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Show COST OF THE WAR. TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS ARB $360,000,000. Only 898,000,0000 of This Sum Has Brei Expended and Appropriations Will Not Be Exhausted. Ex-hausted. Vashing-ton, Aug. 15. Although the ar with Spain lasted only 111 clays, it is estimated that it has cost the government gov-ernment so far 8150,000,000, of which 538,000,000 has been actually paid out of the treasury. Beginning with March 1, when the first increases in the expenditures ex-penditures in anticipation of war became be-came apparent in the daily expenditures expendi-tures of the treasury, the actual disbursements dis-bursements of this account haye been approximated as follows: March Army, 5000,000: nary, 32,400,-D00; 32,400,-D00; total, 33,000,000. April Army, SI, 200, 000; navy, 38,-800,000; 38,-800,000; total, 511,000,000. May Army, $12,000,000; navy, 87,-000,000; 87,-000,000; total, 519,000,000. June Army, 516,500,000; navy, SO,-500,000; SO,-500,000; total, 823,000,000. .July Army, 529,500,000; navy, S3,-500,000; S3,-500,000; total, S35, 000,000. To August 13 Army, 85,500,000; nary, na-ry, 51,500,000; total, 57,000,000, Total charged to war department, 865,300,000.. Total dharged to navy department, $32,700,000. Grand total, 598,000,000. The appropriations made by congress m account of the war aggregated about E3GO,000,000, and cover the time to January Jan-uary 1, 1899. |