Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-09
APPROPRIATIONS
 ALMOST \ BILLION
Congress- Expenditures For
 Session Reach a Total of Fs, S994, 778,028,63.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March B. The total appropriations of this ses sion of congress aggregate s919,948,- 679.63. of which s756, ,662, ,674.27 is for the annual expenditures for the fis- cal year ending June 30, 1908. The balance of the grand total is to be used as follows:
 Twelve million tour hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-six ceEts for emergencies and deficiencies on account of the fiscal year 1907 and prior years; S1 ,000, 900 for miscellan- eous objects, such as private claims and the like, authorized in special acts, and s149,SS6.32 for permanent annual appropriations to meet the in terest charge on the public debt, the requirements of the sinking fund ex- penses of collecting the revenue from customs. redemption of national bank notes and other purposes.
 The revenues of the government fo.- 1908 are estimated at $850, 0,000, 900, which, it was stated, wouid leave 8 surplus of $20 ,000, 900 end not a deficit as had been predicted in some quar- ters.
 
 a whole, it was stated that s19S, ,000,- GOO had been appropriated in excess of the total for the fifty-eigth con. gress.
 Analyzing the increased appropria. tions for the year 1908, over the cur. rent fiscal year, the total of whiob is given as $40, 900, ,000, the increases are distributed in part as follows: Fn- 4ba army < 4 7O0 Oon Qualifications .......-.... 1SouO0O Legislative, executive and judicial .-.--........... z,4O0,O0C Postal service. ....... 10000, ,00c Pensions ........... 5,0O0,OOG
 It was stated that while the rivers and harbors bill carried, approximate E, sS3 ,000, 900, the expenditure under lt would be but $27, ,000,000 during 1sos.
 The appropriation for the Panama canal was increased over that during toe fifty-eighth congress by s6,500,
 During the same time the postal Expenses increased $50, ,000, 900.
 Rcpresestative Livingston, present ing the views oi the minority OF the subject, agrees as to the total, which ne says, is "an increase of $40,3sS, 394.47 over the appropriations made for the current fiscal year and S57, 266, ,19257 over the appropriations fol the fiscal year 1899, made by the frs regular session of the fifty-fith con gress, which covered substantially the entire expenses of the military and naval establishments on accoun of the war with Spain.
 Enormous as are these appropria tions for the next fiscal year three should be added to them the further sums of s25,000,000 on account of con tracts authorized in the naval depart ment for additional warships fol which no sums whatever are yet, ap propriated, and the sum of $49,S29. 349 for contracts authorized in thu river and harbor appropriation bill in addition to the appropriations made in that act.
 These sums added to the session; total apparent appropriations mak' the tremendous sum of s994, ITS, ,023. 6: carried either in direct appFopria tions or authorizations at this sessiol of congress, establishing a new rec ord for federal appropriations az preaching the prodigious sum of bil lion dollars for single session o congress.
 Far Above Estimates.
 The highest estimates placed ol