Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-08-21
HOW The MONEY GOES
Statement Of the Appropriation
Made by Last Congress.
PREPARED BY HOUSE and SENATE.
me Now Oflces and Employments specif'
lcally Authorised-A Comparison Of the
Appropriations Made BY the Last
Session and the Preceding One.

Washington, Aug. 20.-The volume
containing statements Of appropria-
tions, new Offices, ETC., required by
law to be prepared and published at
the end Of each session of congress,
under the direction of the commit
tees on appropriations of the senate
and house, has been completed for
the session Of the Fifty-seventh con-
gress by Thomas Cleaves and James
C. Courts, chief clerks, respectively,
Of those committees. A summary
Of the appropriations shows the
grand total Of $SOO,624, 496.55. Tho
details by bills are as follows: Agri-
cultural, $5,2oS,96O; army, $91,73O,-
1854; diplomatic, $1,957,o25eo; Dis.
trict of Columbia, 1854, 469.97; forti.
Acations, s7,20S,055; Indian, $780,
02s.lO; legislative, $25,39e,691.5O; mil
itary academy, $2,627,324.42; naval,
e7s,s5s,363.13; pension, $130,S42,23O;
post office, $685. ,59S.75; river and
hsrbor, $96,771,442; sundry civil, $780,
leS,350.13; deficiencies, $2s,O5O,O O7.32;
miscellaneous, s2,772, 1858; isthmian
canal act, $5o,13O,ooo; permanent ap-
preparations, $123,921, 22O. Total, $780,
624, 496.55.
In addition to the specific appro-
priations made contracts are au.
Ehorized to be entered into for GER
tain public works requiring future
appropriations by congress in the
aggregate sum Of $262,711,465.
The new Offices and employments,
Of civilian character, specifically au-
thorized number 1855, with compen-
sation for the year Of $6,343,595; and
those abolished or omitted aggre-
gate 1855, at an annual pay Of ST.
ESQ, O0O.5O, an increase Of 5,221, at q
yearly cost Of $5,o54,514.50.
In addition to the new civilian en-
pigments shown the volume also
exhibits an increase Of 65 in the mil
itary establishment, at an annual
cost Of $42,3OS, and 300 officers On
oluding 2O5 additional midshipmen), |
together with 5000 seamen in the
naval establishment and $50 addi-
Honal men in the marine corps with
. total yearly pay Of $1,343,7775o.
The number of salaries increased
Il 725, with an annual cost Of $11s,-
s7e.1O, and the number of reduced
10 10, in the total in annual sum OF
o., 12O, a net increase Of 700, with a
cost for the year Of $1O5,4561O, OF
which number 4sl are the cadets at
the military academy, who are given
m increased allowance of $1,000 each,
u are consuls and consular clerks,
q are officers Of the revenue cutter
service, whose pay Is made equal to
the similar officers of the navy; 10
IRE in the life-saving service, and
-, amounting to $4,000 annually,
IRE in the department of agriculture,
A comparison Of the total appro-
priations made at the last session
Of congress for 1908, $sOO,624, 1865,
with those of the preceding or short
session Of the Fifty-sixth congress
for 1908, $73O,33s,575.9s; shows an in
crease of $7O,2S5,02O.56. In this
amount are included increased appro-
priations for the department of agri-
culture, S626,54O; for the diplomatic,
District of Columbia, legislative, ex-
ecutiye and judicial and naval service,
S1,7O6,0S1.74; for the military acad-
envy, $l,S54,67o74; for the postal serv-
fee, $14,633,91O; for the whole of the
river and harbor act, none having
been passed at the preceding session,
s26,77l,442; for deficiencies, $l2,l32,-
S60.3s, and for the isthmian canal,
$50, 100000. On the other hand there
appear reductions Of S24,0O3, 9126O9
for the army, $65,O56 for fortiAca-
4ions, $751;, 442.00 for the Indian serv-
Ice, $5,4O3,OOO under requirements for
pensions, $1.632, 5490s by the sundry
WI act, ss,257,223.54 by miscellane-
bus acts and $4,000 under perma-
nent appropriations, which cover In
terest on the public building, making
Q net increase, as stated, Of $7O,2s5,-
D10.56.