Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-05-13

BILL REPORTED
MINNESOTA CONGRESSMAN PRE-.
SENTS SUNDRY CIVIL
APPROPRIATIONS.
s4,5oo,0oO FOR MY. PoS1oFFICE
This Measure Provides For a Total
Expenditure Of $111,s4e,211-
Sum Represents a Cut Of
$16,65o,o0o.

Washington, May Z. - The sundry
civil appropriation. the second largest
Of all the appropriation bills, and car.
rying total of gill ,849,211, was re.
ported to the house by Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, chairman OF
the committee on appropriations. The
total represents cut of 16,650,000
from the estimate submitted to the
committee, and is more than 100000,
900 less than the sundry civil bill car.
ried for the current fiscal year.
Of the grand total the largest single
item is $37,S59,S9O for the continue
ton of the construction of the Panama
canal. TEis sum is reimbursable to
the treasury from the sale Of bonds.
The bill carries appropriations for
practically all branches of the govern.
ment service, including large esti.
mates for the District of Columbia
Where the Money Goes.
Some of the larger items are as fol.
lows:
For public buildings, $6,145,OOO; life.
saving service, $2,362,0OO; current ex.
penses of the revenue cutter service,
$2,2S8.000; engraving and printing.
s3,11S,Ooo; pay of janitors of public
buildings, $2,4O0,00O; fuel, lights and
water for public buildings, $1,550,000;
public health and marine hospital ser.
vice, $1,604,0O0; Interstate Commerce
Commission, $1,360,0OO; armories and
arsenals, $5O1 900; barracks and quar-.
tiers, including seacoast artillery, $780,.
900; seacoast artillery in the Philip.
pines and Hawaii, $4,000; expenses
of White House. $4,000; rivers and
harbors improvement under contract,
sS,051 900; for protecting the harbor
of New York from injurious deposits,
100000; artificial limbs, 100000;
public land service, $1,770,O00; survey.
ing public lands, $556,O0O.
Biz Sum For New York Postoffice.
The limit of cost of the New York
postoffice is increased to $4,5O0,O00 and
s250,000 is appropriated for conduct
ing the work; the modernization Of
the sub-treasury building in New York,
$4,000; for lighting the capitol
grounds and buildings in Washington,
100000 A provision also is included
for $250,000 to enable the president to
assist the officers of the government
in the administration of custom laws.
Under the department of state APP
preparation of 100000 is made to meet
the expense of representatives of the
United States in the arbitration be-
fore The Hague tribunal under the
special agreement Of January, 1909,
for the submission of questions relat-
ing to fisheries on the north Atlantic
coast under the general arbitration
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars for the work of tariff commits
sion is provided by section of the
sundry civil appropriation bill pre-
pared by Representative Tawney and
presented in congress today. The ap-
is based upon the estimate
practically made by President Taft
The provision as prepared by Taw-
ney gives wide opportunity for the
president to exercise his own discre-
ton in the work of the tariff board and
does not limit the number of persons
who may be appointed. The president
V authorized to appoint experts to OBJ
tain accurate information at home and
abroad on the cost of the production.
The board and all of it's employees
will be subject to the order Of the
president and the information obtained
can be used in recommending to con-
gress any changes necessary in the
tariff rates to prevent undue discrimi-
nation in favor of or against any Amer
lean product.
In preparing the Payne tariff bill
Tawney said the methods used were
those which had been followed in the
of all other tariff bills,
because none other was available.
For this reason" said Tawney. 1.-The