Show SPENT NEARLY A BILLION appropriate ons made by I 1 ast congress make enormous total washington according to the vol ume on appropriations made new of flees created etc during the lat ses sion of congress just completed by thomas P cleaves clerk of the sen sea ate committee on appropriations and james C courts clerk of the house committee on appropriations the total appropriations for the session were in addition to the specific fIc ampro privations contracts were authorized tor for public corks requiring future ap kropi rations nations aggregating 67 of which over 49 Is for river and harbor improvements and almost 16 6 for battleships battles alps torpedo boats etc the largest appropriation carried by any one measure was 09 tor for the postoffice post office bill the naval bill carried 98 the army bill 78 and the pension bill the new offices authorized are 18 in n imber at an annual campen bation of 12 IC 16 of these 4 were for the postal service including 3 clerks in post offices and 1239 railway postal cleri s the net number of salaries in creased is 16 at an annual cost of 2 35 this number includes increases in the ca alanes of the vice president of the house pine line cabinet officers ninety senator and representatives and em ern aloyes of the railway services the annual compensation of 19 clerks in post offices is increased in the ag gregath 2 the anual salaries of 24 city letter carriers are in creased about 2 and 36 rural letter carriers are increased from to each at an annual cost of 6 A comparion com of the total eions made at the second session of the fifty ninth congress for 1906 with those of the first session of the halt half of 1907 shows an increase of 41 |