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Show BIG MONEY REQUIRED FOR UNCLE SAM'S OFFICE WASHINGTON, May 14. The volume vol-ume relating to appropriations made and new offices "created during the last session of Congress has been completed for the second session of the Fifty-seventh Fifty-seventh Congress by Thomas P. Cleaves and James C. Courts, chief clerks respectively of the House and Senate committees. A summary of the appropriations shows a grand total of $753,058,506. In addition to the specific appropriations appropria-tions made, contracts are authorized to be entered Into for certain public works requiring further appropriations by Congress in the aggregate of $36,969,859, the principal item of which is $42,356,000 for additions to tbe navy. The new -offices and employments specifically authorized are 11,316 in number, at an annual compensation of $7,927,639. Those abolished or omitted are 1815 in number, at an annual com-pensatlon com-pensatlon of $941,481, a net Increase of 8501 in number, . and $6,898,158 in amount. The largest Increase is BS16. for the naval estimates, including 3000 seamen and 1458 midshipmen and 3354 for the postal service, including 143 assistant postmasters, 2289 clerks in postofflces and 896 railway postal clerks. The cumber pf salaries Increased is jiL at N an annual cost of $205,202, and the number num-ber reduced Is 60, in the sum of $600. A comparison of the total appropriations appropria-tions of the second session of the Fifty- seventh Congress for 1904 with those of the first session for 1903 shows a re- -duction of $47,565,990. The principal items of decrease are for river and harbor Improvements, $12,307,049; for tht . Isthmian canal, $50,130,000, and for the military establishment, $13,813,483. Among the Increases are: For the naval establishment, $3,020,429; for the postal Bervlce. $15,094,951; for leglsla- . tlve. executive and judicial expenses, $2,200,000. including $500,000 for the en- forcement of the anti-trust laws, and ' for the Agricultural department, $770.- '. 000. . The total appropriations made by the Fifty-seventh Congress amount to ' $1,653,683,002. an' Increase over the '. Fifty-sixth Congress of $113,193,567. . This is accounted for in part by in- creases in the appropriations, postal ' service, of $54,000,000; for the naval " service, $17,500,000; for rivers and har- , ibors, $29,600,000; for the. Isthmian canal. $50,000,000; for the Agricultural " department. $2,500,000; for legislative, ' executive and Judicial expenses. $4,400,- 000; for public buildings throughout the country. $10,000,000, and for the Philip- pine islands. $3,000,000. Reductions are ' made in the appropriations for the military establishment of $60,000,000, , and. far Ieslpns, tlWOOOi, -..i ' J - |