Evening star., 1902-08-19
MUCH MONEY SPENT
All Records Broken by Last
Session Of Congress.
BILLION N-DOLLAR MARK
AUTHORIZATIONS AND APPRO-
PRIATIoNS TAKEN TOGETHER.
Official Statement From Appropriations
Committees of Senate and
House-New Officers.

What the hardest-working Congress in
the history of the country did at its first
session is made known in full today through
the publication of a most interesting COM
pilation of the numerous and varied appro-
prlation acts passed at the last session.
The document, which is decidedly bulky
one, has been in the course of prepara ton
under the personal direction of Mr.. Thomas
P, Cleaves and Mr.. James C. Courts, clerks,
respectively, to the appropriations commit
tees of the Senate and House.
The amount this one session of Congress
actually appropriated, taken together with
the amount which it authorized for public
work contracts, reaches the enormous fig
ure of 81, 063, ,335 961 80. When these two
items are separated the figures stand as
follows: Amount actually appropriated,
SSoo,G2f, 1860; amount of public work au-
thoriZed to be contracted for, 1852 III 465
These contracts include $21, ,O69, 800 for addi-
tlonal ships for the navy and for perma-
nent improvements of and increased facili-
ties at certain navy yards; $1J, ,943, $50 for
additions to old public buildings and the
construction of new public buildings in va
rlous parts of the country; S3S,33G, 1GO for
Improvement of rivers and harbors; 50, 800
0to for reconstruction of old and erection
of new buildings at the Military Academy
at West Point, and $50. .O00, 600 for the con-
struct1on of an isthmian canal.
new OmceS Created.
The new offices and employments of a
civilian character specifically authorized
number 6,3s6 with compensation for the
year of s6,343,o o95; and those abolished
or omitted aggregate 1,165, at an annual
pay of $1,2S9, 30; net increase of 3 5221
at yearly cost of s5,054 5145O
In addition to the new civilian employ
ments shown the volume also exhibits an
increase of TO in the military establish
ment at an annual cost of s42,30S, and
800 officers Gncluding 80 additional mid
shipment, together with 1908 seamen in
the military establishment, and 750 addi-
tional men in the Marine Corps, with total
yearly pay of $1,343, 80.
OF the total net increase in civilian en-
ployments 81 are for the Library Of Con-
gress;. I for the State Department; 33 for
the Navy Department.; .1T9 for the Treas
ury Department; 30G for the Post Office
Department. including 265 on account of
the rural free delivery service; 80 for the
Department of Agriculture; III, including
46 school teachers 22 policemen and fire
men, for the government of the District
of Columbia; 90 lighthouse keepers; IL for
the coast survey; 81 for the diplomatic and
consular service, and 4,303 for the postal
service, including 11S assistant poStmas-
ters, 3,134 clerks in post offices, 169 agents
and others in the rural free delivery ser
vice. and $50 railway postal clerks.
OF the net total 5,221 civil officers and
employments authorized only 921 are out
side of the postal service.
Increases in Salaries.
The number of salaries increased is 725.
at an annual cost of $11S,576 10; and the
number reduced Is sixteen, in the total
nual sum of S13, ,120, a net increase of 100,
at cost for the year of S10o, 10, of
which number 4S1 are the cadets at the
Military Academy, who are given an in
creased allowance of S69.5O each; thirty
one are consuls and consular clerks, sixty
four are officers of the revenue cutter serv-
ice, whose pay is made equal to the similar
officers of the navy; thirteen are in the life
saving service and thirty-two, amounting
to $4,000 annually, are in the Department
of Agriculture.
Comparison With Last Year.
A comparison of the total appropriations
made at the last session of Congress for
1903, 500, ,524 1865, with those of the pre-
ceding, or short, session of the Fifty-sixth
Congress, for 1903, $3.50, ,33s $3.50, shows
increase of SO, ,2S5, ,920.56. In this amount
are included increased appropriations for
the Department of Agriculture, S62j,540;
for the diplomatic, District of Columbia,
legislative, executive and judicial and laval
service, 81, 706, ,9s1.7 for the Military Acad-
emy, 81 ,654 "a; for the postal service,
S14 633 91O; for the whole of the river and
harbor act none having been passed at the
preceding session, $26, III, ,442; for deflcien-
cies $12, 1872 $50. 49, and for the isthmian
appear reductions of $24, ,G03, 12.S9 for the
army, $65,05O for fortifcations, $761 ,442. 80
for the Indian service, S., ,403. 900 under re-
quirements for pensions, 81 ,632, $40. .0S by
the sundry civil act, $5,267 ,223. "a by mis-
cellaneous acts, and $437 600 under perma-
nent appropriations which cover interest
on the public debt, making a net increase,
as stated, of 0,2S5. .920.56.
How the Money Was Spent.
Agricultural, $5,2Os, $50; army, sol, $780,
1864; diplomatic, $1,S57 1850; District Of
Columbia, $S, ,544, ,469.97; fortification, $T,29s,-
955; Indian, $s,9s6, OBS 10; legislative, S25,-
1896, ,6S1. 80; Military Academy, 81, ,627 1924 AZ;
naval, $7S,S56, 1863. 49, pension, S139, Sc, go;
post office, $13S, ,416, ,59S.T5; river and harbor,
$26, III 442; sundry CIVIL $50, 1853, ,359. 13; de-
ficiencies, $2S 050, ,O07 80; miscellaneous, ST.
722 795. 13; isthman canal act, $50, 130, 900;
permanent appropriations, $123 92l 30. To-
tai, $500, ,624, 1860.