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2 Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1895. No. 783. The United States, Appellant, vs. Jane L. Stanford, Executrix of Leland Stanford, Deceased. Appeal from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 1895

handle is hein.trials/acdi0002 and id is 1 raw text is: Examination of Leland Stanford-(Conlinued.) PALACE HOTEL, San Franciseo, Tuesday, August 2, 1887. Leland Stanford, being further examined, testified as follows: ANNUAL EXPENDITURES FOR GOVERNMENT TRANSPOR- TATION. By Commissioner Anderson. Question. In your pre- liminary statement you made the remark that the annual expenditures of the government for transpor- tation of supplies for Indian and military service and the carrying the United States mail had exceeded $3,000,0G0 annually. From what sources did you take those figures? Answer. That is from the government reports. Q. Did you know what particular year that figure applies to? A. It appears in Senate committee re- port where the expenditures are given from 1840 to 1869. Reports of other committees vary from that amount. I think in one of the exhibits that I filed they are all referred to particularly. Q. Do you know what the total proportion for transportation in any one year, between 1840 and 1869, was? A. No; I cannot give that. I think in the original table it was all footed up, and the times when the money was paid out by the government; but my recollection is now of the gross sum. Q. Do you know what the total appropriation for all the services of the army for any one year was, be- tween 1840 and 1861? A. No, sir; I did not examine into that. I do not deem it important except only

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