Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — GAGE’S ESTIMATES. [ARTICLE]

GAGE’S ESTIMATES.

Appropriations for the Service of theFiscal Year Ending June 30, ’9O. Secretary Gage has transmitted to Congress the estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal yearending June 30, 1899, as furnished by the several executive departments. The total amount called for by the estimates is $402,647,885, which is about $32,000,00p in excess of the appropriations for 1898, including deficiencies and miscellaneous, -and about $41,000,000 more than the estimates for 1898. Therecapitulation of estimates by titles is aa follows, cents omitted: Legislative establishment $4,405,532 Executive establishment 20,025,484 Judicial establishment 087,020'. Foreign Intercourse ...'.'....1... 1,850,428 Military establishment 24,620,043 Naval establishment 29.920,539Indian affairs . ..... 7,375,017 Pensions 141,257,750' Public work 73,304.134 Postal service ... . 8,048.112: Miscellaneous 35,187,402 Permanent annual appropriations .... 117,830,220Grand total $402,047,885These amounts include estimates for rivers and harbors, $48,728,160, and for fortifications nnd other works of defense,. $13,378,571, the details of which already have been published. The total postal service deficiency is estimated at $6,048,112. The Secretary of the Interior asks for SIIO,OOO to aid in the protection of timber on public lands, and $75,000 for the care, etc., of forest reserves. Gen. Nelson G. Williams died at his home in Brooklyn. He was a classmate of U. S. Grant at West Point, At the battle of Shiloh he had a horse shot under him and the explosion of a shell rendered him totally deaf. For thirty years, he had been in charge of the puhlia stores in New York City. An attempt was made at Montevideo to stab Senor Jose Cnestas, president ad. interim of Uruguay. It was unsuccessful, the bystanders warding off the wouldbe assassin. The man was formerly member of the Montevideo police forof^.

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