Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-13
WHAT CONGRESS COST
Analysis of Appropriations
for the Recent Session.
LESS THAN FOR FIRST
OVER $3.50, 100000 TAKEN FROM
TREASURY BY ACTS.
In Addition Contracts Involving Over
$4,000, 900 Were Authorized
New Positions.

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 second
session of the Fffty-seventh Congress by
Thomas p. Cleaves and James c. Courts,
chief clerks, respectively, Of those commit
tees A summary of the appropriations
shows a grand total of s753 .05s, 506.O2.
The details by bills are as follows: Agri-
cultural, S5,97S, 160; army, S77,SSS 49, -;
diplomatic and consular, $1,96s ,2oO96; Dis
trict of Columbia IS, 63S, O9I; fortificatlon
ST. 1SS, 1892; Indian, $3.50, 4O6.77; legisla-
tive, executive and judicial 1858 1884, %;
Military Academy, $G52, 74S67; navy, ISL
SIG, .43; pension, $139, SAT GOO; post office
$153, 81, 54975; sundry civil, $S2,372 3GO 10;
deficiency appropriations, $21, 465 %;
miscellaneous appropriations, $2,41 23s. %;
permanent appropriations Sl52, oo9,s2o;
grand total, $753, 05S, 5O6O2.
Further Expenditure Involved.
In addition to the specific appropriations
made contracts are authorized to be en-
tered into for certain public works requir-
Ing future appropriations by Congress, in
the aggregate sum Of $36.9S9, 1894. These
contracts cover the following objects and
amounts, namely, for:
Five new first-class battle ships two steel
ships and one wooden brig for use in train
ing landsmen and apprentices. exclusive of
armor and armament. $40, 10000; boat shop
at Puget Sound navy yard, 100000; new
Naval Academy buildings at Annapolis,
Md, additional amount 100000; National
Museum building, 600; Freedmen S
Hospital building, $4,000; building for
committee rooms and offices for House of
Representatives, s., 100000; building for De-
partment of Agriculture. $1,25O,0OO; public
buildings in the various states. So, 153, S5o.34;
and bridges, school buildings and sand FL
tration plant in the District of Columbia,
ST. AGO 900; making.in all $50, 9S9, 1894.
A comparison of these contract liabilities
with those of the first session of the Fifty
seventh Congress, amounting to $262, I'll, 400,
shows reduction of $225. 721 ,G05.66. The
amount for the first session included con-
tracts for $1S0000.000 for construction of
the Ishmian canal and $3S 1886, 100 for river
and harbor improvements.
New Offices and Employments.
The new offices and employments specifi-
cally authorized are II ,316 in number, at an
annual compensation of $7,927, 639. OF; and
those abolished omitted are ISIS in num-
Der, at annual compensation of $941,-
4S1. pa net increase of 9,5O1 in number
and S6,9S6, 1878 in amount. Of this net in
crease in number IS are for Congress, II for
the Library of Congress, 8 for the executive
Office, GO for the civil service commission,
Is for the Department of State, 90 for the
Treasury Department, for the independent
treasury, 90 for the Interior Department, 5S
for the Post Office Department, 10 for the
Department of Commerce and Labor, in ad-
dition to the clerical force transferred from
other departments and the lump appropria-
ton of $4,000 for such additional force as
may be necessary; ii for the Department of
Agriculture, 134 for the government of the
District of Columbia, including 90 school
teachers, AZ policemen and 20 firemen: 8 for
the fish commission; 4 for the diplomatic
and consular service; 43 for the military
establishment 5,616 for the naval estab-
lishment, including 5000 seamen and ], 45S
midshipmen, and 1884 for the postal service
including 143 assistant postmasters 9 1s9
clerks in post offices, and 500 railway postal
clerks
Deducting from the net increase of 9,5O1
new salaries and employments the add
tional 5,616 officers midshipmen and sea-
men authorized for the naval establish
ment and the 1854 additional employees for
the postal service, there remain only 531
provided for all other departments and
branches of the public service
The number of salaries increased is BAL at
an annual cost of sos, 202 on; and the num-
Der reduced is 60. in the sum of $500; a net
Increase of PSI at a cost of 500, 600 o. OF
this number IA are for Congress, are in
the Library of Congress- 10 in the Treasury
Department. 8 in the War Department, 6
in the Interior Department, II in the Post
Office Department. 1874 in the judicial es-
tablishment including 10 justices of The
Supreme Court, 80 circuit court judges and
"a district court judges, in the District of
Columbia. "a in the diplomatic and con-
sular service, o in the naval establishment,
6 in the Indian service and IA In the postal
service. The remaining increased salaries
are in various other branches of the public
service and involve generally small
amounts.
Cut Compared With First Session.
A comparison of the total appropriations
of the second session of the Fifty-seventh
Congress for 1904 $3.50, 05S, 50602. with those
of the first session, for 1908, $500, 64, 496 90,