Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — How the Appropriations Grow. [ARTICLE]

How the Appropriations Grow.

The following is an itemized statement of the appropriations made by the l'ate Congress for the Federal fiscal year commencing July 1, 1887, as compared with the year commencing July 1,188 G. It will, be seen that the increase is about $13,000,000: 1880-7. 1837-’B. >f' Pensions:. 3 70,073 200.03 $83,152 5v,0.00 P05t0ifice.........5 54,365,803.25 55,094,053.15 Navy 10,489,907.20 25,707,348.19 Army 23,753,057.21 23,724,718 69 Sundry Civi1...... 22,062,310.58 22,386,540.96 Leg., Ex. and Ju... 20,634,346.37"' 20,046,143.67 Indian 5,540,202.84 5,-21,897,06 District Columbia. 3,721,050.99 4,279,23 aOO Diplomatic 1,364,055.00 1,429,94 .44 Agricultural 054,715.00 1,028,730.00 Military Academy. 297,805.00 419,935.93 Printing deficiency 107,005.00 Miscellaneous 9,989,410.19 4,70i,991.49 Total bills pa55’a.i235,573,993.03 8248,50 ',630.84 A part of this increase is owing to the Mexican pension bill, which appropriates $6,000,000. But included, in last year’s appropriations were the amounts of $5,769,015.28 for Alabama claims, and sl,050,000 for the new library building at Washington. The increase of over sl,300,000 in the postoffice appropriation is in part due to the creation of a large number of new offices, especially in Virginia and other Southern States, by which convenient places have been made for working Democrats. The increase of half a million dollars in appropriations for the District of Columbia is also significant in view of the operations of the real-estate ring there. In commenting on these facts the New York Tribune says that when the appropriations for 1886 were made, Democratic journals denounced the proposed expenditure, as aside from the pensions, greater than any authorized by the very worst Republican Congress that had ever assembled. At (he last session closing the term of the Forty-ninth Congress, this increase “beyond the worst Republican Congress,” was still further increased, while appropriations for rivers and harbors, to pay deficienctes anddor fortifications were defeated. The amount would have been further in-' creaßed by $30,006,000 if these bills had passed.— Chicago Journal.