Harris, Hereford, E. R. Hoar, Holman, Killinger, Lamar, Lawson, B. Lewis, Magee, McLean, Merriam, Milliken, Mitchell, W. E. Niblack, Niles, //. W. Parker, Parsons, Phelps, J. H. Piatt, Potter, Randall, E. H. Roberts, I. W. Scudder, Sener, J. Q. Smith, Speer, Sprague, Storm, Strawbridge, C. Y. Thomas, Todd, Tremain, C. W. Willard, Wolfe, Wood, J. D. Young—bi. Cost of Public Improvements. [From report of Senate Committee on Transportation, No. 307, Part 1,1st sess. 43d Cong., p. 184.] Purlic Buildings At Washington. The amount of money expended by the Government of the United States in the erection of permanent public buildings in the District of Columbia, trom the time the seat of Government was located at Washington to the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1873, was, for the Capitol, about $12,000,000; Treasury, about $6,000,000; Interior, about $4,000,000; Post Office, about $2,000,000; President's House, $300,000; Agricultural Department, $200,000; New State Department, $1,300,000. Total, $25,800,000. In The States. The amount expended by the United States Government for custom-houses, post offices, and court-houses, from the adoption of the Constitution to June 30,1873, was, in Maine, $1,961,595; New Hampshire, $173,671; Vermont; $214,534; Massachusetts, $3,602,360; Rhode Island, $315,290; Connecticut, $240,373; New York, $9,634,695; New Jersey, $250,263; Pennsylvania, $2,583,016; Delaware, $41,128; Maryland, $1,185,620; Virginia, $876,596; North Carolina, $217,459; South Carolina, $2,767,945; Alabama, $493,880; Georgia, $283,474; Florida, $103,478; Mississippi, $24,000; Louisiana, $3,806,678; Texas, $114,360; Arkansas, $103; Missouri, $775,223 ; Kentucky, $287,790; Tennessee, $317,486; Ohio, $682,745; Indiana, $456,746; Illinois, $2,574,415; Michigan, $228,505; Wisconsin, $566,592; Iowa, $477,393; Minnesota, $543,695; Kansas, $49,545; California, $890,199; Oregon, $435,805; Nebraska, $299,996; West Virginia, $94. Total, $37,476,747. In The Territories. New Mexico, $99,650; Utah, $68,254; Washington, $27,650; Colorado, $90,723; Idaho, $40,240; Montana, $41,575; Wyoming, $37,455. Total, $405,547. Total for States and Territories, $37,822,294. Marine Hospitals, Light-houses, &o. Amount expended by General Government in each State and Territory, from adoption of Constitution, to June 30,1873, for marine hospitals, light-houses, beacons, and fog signals : In Maine, $766,755; New Hampshire,$122,465; Vermont, $84,125; Massachusetts, $1,535,487; Rhode Island, $305,316; Connecticut, $467,925; New York, $1,580,639; New Jersey, $423,071; Pennsylvania, $204,865 ;. Delaware, $343 843; Maryland, $358,314; Virginia, 425,416; North Carolina, $852,407; South Carolina, $278,289; Georgia, $298,623; Alabama, $298,623; Florida, $1,498,488; Mississippi, $248,209; Louisiana, $1,603,453; Texas, $241,005; Arkansas, $59,081; Missouri, $87,647; Kentucky, $135,948; Tennessee, ;Ohio, $765,961; Indiana, $86 892; Illinois, $681,989; Michigan, $1,879,350; Wisconsin, $284,657; Iowa, $28,446; Minnesota, $14,847; Kansas, ;California, $628,196; Oregon, $212,249; Nebraska, ;West Virginia, ;Washington Territory, $153, 558. Total, $16,937,115. River And Harbor Improvements. Amount expended by General Government for improvement of rivers and harbors in each State and Territory, from the adoption of the Constitution, to June 30,1873: Atlantic Coast—Maine, $746,152; New Hampshire, $23,000; Massachusetts, $1,621,235; Rhode Island, $286,485; Connecticut, $563,407; New York, $1,249,500; New Jersey, $95,963; Pennsylvania, $208,894; Delaware, $2,653,102; Maryland, $522,359; Virginia, $424,422; North Carolina, $740,377; South Carolina, $88,254; Georgia, $321,023; Florida, $43,000. Total, $9,587,173. Gulf Coast—Florida, $103,730; Alabama, $312,476; Mississippi, $30,500; Louisiana, $25,000; Texas, $108,000. Total, $579,706. Pacific Coast—California, $326,500; Oregon, $202,314; Washington Territory, $109,189. Total, $638,003. Northern Lakes—Vermont, $304,357; New