54TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. § DOCUMENT No. 2. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR; BEING PART OF THE MESSAGE AND DOCUMENTS COMMUNICATED TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME I. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1895. LIPPARY OF CALIFORNIA Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., Department of the East. Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt, U. S. A., Department of the Missouri.. Brig. Gen. John R. Brooke, U. S. A., Department of Dakota.. Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton, U. S. A., Department of the Colorado.. Brig. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, U. S. A., Department of the Columbia Brig. Gen. James W. Forsyth, U. S. A., Department of California.. Brig. Gen. Z. R. Bliss, U. S. A., Department of Texas.. Brig. Gen. J. J. Coppinger, U. S. A., Department of the Platte..... Brig. Gen. J. W. Forsyth, U. S. A., Cavalry and Light Artillery School..... Col. Royal T. Frank, First Artillery, U. S. Artillery School .... Col. H. S. Hawkins, Twentieth Infantry, U. S. Infantry and Cavalry School.. 176-179 Brig. Gen. G. D. Ruggles, Adjutant-General, U. S. A., to the Secretary of War. 183-199 Brig. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, Inspector-General, U. S. A., to the Secretary of Brig. Gen. G. Norman Lieber, Judge-Advocate-General, U. S. A. Brig. Gen. R. N. Batchelder, Quartermaster-General, U. S. A.... NOTE.-The annual reports of the Chief of Engineers and Chief of Ordnance are REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. To the PRESIDENT: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 26, 1895. I have the honor to submit the following annual report of the operations of this Department for the past year. The expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895, the appropriations for the present year, and the estimates of amounts required for the year beginning July 1, 1896, are shown in the following statement: Title. Salaries and contingent expenses Subsistence of the Army. Regular supplies, Quartermaster's Department... Army transportation.... Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage Expenses of recruiting.. Medical Department... Ordnance Department.. Military Academy.. Fortifications and seacoast defenses.. Rivers and harbors. Parks, cemeteries, military posts, etc. Artificial limbs, etc...... Buildings and grounds at Washington.. Total.. $1,574, 169. 22 2, 354, 598.90 19, 506, 094. 47 52, 987, 780. 44 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. $1,498, 996. 00 25,000.00 173,500.00 1,026, 600.00 464, 261. 66 1,904, 557.50 259, 250.00 11, 452, 115. 00 769, 301.00 3, 139, 846.00 132, 000. 00 155, 036. 50 481,490.00 43, 466, 571. 75 fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. $1,506, 896. 00 13, 543, 464. 63 1,754, 321. 40 2,300,000.00 600, 000. 00 860, 000, 00 25,000.00 100,000.00 2,500,000.00 1,100,000.00 165, 500.00 1, 101, 600.00 619, 169. 61 7,414, 633.00 548, 436.50 11,744, 597.00 1, 469, 880, 00 3,491, 707. 26 577,000.00 148, 109.70 375, 328.35 51, 945, 643. 45 |