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Show EXCEEDS) GOVERNMENT HF.VKNIK, Conservative Members of Concress Are Alarmed at the Appropriation 111 1 1. Washington. Conservative members mem-bers of congress are beginning to feel a littlu uneasy at tho way the appropriation approp-riation bills arc piling up this session, The amount of appropriations on bills already passed and pending pitint lo an aggregate that will exceed government revenues by many millions during the coming liscal year. Government revenues from nil sources for the year, including the postal revenue, was placed by the treasury treas-ury denartment at IIW,000.000. The regular annual appropriation bills exclusive ex-clusive of deficiencies, will amount to about $:i2:),0()0,0(Kl, and tho permanent appropriations including banking fund will reach 10l,()00,t)00. The deficiency bills will according to tho estimates of (he members of the senate appropriation appro-priation committee to be at least Ml,-0(10,000. Ml,-0(10,000. That makes an aggregate of $f.)5,0OO,OOO of appropriation exclusive of the dependent pension bill which, if itbeco s a law. as passed by the senate, will call for $2(1,000,000. Appropriations Appro-priations for the increase of the navy as paused by the hoiiso amount to $H,0IKI,. 000. There has been $1,500,000 appropriated appro-priated for the world's fair. If the river and harbor bill and the Galveston li arbor bill and the one for the lake channel between the upper and lower lakes all pass, that will make :J2.000,000 more lo be added to the appropriations. The miscellaneous appropriations at the last short session amounted to $10,-255,075, $10,-255,075, and they are likely to amount to a good deal more at Ibis session, as tho public building bills already reported re-ported in the house earrv an aggregate appropriation of $14,000,000, to say nothing of the senate bills, but if the misccllanenvs appropriations carry only the same amount as at the last session, the total appropriations will amount to $547.Sfi5,7li5, leaving a deficiency of $1)7.000,000. These figures and est.-mutes est.-mutes leave out of sight possible appropriations ap-propriations for coast defense, tint direct tat bill, nnd many other purposes, pur-poses, which, if made, will swell the deficit next year considerably above $100,000,000. |