Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1879 — Estimated Government Expenses. [ARTICLE]

Estimated Government Expenses.

Washington, November 18. The printing of detailed estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30,1881, has been completed. The estimates of the amounts required for expenditure under the War Department aggregate *29,321,794 for the military establishment, and *7,557,834 for public works of various kinds, including about *5,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, *1,000.000 for sea-coast fortifications, *774,000 for buildings in and around Washington, and *657,000 for arsenal. ; , The cost of tbe naval establishment is estimated at *14,509,148. The estimates for the Indian service foot up *4,992,846; for foreign intercourse, *1,185,135; for salaries and expenses of Collectors of Internal Revenue, *4,075,000; for expenses of the mints and assay offices, *1,20.1,810; for salaries and expenses of the Treasury Department proper, *2,661,672; for the Interior Department proper, *2,146,774; for deficit in paatal revenues, *7,712,0 JO; for construction ofnew lighthouses, beacons and Hag signals, *674.000; for new Government buildings throughout the country, *2,247,001; for Judicial salaries and expenses of courts, *3,250,000; for pensions, *32,044,000: for salaries and expenses of the two Houses of Congress (about), *2,800,000; for the salaries of President and VicePresident and expenses of the Executive office, *97.464; for expenses of the tenth census, *2,750.000. The grand aggregate of estimates is *136,347,129. The total amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year was *162,404,648, which included *25 0 0 000 for arrears of pensions and about *3JX)O,OOO for the District of Columbia. No estimates for either of these purposes are submitted in the book of estimates this year. . —Everything has recently advanced in prices except liberty, which remains at eternal vigilance, with liberal reductions to the trade.