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Show URGENT DEFICIElf APPROPRIATION BILL Carries Over $24,000,000, and Includes Expenses of Oregon Ore-gon Land Fraud Cases. WASHINGTON. Jan! 22. Chairman Tawncy of the House Committee on Appropriations Ap-propriations today reported the urgency dencloncy bill and grave notice that ho would call It up tomorrow. Tho bill carries a total appropriation of $24. 17-1. -150, including the following Items: TroftHtiry Department, 1,688,3S7. District of Columbia, $301,181. Military establishment. $1.0S0,S7n. Back pay and bounty claims, $300,000. Naval establishment, 31.611.790. Department of the Interior, 5344,647. Department of Commerce and Labor, $r.5n.!00. united Slates courts, $004. 031. Tosta service, $1,1505.851. Isthmian cnnal, $12,178,900. Jlouao of Representatives, $78,752. Judgments Court of Claims. $187,G69. Auditor of accounts, $2!)2.01S. Tho total amount recommended Is $784 905 less lhan the total sum of estimates esti-mates presented to and considered by the committee- Included in the $24,000,000 total is an appropriation of $200,000 to carry forward through May a.nd Juno, 190S, the work of eradicating bubonic plague ln San Francisco. The funds now available for that purpose will bo exhausted ex-hausted in April. On the 1st of July the rogular appropriation (sundry civil) for the public health and marine hospital nervtce, which has clmrgo of the plague work, will becorno available. Tho deficiency defi-ciency appropriation of $200,000 Is merely to tide over the Interim. One pnragraph of tho bill provides that all expenses that may bo Incurred In tho approaching trial of the Hyde, Dimond, Benson and Schneider Paclde coast land fraud cases shall be puld wholly by tho United Statos. This will amount to approximately ap-proximately $50,000, and in a letter to the appropriations committee, some weeks ago, Attorney-General Bonaparte recommended recom-mended that the district be made to pay half till? sum, although tho matter had no connection with the district In any particular. |