York,$3,8l4,314; Pennsylvania,$330,942; Ohio, $1,292,794;Michigan,$2,213,100; Indiana,$320,734; Illinois, $821,305; Wisconsin, $1,229,612; Minnesota, $110,000. Total, $10,437,158. Western Rivers—Pennsylvania, ;Ohio, ; Kentucky, $30,000; Tennessee, $292,947; Indiana, $35,000; Illinois, $73,000; Wisconsin, $240,000; Minnesota, $72,500; Iowa, $29,500; Missouri, $115,000; Kansas, ;Arkansas, $256,500; Nebraska, ;Mississippi, $5,000; West Virginia, $5,000; Louisiana, $805,847; Texas, $20,000; improvements of rivers, chargeable to the several States, $9,458,006. Total, $11,438,300. Total for rivers and harbors, $32,680,340; total for rivers and harbors, light-houses, marine hospitals, custom-houses, post offices, and courthouses, $87,499,749; total for public buildings in District of Columbia and for other purposes, $113,299,749. Civil Service. In House. The Committee on Appropriations reported no appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation bill for continuing the duties of the civil service commissioners. An amendment offered in Committee of the Whole appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars failed. The following amendment was agreed to in Committee of the Whole and concurred in by the House: Sec. 2. That section nine of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, authorizing the President to employ suitable persons to conduct certain inquiries, and to prascribe their duties in respect to appointments in the civil service be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the unexpended balance of any appropriation heretofore made for carrying the same into effect shall be covered into the Treasury; that in all the bureaus and in all the departments at Washington, whenever there shall be a number of applicants for employment therein, a soldier or sailor who fought in the line of duty in war, a soldier's or sailor's widow, wife, daughter, and mother, respectively, being such applicant, shall have preference in the employments suited to each respectively, and the same rule shall be observed whenever discharges shall take place in the several departments and bureaus by reason of diminution of force therein respectively: Provided, That two persons of the relationship above stated, either by blood or marriage, shall not have employment in any of said departments or bureaus at the same time; and it shall be the duty of the officer at the head of each of the Executive Departments at Washington to prescribe and publish rules for ascertaining the qualifications of applicants for appointments at his disposal, or made under his authority, to make such appointments only from candidates who have the qualifications of honesty, efficiency, and fidelity, and not as rewards for mere party zeal, giving preference only to those who have the additional qualification of an honorable record in the military or naval service of the United States, or the widow, wife, daughter, sister, or mother of such soldier, sailor, or marine. And it shall be hio further duty to make such appointments as equitably as possible from qualified candidates presenting themselves from the several congressional districts, and with reference to their population; and upon the removal of any appointee, the reason for such removal shall be stated on the records of the department where the service was rendered. Its Senate. An amendment appropriating fifteen thousand dollars for the civil service commission was inserted. The House non-concurred, pro forma, in all of the Senate amendments; and the committee of conference, which consisted of Messrs. Morrill of Maine, Sargent, and Stevenson, on the part of the Senate, and Messrs. Garfield, Hale of Maine, and Niblack, on the part of the House, reported that on this question they could not agree, and the sections were both dropped, leaving no appropriation for the purpose. STATISTICAL TABLES. A.—Public Debt of the United States. [From the statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, made June 30,1874.] B.