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Show 000,000, the expenditure under it would be but $27,000,000 during 1908. The appropriation for the Panama canal was increased over that during the Fifty-eighth Congress $69,500,000. During the same time postal appropriations appropria-tions increased $50,000,000. NEW RECORD IN APPROPRIATIONS Session of Congress Just Adjourned Ad-journed Appropriated $198,000,000 More Than One Just Previous to It. WASHINGTON, March 5. State-House State-House vesterday by Senator Allison and ments were made to the Senate and House today by Senator Allison and Representative Tawney, chairmen respectively re-spectively of the Appropriations committees com-mittees and by Representative Livingstone, Living-stone, ranking minority members of the House committee, regarding the appropriations appro-priations of the session. The total appropriations aggregate $919,948,680, of which $7."56,622.674 is for the annual expenditures for the fiscal fis-cal year ending June 30, 1908. The balance of the grand total is to be used as follows: $12,489,685 for emergencies and deficiencies on account of the fiscal year 1907 and prior years; $1,000,000 for miscellaneous objects, such as private pri-vate claims and the like, authorized in special acts, and $149,886 for permanent perma-nent annual appropriations to meet the interest charge on the public debt, the requirements of the sinking fund, expenses ex-penses of collecting the revenue from citizens, redemption of national bank notes and other purposes. During the Fiftv-ninth Congress, as a whole, it was stated that $198,000,000 had been appropriated in excess of the total for the Fifty-eighth Congress. Analvzing the increased appropriations appropria-tions for the year 1908 over the current cur-rent fiscal year, the total of which is given as $40,000,000, the increases are distributed in part as follows: For the army, $6,700,000; for fortifications, fortifi-cations, $1,800,000; legislative, executive execu-tive and judicial, $2,400,000; postal service, $20,000,000; premiums, $o,000,-000. $o,000,-000. It was stated that while the river and harbor bill carried approximately $83.- |