiers, La, $605, 900;
completion dry dock Portsmouth, N. f.,
5000. Geo: Boston. $400, 600: League island,
Sl0o, 900. Mare island, 5000, 900; for build
ings for cadets quarters at the naval aca-
denny Annapolis, not included in total
cost 81. 500. Goo-SS50, 900 power house naval
academy: $500. 600 storage warehouse,
workshops. etc, at naval academy, $780,
900; continuation of sea wall at naval
academy, 500, 900; foundations for gun
battery and b%eacons, 800, 900; brick SUBJ
way, $1,000; for purchase of land ada
cent to academy, $11 900: for four new
double houses. $1,000. For purchase of
additional land adjacent to government
hospital for insane at Washington, $2i5,
eco. construction of gun and mortar bat
teries including works, defense of ports
at Porto Rico. pneumatic dynamite bat
teries, etc, s.. $3.50, 600; installation of
range and position finders, $3.50, 900: sites
for fortitications and sea coast. 5000, n00:
armament of notifications, s5,916, O3s:
tota! noun asked for Notifications and
other works OF defense, $11. 1928. 93s; for the
construction of buildings at military
posts, barracks, etc, for artillery in con-
~nection with project for seacoast defens-
es. 81, o0o. 900: for construction of ice
plants at military posts in Cuba. Porto
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines, 5000, :
600; improvement of Yellowstone nation
81 park, 1910. 900: Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga national parks, $50, 1000; Gettys-
burg national park. 500. 600; Shiloh ma
tt.onal park park, $50. 900; Vieksburg ma
tional park. So, 600. Among the river
and haibor improvements estimated FOR
under continuous contracts on which the
sum asked for is 500, 600 or more, are the
following: Oakland, Cal, harbor. $3.50.
coo: san Francisco harbor, $40. 900. 900:
san Pedro harbor, $500. 900; Everett.
Wash. s2.5. 500. Also the following river
and halbor Improvements: Mouth of
Brazos river. Texas, S22O, 900: lower Will
annette river below Portland, Ore, 5000. :
800: Columbia river at the Cascades,
Ore. yla5. oO6: waterway connecting Pu-
aat soUnd witt: lakes Union II Wash
ingten, SOC. 900. Also harbor improve
ments as fellows: San Diego, Cal, $780,
30: san Luis Obispo, Cal. $4,000. The
total amount estimated for under the
title If public works is $l1,416.2.6.
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