People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — CLOSE TO ONE BILLION. [ARTICLE]

CLOSE TO ONE BILLION.

Appropriations of the I.afe Congress Will Soon Be Given Out. (Washington, March 7.—The official statement as to the total appropriations of the last session of congress nave not yet been prepared, and none will be given out until toward the close >f the present week, when they will be put forth by Chairman Sayers of the iouse committee on appropriations and by Representative Cannon. It is thought, however, that the figures will lot vary much from those sent out ,vhen congress adjourned. The total ■vill not be far from $496,000,060 for the ntire session, and assuming this to be •orreet, the total appropriation for 895 and 1896 combined would be $988,.30,685, that for 1895 being $492,230,680.