The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-20
STATEMENT OF
APPROPRIATIONS
Grand Total For the Last Con.
grsss Was $500, 624, 4s6.55.
MANY SALARIES INCREASED
BUT ONLY A VERY FEW WERE
DECREASED DURING SESSION.

TT ASHlNGTON. Aug. 19.-The vol
w ume containing statements of
appropriations required by law
to be prepared and published at the
end of each session of congress under
the direction of the committee on ap-
propriatious OF the senate and house.
has been completed for the session OF
the Fifty-seventh congress by Thomas
CSeaves and James q. Courb, chief
clerks, respectively. of these commit
tees. y summary of the appropriations
shows a grand total of $500, 624, 1856 50.
The details by Bills are as follows:
Agricultural s.. POS. $50: army, S9l, 49,
1854; diplomatic, 81, 957, 925.69: District
of Columbia, s., 544, 1861; fortifications,
S1,29S.Sa5; Indian, $3.50. 02S.I0; legis-
iative. $25, $50. 69150: military academy.
$2,624, 324 -; naval, S7S.s56, S63.13; pen
sions, 1888, $3.50; postof11ce. S13S. 49,
s9S; river and harbor. SECS 442: sun
dry civil, $50 16;5. S39. IL; deficiencies, S2S,-
| 050,007: miscellaneous. SIZE. 795: 18TH
/ milan canal act, $50. 80, 600: permanent
apppropriat tons, SIPS 92I. 220. Total,
SS00. 624. 1856.
In addition to the specific apDropria-
tons made. contracts are authorized
! to be entered into for certain public
works requiring future appropriations
/ by congress in the aggregate sum Of
I S262, III, 465. These contracts include
| 1909. 500 for additional ships for the
navy and for permanent improvements
and increased facilities at certain navy
yards; SD. s43, $50 for additions TO old
public buildings and the construction
of new public buildings in various
! cities of the country; SIS, 336,1S0 for i'm
provement of rivers and harbors; 3d.
s \
erection of new buildings at the mill
! taFy academy at West Point, and $780,
100000 for the construction of an 18TH
milan canal.
The new offices and employments of
a civilian character specifically author
lied number $3.50. with compensation
for the year of S6,243, 595, and those
abolished or omitted aggregate 1.165,
at annual pay of $1.2S9 0S0-50, an in
! crease of 551 at yearly cost of S5,O54,
| 5I4
In addition to the new civilian en-
Payments shown the volume also ex-
| hibits an increase of sixty five in the
military establishment, at an annual
cost of $42.30S; and 800 officers Gnclud
ing 2S5 additional midshipmen) to-
gether with 5000 seamen in the naval
establishment, and go additional men
in the marine corps, with a total yearly
pay of S1,34S, III.
OF the total net increase in civilian
employment thirty-fouF are for the
! library of congress. seven for the state
department, thirty-thTee for the navy
department. 179 for the treasury de-
partment, 306 for the postoffice depart
ment, including 265 on account of the
rural free delivery service; seventy for
the department of agriculture; III
! including fOrty-six school teachers,
twenty-five policemen and seven fire
men. for the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia; fifty lighthouse
keepers. eleven for the coast survey,
thirty-two for the diplomatic and con-
service, including lis assistant post
masters. 3,134 clerks in postofices, 169
agents and others in the rural free de-
I livery service and sos railway clerks.
OF the net total Of 5,221 civil officers
! and employments authorized only 921
are outside of the postal service
The number of salaries increased IS
725, with an annual cost of S11S,516, and
the number of reduced is sixteen in the
total in an annual sum of $l312O; a
net increase of 709, with a cost for the
year of $105. 456, of which number 4SI
are the cadets at the military academy,
who are given an increased allowance
of $3.50 each; thirty-One are consuls
and consular clerks; siXty-fOur are Of
ficers of the revenue cutter service,
/ whose pay is made equal to the similar
officers of the navy; thirteen are in the
life saving service, and thirty-twO,
amounting 10 $4,000 annually, are in
the department of agriculture