—Pacific Railway Bonds. Authorized by acts of July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864; rate of interest, 6 per cent, in lawful money; payable 30 years from date; interest payable January and June. C—Internal Revenue Table. Aggregate receipts from each State and Territorg\ from Internal Revenue, for 1870, 1871,1872, and 1873, and the total from each State since 1863. States And Territories. Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut. Dakota Delaware. District of ColumbiaFlorida , Georgia , Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa — Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey , New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas , Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin , Wyoming Aggregate receipts by States and Ter ritories Adhesive Stamps . Salaries Passports through Department of State. Fines, penalties, &c, reported by United States officers other than collectors of internal revenue Collections on articles produced in the late insurrectionary districts, made by special Treasury agents Aggregate receipts from all sourees..... $595,700 17 15,015 43 309,284 10 4,002,439 31 73,910 34 2.504,477 14 8,715 61 451,985 70 514,482 20 106.318 42 1,144,241 38 65,424 05 18,364,366 66 5,045.023 82 1,377,981 34 343.231 15 9,887,023 73 2,981,524 02 807,224 36 5,438,472 91 10,084,090 19 2,918.987 30 467,879 15 284,792 49 6,004,278 11 103,555 55 308,501 51 188,027 45 032,407 3S 4,075,359 85 40,927 22 30,301.550 38 1,398,719 95 19,508,743 80 329.212 01 10,748,704 05 1,282,370 09 412,039 59 1,470,859 57 390,954 33 46,296 41 352,316 05 5,496,351 39 83,272 63 750,907 15 2,303,015 03 25,879 82 107,560,107 49 16,544,043 06 1,109,526 42 22,191 00 185,235,867 97 1871. $363,758 37 16,889 07. 130,524 47 3,606,921 68 69,993 65 1,426.870 91 7,130 43 444,018 11 267,809 27 121,030 66 730,944 02 53,010 97 15,119,609 02 4,798,408 90 1,081,841 24 236,766 04 6,514.140 54 1,912,755 25 412,096 48 3,703,854 80 6.801.074 68 252,582 98 5.095.075 89 224,308 92 103,034 03 396,926 97 2,458,600 20 34,811 08 28,870,402 06 1,302.208 19 15,149,489 11 150,547 64 12,535,521 68 672.493 14 258,719 99 874,221 65 350,680 42 39,995 71 279,332 70 5,319,272 69 36,753 01 627,320 94 1,977,703 87 10,845 25 127,873,109 23 15.342.739 46 787,262 55 8,065 00 144,011,176 24 1872. $238,160 14 15,578 56 94,301 22 3,053,517 39 63,272 84 1,204,614 64 5.985 81 400,101 26 216,999 56 99,455 64 583.160 18 28,974 31 15,799,667 30 5,441,892 72 1,067,790 02 101,371 91 5,847,468 44 1,627,782 26 302,123 05 3,791,269 01 6,329,000 07 2,399,972 35 248,979 43 133,075 4-4 4,018,218 61 28,955 04 195,698 91 77,359 23 304,235 96 2,491,433 81 23,755 88 23,483,729 18 1,108,524 79 14,905,229 21 125,541 86 9,227,091 25 630,926 73 199,181 49 766,840 20 322,359 20 39,480 84 158,847 13 4,939,027 93 23,890 32 405,005 34 2,000,226 55 6,727 27 115,299,061 48 16,177,320 60 131,770,946 73 1873. $152,493 35 13,562 73 88,861 02 2,367,911 07 75,749 64 873,984 99 7,597 36 429,392 84 133,424 58 158,142 21 477,959 90 19,275 80 16,493,169 34 5,078,052 51 1,012,997 29 101,409 7(5 5,450,028 47 1,339,007 30 214,090 20 2,053,801 83 3,701,004 95 2,205,720 72 231,404 94 128.079 31 4.259.320 15 242,902 38 72,305 32 325,455 30 2,507,442 37 23,237 51 19,219,504 52 1.408.321 72 14,851,309 45 73,544 48 7,826,275 69 324,552 17 107,213 58 644,480 70 272,325 77 40,786 23 75,860 40 7,343,799 29 15,698 64 449,001 59 1,881,820 91 10,052 94 106,255,537 51 7,702,376 85 114,075,45G OS Total since 1803. $14,353,475 37 89.526 98 3,680.050 16 42.651,100 14 900,077 46 41,431,705 48 52,439 42 5,910,943 44 4,095,119 94 1,015,595 31 18,895.509 64 495,900 45 135,349,090 20 45,800.089 67 14,735,540 22 2,448,112 62 00,915,800 32 30,158,187 94 13,57(5.923 17 47,731.888 42 159.9:50.259 83 20,305,526 98 3,170.577 08 10,095,250 42 54,142.142 04 637,988 44 1,560,058 53 1,944,180 05 14,717.104 17 51,095.710 13 434.807 78 403,900.219 51 10.068,815 68 109.915,839 37 2.102.508 21 197,144,927 20 25,351.930 33 0,829,195 56 17,008,402 75 8,400,724 12 471,437 64 5,558,902 12 31,127,029 66 513,424 90 0,097,921 59 20,535,584 95 59,211 78 1,716,126,906 08 139,376,045 75 13,889,445 64 187,532 29 800,985 40 2,038,369 87 1,872,419,285 03 States and Territories. D.