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CONNECTICUT. 



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Butte City, Mont.; Canton, Ohio; Cleveland, 

 Ohio; Clinton, Iowa; Dubuque, Iowa; Columbus, 

 Ga. ; Creston, Iowa ; Eau Claire, Wis. ; Elgin, 111. ; 

 Elizabeth City, N. C.; Elmira, N. Y.; Fergus 

 Falls, Minn.; Fitchburg, Mass.; Freeport, 111.; 

 Hastings, Neb. ; Hot Springs, Ark. ; Indianapolis, 

 Ind. ; Jackson, Miss.; Jamestown, N. Y. ; Janes- 

 ville, Wis.; Joliet, 111.; Joplin, Mo.; Kansas City, 

 Kan.; Lawrence, Mass.; Leadville, Col.; Lock- 

 port, N. Y. ; Los Angeles, Cal. ; Macon, Ga. ; Me- 

 nominee, Mich. ; Minneapolis, Minn. ; Monmouth, 

 111.; New Brunswick, N. J. ; New Iberia, La.; New- 

 port News, Va. ; Newport, Vt.; New York, N. Y.; 

 Norfolk, Neb.; Norwich, Conn.; Oakland, Cal.; 

 Omaha, Neb.; Oskaloosa, Iowa; Rome, N. Y.; 

 St. Cloud, Minn.; Salem, Ore.; Salt Lake City, 

 Utah; Seattle, Wash.; Springfield, Mass.; Stock- 

 ton, Cal.; Streator, 111.; Tampa, Fla.; Washing- 

 ton, D. C.; Wllkesbarre, Pa.; Winston, N. C. 



Authorizing bridges across Arkansas and other 

 rivers in Arkansas; Conecuh river, Escambia 

 County, Alabama; Flint river, Ga.; Lake Cham- 

 plain; Mississippi river; Missouri river at Lex- 

 ington, at Oacoma, at Yankton; Monongahela 

 river at Morganstown; Savannah river at Hutch- 

 inson's island; Tennessee river at Sheffield; Co- 

 lumbia river, Oregon; Corpus Christi channel, 

 Texas; Missouri river, Boonville. 



Granting right of way to Saginaw Southern 

 Railroad through San Francisco Mountains For- 

 est Reserve; to Little River Valley Railway 

 through Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, In- 

 dian Territory, and through Ponca, Otoe, and Mi- 

 souria reservations, Oklahoma, for telephone lines; 

 to St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railroad 

 through Indian and Oklahoma Territories; to 

 Kansas, Oklahoma. Central and Southwestern 

 through Indian Territory; to Clearwater Valley 

 Railroad Company through Nez Perces Indian 

 lands; to Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway 

 through San Gabriel Forest Reserve; to Pensa- 

 eola and Northwestern Railroad Company 

 through United States military and naval reser- 

 vations near Pensacola, Fla. ; to Arkansas North- 

 western Railway Company through Indian Ter- 

 ritory ; to Fort Smith and Western Railroad Com- 

 pany through Choctaw and Creek nations; to 

 provide for the acquiring by railroads of right 

 of way through Indian reservations, lands, and 

 allotments. 



Amending the law relating to the bonds of 

 United States consuls. 



Granting extra pay to officers and enlisted men 

 of the United States volunteers. 



Concerning sailing vessels of over 700 tons. 



For leasing certain portions of forest reserves 

 near medicinal or mineral springs. 



Granting extra pay to workmen in navy yards. 



For a military park at Vicksburg. 



Appropriations. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, said 

 in explanation of the appropriations made by the 

 Fifty-fifth Congress: 



" The appropriations made at the last session 

 of the Fifty-fifth Congress will amount to $673,- 

 658,400.73, showing an apparent reduction of 

 $219,573,214.82 below the appropriations made at 

 the preceding session. This reduction is at- 

 tributable to the necessarily large appropriations 

 made at the session which closed in July last 

 the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress 

 for expenses of the war with Spain. The entire 

 appropriations made by the Fifty-fifth Congress 

 aggregate $1,566,890,016.28, of which amount the 

 sum of $482,562,083.47 is directly chargeable or 

 incident to the war with Spain. Deducting the 

 latter from the former sum, the remainder, $1,084,- 

 327,932.81, represents the ordinary appropriations 



made during the whole Congress for the normal 

 requirements of the Government. The appropria- 

 tions made by the preceding Congress, the Fifty- 

 fourth, which adjourned March 3, 1897, amounted 

 to $1,044,580,273.87, or only $39,747,658.94 less 

 than the ordinary appropriations of this Con- 

 gress after deducting the sums required for the 

 war." 



