Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-01

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100000 in the estimates submitted flo,
sundry civil expenditures, together
with the reductions that have beer
made by the appropriations committee
in other bills in which that committee
has Jurisdiction, aggregate almost
! S75,OOO,000 below the estimates sub
mitted by the various departments out
side of the estimates for army and
navy expenditures.
For lsthmian Canal.
included in the appropriations rec.
commended in the sundry civil bill is
the sum of $27,627, 900 for the isthmian
canal, which amount is reimbursable
to the treasury from the proceeds of
the sale of bonds authorized. The az.
gregate carried by the bill is S5.327
63l less than the amount appropriated
by the sundry civil bill for the current
fiscal year. The bill carries for pub
Tic Misunderstanding marine hos
pltals, quarantine stations, annual re-
pairs, heating apparatus, vaults, safes
and locks-$2, 1895; and for the i'm
provements of rivers and harbors I'M
der contract authorizations S17692.-
645.
The total of $105,715,369 is $1S42,.
2S9 more than the total sundry civil
appropriations for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1908. Among the items
carried in the bill are the following:
Life saving service, $2,268,857; cur
rent expenses of revenue cutter serv.
Ice, $780,, 900; engraving and print
ing $S'354,75S; interstate commerce
commission, $935,OOO an increase of
Slo6'755 over the current year.
Millions in Salaries,
Assistant custodians and ianitors
Tor public buildings, $1,688,S72 fuel
lights and water for public buildings
Sl' 4VO'OOO; expenses of collecting Gus.
toms, additional to the permanent an
preparation of $5,5OO,OO for that mr..
pose for 1909, $4,5OO,OOO, an increase
Oh 5000, 900; public health and marine
hospital service. $1,299,75O, an in.
crease of $4,000; quarantine serv.
ce, 100000.
immigration station at San Francis
20, $lS5, 900; lighthouses and estab.
ishments, $5,194,OOO; coast and qoo-
iettc survey, $996,29O; bureau of fish.
erles, S7S3,OO0; enforcement of tho
exclusion act, 100000.
Expenses of collection of revenues
rom sales of public lands, $1,439 22O.
urVeylng public lands, $479, 900: geo
oglcal survey, $1,OS5,52O, a reduction
II S3S9,5OO, which includes the omis
ion of 100000 for gauging streams.
ducation in Alaska, $175,OOO govern,
nent hospitals for the insane. s37O
w. reduction of $4,000.
Cut Armory Estimate.
Armories and arsenals. s4S4 715
of $151,375 buildings and
rounds in and around Washington
; e., $2O3,4 5O; expenses for the evec-
tive mansion, $4,000, including s25
10 for travelling expenses of the nres
lent; Improvement of rivers and bar. +
prs under contract authorizations I
Lh692,645, an increase of s11 900 I
10; national cemeteries, headstones c
C., $322,110; buildings at military S
'sts, 100000; erection of barracks O
Id quarters for the coast artillery il
1887 ,26O, an increase of $787,26O. il
Military prison at San Francisco
10000; Fort William MCKINLEY
SO'2O4; Improvement of Yellowstone
lrk' $4,000; road in Mount Rainier
TX $4,000; antiOnal military parks \
$3.50; survey of northern and -
uthwestern lakes. $685., 900; artificial 4
nos, 100000, an increase of s2So n