Has Cost Nearly $300,000,000

Washington, May 21. - Secretary Alger has sent to the secretary of the treasury for transmission to congress supplemental estimates of appropriations aggregating $SS,638.840 required by the war department for the support of the regular and volunteer armies of the United States for the first six months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899. lip to this time the estimates and appropriations already made on account of the war aggregate $295,210,840.