The San Francisco call., 1899-12-05
coin THAT UNCLE
SAM MUST SPEND
Estimates for the Next
Fiscal Year.
Special Dispatch 10 The Call.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.-The Secretary
OF the Treasury transmitted to-day 10 the
House OF Representatives estimates OF ap-
propriations required for the fiscal year
ending June 80 1901. The aggregate is
S631, ,0Sl. .994-an increase over the estimates
for the present fiscal year Of SSSOSS,6ld.
and an increase over the appropriations
for the present fiscal year OF $3iZS5, O24.
Following is the total recapitulation by
departments OF the estimates for next
year cents omitted:
Estimates Cor 1901: Legislative. $780, 20;
Executive, S257, 40: State Department. Y. 49,
27S: Treasury Department, si62, Ill 4i2; War De-
partment $3.50. ll2, S51; Navy Department. S7o,-
$50 6s0; Interior Department sl7i. e60 Sal; Post
office Department. s4,5sl.6S5 Department Of
Agriculture 81. 3os, 257; Department OF Labor;
sI12. $780, Department Of Justice. Ss.2Is5fo; grand
Appropriations for 1900: Legislative. slo.t2s.-
i52: Executive. s2l5 T0S; state Department, va
Department sl65. .oSS.S5S. Navy Department. ISL
925 200: Interior Department, sl6l 5eZ.5l5; POST
office Department, sl525, S5l; Department. OF
Agriculture, So. 726. .094; Department OF Labor
sl72 $50: Department OF Justice. IS, s22o71; grand
total. s5s6. .sis $40.
Among the estimates for the next fiscal
year are the following:
Army and navy pensions. s144. 100000 expenses
OF pension-cxamining surgeons. 81 100000; all
other expenses. $3.50. .232-making the total on
account OF pensions $ll5. 230 232. This Is sSSs9
less than the appropriations for the current
New Jail. penitentiary and other buildings
at sitka, Alaska. sllo.O Laboratory Marine
Hospital service. $4,000.
Government buildings Al Abilene. Texas
1850; Beaumont. Texas, ss7.5co; Butte, Mont.
$50 900: Chicago. $500. 00O Cleveland o., $4,000
Baltimore, 800 900: Helena. Mont, Sl2.Is In
dianapois 500 900: Leadville. Colo. 5000 Los
Angeles Cal. 500. coo: Oakland, Cal, So. .ooO
Omaha. Neb.. $3.50 900: Philadelphia Mint, $751;
80; Salem. or. $4,000.
Quarantine station, san Diego. cal SZS'foV'
quarantine sation San Francisco. SlSI.5N. -
Fixed aids TO navigation, to cost over $1,000
each as follows; Sabine Bank Light Station.
sabine pass. Texas, $40. 900; light and fog sig
nal station Point Buochon, CAL. SS3, 900; Hum
boldt Bay. Cal. s25 600: Relief light vessel Pa
cifc Coast $50 900; light vessel OF Cape Men
docino. Cal $50. 600; light and fog signal sta
tion. mouth OF Columbia River or; r.; SZ;Go'
same Burrows Island Wash. $4,000; same
Semiahmoo. Wash. $4,000
Important increases in appropriations
are asked for improvements and extern
sions of the following navy-yards and
naval stations:
For the navy yard at Portsmouth. n. H.
s602 coo increase nearly $500 0J0; navy yard at
Boston 81 s7s 800 increase about 81 l4OO,ooO naval
station at New London, $50 coo, Increase So
90: navy yard At Brooklyn, H,sIIOOO increase
nearly 81. 900, 90: navy yard at League Island.
Pa. sl.e63 cs2 increase sl,ss3.0o navy yard at
Washington, ss75.Ol7. increase 500, 900; navy
ward at Norfolk Va. s.. $40 coo increase 1000
900; naval station at Port Royal, s. G. sSs2. Ooo
increase $4,000; naval station at Key West.
1925 o00: navy yard at Pensacola, Fla. s2s. 500
naval reservation at Algiers. La. $3.50 navy
ton at Puget Sound Wash, S22s, O65; dredging
the Dry Tortugas Fla. $4,000; maintenance
OF naval station at Havana. Cuba. 5000; dry
dock at Algers. La. $3.50. .o0o toward the com
pletlon OF dry docks at Portsmouth. y. H.
$500 oco; at Boston. 500. coo; at League Island.
500. 900: at Mare Island. 500, co.
For buildings for cadets quarters the
in total cost 81. sac 90 $50 600. For power
h. gtnr Qva
warehouse workshops. etc, at Naval Acad-
emy. $4,000: for continuation of seawall at
battery and beacons. $4,000; brick subway
5000: for purchase OF land adjacent TO acad-
eny. 1000; for four new double houses 1000
For purchase OF additional land TO Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane at Washington,
s245. eo0: construction Of gun and mortar bat
teries including works for defense OF ports OF
Porto Rico. pneumatic dynamite batteries. etc.
binders $50. 900; sites for fortincations and sea
coast. 500 Oo0; armament OF fortihcations.
s. sis Oss: total amount asked for fortincatons
and other works Of defense. $i1.72S.93S.
For the construction OF buildings at military
posts. barracks etc. for artillery in connection
with project for sea coast defense. =. 900. 600;
in Cuba. Porto Rico. Hawaii and the Philip
For Improvement of Yellowstone National
Park. 1910, ooo; Chickamauga and Chattanooga
National Parks $50 0o0: Gettysburg National
Park 800 900: Shiloh National Military Park
s55. 900; Vickshurg National Park. se5.Oeo
Among the river and harbor improve
ments estimated for under continuous
contracts on which the sum asked for Is
100000 or over are the following:
Oakland. Cal. harbor. $3.50 900: San Francisco
harbor sl7o. 0c0: San Pedro. Cal. harbor. $780,
900: Everett Wash harbor $3.50. 600: Grays
Harbor Wash. s345 900.
Also the following river and harbor i'm
provements: Mouth OF Brazos River. Texas
$500 ooO: Lower Willamette River below Port
land. Or. 500. 900: Columbia River at the Cas-
cades. Or. sl25. 900: waterway connecting Pu-
get Sound with Lakes Union and Washington
500. 900.
Also harbor improvements follows: San
DIEGO. Cal. 10000; San Luis Obispo Cal.
si22. 900.
The total amount estimated under the
title of public works is $l6.4l6.2 .225 as
against s40.6034eS, the amount of the cur
rent appropriations
or the sum appropriated during the cur
rent year on account of the State Depart
ment 900 was paid 10 Spain under
the treaty OF Paris.