Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — TOTAL IS $674,981,022 [ARTICLE]

TOTAL IS $674,981,022

Official Report on Appropriations of the Filty-afth congress. The appropriations made by Ike third jession of the Fifty-fifth Congress amount to $074,981,022, according to the vol him relating to appropriations, new offices, etc., completed by Thomas P. Cleaves and James C. Courts, chief clerks of the Senate and House Committees oa Appropriations. The appropriations were as fallows: Agricultural $3,726,622 Army Bh,4M'.2®« Diplomatic .. ..• L7l'.3M District of C01umbia............ C.B3MM Fortifications ....... 4.BULM2 Indian 7.5U4.73* Legislative L3.toB.SU Military academy....: 575.77* Naval Pension 145.233,*** Postoffice .......... 1U5.634.33S River and harbor lC.t-91.5t2 Sundry civil.. 4U.355,®!! Deficiency approprla ioi a....... 25A4SJM3 Miscellaneous appropriations. Including 120.000.C00 to <arry out treaty obligations with Spain.. 28.744,739 Permanent appropriat'ons... 12-4,678.22# Grand t01a1..... $574981,«22 In addition to the specific appropriations contracts were authorized for tarcrease of the naval establishment and for various public works throughout th* country requiring future appropriate** by Congress in th? aggregate sent of $77,047,2*4, inclnding the following items: Three new battle sh'ps. three armored cruisers and six protected cruisers, to cost, including armor and aruraments 344.1G4.3M River and barber Improvements.. 23,86633 Public buildings in various States. Including a new government printing office in Washington... 8,163,4 M At an annual cost of $12,150,867 new offices and employments to the number «f 19.G69 are ordered, while those abolished or omitted amount to 852, at an annual expense of $843,371, thus making a net increase of $11,307,496. Of this increase 38,315 are for the military establishment under the act increasing the efficiency uff the army, and 9,572 are for the naval establishment. A comparison of the total appropriatiuto of the third session of the Fifty-fifth Congress for 1900 of $674,981,022 with those of the second session for 1889 to $893,231,615 shows a reduction in farm of the third session of $218,250,593.