Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-04-26
Measure Carries Thirty-Five Million
Less Than Asked For.
TAwEEY TELLS OF CUTS MADE
Reductions in Other Bills Make Total
Saving Of Seventy-Five Millions.
MONEY FOR THE PANAMA CANAL
subcommittee Spends six Weeks in
Hearings and in ConsiderinE
Amounts Revenues VIII
Justify.

WASHINGTON. April &.-The sundry
civil appropriation bill was reported TO the
house today by the appropriation commit
tee. II carries s1O5. 15,sss. The following
statement of the bill was authorized by
Chairman Tawney:
'The estimates submitted by the different
departments of the government for sundry
civil expenses for the next fiscal year far
exceeded the estimates for like eXpendi-
tures in any previous year in our history
aggregating d1 ,2st.Se6
THE subcommittee having these esti-
mates in charge spent six weeks In public
hearings and in considering the amounts
which the revenues would Justify the COM
mittee in allowing in the various esti-
mates. As the result of these hearings and
Investigations, the committee has reported
the bill to the house. carrying in the ag-
gregate slO5 us. .s6s being sS5, ss7 less than
the estimates submitted by the depart-
ments. The amount recommended by the
committee is ample to provide for the con-
tinuance during the next fiscal year OF all
the public service usually provided for in
the sundry civil BILL and the continuance
of public works heretofore authorized until
the next appropriations become available.
This reduction of more than S85.o0,OOO in
the estimates submitted for sundry civil
expenditures, together with the reductions
that have been made by the appropriations
committee in other bills of which that
committee has jurisdiction, aggregate al
most S75OO0O0O below the estimates sub
mitted by the various departments outside
of the estimates for army and navy ex-
penditures.
Money for Panama Canal.
Included IN the appropriations recom-
mended in the sundry civil bill is the sum
Of s27, $4,000 for the isthmian canal. which
amount is reimbursble TO the treasury
from the proceeds OF the same amount OF
bonds authorized. The aggregate carried
/ by the bill is 1897 ssi less than the amount
1 appropriated by the sundry civil bill for
the current fiscal year The bill carries
for public buildings. including marine hos
pitals. quarantine stations annual repairs,
heating apparatus. vaults. safes aud locks.
I s., ,1s2, ,s75, and for the Improvement Of Fivers
and harbors under contract authorizes
s17.6a2.eB.
-.rhe total Of s1o5.715, ,sss, is 81 .2ss more
/ than the total sundry civil appropriations
/ for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1908
"A Limitation affecting labor in the canal
zone. stipulates that wages and salaries
paid on the isthrnus for skilled and un-
skilled labor by the canal commission and
Panama Railroad company shall not ex-
ceed by more than q per cent the average
salaries paid in the United States for SINH
lar labor and service.
1T is provided in the bill that all funds
hereafter derived from customs collected
upon property OF the United States I'm
ported from the canal zone Is hereby re-
appropriated for the construction of the
1 isthmian canal"
Items in the Bill.
Among the items carried in the bill are
| the following.
Life saving service, s. 26S.S5I; current ex-
penses OF revenue cutter service. d.9S4, 900;
| engraving and printing, s. S4 l5S; Interstate
Commerce. commission. $9S5, ,000. .can increase
| of S106 755 over the current year; assistant
custOdians and Janitors for public buildings,
ST. Gss.s72; fuel, lights and water Tor public
4 buildings, 81, 10000; expenses OF collecting
| customs additional to the permanent APP
| preparation of IS, 100000 for that purpose for
| 1909 81 100000, an increase OF $4,000; public
health and marine hospital service. sl.2ss.
/ 75e, an Increase Of $13I,000; quarantine serv-
Ice 100000; immigration station at San
! Francisco, SIS, 900; lighthouse establishment,
s. 519i. eco coast and geodetlc survey, S9e6, go;
| bureau OF fisheries. S7S3320; enforcement OF
( the Chinese exclusion act, s500,O00; expense
! Of COLLECTION Of revenues from sales of pub
lie lands. 81. 400. 90; surveying public lands,
AIs 600: geological survey, 81. oeo.62O rednc-
! tion of s8h9, 500, which includes the omission
/ of 100000 for gsuging streams; education
! IN Alaska, &75,O00; government hospitals for
the insane ss'o.oya 90 = a reaueiloh ol sos,uvoi
ais, Slsi rs. reduction of S151,37S; buildings
and grounds in and around Washington,
| ID. C., s203, $50; expenses for the executive
mansion. s78O00 including S2S. 900 for travel
ing expenses OF the president; lighting the
executive mansion and grounds. s2i $50; i'm
provemeut Of rivers and harbors under con-
| tract authorizations, 81 e92 6l5, an increase
OF l.es9 sls; National cemeteries head
posts. Ssoa zoo: erection Of barracks and
I quarters Tor the coast artillery, Sl.s5I.260 an
increase OF xlssie6o; military prison at San
York $4,000; Fort Benjamin Harrison. In
I diana. S1o0o0o; Fort william Mckinley.
Philippine Islands, sisa,2e4 military prison
I at Fort Des Moines. E0,600. Improvement
Of Yellowstone park Ss5 900; road IN Mount
| s. Oa4. $50; survey Of northern and north
western lakes. s2e5.9oo artificial limbs s4OO-
harbor OF New York from Injurious de-
pOsits. SEQ; national homes for disabled
volunteer soldiers ti.aaS 500; continuing aid
volunteer soldiers, sl,l75.ooo; pay OF bounty
70 volunteer soldiers. including the vOlun-
teers in the war with Spain, $4,000 re-
congress at Santiago. Chile 900; expOsi-
ton at Quinto. Ecuador. $4,000; the unex-
pended bals5ice Of the fund for enforcing
the sRti-trust laws Is reappropriated and Il
Increased by the sum Of t25000e; expenses
/ OF United states courts, I,S4s,6o. an IN
Z crease OF ESlrs4o; public printing and bind
/ ing. s., 90 30 an Increase Of Sl15.O00. con-
tinuing the construction OF the Isthrnian
canal s2Ie27 .0o0. an increase OF as. .6Sz
An echo OF the recent investigation OF the
government printing office by the presi-
dents direction is heard IN the following
imposed limitation;
The public printer shall submit for The
fiscal year 1910. and annually thereafter
estimates for all clerks and other empl.lyes
{ additional 10 the foregoing (scheduled) who
may be required IN the executive or admin
istrative offices OF the government printing
office. and no funds other than those sne-
officially appropriated under said estimates
shall be used during said fiscal year for
services IN the government printing office
! of the character specified in said estimates
and appropriated for the current year.
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