The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-05-31
CANAL GETS BIG LUMP.
PRINTING REFORM AND OTHER
CUTS ALSO FEATURES OF
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
VETERANS GET INCREASE.
Wisconsin Gets $4,000 for a Target
Range and Superior Lands New
Public Building.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May %
The Sundry civil appropriation bill has
been completed and Chairman Tawney
was authorized by the appropriations
committee 10 report it TO the House to-
day.
1t is the largest sundry civil bill ever
reported. carrying S94. 346. 913. of which
S25 400, 99l is for work on the Panama
canal. The amount carried is Sll,o'o,-
UO3 less than the estimates from the
various departments. The canal appro-
priation is 10 be reimbursed to the treas
ury from the proceeds of the sale OF ca
nal bonds which have been authorized
TO the aggregate amount of Sl3o,ooU,-
O00. Deducting the canal appropriation,
the bill carries S1.12l $50 more than the
current sundry civil act
Some of Panama Items.
For river and harbor work. heretofore
authorized and contracted for, there is
appropriated S11,31S,9T6, which is So
ia. S14 in excess of the amount avail
able this year. For new public buildings
heretofore authorized and the repair of
buildings SJ.1T0,5S3 is appropriated,
reduction of S2SO6,G0l from the current
appropriation under this head. Among
the items of appropriation for the canal
are:
Pay of officers and employees on the 18TH
mus, other than skilled and unsktllcd labor
crs S33-s.Oss skilled labor on the 18th
mus, $4,000, unskiiIcd labor On the
Purchase and delivery of supplies and
equipment on the lsthmus Slo31i,5ll
Loan 10 the Panama railway for new
equipment, Sl,pru'.
Printing Reform Inaugurated.
A printing reform is inaugurated by re-
quiremeuts that no money appropriated
in the bill shall be used to maintain
branch printing Offices in any executive
department in Washington; that the
plants of such branch offices shall be
turned over TO the public printer within
thirty days after the passage of the bill,
and that hereafter detailed estimates for
printing must be transmitted to Con
gress from each department.
The bill provides for the appointment
by the attorney general, if the secretary
of the treasury desires. of a solicitor of
customs at an annual salary of $4,000
and such assistant solicitors as are
necessary, Mt salaries of $4,000. The bill
will probably be called up for consider
alton in the House Thursday.
More for Commerce Commission.
Some Of the more important items of
appropriation are:
Construction of vessels under revenue
cutter service, S27o. 900; increase $4,000.
Construction Of national museum building
in Washington SJUpOup
For the interstate commerce commission,
$4,000, an Increase of $1,000 This in,
crease is 20 tn" fund Of $4,000 TO enable
the commission to keep Informed regard
ing compliance with the act to promote
the safety Of employees and travellers on
railways. In addition 10 the regular fund
Of $4,000 for general expenses there Is
e.. i ttt. rI..
trust fund unuor the department Of jus
ticc 10 further enable the commission to
carry out the Interstate commerce acts.
Public health and marine hospital scrv-
icrCs, 81, l9J 600; quarantine service, $40
900; prevention Of cpidcmics, $4,000,
which includes an uncXpended talance of
about $4,000.
Bureau of fisheries, 500 go; reduction of
$lio5u.
Money for Chinese Exclusion.
For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
net the appropriation is reduced from 5000
900 to 100000.
Construction Of the office building for the
House of Representatives, $4,000.
Expenses Of collection Of revenue from
sales of public laudo Slol322O; surveying
the public lands, $4,000; United states
geological 1urycy, Sllas 800; reduction of
S3iG 100.
Armorics ana arscnale, s555,Gl7; increase,
S22I 6lI.
Expenses Of the executive mansion, S113.-
coo; increase, $4,000
Construction of buildings ut military
posts. $4,000; reduction Of $4,000
Improvement Of the Yellowstone National
park. $1,000; reduction Of SIS. 900; national
military parks. %l9GOOD; survey of northern
nud northeastern lakes $4,000; reduction
of $1,000
Veterans Get Big Increase.
National home for disabled volunteer
soldiers. 81 ,2O2 A. increase Of $3.50 1s5;
continuing aid to state and territorial
homes for the support OF DISABLED volunteer
soldiers, 81, l5oOOr; Increase of $1,000;
payments due on pay Of bounty to volun-
tccr soldiers, including volunteers in the
war with Spain. S45o,Voo; increase, Sl0o,-
600
Expenses of United States courts Sc
$1,000: increase, S267, Sos.
Public printing and binding, $3.50 900;
reduction, $1,000, GiI
River ana harbor improvements, South
pass, Mississippi river 100000. Detroit
river. Michigan, S3co,uOO, under act of 1893,
$+UooOo; St Mays river, Michigan. ST.
100000; Mississippi river commission i'm
proyempn,s. S2.u0tUdO: Mississippi river.
ohio river Sd,n.opo; at Moline, ILL.,. Sl5o,-
$50: between 81. Paul and Minneapolis,
1900; South Pass channel, $4,000
Wisconsin Items Few.
Other items include the following:
objects of ~ miscellaneous nature under
the war dcpartmeut-laud for target range
IN Wisconsin. Sl5o,po international water
WAYS commission. S2OOlp. Fort Smelling,
MINI, $5o,o"o; Mount Rainier National park,
SJOuuu
rupIIc buildings Pierre, S. D., S5o,ooo;
superior, Wis $1,000
Appropriations for river and harhor Inn
pr"yemonts include llarhor at Duluth,
Mimi, ami superior, Wis. 100000; HuI-
land, Black Lake, Mich, $1,000.