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Hilary establishment, ss.527 40; Military

military establishment, $9.5274O; Military
Academy 2523.02: national soldiers
homes. s91. 394.s9; state and territorial
homes for soldiers $s4. 149. AZ: Navy Depart
ment 81, 4S5.10 naval establishment, S3.1il, =
So. %; Interior Department, $1.011, Ito. A;
Department of Commerce and Labor, $146,-
ISL 81; postal service. 81, OF .45S.SO; Depart
ment of Agriculture. S469. go; Department OF
Justice. S9.2I9.14: United States courts, ex-
penses of, S35S, 400. SO; House of Representa-
tives, S115.99020: Library of Congress,
$1,000: printing and binding, $42.e Span
ish treaty claims commission, awards. $1O.-
600: judgments. Court of Claims, $126.2J3 "a ;
judgments, United States courts, S2i. 469 So
judgments. Indian depredations, S41. 112;
section 2, audited accounts, $1,O92 S2I.4
A Long Standing Bad Practice.
On the subject of the manner in which
estimates are submitted the report says:
1.-The committee desire, in spirit of
captious criticism. to call attention to the
evil that has grown up, under all admins
trations and for many years past. of sub
hitting estimates to Congress in a desul-
tory manner, both for the regular annual
appropriations and for deficiencies.
THE annual estimates, when submitted
at the beginning of each regular session of
Congress, supposed to indicate. and
should substantially indicate, the sum total
of acquisitions to be granted on the treas
ury for the ensuing fiscal year. Yet every
day of the present session the House has
received one or more executive communi-
cations submitting additional supplement
tai estima ties for reference to and cOnsid-
GRAFTON by some one of the committees
having charge of appropriation bills.
I'm the case of one of the large and inn
portant appropria ton bills the supplement
tai estimates already received exceed %
per cent of the original estimates submit
ted Hereunder in the regular annual bud
get at the beginning of the session. In the
case of the bin under consideration, as VIII
be observed by the numbers enumerated in
this report, more than sixty different docu-
ments submitting estimates have been con-
sidered in its preparation. 1t Is believed
that one-tenth of the number would have
amply suffced and Will suffice in like cases
In the future. now that the attention of the
departments is called to the undesirable, If
not pernicous, practice of submitting esti-
mates in this multtudinous manner-a
practice which tends to confusion, delay
and lack of intelligent and coherent consid-
GRAFTON of appropriations for the public
service"
Payment of Naval Bounty.
Among the limitations imposed are the
following:
That the payment, to officers and men
severally entitled, of the judgments of the
Court of Claims for bounty for destruction
the Revised Statutes be made on settle
ments by the auditor for the Navy Depart,
ment in the manner prescribed by law and
treasury regulations for the payment of
prize money, the distribution of such in
dividual share to be in accordance with the
orders. rules and finding of the Court of
Claims
And hereafter in all cases of final judg-
ments and awards rendered against the
United States by the Court of Claims. and
i1Hr
United States by the circuit and district
courts of the United States. payment there
of under appropriations made by Congress
shall be made on settlements by the audi
tor for the department or branch of the
public service having jurisdiction over the
subject matter out of which the claims
arose.
That hereafter no part of any money ap-
propriated shall be used in payment of per
diem compensation to any clerk for attend
anSe in court except for days when the
court is actually in session opened in the
presence of the judge, which fact shall be
Storage of Exhibits.
1.-The act of Congress, approved June -,
1902. entitled An act making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses of the govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30.
1903. and for other purposes is hereby
amended by inserting at the end and as
part of the paragraph making an appro-
prfation of 100000 for a government eX-
hibit at the Louisiana purchase EXPOSE
ton, to be held in the city of st. Louis, in
the state of Missouri. the following words:
Provided, further. That the said United
States government board is authorized to
rent such workshops and storage and Office
rooms in the District of Columbia as may
be required for temporary use in connection
with the preparation and safekeepng of
the said government exhibit And the ac-
<Nr. n
ment are hereby authorized to allow any
reasonable expense heretofore incurred by
said government board in the rental of
workshops and storage and Office rooms in
the District of Columbia for the purpose
named"
Commissioner Biddle Disappointed.
Engineer Commissioner Biddle when in
formed of the action of the appropriation
committee in cutting out the item of $780,
900 for opening streets. constructing the
plaza and other work In connection with
the union station project, expressed his re-
greet that the committee had not seen fit to
authorize the appropriation.
He pointed out that the railroad company
has been doing part of the Districts work
in connection with the terminal project,
and that the District needs the money for
carrying on its share of the work.
Il certainly have strong hopes that the
money will be provided for in some other
appropriation" said Col. Biddle. THE
District has no money on hand for this i'm
provement, and if the appropriation is not
secured and the funds made available the
union station work will have To Stono