~Distribution of the Currency. The acts of February 25, 1863, and June 3, 1864, and March 3, 1865, authorize the issue of three hundred millions of circulating notes to national banks, one hundred and fifty millions of which were to be "apportioned to associations in the States, in the District of Columbia and the Territories, according to representative population, and the remainder among associations formed in the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories, having due regard to the existing capital, the resource and business of each State, District, and Territory." The whole amount of currency authorized by these acts was issued to national banks during the four years following. The following is a statement, prepared by the Comptroller of the Currency, of the apportionment of $354,000,000 national bank circulation, upon the basis of population and wealth, as given in the census of 1870, together with the amount outstanding July 1, 1874, and the excess and deficiency, to which has been added the capital paid in: Maine New Hampshire- Massachusetts...., Rhode Island , Connecticut Total.. New York New Jersey Pennsylvania. Delaware Maryland Total.. District of Columbia- West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana. Texas Arkansas .... Kentucky Tennessee Missouri Total. Ohio Indiana , Illinois Michigan..., Iowa Minnesota.. Kansas Nebraska... Total Nevada Oregon California Colorado Utah Idaho Montana Wyoming New Mexico- Dakota Washington... Total.. Apportion- $2,877,818 16.011,120 20.118,813 16,167,317 573,873 3,584,651 44,604,036 604,560 5,624,042 2,029,041 4,918,022 3,239,045 5,435,587 861,846 4,576,646 3,800,529 3,336,863 3,767,640 2,223.936 6,064,027 5,777,118 7,901,509 60,150,411 12234,726 11,659,230 51,622,459 195,052 417,377 2,571,783 182,993 398,386 68,852 94,540 41,855 421,742 44,334 65,096 109,964 Apportion- $2,053,200 12,549,300 23,788,800 38.267,400 22,425,900 566.400 3,787,800 70,587,600 743,400 2,407,200 1,115,100 1,539,900 1,221,300 1,575,300 265,500 1,185,900 1,239,000 1,893,900 938,100 920,400 3,557,700 2,938.200 7,557,900 29,098,800 13,151,100 12,490.200 48.586,500 4,611,974 Grand total 177,000,000 177,000,000 354,000,000 177,000 300.900 123,900 194,700 Aggregate $4,931,018 19,239,189 39,799,920 58,380,213 38,593,217 115,191,636 1,347,960 8,031,242 3,144,141 6,457,922 4,460,345 7,010.887 1,127,346 5,762,546 5,039,529 6,230.763 4,095,740 3,144,336 9,621,727 8,715,318 15,459.409 Circulation outstand-' ^ ^nm ing July Excess' $8,006,582 110,128,366 60,138,568 11,125,000 42,166,895 1,296,975 9,250,147 123,977,585 1,491,191 2.380,440 89,249,211 25.385,826 100,208,959 4,938,300 372,052 718,277 6,324,183 306,893 486,886 104,252 183,040 77,255 616,442 62,034 100,496 198,464 9,550,274 Add amount due banks for mutilated notes returned.. 1,347,183 4.876 3,513,454 748,410 189,995 7,309,241 3,027,691 6,161,488 36,109.319 23,561,033 14,500,850 16,619,250 7,333,063 3,209,916 5,473,115 3,297,521 1,536,321 899,410 $3,075,564 70,328,446 1,752,355 3,785,949 Deficien- 143,231 76,490,479 9,363 693.990 90.000 54,000 269,000 45,000 348,079,956 349,951,024 287,097 375,952 79,633,578 Capital paid in* $9,540,000 5,185.000 8,335.012 91,342,000 20.504,800 25,384,620 160.291,432 110,654,691 13,958,350 53,510.240 1,523,185 13,640,203 193,286,669 1,652,000 4,185,000 2,596,000 2,100,000 3,170,000 2,785,000 1,569,300 53,283,123 1,824,793 66,124 72.282 23,718,480 362,689 494,177 6,324,183 70,027 23,255 7,952,019 84,953,622 5,250.000 995,000 205,000 8,203,700 3,520,481 9,545,300 45,830,781 29,093,000 17,611,800 20,843,000 9,763,500 3,680,(500 6,017,000 4,173,700 1,975.000 905.000 04,062.000 250,000 "625.000 450,000 100,000 350,000 125,000 300,000 50,000 2,250,000 The balance of the circulation, $4,048,976, has been assigned to banks organized and in process of organi-, aation in States deficient, but the necessary bonds have not yet been deposited. •Capital paid in, (gold banks,) $3,200,000. The act of July 12, 1870, authorized an additional issue of fifty-four millions of