People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — WHERE THE CASH GOES. [ARTICLE]

WHERE THE CASH GOES.

Annual Showing of Appropriations by the Last Congress. Washington, Oct. 17.—The annual volume showing the appropriations made and the new offices created by congress, etc., shows that the total specific appropriations made at the first and second sessions of the Fiftythird congress amounted to $391.156,005 and the permanent appropriations $101,074,680, making a grand total of $492,230,685. The new offices created are 474 in number, at an annual cost of 8654,712, and the offices omitted and abolished are 923 in number, at an annual cost of $1,285,992, making a net reduction in number of 449 and in amount $581,179. The salaries increased are ten in number at an annual cost of $33,741, and the salaries reduced are sixty-nine at an annual cost of $26,500, or a net reduction of fifty-nine in number, and a net increase in cost <«f $6,941. The appropriations by bills for the two sessions were as follows: Agricultural $3”23 (E 3 Army 23 5.2 884 Diplomatic and consular 1,563.918 District of Columbia 5,5-15,178 Fortifications 2,247.004 Indian 10.6 4>.;>05 Legislative, etc 21.365,583 Military academy 406,535 Naval £5,3.7.170 Pensions 151.581.570 Post office 87.236 509 Rivers and harbors 11,643.180 Sundry civil 34,253,775 Deficiency 11.811.004 Miscellaneous 577.1'56 T0ta15391.156.005 Permanent appropriations 101.074.680 Total appropriationsJ492.23o.6Bs