Evening star., 1900-08-13
NATIONAL EXPENSES
Resume Of Congressional Appropria-
tions and New Offices.
STATEMENT REQUIRED BY LAW
Increase of Thirty-Fve Million Over
1900.
AN INTE r ESTING REVIEW

/
The volume of appropriations. new off,
ces. etc. required by Jaw TO be prepared
and published at the end of each session
| of Congress- under the direction of the
! committee appropriations OF the Senate
| ard House, has been completed for the
| first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress by
| Thomas P. Cleaves and James c. Courts,
| chief clerks, respectively. of the commit
| tees. A summary of the appropriations
shows the grand total Of $40 150, So. SO.
The details by bills follows:
| Agricultural $4,O23,5 500: army, sl1I 300
| G'j.55: diplomatic. $1,T1, 1876; District of
Columbia. s7577 ,369.31; fortification s7?s.;.
62s: Indian. $s.197, ,9s9.24; legislative, s2l,
| 1I5G52.J3: Military Academy, $674.:arj.67:
naval. se'.1 40, 1861; pension, $145, ,2452}O:
| post office. s113, ,65s. .23S75: river and har-
bor, s!Go.oco; sundry civil. ssi, $40 9154o; de-
| tciency appropria tions S15.6SS. .:s3D.61: mis-
| ceilaneous appropriations. s3So23 3o1.3i: per.
manent appropriations, S1}2. I12,22U; grand
total, $40 100 Sb2 81.
| Contracts Authorized.
In addition to the specific appropriations
| made. contracts are authorized to be en-
| tered into for increase of the naval es-
| tablishment and for various public works
| throughout the country. requiring future
appropriations by Congress in the aggregate
| sum of s5S.4io.374 These contracts cover
| two new battleShipS. three armored cru-
sers, three protected cruisers and five sub
| marine torpedo boats. to cost. including
! NOR and armament. S43. 1874 .E4: increased
| cost of two dry docks, construction of Two
additional dry docks and for permanent im-
provement and enlargement of certain nivy
yards and the Naval Academy. $3.50 .Sc;
| public buildings. heretofore authorized in va
rious cities. including the new government
| printing office. lighthouses and tenders. ard
| for the extension Of the Government Hos
pital for the Insane. IS. 146.JU: and Ger
| school buildings and sewers in iha DiStrfc.
| of Columbia, $239.5O0
New Offices.
| The new offices and employments specifi-
| cally authorized aggregate J,u69 in num-
| ber, at an annual cost of S4.5 ,6I3.I1, and
| those abolished omitted number 2.193, at
an annual compensation of 81 .944 COS, net
| increase of 2.27O, at cost of S2,J93. .O1J. ~.
| OF this net increase ,3O9 are additional
| clerks in post offices and assistant postmas
ters. whose annual compensation amounts
| to sl,55S5o0 This is the second fiscal year
| In which Congress has specifically provided
| Tor this character Of personal services. and
| while the increase is apparent, it Is not
ratably greater than in previous years. OF
the remaining S'-net number of Of
| fees, with 81 O39, ,51J. - annual pay-2s are
| for Congress, ~ for the Library of Con-
| gresS. ~ for the Treasury Department, %
| for government in the territories. including
| Alaska. Hawaii and Porto Rico: :,3 for the
| Navy Department. % for the Interior De-
| partment. ~ for the Post Office Depart
ment l. for the Court of Claims. - for
| the Department of Agriculture I29 in
Guiding ~ school teachers, II policemen
and ~ fremen. for the District OF Column
| hia; - lighthouse keepers. II for the fish
commission. % for the census office, II for
! the diplomatic and consular service, 49,
| including 100 hospital stewards, for the
| military establishment; III. including 100
| additional cadets, for the Military Acad-
! emy; ~, including ~ additional assistant
surgeons, for the naval establishment. and
| 10 inspectors for the postal service.
| Salaries Increased
| The number of salaries cOmpensa tions
| increased is 4ST. at annual cost OF s13J-
| 1881 II. and the number reduced is eight i:I
! the total annual sum of 81 $3.50. net in
! crease of 40 at cost for the year of S1:s3-
! 529.I:' Of which number 800 at cost OF
SiouD are supervisors OF the census whose
/ employment terminates with the taking of
the tweifth census: eight. at a cost of 81 ..Isi
are In the Library of Congress twelve al
a cost of 81. 49, in the Treasury De-
! partment; ten. at cost Of 1880. are in
the Post ONCE Department: thirty-nine at
/ A cost Of $40, are for the government or
| the District of Columbia; nine. AT cost of
s.SD. are in the fish commission: nineteen
! at a cost of slJ#O, are in the d Diplomatic.
! and consular service. and thirty, at cost
of s.. .i32. are in the naval establishment
! The remaining ffty-two are In the various
other branches of the public service and
| involve annual increases of 500 and up
| ward
| Compared With Other Congresses.
| comparison of the total appropriations
| of the first session Of the Fifty-sixth Com
gress for 1901, $40. 1JO. s62ss, with those of
| the last session OF the Fifty-fifth Congress
for 1900, s674,9s1 ,022.29 shows an increase
| of SO. l63. .Sio.53 OF this amount appro-
| prtations for the army show an increase of
so, IS3.h91 10: Notifications. S. 471 726: the
| navy, Sl1.u4o.J4I.U3. the postal service SS-
| 024.1 100; sundry civil expenses, chiefly river
| and harbor contract work, and for the CEN
| sus, sl6,!33.9S4.J9: the Indian agricultural
| diplomatic and other branches of the SER
| vice, S.Gi4 ,%3.91. and permanent appro-
| priations, including interest and sinking
! fund for the public debt. siW34oO on
| the other hand. there appears reductions of
| SlJ,J31 .si1.94 because of the passage of no
| regular river and harbor act, S9317 5s1 80 in
| deficiencies and $24 g42 2SS 80 in misceua-
| neous appropriations. making "a net Increase
! as above stated. of s35, 1G9, 5000
! The total amount of contracts authorized
! in addition to the appropriations made. is
| S1s,Gi.0D. 13 less than was authorized nv
! the last session of the previous Congress
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