appropriations HEARINGS BEFORE 4 1 1: 49 SUBCOMMITTEE OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, CONSISTING OF MESSRS. BRECKINRIDGE (KY.), SAYERS, LIVINGSTON, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1895 AND PRIOR YEARS. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1894. HJ Bo HEARINGS ON THE URGENT DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL. DECEMBER 7, 1894. The subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations having under consideration the urgent deficiency appropriation bill this day met, Hon W. C. P. Breckinridge in the chair. PUBLIC PRINTING. STATEMENT OF MR. TH. E. BENEDICT, PUBLIC PRINTER. The CHAIRMAN. Will you please state what is the exact amount that your department will need up to the 1st of January? Mr. BENEDICT. I want $100,000. Now, gentlemen, I will read to you the expenditures of my office for each month. I will not give the exact amount, but in thousands. For 1894: January it was $314,000; in February it was $283,000; for March it was $284,000; for April it was $269,000; in May, $260,000; June, $236,000; July, $253,000. Now those were Congressional months, and in August, the month they adjourned, I got the expenditure down to $211,000, because they did not do so much business. It ran from $211,000 up to $314,000. In September the expenditures dropped to $199,000, and in October to $183,000, and in November the Department reports came in and Í had to increase the expenditure, and it ran up to $217,000. Now I mean to say about the Government Printing Office that during this calendar year it has expended on an average of $240,000 a month. Every month has been a Congressional month except September, October, and November. Those are the figures. I am your servant there and will keep my expenditures down as low as I can. The CHAIRMAN. As I understand, you absolutely need up to January, $100,000, and that should be immediately available, and with that you can run your department in all of its various branches? Mr. BENEDICT. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Up to that time? Mr. BENEDICT. Yes, sir; meet every requirement of the service. The CHAIRMAN. Then you can run until the general deficiency bill is passed? Mr. BENEDICT. Yes; I would not have put in the $300,000, except I was informed you wanted to make one deficiency bill apply to all, and I only ask for the $100,000. I want to say in connection with the other, if you put in any, you have passed a bill through Congress now which will shut off receipts of about $300,000 from the Government Printing Office, which goes back to the Treasury to be reappropriated, which, under existing law, goes there and is available for public printing and binding. That will have to be appropriated by direct appropriation now, and for the next six months it is fair to assume there will be required at least $175,000 over any sum The CHAIRMAN. We can take that up hereafter. Mr. BENEDICT. Yes; if you are to have another bill. The CHAIRMAN. Is there any other matter except this? Mr. BENEDICT. There is nothing. 3 |