dollars, and provided that such notes should be issued to banking associations organized or to be organized in those States and Territories having less than their proportion under the apportionment contemplated by the act of March 3,1865, and that the bonds deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to secure the additional circulation should be of any description of United States bonds bearing interest in coin. It also provided that a new apportionment of the increased circulation should be made as soon as practicable, based upon the census of 1870, and for the cancellation monthly of three per cent, certificates equal in amount to the national bank notes issued—the last of these certificates having been finally redeemed during the last year. Of this additional circulation, authorized by the act of July 12, 1870, there was issued to November 1, 1871, $24,773,260; in the year ending November 1, 1872, $16,220,210; in the year ending November 1, 1873, $7,357,479; leaving, December last, still to be issued to banks already organized, and in process of organization, $5,649,051. The act of June 20, 1874, authorizes the transfer of national bank notes from States which are in excess of their proportion, for the purpose of redistributing the same among States which have less than their proportion under an apportionment made on the basis of population and wealth, as shown by the returns of the census of 1870. The act does not provide for the issue of any additional amount of circulation, so that the apportionment remains about the same as given in the annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency for 1873. The $55,000,000 to be'redistributed will be issued to those States exhibiting a deficiency in the above table. From other tables in the report of the Comptroller of the Currency it appears that the taxes paid by national banks are in excess of $6,000,000 per annum, on circulation, deposits, and capital. The precise figures the last four years are: 1869, $5,830,887 86; in 1870, $6,017,460 34; in 1871, $6,505,812 21; in 1872, $6,846,320 66. It also appears that the dividends of the national banks, upon an average, for a series of years, have been about ten per cent, per annum upon the capital, or less than nine per cent, upon capital and surplus. E.—Lists of Appropriations. Statement Of Appropriations Made For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30,1872, At The Third Session, Forty-first Congress.: Payment of Invalid and other Pensions. $29,060,000 00 Military Academy 310,209 50 Consular and Diplomatic Expenses 1,466,134 00 Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Ex- Sundry Civil Expenses $23,441,773 86 Unexpended balances reap- Transfer on books of the Heretofore appropriated 20,000 00 Deficiencies for the year ending June 30,1870, and 1871, and for former years, and for other purposes, in which are included the following appropriations, viz: Miscellaneous items for Public Buildings— New York Post Office Boston Post Office, unexpended appropriation reappropriated, and additional sum appropriated Other Public Buildings, furniture, &c, for Treasury Light House Establishment t Public Printing. 'State Department Interior Department—deficiences for the years ending June 30,1871, and / 1872.... t Post Office Department— to be paid from the revenue of the Department.. Deficiencies for the fiscal year ending June 30,1871. War Department—transfer on booksof the Treas 24,101,773 80 149,072 00 70,278 75 253,399 38 417,132 70 ury Bureau of Freedmen.. 89,240 00 4,085,032 00 3,321,430 26 Total appropriations made for the fiscal Statement Of Appropriations Made For The Fiscal Year Forthe payment of Pensions $30,480,000 00 F'>r Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses 18,671,785 74 For deficiencies for the year ending June 30, 1872, and for former years, as fol- House of Representatives, Department of State 253,482 00 U.S. Mint and branches... 47,992 05 Independent Treasury 109,304 00 Territorial Governments.. 40,441 92 Internal Revenue 250,000 00 Captured and Abandoned 15 |
