The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-03
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
 UNDER ESTIMATE
MEASURE AS REPORTED BY MIR. CANNON CARRIES $78,oo7 ,7ss, WHICH IS s17,355,s7o MORE THAN
 THE CURRENT APPROPRIATION.

Washington, February 1.-The sundry civil appropriation bill reported to the house today by Representative Cannon carries an aggregate appropriation or SIS, LOOT, ,7S9 which is sS.SS6,432 less than the estimates and ST, 355,S7O more than the current appropriation. Three million dol- lars is recommended to relieve distress in the Philippines. The bill carries $lO,- 429, A3 for construction work on federal buildings authorized by law. Following are some of the appropriations made un- der this head: Baltimore, $4000OO; Beau mont s75,OO0; Dallas, Tex, s125,Oo0; Ellis Island Improvements $SSO,OOO; Fort Smith, Ark, $75, 900; Memphis, Tenn, $175,0OO; Nashville, $75,00O; Newport News. va, $10O,OO0; New York custom house, $S00,- GOO; Waco, Tex. $7500O; Washington Iab- oratory bureau national standards), $15O0O0. The sum of $20, 233, 150 is appro- priated for river and harbor contract work authorized by congress being $l4,- 466, 393 in excess of the current appro- priation.
 Among the items are the following:
 Charleston harbor. $3O, 900; Kentucky |-N'iNV'f oRD mel (New York harbor) $73S,000; Ohio river dams Nos. IS and IS, below Pittsburg, $450, 900; San Francisco harbor (removal of blossom rock), $50,000; Boston harbor $15O, ,O00; Baltimore harbor Spring Gar den), $222, ,O00; Curtis Bay channel, Balti- more harbor, $146,00O; Hampton Roads, s2l5,000; Norfolk, Va, harDor, sS3,957; Savannah, Ga, harbor $720000; Galveston harbor, $300,000; improvement of chan mel at Galveston, $200, GOO; Appomatox river, Virginia, $175.0OO; Southwest Pass, Mississippi river. $1,oOO,OO0; Galveston ship canal and Buffalo bayou, Texas, $5oO, ,000; Trinity river Texas. s25O,OOO; Ouuachaita river. Arkansas, and Louis jana, $650,000; Mississippi river from mouth of Ohio river to the mouth of the Missouri, $650,000 and from the mouth of the Missouri river to St. Paul, $400,- 900: Tennessee river tat Colbert and Bee Tree shoaD $350,0 ,0O0; improving Ohio river below Pittsburg. continuing construction of dams Nos. 2 to 5, inclusive $90O,OO dam No 8, $2O0, GOO; dock at dam No. Il, $200,000; dam No. 37, $4OO,0O0; Monogahela river, $745,960: Big Sandy river, West Virginia, and Kentucky, $50,OO0.
 Under Mississippi river commission, from head of .asses to the mouth of the Ohio river s2O00OO0.
 The excess of the proposed appropria- tion over the current year is explained by the committees report to be due to the increase of $14 ,393 for river and harbor work and the $3,00O0OO allowed for the relief of distress in the Philippines. Among the principal items in the bill are the following:
 Engraving and printing, S2,74S,035; geo. logical survey s1,026,570; home for dis abled volunteer soldiers. $4, 769 S0S an in- crease of over $1.000,0O0 over the current appropriation; life saving. SSl, 360; light house establishment. $3,S2S, GOO; enlarge ment of military posts, $2, 765, ,60O revenue cutter service, $1. 450, 0O0; expenses United States courts, $5.933 2S0
 An increase of ss00000 Is made in the item for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act. The sum of s10O 600 is ap- propriated for demarkation of the United States and Canadian boundary line. The bill appropriates sS5,400 for the expenses of the W nite House, as against $40. .0O appropriated for the current year, and S20,000 for lighting the grounds and man sion, the current appropriation being $75O0. Sf7