Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-01
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 a New
Public Building.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May %
The sundry civil appropriation bill has
been completed and Chairman Tawney
was authorized by the appropriations
committee to report it TO the House to-
day.
1t is the largest sundry civil bill ever
reported, carrying $94,346,973, of which
S25, 46O,991 is for work on the Panama
canal. The amount carried is $11, 07O,
COB less than the estimates from the
various departments. The canal appro-
priation is to 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 $loO,OOO,-
600. Deducting the canal appropriation,
the bill carries 81. 721 $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 SIT ,31S,976, which is &c.
774.S44 in excess of the amount avail
able this year. For new public buildings
heretofore authorized and the repair OF
buildings $5,17O,5S3 is appropriated,
reduction of $2,S06,6O1 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 unskilled labor
ers, So. 3ZS,OSS skilled labor on the 18TH
mus, $5,593,O2O. Unskilled labor on the
isthmus, 81, 49, 59
Purchase and delivery of supplies and
equipment on the isthmus $1o,374,511.
Loan to the Panama railway for new
equipment $1,OO0,0OO.
Printing Reform Inaugurated.
A printing reform is inaugurated by re-
quirements 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 solicitor Of
customs at an annual salary of $4,000
and such assistant solicitors as are
necessary, at 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, $2700OO; increase, $4,000.
in Washington, $500, 1000.
For the interstate commerce commission,
$4,000, an increase of $4,000 This in
crease is to the fund of $50, 600 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 to the regular fund
of $249, 900 for general expenses there is
transferred 100000 from the so-caled anti
trust fund unuer the department of JUS
tice to further enable the commission to
carry out the interstate commerce acts.
Public health and marine hospital serv-
icees, 81, $4,000: quarantine service $780,
600; prevention of epidemics, $4,000,
which includes an uneXpended balance of
| about $4,000.
Bureau of fisheries, S67o97o: reduction of
$4,000.
Money for Chinese Exclusion.
For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act the appropriation is reduced from $780,
600 to $500, 600.
Construction of the Office building for the
House of Representatives, $500 900.
Expenses Of collection of revenue from
sales of public lands, $1013, 22O; surveying
the public lands, $423, 600: United states
geological survey, 81, 1875, 800; reduction of
$346, 100
Armories and arsenals, $500, GIT; increase,
1924, 617
Expenses of the executive mansion, $113,-
coo; increase, 100000.
Construction of buildings at military
posts, $3.50 600; reduction of $45O,0OO.
Improvement of the Yellowstone National
park 500 600; reduction of SIS, 900; national
military parks $4,000; survey of northern
and northwestern lakes, $4,000; reduction
of $25, 600.
Veterans get Big Increase.
National home for disabled volunteer
soldiers, $4,202, 444; increase of $3.50, 1856;
continuing aid to state and territorial
homes for the support of disabled volunteer
soldiers, $1,150,00O: increase of $4,000;
payments due on pay of bounty to volun-
teer soldiers including volunteers in the
war with Spain, $4500O0; increase, $1oo,-
600
Expenses of United States courts, &c.
$40 600; increase, $267 1858.
Public printing and binding, S., 325 600;
reduction, 81, 005, 645.
River and harbor Improvements, South
pass, Mississippi river, $5oO,000. Detroit
river Michigan, $500, O0O under act of 1905,
$500. 900; st. Mary's river Michigan, 81
100000: Mississippi river commission i'm
provemen.s, $2OO0,O0O; Mississippi river,
from Minneapolis Mimi, to mouth of the
Ohio river S5OO,O00; at Moline Ill. Slo0,-
600; between st. Paul and Minneapolis,
$50, 900; South Pass channel, $4,000.
Wisconsin Items Few.
Other items include the following:
Objects of a miscellaneous nature under
the war department-Land for target range
in Wisconsin, S150,o0O; international water
ways commission, $4,000; Fort Smelling,
Mimi, $4,000; Mount Rainier National park,
5000
Public buildings-Pierre, S. D., $4,000;
Superior, Wis, $4,000.
Appropriations for river and harbor i'm
proyements include-Harbor at Duluth,
Mimi and Superior, Wis, 100000; Hoi-