Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1901 — ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS [ARTICLE]

ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS

Amount Is $16,000,000 Less than Ws ■ AskeJ lor 1032. The Secretary of the Treasury Monday transmitted to Congress the estimates of appropriations required for the government service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, as furnished by the heads of the several executive departments. The total appropriations asked for are $610,827,688, which is $16,000,000 less than the estimates for 1902 and $4,000,000 more than the appropriations for that year. Following is a recapitulation of the estimates by departments: Legislative $10;188,030 Executive 294,160 State Department 2,446,328 Treasury Department 1 ~.. 10g,484.925 War Department 161,i;20,101 Navy Department 100,701,122 Interior Department 161.710,535 Postofflce Department 4,464,966 Department of Agriculture..:... 5,509,540 Department of Laoor 190J550 Department of Justice 6,917,330 Total $610,827,688 Following are the principal items under the several departments which show increases or decreases as compared with the appropriations for the year 1902: Congress, public printing, etc., increase $430,000. State Department, foreign intercourse, Increase $233,000. Treasury Department, mints and assay offices, increase $133,000. Internal revenue, increase $340,000. Public works, Increase $4,405,0:J0. Miscellaneous, increase $1,000,000. District of Columbia, decrease $503,003. Permanent unnual approprjat.ons, decrease $2,500,000. War Department, military establishment, decrease $10,400,000. Public works, increase $36,000,000. Permanent annual appropriations, decrease $€50,000. Navy Department, naval establishment, increase $0,545,000. Public works, increase $14,600,C00. Interior Department, Ind an affairs, decrease $325,000; pensions, deerea-e $5,400,000; public works, decrease $386,000; miscellaneous, decrease, $1,375,000. Postoffice Department, salaries and expenses, increase $115,000. Department of Agriculture, salaricg and expenses. Increase $932,000. Department of Labor, salaries and expenses, increase $12,000. Department of Justice, public works, Increase $52,000; miscellaneous, increase $50,400. Civil Service Commission, salaries and expenses, increase $65,000,