The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26
SUNDRY CIVIL
BILL REPORTED
Carries Appropriations for Next
Fiscal Year of About
$105,000,000.
FAR BELOW ESTIMATES
/ STATEMENT GIVEN OUT BY
CHAIRMAN TAWNEY.

CHAIRMAN TAWNEY.
Washington, April 25.-The sundry civil
appropriation bill was reported to the
house today by the appropriations COM
mittee. 1t carries $1O5, us. 1853. The follow
ing statement of the bill was authorized
by Chairman Tawney:
The estimates submitted by the differ
ent 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, aggregatinS $l4l, sS4, S66- These es-
Inmates were prepared for submittance TO
congress last September, when the reve-
nues of the government were far in e&-
cess of current expenditures. Before con-
gress convened the financial stringency
came on, resulting i'll a very material fall-
ing off in the government revenues. This
necessitated a thorough examination OF
the estimates with a view of ascertaining
the amounts actually required to continue
the service usually provided for in the
sundry civil bill and also to continue the
public works previously authorized until
the next appropriation shall become avail
able.
Cut of over $35, 100000.
As a result of hearings and investiga-
lions the committee has reported the Dill
TO the house carrying in the aggregate
$780, 1889 being S35. 1877 less than the
estimates submitted by the departments.
The amounts recommended by the conf
mittee is ample TO provide for continu-
ance 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 authorized
until the next appropriations become
available, This reduction of more than
SIS, 100000 in the estimates submitted for
sundry civil expenditures. together with
the reductions that have been made By
of which that committee has jurisdic-
ton, aggregate almost SIS, 0,000 below the
estimates submitted by the various de-
partments outside OF the estimates for
army and navy expenditures.
Canal Appropriation.
Included in the appropriations recon-
mended in the sundry civil bill is the sum
of s27, 627 900 for the isthmian canal. which
amount is reimbursable to the treasury
from the proceeds of the sale of bonds
authorized. The aggregate carried by the
bill is 631 less than the amount ap-
prOpriated by the sundry civil bill for the
current fiscal year. The bill carries for
public Notwithstanding marine hOspi-
! tails, quarantine stations, annual repairs,
| heating apparatus, vaults, safes and locks
50, 49,, S75; and for the improvements of
/ rivers and harborS under contract au-
I thOrizatiOns, a7,692,645.
| The total of SlO5, ia, 1863 is 81, S42 $50 more
| than the total sundry civil appropriations
!
Among the items carried in the bill are
the following:
important Items.
! Life saving service. 50, 26s,S57
Current expenses of revenue cutter serv-
/ ice, 81, $4,000.
/ Engraving and printing. S3.354.75S.
| Interstate commerce commission. $685.
| 0OU, an increase of $1O6, 755 over the current
year.
/ Assistant custOdiaDs and ispi+ors 70,
public buildings. 8, 6SS,S72-
Fuel light and water for public build
ings. 100000.
Expenses of collecting customs. add.
tional appropriation of S. 500 900 for thai
purpose for 1909, 100000, an increase OF
/ $4,000
Public health and marine hospital serv.
/ ice, 81, 299, $50. an increase of $4,000
/ Quarantine service, $4,000.
immigration station at San Francisco
s1S5,OOO
Lighthouse establishments, s5.1940Oo.
Coast and geodetic survey. 1896 290.
Bureau Of fisheries, $7S3, 800.
Enforcement of Exclusion.
Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act. s500.000
Expense Of collection of revenues from
sales of public lands. 81, 439. 200.
Surveying public lands, SAG. goo
Geological survey, Sl0S5, $50, a reduction
of 1853. 500, which includes the omission o
Education in Alaska, $175.O
Government hospitals for the insane
S370,S00, a reduction of S55000
ArmOries and arsenals, s4s4,715, a re
ductiOn Of $l51.37S
Buildings and grounds in and aroun,
Washington, d. c., S203,450.
| Expenses for the executive mansion
SS,0O0 including $25000 for travelling ex
penSeS of the president.
Improvement of rivers and harbors un
der contract authorizations, 81, 692, 645 al
increase Of S11, 299. 915.
National cemeteries, headstones, etc.
$S22110
Military Buildings.
Buildings at military posts. $500. coo.
Erection of barracks and quarters 70
the coast artillery. s1,9S7. 26O, an increas
Military prison at San Francisco, 500.
Fort William Mckinley. Philippin
improvement of Yellowstone park
Road in Mount Rainier park. $4,000.
National military parks. S2S4, $50.
Survey Of northern and northwestern
lakes. 1865. 600
National home for disabled yoluntee
/ soldiers s4493, 500.
Continuing aid to state and territorla
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, 81,
175,O00.
Paw of bounty to volunteer soldiers in
[ Guiding the volunteers in the war Wit
Spain, $4,000, a reduction OF 5000.
The unexpended balance OF the fun
for enforcing the antitrust laws Is re
appropriated and is increased by s250,0ot
EXPENSES OF United States courts. s..
$40 $50. an increase of SS57. $40.
Publishing and binding. sos. 80. an in
crease of $4,000.
Continuing construction of the isthmisi
canal S27. 81 900, in increase of S65, $50
Civil Service Employees.
In connection with the appropriation 10
suppressing counterfeiting and othe
| crimes a provision Is made by the bill de
signed TO do away with the alleged praC
tice of lending secret service employees I
other departments and to individuals 10
| private detective work.
An echo of the recent investigation &
the government printing office by tn
president direction is heard In a pre-
vision that the public printer shall sub
nit estimates for all employees additions
to those scheduled in the bill.
A limitation affecting labor in the cans
zone stipulates that wages and salarie
paid on the isthmus for skilled and III
skilled labor by the canal commission an
Panama Railroad company shall not eo
coed by more than % per cent the ave.