Email Record: Expenses under the Urgent Deficiency Act, War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, in responses to resolution of the Senate of January 8, 1900, as to what portion of the $50,000,000 appropriated by Congress under the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved March 8, 1898, for the purposes of national defense, was assigned to and expended by or under the direction of the War Department.