Show WHAT THE WAR COSTS Expenses Foot Up Six Hundred Millions Mil-lions Per Year HOUSE VOTES WORE FUNDS AGE ASKS CONGRESS FOB i 53000000 MOR This Sum Will Be Use For Equipment Equip-ment and Maintenance of th Volunteers Grosvenor Loses H Temper When the Administration I Criticised Condition of Troops Washington June 2The house practically without debate passed today to-day the urgency deficiency bill providing pro-viding for emergency expenses of the army and navy departments inuldent to the war I was based upon estimates mates received recently from the department I de-partment and carries items contemplated contem-plated in the Philippine expedition and I the early movements upon Cuba The house passed a bill providing for the establishment of postoffices at military tary posts and camps also resolutions directing a survey to be made of the channel from Ship island harbor to Bit oxi and Gulf Port Miss and a bill to return to the state of New York the flag carried in the civil war by the One i Hundred and Ninth New York volunteer volun-teer Infantry Mr Cannon from the committee on appropriations presented an urgehcy deficiency bill to supply deficiencies in I the appropriations for the army and I navy and for the fiscal year the ap propriations to be available until Dec 31 iSIS In committee of the whole Mr Cannon Can-non explained the presentation of the measure He said it was the policy of I the committee on appropriations to I hold back the general deficiency bill i until practically the close of the session j ses-sion in order to catch up all items that I may develop as necessary up to the td latest moment of the session Meantime j Mean-time the present bill was urgent and i had been reported for present consid I eration because items could not wait upon the general deficiency bill Inci F rae Ifn estimated the appropriations I I appropria-tions already made on account of the i war and likely to develop as essential 1 j Including the first six months of the I F I coming fiscal year at 350000000 In i j F j 1 i response to a question from Mr Ding ley Mr Cannon said the war would cost approximately 600000000 provided I pro-vided it should continue one year > A suggestion from Mr Fitzgerald Dem Mass that cooks should be provided for the troops at Camp Alger precipitated a discussion upon the conditions I con-ditions which exist there Such veterI I ans as Mr Grosvenor Mr Cannon and Mr Livingston of Georgia discoursed upon the necessities of soldiers undergoing I under-going In the process of hardening what seemed grave hardships compared with I conditions to which they were accustomed + I I accus-tomed at home They drew comparisons compari-sons between present conditions and those existing In the civil war showing I that present provisions are better Mr Gaines Dem Tenn vigorously criticised the war department for allowing al-lowing but seven days in which to receive j re-ceive bids for supplies l He said grave injustice was being done the udtF and I notably Tennessee in discriminating in I favor of manufacturers of other sections sec-tions I The main thing before us now Is to pass this bill declared Mr Cannon The noney cannot be spent until appropriated ap-propriated Some gentlemen come here and cry out and complain because in a twinkling an army ully equipped with tents uniforms provisions guns and everything for comfort is not ready now and now here ccmes the cyclone from Tennessee and says My God you dont give us but seven days to bidThe reading of the bill at length proceeded I pro-ceeded and it was passed unanimously I without further debate A number of bills affecting the District of Columbia I were passed and at 152 oclock the house adjourned I includesan emergency appropriation of 10000000 for the navy The Items appropriated for follow Contingent expenses of the army inc dent to the expedition to the Philippines Philip-pines to be expended under the direction direc-tion of the commanding general of the Philippine islands In his discretion for such purposes a he may deem best in I the execution of his dutiEs under the order of the president and for such objects ob-jects a are not now appropriated for to be available until expended 100000 expeditionary force to Cuba machinery equipment etc 350000 signal service of the army 195000 subsistence department de-partment 5000000 medical department depart-ment 50000 naval establishment emergency fund to meet any contingency contin-gency that cannot possibly be foreseen but which constantly arise under existing ex-isting Conditions 10000000 The bill also carries 150000 for the torpedo defense of Manila harbor Under the head of naval establishment establish-ment besides the item of 10000000 for an emergency fund the bill also ca ries 1000000 for the bureau of supplies and accounts and 1000000 for clothing and small stores for the issue of the navy navyTe appropriations are to be available avail-able until Dee 31 next |