The appropriations for the fiscal year 1899-1900 

 were in detail as follow: Agriculture, $3,726,022; 

 army, $80,430,194.42; diplomatic and consular, 

 $1,714,533.76; District of Columbia, $6,834,535.77; 

 fortification, $4,909,902; Indian, $7,604,755.81; 

 legislative, etc., $23,405,740.79; Military Acade- 

 my, $575,774.47; navy, $48,100,094.58; pension, 

 $145,233,830; post office, $105,634,183.75; river 

 and harbor, $14,973,877.94; sundry civil, $48,498,- 

 722.58; total, $491,642,167.87; deficiency for war 

 expenses, etc., $119,640; urgent deficiency, House 

 of Representatives, etc., $31,000; deficiency, 1898 

 and prior years, $24,687,372.86; total, $516,480,- 

 180.73; miscellaneous, $28,500,000; total, regular 

 annual appropriations, $544,980,180.73; perma- 

 nent annual appropriations, $128,678,220; grand 

 total, regular and permanent annual appropria- 

 tions, $673,658,400.73. 



CONNECTICUT, a New England State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the national Con- 

 stitution Jan. 9, 1788; area, 4,900 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus, was 237,946 in 1790; 251,002 in 1800; 261,942 

 in 1810; 275,148 in 1820; 297,675 in 1830; 309,978 

 in 1840; 370,792 in 1850; 460,147 in 1860; 537,454 

 in 1870; 622,700 in 1880; and 746,258 in 1890. 

 Capital, Hartford. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, George E. 

 Lounsbury; Lieutenant Governor, Lyman A. 

 Mills; Secretary of State, Huber Clark; Treasurer, 

 Charles S. Mersick; Comptroller, Thompson S. 

 Grant; Attorney-General, Charles Phelps; Adju- 

 tant General, Louis N. Van Keuren; Insurance 

 Commissioner, Edwin L. Scofield all Republic- 

 ans; Supreme Court of Errors, Chief Justice, 

 Charles B. Andrews, Republican; Associate Jus- 

 tices, David Torrance, Republican; Frederic B. 

 Hall, Republican; Simeon E. Baldwin, Democrat; 

 and William Hamersley, Democrat; Clerk, George 

 A. Conant. 



Finances. The receipts from all sources for 

 the civil list funds in the fiscal year ended Sept. 

 30, 1899 (not including the balance of $463,891.14 

 in the treasury Oct. 1, 1898), were $2,749,273.20, 

 an increase over the previous year of $136,888.05. 



The expenditures during the same period were 

 $2,530,280.33, an increase of $258,758.82, leaving 

 a balance in the treasury to the credit of the 

 civil list funds, Sept. 30, 1899, of $682,884.01. 



The excess of receipts over expenditures during 

 the year was $218,992.87. 



The following is the official statement in detail, 

 issued from the Comptroller's office, of receipts 

 and expenditures for the fiscal year ending Sept. 

 30, 1899: 



Receipts. Civil-list account, balance on hand, 

 Oct. 1, 1898, $463,891.14; other receipts from all 

 sources during the year, $2,749,273.20; total, 

 $3,213,164.34. Specific 'receipts : Interest of school 

 fund, transferred, $113,722.79; Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College fund, transferred, $20,829.47; 

 Woodbury Bank, balance transferred, $118.60; 

 Litchfield Bank, balance transferred, $145.30; 

 avails of courts, clerks' fees (three months), 

 $1,507.31; commissioners of pharmacy. $1,818; 

 commissioners of shell fisheries, $9,319.76; Comp- 

 troller (statutes sold), $150; corporate franchise 

 tax, $4,700; tax on express companies, $9,958.36; 



