The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-05-12
MINNESOTA CONGRESSMAN PRE-
sENTs sUNDRY CIVIL
APPROPRIATION.
S4,5OO.0OOFOR N. Y. @.
This Measure Provides For a Total
Expenditure of $11f, 849,211-
Sum Represents a Cut of
$~16,650,ooo.

Washington, ID. c. - The sundry
civil appropriation, the second largest
Of all the appropriation bills, and car,
rying a total of $111,S49,211, was re
ported to the house by Representative
Tawney Of Minnesota, chairman OF
the committee on appropriations. The
from the estimate submitted to the
committee, and is more than 500, 000,-
900 less than the sundry civil bill car.
ried for the current fiscal year.
or the grand total the largest single
item Is $37,859, 800 for the continue,
ton of the construction of the Panama
canal. This 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, S6,145, 900; life
saving service, $2,362, 900; current e *
penses of the revenu cutter service,
So, 2SS 900; engraving and printing,
$3,11S,000; pay of janitors of public
buildings, $1,000, 900; fuel, lights and
water for public buildings, 81, $50, 900;
public health and marine hospital ser
vice, 81, 604, 900; Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1880. 900; armories and
arsenals, 1901 900; barracks and quar-
tiers, including seacoast artillery, $400,.
600; %seacoast artillery in the Philip
pines and Hawaii, $375 1000; expenses
Of White House, $4,000; rivers and
harbors improvement under contract,
$S,051, 900; for protecting the harbor
of New York from injurious deposits,
500, 900; artificial limbs, $105, 900;
public land service, $1,770, 900; survey
ing public lands, $685. 00.
Big Sum For New York P~ostoffice.
The limit of cost of the New York
postofice is increased to 81, 800, 900 and
$3.50, 900 is appropriated for conduct
ing the work; the modernization of
the .sub-treasury building in New York,
SIZE, 900; for lighting the capitol
grounds and buildings in Washington,
$100, 900. A provision also is included
for $3.50, 900 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 500, 90. is made to meet
the expense of representatives of the
United States in the arbitration be-
fore The Hague tribunal under the
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 a tariff commits.
sion is provided by a section of the
sundry civil appropriation bill pre-
pared by Representative Tawney and
presented in congress today. The APP
preparation Is based upon the estimate
practically made by President Taft
himself.
The provision Is 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
is authorized to appoint experts to OBJ
tain accurate information at home and
abroad On the cost of the production.
The board and all of its employees
will be subject to the order of the
president and the information obtained
can be used in recommending to on
gress any changes necessary in the
tariff rates to prevent undue discrimi-
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
preparation Of all other tariff bills,
because none other was available.
For this reason" said Tawney. "the
rates of duty in some cases may not
represent the declared prin-
ciple of Republican protection; that
is, they may be more and they may
be less than the difference in the cost
OF production.
ITO this fact more than any other
may be attributed nearly all the dis
satisfaction with the Payne law"