Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-19
CONSIDERABLE MONEY is
COMING To- THIS STATE.
Final Disposition of the Appropriation Bill
In Senate--ltems for the Togus Home
Waterville, BiddefOrd and Old Town
Post Offices==Congress Notes.

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, Washington. G.. July f.-6spe-
cfal) The Senate is Just making final
.'dispositiosi pf. IN appropriation bin,
I i hin, When completed, as it promises
81 ne nitltfii The next two weeks, will
authorize the expenditure Of consid-
cradle money in Maine There are
allottnants Of. money eaEried in that
} bill for several public buildings in
.,iaiueA 5000 for the continuation Of
til. work on the postoffiee at Water
Vile: $500 for commencing work on
tthe postoffiee at Biddeford; ana $4,000
for opening work on the postoffice at
Old Town.
These are public building projects for
: Maine which Gov. Burleigh had a hand
in obtaining while he was a member
Of the House. He worked for the
authorizations on public building bills,
anat as member of the. House Public
Building Committee. saw that they
We're incorporated in the omnibus
measures presented to the House.~~1t
their. became only question of time
in getting the sites purchased and the
contracts let, all of which has been
going ON and, Congress having been
obligated to pay the money, is now
dong SO in installments as the money
is needed The several items have
been approved by the House and are
about to be approved by the Senate.
whereupon the bill will go to the PFesi-
I dent for signature. The money will
then become available at once. -
Appropriations for Toeus.
The same bill carries the aprropria-
lions fer the maintenance of the
branch of the National Home for Vol
tinteer Soldiers at Togus. These APP
preparations are also out Of contro-
versy now and it is only acquisition IF
when the President gets the Sunafy
Civil Association bill and puts his
nasnc to it that the appropriations will
become available for the fiscal year
WhicR began July /. These items for
the Togus home are: subsistence. s126,-
600: household $4,000; hospital, s41 500.
repairs. $4,000: farm. $1,000: in all
1858, 800 for the Togus Home. These APP
preparations are understood by. Con-
aTess to suffice for taking good care
Of the veterans at the Togus Home
for the next II months.
'Ehe expenses of tie Home Just at
present are being met under a resolu-
ton Of Congress. extending the sappro-
nriations of last year Fiscal weary in
such matters as the President regards
as necessary. Such action was due
to the failure of Congress to enact the
appropriation bills before July /. This
failure was due in considerable part
to The insistenee Of the Democratic
House in putting Legislative riders up
on the supply bills. TO this the Senate
Objected strenuuusly and row the diff
ferenees between the Senate and the
House in that regard is being adjusted.
The Post office Department ia a bull
letin calls attention to the demand
from postal savings bank depasitors in
Maine for the registered bonds which
the government has for sale 70 such
Gepositors Application ffor $500 Of
tile third issue of the postal savings
banks bonds has heen made in Maine, :
says this bulletin The applications
vere from Is depositors and it is par
ticularly interesting to note that more
than $4,000 of the total amount Of bonds
applied for are those in registered
form. which indicates that they are
being purchased as permanent in