Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — HOW MONEY IS TO BE SPENT. [ARTICLE]

HOW MONEY IS TO BE SPENT.

Appropriations Made by the Recently Adjourned Congress. The volume annually prepared by the clerks of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees, showing the exact appropriations and the new offices created, has been prepared for the last session of the Fifty-third Congress by Thomas P. Cleaves, clerk of the Senate Committee, and J. C. Courts, clerk of the House Committee. The statement gives the appropriations in detail and specifies the new offices created and abolished with the salaries and also the salaries increased and reduced, together with the chronological history of the regular appropriations.

The appropriations were as follows: Agricultural $ 3,303,750 Army 23,252,608 Diplomatic and consular.... 1,574,458 District of Columbia 5,745,443 Fortifications 1,904,557 Indian .. 8,762,751 Legislative, executive and judiciary 21,891,718 Military academy 464,261 Naval ■ 29,416,245 Pension 141,381,570 Post office 89,545,997 Sundry civil 46,568,160 Total regular appropriations. 373,811,522 Deficiencies 9,825,374 Miscellaneous Total general bills and miscellaneous 383,934.564 Permanent appropriations... 113,073.956 Grand total, appropriations.. 497,008,520 The number of new offices specifically created is 1,773, at an annual cost of sl,313,324, and the number omitted is 409, at an annual cost of $497,948, making a net increase of 1,364 in number and $815,376 in amount. Included in this increase are the 1,000 additional seamen authorized to be>enlisted in the navy and 315 additional deputy collectors and revenue agents in the internal revenue service to carry into effect the incoma, tax law. In addition to the foregoing there is a net increase in specific amounts appropriated for new offices where the number of such offices and the amount of salary to individuals are not specified, of $805,700. The number of salaries specifically Increased is 119 at an annual cost of $39,506, and the number of salaries specifically reduced is 69 at an annual cost of $lB,328, making a net increase of 50 in number and of $21,177 in amount; making a net total increase on account of salaries of offices, new and old, of $1,642,253.