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Show APPROPRIATIONS FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT i WASHINGTON. Oct. '11. If Secretary Secre-tary Ballinger's estimate of expenditures expendi-tures for the interior department hold pood the appropriation for the department depart-ment for the next fiscal year. Including Includ-ing pensions, will fall about $2,000,-(Miu $2,000,-(Miu below the appropriation of $175,-000.000 $175,-000.000 for the present year. The estimates of the bureau of the department aggregating $177,000. (inn I were submitted to the secretary be-i be-i fore he started west. In consonance ? with the bureau chiefs, tho secretary ; succeeded iu reducing that amount to the extent of almost $1,000,000. Of : tii Ir $2,000,000 will com out of the pension fund because of the natural decrease of the pension rolls. |