The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
CUTS ESTIMATES
OF CIVIL SERVICE
Bill as Reported Scales Years
Appropriations More Than
S35,OOO,OOO
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
WASHINGTON, April 25.-Carrying
s105.715.369 the sundry civil appropria-
tions bill was reported by the appro-
priations committee to the house today
and in the provisions for the coming
years expenses are the following items
for new projects in California:
Repair of tagging and for new safe
doors at San Francisco mint, $4,000;
launch for quarantine service, San
Francisco. $4,000; to complete Angel
island buildings, $4,000; steel ferry
boat for immigrant station San Fran
CISCO s115.000; steel boarding cutter.
immigration service, San Francisco,
$4,000; keepers dwelling, Humboldt
bay fog signal station, $4,000; bridges,
trails. etc. Yosemite park, 100000;
bridge, trails, ETC., Sequoia and General
Grant national parks, $4,000 and $4,000,
respectively; continuing construction
military prison, San Francisco, 100000;
improvements to Presidio grounds,
$500; California debris commission.
$4,000.
The bill also contains the following
sums to be available for the following
year from money already appropriated
for river and harbor Improvement:
Oakland harbor, $4,000; San Luis
Obispo harbor, 100000.
The estimates submitted by the diff
ferent departments of the government
for sundry civil expenses for the next
fiscal year far exceeded the estimates
for like expenditures in any previous
year in our history. aggregating SILL
2S4.366< They were cut down by
s35.56S,997.
Included in the appropriations is the
sum of s27,627,000 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 s5,327,631
less than the amount appropriated by
the sundry civil bill for the current
fiscal year. The bill carries for public
Notwithstanding marine hospitals,
quarantine stations, annual repairs,
heating apparatus, vaults, safes and
locks-$2. .182,S75, and for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors under con-
tract authorizations, s176s2,645.
The total of $1o5.715,s699 is s1,S42.-
269 more than the total sundry civil
Appropriation for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1908. Among the items
carried in the bill are the following:
Life saving service, s2,268,S57; cur
rent expenses of revenue cutter serv-
ice, S1.904,000: engraving and print
ing, $3,354,758; interstate commerce
commission, se35,ooO. an increase of
S1VOsfOO OFcI Jl6 CURRENT year. dSSlSL-
ant custodians and janitors for public
buildings $1.6sS,S72; fuel, lights and
water for public buildings, s1,400,000;
expenses of collecting customs, addi-
tional to the permanent appropriation
of s5.50o.oo0 for that purpose for 1909,
s4.5o0,000, an increase of 100000;
public health and marine hospital
service. s1,29e,750, an increase Of $751;
600; quarantine service, 100000; light
house establishments. 1914 900; coast
and geodetic survey, s996.2S0; bureau
of fisheries, $783.320; enforcement of the
Chinese exclusion act, 100000; expense
of collection of revenues from sales of
public lands. s1.4ss,220 surveying pub
lie lands. s47s,o0o; geological survey.
s1,os5,52o, a reduction Of ss59.5oo,
which includes the omission Of $780,
600 for gauging streams.
Education in Alaska, $175,00o:
armories and arsenals, s4s4,715, a.
reduction of s151.37s; expenses for
the executive mansion, $4,000, In
cluding. $4,000 for travelling ex-
penses of the president; Improvement
of rivers and harbors under contract
authorizations, $17.692.645, an increase
of s11,299,9 ,915. buildings at military
posts. 100000; erection of barracks and
quarters for the coast artillery, $1,9S7,-
$50, an increase of $737.260 Fort Will
liam Mckinley, p. J., $1S0.204; artificial
limbs. 100000. an increase of $780,
600; national home for disabled yolun-
teer soldiers, $4.493, 500; state and ter
ritorial homes for disabled volunteer
soldiers, s1,175,000; pay of bounty to
volunteer soldiers including the volun-
teers in the war with Spain, s350.0o0.
reduction of $4,000.
The unexpended balance of the fund
for enforcing the antitrust laws is re-
appropriated and is increased by $780,
900.
Expenses of United States courts,
$7,349.660, an increase of s8S7,S40; pub
fishing and binding, s5,589,790, an in
crease of $4,000.
In connection with the appropriation
for suppressing counterfeiting and
other crimes a provision Is made by the
bill designed to do away with the al
legged practice of lending secret service