Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — CARLISLE MAKES ESTIMATES. [ARTICLE]

CARLISLE MAKES ESTIMATES.

informs Congress of the Extent of Appropriations Needed. Secretary Carlisle, of the Treasury, has transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives the estimates of apr propriafions required for the fiscal year, entling June 30, 1898. They are recapitulated by titles as fellows, cents.being omitted: legislative establishment $ 4,379,820 Executive establishment 19,866i952 Judicial establishment 907,120 Foreign Intercourse V 2,082,723 Military establishment .. j 24,292,636 Naval establishment 5’2,434,773 Indian affairs 7,279,625 Tension** 141,328,580 Public works .J..., 31,437,061 Postal service 1,288,334 Miscellaneous 86,344,216 Permanent annual appropriations 120,078,220 Total $421,718,965 The estimates for the present fiscal year amounted to $418,091,073, and the appropriations for the present fiscal year, including. deficiencies and miscellaneous items, amounted to $432,421,005. Under the head of public works, appropriations, for $20,000 or over, are asked for public buildings, as follows: Postofflee. Allegheny, Pa $ 55,000 Postofflee, etc., Boise City, Idaho... 130,269 Postofflee, etc., Cheyenne, Wy0.... 188,969 Mint Building, Denver, Col.: 200,000 Court house, etc, Helena, Mont.... 227,760 Postofflee, etc., Kansas City, Mo.. 268,000 Postofflee, Meridian, Mlsb 30,000 Postofflee, etc., Milwaukee, W 15.... 400,000,. Postofflee, etc., Newport, Ky 50,000* Court house, Omaha, Neb 25,000 Also for extension of limit of cost of site and building at Omaha.... 100,000 Postofflee, Pottsville, Pa...,. 40,000 Cuatom house, Portland, Ore 200,000 Postofflee, Pueblo, Colo 150,000 Postofflee, South Omaha, Neb 75,000 Postofflee, etc., St. Paul, Minn 125,000 Court house, etc.,® San Francisco, Cal 100,000 Court house, Savannah, Ga.. 175,000 For constructing relief-light vessel for the fourth and fifth lighthouse districts '..rf... 80,000 Depot for Bixth lighthouse district.. 35,000 Rebuilding the light and fog signal station, Sand Island, Ala 65,000 Also for the construction of light and fog signal stations as follows:

On fisherman’s shoals, near Rock Island, In Lake Michigan $50,000 On Chapman shoal. In St. Lawrence River 25,000 In Lake St. Clair, Michigan, to mark new channel 20,000 On Middle Island, Michigan...,.*.... 25,000 On Rock of Ages, off Isle Royale*, Lake Superior, Michigan 50,000 Steam fender, etc., for third lighthouse district 85,000 On Point Arguello, California 35,000 The total appropriations asked for lighthouses, beacons and fog signals is $1,584,785. The appropriations for these purposes .for the present fiscal year amounted to SIBO,OOO. For improvements at the League Island navy yard, Pennsylvania, $293,222 are asked. For housing torpedo vessels at navy yards $225,000 is asked for. Under the .head of fortifications and other work* of defense $5,000,000 is asked for the construction, under recent acts of Congress, of gun and mortar batteries; $500,000 for sites for fortifications and seacoast defenses; $105,000 for the preservation and repair Of fortifications; $33,000 for the construction of sea walls and embankments; $150,000 fpr torpedoes for harbor defense, and $0,770,150 for armaments * for fortifications, which include $1,117,320 for steel seacoast guns; $1,728,001} for steel 'breach-loading mortars, and sl,597,080 for reserve supply of powder and projectiles.' The total estimates for . fortifications and other works of defense are $15,815.250, which is an increase, of over 100 per cent, over the appropriations for the present fiscal year. For the construction of buildings at and enlargement of military posts $1,4)00,000 is asked. Appropriations undet recent acts are asked for as follows: Improvements at Yellowstone National Park, $35,000; for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, $145i,000; Gettysburg National Park. $75,000, and $87,500 for tho Shiloh National Military Park. Und-er the act of June 3, 1896, appropriations for rivgrs and hurbors are requested as follows: Improving harbor at Savannah, Ga.s 400,000 Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida 400,000 Improvlngharborat Galveston, Tex 800,000 Improving Humboldt harbor and ' bay, Callforbla 400,000 Ship channel connecting the great lakes between Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo ~ 1,090,000 The Secretary of War, in a note, states that the above sums are required to meet the payments for all the works pnder continuous 1 contracts at the time fixed by law for filing these estimates with the "Secretary of the Treasury. For examinations, surveys and contingencies of rivers and harbors, SIOO,OOO is asked. The total estimates for rivers and harbors is $5,349,000, and the total for public works of all kinds $31,437,001. A statement is appended, showing the toJtftL amounts required for the improvement of rivers and harbors under the acts of 1890, 1892 and 1896, but which are not yet under contract. These amount to nbout $17,500,000. The estimates for army and navy pensions aggregate $140,000,000. There is also an appropriation of $350,000 asked fpr to enable the United States Government to take part in the international exposition to be held in Paris in 1900. Other apropriations are requested, as follows: For the construction of a steamer for service In Alaska $ 75 000 For the establishment of auxiliary fish culture stations on the St. John’s (Florida) and other eastern, rivers 20,000 For the recoluage of uncurrent silver coins 250,000 Maintaining and Improving national cemeteries 100,000 Headstones for graves of soldiers. 25^000 Cables for harbor defenses 20.000 For maintenance, etc., of national homqs for disabled volunteer soldlerl , 2,618,214 For State and Territorial homes.. 825,000 For! the surveying of public lands 325,000 For payment of salaries, fees and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies 1,200,000 For furplshlng artificial limbs and transportation 183,000 Forspeclal experiment work In ballooning for use for the Signal Corps ....■... 10,000 Telegraphic Brevities. St. Louis citizens have appointed a Cuban'relief committee. Zenas Varney’s carriage factory at St/ Louis was destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,000. P. J. Kelly, a San Jose, Cal., jeweler, locked his wife and children in a room and a’tempted to kill them. ’ He succeeded in fatally wounding himself and his, wife. James Wesley Dorsey, an old colored, man of Springfield, Ohio, has fallen heir to a large fortune left him»by Peter Shaffer," a wealthy planter of Frederick County, Maryland. ' Anna Ruts, aged 18 years, tfaember of i prominent family in Trenton, west of Carlyle, 111.,- committed suicide in St. Louis by taking poison because her employed intended discharging her. Near St. Clairsville, Ohio, George W. Rinker, ft farmer, was killed by James Williams, a neighbor. Williams, 1 Returning from town, found Rinker at his house > and attacked him \vith a tjflker. At a secret Sonsistory at the Vatl-” can Canon Giuseppe PrißCo and Father Raffacji Pterotti, both Italians, were made cardinal*. The consistorial advocate, Mgr. Capogroasi, pronounced a perorafion in tAror of the beatification mad canonisation of Joan Arc- Th,e Pontiff referred the question to the holy congregation on rite* for examination and report.