Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-20

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In addition to the specific appropriations
made, contracts are authorized to be en-
tered into for certain public works re-
quiring future appropriations by congress
In the aggregate sum of S262. III ,465 These
contracts include $21,O69,5O0 for additional
ships for the navy and for permanent i'm
provements of and increased facilities at
certain navy yards; s17,943, $50 for additions
to old public buildings and the construction
of new public buildings in various cities of
the country; s3s, 1886, $50 for Improvement OF
rivers and harbors; s3,50O,OOO for recon
struction of old and erection OF new build
lngs at the military academy at West Point;
and $3.50, 900, 900 for the construction Of an
isthmian canal.
New Omces and EmpIOyments.
The new Offices and employments, Of a
civilian character, specifically authorized
number 6,Ss6, with compensation for the
year Of $685. ,5s5; and those abolished or
omitted aggregate 1.165. at an annual pay
Of 81, ,2S9, ,OS0.5O; a net increase Of 1921, at
yearly cost Of s5,054, ,514.50
In addition to the new civilian employ
ments shown the volume also exhibits an
increase of sixty-fve in the military estab-
lishments at an annual cost Of $42, ,30S; and
800 officers (including 2S5 additional mid
shipmen), together with 5000 seamen in the
naval establishment and 75O additional men
in the marine corps with total yearly pay
Of $1,343, ,777.50.
OF the total net increase in civilian en-
ployments, thirty-four are for the library Of
congress; seven for the state department;
thirty-three for the navy department;
179 for the treasury department;
3O6 for the postofice department, in
cluding 265 on account of the rural free
delivery service; seventy for the depart
ment OF agriculture; III, including forty
six school teachers, twenty-five policemen
and seven fremen for the government OF
the District of Columbia; fifty Lighthouse
keepers; eleven for coast survey; thirty
two for the diplomatic and consular service;
and 4,S00 for the postal service, including
lis assistant postmasters, 3,134 clerks in
postotices, 169 agents and others in the
rural free delivery service. and Seh railway
postal clerks.
OF the net total 1921 civil officers and
employments authorized only 921 are out
side Of the postal service.
The number OF salaries increased is ,725,
at an annual cost of S11s.576.1O; and the
number reduced is sixteen, in the total an
nual sum of $13.120; a net increase Of 709,
at a cost for the year OF $105, ,465.10, of
which number 4S1 are the cadets at the
military academy who are given an in
creased allowance OF $69.50 each; thirty one
are consuls and consular clerks; sixty-four
are officers of the revenue cutter service
whose pay is made equal to the similar Of
fees Of the navy; thirteen are in the life
saving service; and thirty-two, amounting
to S3S, 900 annually are in the department
Of agriculture.
made at the last session of congress for 1903,
$500, ,624, 1885, with those Of the preceding
or short session Of the Fifty sixth con-
gress for 1908, $3.50. 1898, $3.50, shows an in
crease of $40, ,2s5, ,920.56. In this amount are
included increased appropriations for the
department of agriculture, $500, $40; for the
diplomatic, District OF Columbia, legis-
service, s1,7O6.ss1.74; for the military
academy. S1.s54. .670.74; for the postal SER
vice, 1883, $40; for the whole OF the river
and harbor act none having been passed at
the preceding session, $26771, ,442; for de-
fciencles, Si7, 1872, $50 3S, and for the isthmian
canal, $50, ,130, 900. On the other hand there
appear reductions of $24, 1908 .912.69 for the
army; S65 .O56 for fortihcations; s761. .442. 90
for the Indian service; S., 100000 under re-
quirements for pensions; 81. .632, ,549.0s by the
sundry civil act; 81, 1851, ,223.54 by miscellane-
GUS acts, and s437. 900 under permanent ap-
propriations which cover interest on the
public debt, making a net increase as
atated Of ST0 2sb 92O.56