Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1879 — Department Estimates. [ARTICLE]

Department Estimates.

. Washington. Nov. 19. The printing of detailed estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, has been completed. The estimates of the amounts required for expenditure under the War Department aggregate $29,321,794 for the military establishment, and $7,557,834 for public works of various kinds, including about $5,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, $1 000,000 for sea-coast fortifications, $774,000 for bnildings in and around Washington, and $057,000 for arsenal The cost of tie naval establishment is estimated at $14,509,148. The estimates foi the Indian service foot np $4,992,846; for foreign intercourse, $1,185,135; for salaries and expenses of Collectors of Internal Revenue, $4,075,000; for expenses of the mints and assay offices, $1,209,810; for salaries and expenses of the Treasury Dopaitment proper, #2,661,672; for the Interior Department proper $2,146,774; for deficit in postal revenues, $7,712,000; for , cons ruction of new lighthouses, beacons, and flag signals, #674,000; for new Gov.-rmn' nt bnildings throughout the country, $2,247,000; for judicial salaries and expenses of courts, $3,250,000; for pensions, $32,044,000; for salaries and expenses of the two Houses of Cingress (about), s2,B'‘o,o<)o; for the salaries of Pres dentand Vice President and expenses of the Executive office, $97,464; for ( xp' nses of the tenth .census, $2,750,000. The grand aggregate of estimates is $130,347,129. Tbe total amount appropriated by Congress for tbe cm rent fiscal year was $162,404,648, which included $25,(00,000 for arrears of pens ons and about $3,000,000 for the District of Coiumnia. When you shake hands with one of those men whose flipper drops into yours with a cold, dry and lifeless arm, you instantly look along his arm to assure yourself that you haven’t grabbed a tom-turkey by the foot. Such a man never asks “Wattle you take?”