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Show $375,000; expenses of White House, $78,000; rivers and harbor improvements improve-ments under contract, $8,051 ,ooo; for protecting harbor of New York from injurious deposits, $100,000; artificial limbs, $105,000; public land service, 51,715,000; surveying of public lands, $5r.6,000; public land service, $1,715,-OO0; $1,715,-OO0; surveying of public lands, $55C-000. $55C-000. The limit of cost of the New York postofllec Is Increased to $4,500.-000 $4,500.-000 and $250,000 is appropriated for continuing the work; for the modernization modern-ization of the sub-treasury building in New York. $170,000, for lighting tho capitol grounds and buildings In Washington, $100.0i0. a provision also Is included for $250,000 to enable the president to assist the officers of the government In the administration of custom laws. Under the department of state, an appropriation of $100,000 Is made, to meet the expenses of representatives representa-tives of the United States in the arbitration arbi-tration before The Hague tribunal under the special agreement of January. Janu-ary. 1900, for the submission of questions ques-tions relating to fisheries on the north Atlantic coast under the general gen-eral arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. i SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS ' Washington, May C,. Tho sundry ' civil appropriation bill, tho second largest of the appropriation bills aud , carrying a total of 1111.840,211, was reported to the house today by Representative Rep-resentative Tawney og Minnesota, the chairman of the committee on appropriations. appro-priations. The total represents a cut of $16. 650. 000 from the estimates suh- ; mltted to the committee, and is more than J20.OfiO.000 kss than the sundry civil bill carried for the current fiscal ' year. Of the Rrand total. Ihe largest single sin-gle Item is $:'.7.S59..80O for the continuation con-tinuation of the construction of the Panama canal. This sum is reimbursable reimburs-able to the treasiry from the pale of bonds. The bill carries appropriations appropria-tions for practically all branches of the government service, .Including large estimates for the District of Columbia. Rome of the larger articles arc as follows: Public buildings. ti.t."0.000: life-saving life-saving service, $2,362,000; current ev-penses ev-penses of the revenue cutter service. $2,2R8.O00; engraving and printing. $3,118,000, pav of Janitors of public buildings. S2.-tOft.ooo; fuel, light and water for public buildings. $1.5.r.0.O0tV public health and marine hospital service, $l,rtn.0ii0, interstate commerce com-merce commission. $1 ,3f(0,ftfift; armories ar-mories and arsenals. Jnin.n.'ift; barracks bar-racks and quarters, including sea-coast sea-coast artillery. Ajoo.OflO; seacoast nr- ' , tlllery In the Philippines and Hawaii, |