The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-01
SANS
EXPENSE
AMOUNT SUNDRY CIVIL
BILL MADE KNOWN.
1T CARRIES OVER ONE HUNDRED
AND FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
FOR FISCAL YEAR.


was reported to the house Saturday
by the appropriations committee. 1t
carries $105, 1869. The following
statement of the bill was authorized
by Chairman Tawney
The estimates s:-5mitted by the diff
ferent departments of the government
for sundry civil expenditures for the
next fiscal year far exceed the esti-
mates for like expenditures in any pre-.
vious year in our history, aggregating
Sal, 284 1865. These estimates were
prepared for submission to congress
last September, when the revenues of
the government were far in excess of
current expenditures. Before congress
convened the financial stringency
came on, resulting in a material fall
ing off in the government revenues.
This necessitated thorough examin-
alton Of the estimates with a view
of ascertaining the amounts actually
required to continue the service usu-
ally provided for in the sundry civil
bill and also to continue the public
works previously authorized until the
next appropriations SHAY become
available.
Estimate Is Less.
AS a result of hearings and investi-
cations the committee has reported
the bill to the house carrying in the
aggregate $105, 1850, being $685.
997 less than the estimates submitted
by the departments. The amount rec
commended by the committee is ample
to provide for continuance during the
next fiscal year of all the public
service usually provided for in the
sundry civil bill and for continuance
of all public works heretofore author
lied until the next appropriations be-
come available.
This reduction of more than $685.
100000 in the estimates submitted for
sundry civil expenditures, together
with the reductions that have been
made by the appropriations committee
in other bills in which that committee
has jurisdiction, aggregate almost
$75,000,000 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, 1927 900 for the isthmian
canal, which amount Is reimbursable
to the treasury from the proceeds of
the sale of bonds authorized. The ag-
gregate carried by the bill is $685.
by the sundry civil bill for the current
fiscal year. The bill carries for pub
lie Notwithstanding marine hos
pitfalls, quarantine stations, annual re-
pairs, heating apparatus, vaults, safes
and locks-$2, 1S2,375; and for the i'm
provements of rivers and harbors TN
der contract authorizations $780,
GAS.
The total of $1O5,715,369 is $1,S42,-
2S9 more than the total sundry civil
appropriations for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1908. Among the items
carried in the bill are the following:
Millions in Salaries.
Life saving service, $2,26S,S57; cur
rent expenses of revenue cutter serv-
ice, $1,904,00O; engraving and print
ing, $3,354,75S; interstate commerce
commission, $935,000, an increase OF
$106,755 over the current year.
Assistant custodians and janitors
for public buildings, s1,6SS,S72; fuel
lights and water for public buildings
$1,400,000; expenses of collecting Gus
toms, additional to the permanent ap
preparation of $5,5OO,0OO for that pur
pose for 1909, $4,5OO,OOO, an increase
of 100000; public health and marine
hospital service, $1,299,750, an in
crease of $4,000; quarantine serv
ice, 100000.
immigration station at San Francis
co, $1S5,000; lighthouses and estab
lishments, $5,194,000; coast and geo
detic survey, $996,29O; bureau of fish
cries, $7S3,000; enforcement of the
Chinese exclusion act, 100000.
Expenses Of collection of revenues
from sales of public lands, $1,439,220
surveying public lands, $4,000; geo
logical survey, $1,085,520, reduction
of 1888, 500, which includes the omis
sion of 100000 for gauging streams
education in Alaska, $175,000; govern
ment hospitals for the insane, $3.50,
500, a reduction of $4,000.
Cut Armory Estimate.
Armories and arsenals, $4S4,715, 6
reduction of $151,375; buildings ant
grounds in and around Washington
d. c., $203,450; expenses for the exec
utive mansion, $4,000, including $25,
900 for travelling expenses of the pres
ident; Improvement of rivers and har
bors under contract authorizations
$17,692,645, an increase of $11, 299,
915; national cemeteries, headstones
ETC., $322,110; buildings at military
posts, 100000; erection of barracks
and quarters for the coast artillery
1887 ,260, an increase of $737,26O.
Military prison at San Francisco
100000; Fort William Mckinley
$1S0.204; improvement of YelIowston,
| norly eeE 0On. wood Mount