Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — BIG OUTLAY OF MONEY. [ARTICLE]

BIG OUTLAY OF MONEY.

Total Appropriations by the Last Congress $800,024,496.55. Thomas P. Cleaves and James C. Courts, chief clerks respectively of the committees on appropriations of the Senate and House, have prepared the volume containing statements of appropriations, new offices, etc., as required by law, which directs that these figures be compiled and published at the close of each session of Congress. The grand total as shown by these summaries is SBOO,624.496.55, detailed by bills as follows: Agricultural ? 5,208,900.00 Army 91,730,130.41 Diplomatic 1,957,925.69 District of Columbia 8,544,469.97 Fortifications 7,298,955.00 Indian 8,986,028.10 legislative 25,396,681.50 Military academy 2,627.324.42 Naval 78,856,363.13 Pensions 139,842,230.00 Pustoffiee 188,416,598.75 River and Harbor 26.771,442.00 Sundry civil 60,163,359.13 Deficiencies 28,050,007.32 Miscellaneous 2,772,795,13 Istbmlun Canal act 50,130,000.00 Permanent appropriations .. 123,921,220.00 Total $800,624,496.55 In addition to the specific appropriations made, contracts are authorized to be entered into for certain public works requiring future appropriations by Congress in the aggregate sum of $262,711,465. These contracts ncltlde $21,069,500 for additional ships for the navy and for permanent improvements of and increased facilities at certain navy yards; $15,943,650 for additions to old public buildings and the construction of new public buildings in various cities of the country; $38,336,180 for improvement of river and harbors; $3,500,000 for reconstruction of old and erection of new buildings at the Military Academy at West Point, and $180,000,000 for the construction of an isthmian canal. A comparison of the total appropriations at the last session of Congress with those of the preceding or short session of the Fifty-sixth Congress for 1903 shows an increase of $70,285,920.56. In this amount lire included increased appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, $626,540; for the diplomatic. District of Columbia, legislative, executive and judicial and naval service. $1,706,981.74; fur the military academy. $1,854,670.74: for the postal service, $14,633,910; for the whole of the river and harbor act. none having been passed at the preceding session, $26,771,442; for deficiencies. $12,132,560.38, and for the isthmian canal, $50,130,000. On the other hand there appear reductions of $24,003,912.69 for the army, $65,056 for fortifications, $761,442.99 for the Indian service. $5,403,000 under requirements for pensions, $1,632,549.08 by the sundry civil act, $5,267.223.54 by miscellaneous acts, and $437.000 under permanent appropriations which cover interest on the public debt, making a net increase as stated of S7O,285.920.56.