Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-06
And Not Throw Open the Doors Of
the Treasury.

scrutiny the amount Of necessary expendI
lures has been determined. Taxation de
pends upon the amount of expenditures
and increase ofexpenditures means increase
of taxation.
TO KEEP DOWN EXTRAyAGANCE
Of appropriation estimates made By th'
heads Of departments, have been subjected
to question and examination, item b!
item. The treasury has been protected b.
every safeguard which could be devised
1t is now proposed that nearly all thes'
safeguards shall be broken down and the
treasury thrown open. Increased sppro
priations will inevitably follow as each o.
the many committees 10 be authorized BY
this change to consider approprls
lions, and into which the sppro
priation committee is now constituted, il
10 be divided will enhance its own import
suce. Instead of one committee having
charge of expenditures and checking un'
nesssry appropriations there will be many
sitting independently to each other and
nobody will know the aggregate Of sppro,
pristions until it is too late to avoid the
disaster of deficit Treasury which may
at any time in the near future be replaced
on the people. The proposition is too plain
TO need argument and there is not bust
mess man in the country who will not sp
preciate the correctness and force OF this
statement.
THE SURPLUS WILL NOT LAST.
The surplus revenue we have will not
continue forever and habits of extravsgsnt
appropriations cannot be changed at once
Agricultural, river and hsrbor bills were
taken from the control of the Committee
on Appropriations and here is evidence ot
the failure of the venture. 1t is knowr
that the expenditures under the first have
been wastefully made and it is notorious
that much OF the money appropriated BY
the latter might as we'll hsve been thrown
away. The appropriations for the Ag'
rlcultural department from 1877 to
1880 inclusive when they were
under the control OF the Committee on Ap
propristions averaged Sl90, CAT per snnum,
From 1881 to 1884 the agricultural spprc'
priation bills being under control of the
Committee on Agriculture, appropriations
averaged $436,6 per- snnum. Appropri'
atious for rivers and hsrbors from 1876 to
1880 when this subject ives controlled by
the committee on appropriations averaged
$7,S90,92S per annum. From 1880 to
1885 inclusive, during which the commit
tee on commerce and rivers and hsrbors
have had the subject in hand, the annual
appropriations have averaged 81. .59l ,243.
WHAT WILL The SECOND EXPERIMENT BE?
II the enormous increase of expenditure
characterized the first experiment oi
tbel withdrawal Of these two sub
ects from protecting safeguards here
tofore enforced under existiDg rules,
and generally since the foundation of the
Government, who can foretell the dsvssts.
ton of the public finances whe then.Treas-
ury drawers are thrown wide open to un-
restricted and unrestrained Vaccinations
and combinations Of every character.
Such q combination might enter Cosgress
itself and the general government would
then become hot bed to start into exist
ence every dangerous policy.
FOOLISH REASONING.
The same reasoning would take fiom
the Committee on Appropriations some o.
the regular spi ropria,ion bills which would
likewise devolve on the functions OF an
appropriation committee upon nearly every
other committee OF the House, as for in
stance the reasons that would turn the
naval bill over to the Committee on Nsvsl
Affairs would just as logically send esti'
mates for public buildings and other ex'
penses of the public domain to the Com
mittee of Public Lands, for expenses
of United States Courts to the
Committee on the Judiciary, for public
printing to the Committee on Printing, fol-
the light house establishment revenue cut
ter service and life saving service to the
Committee on Commerce, Tor mints and
ASSAY offices to the Committee on CoiDas 9
Weights and Measures, for territorial ex
penses to the Committee on Territories, fol
legislative expenses Congressional to the
Committee on Accounts, for the library o
Congress to the Committee on the
! Library, for the bureau patent
Office to the. he.Committee on Patents, for tht
Bureau of Education TO the Committee cl
Education, for the Bureau Of Labor to th'
Committee on Labor, for the improvement
of the Mississippi river 70 the Committee
on Leyies and Improvements Of the Mis-
sissippi River, for audited claims certified
nv the accounting officers of the Tressur
10 the COMMITTEES on Claims, for pension
10 the Committee on Pensions. In add
ton 10 preparing the regular appropriation
hills for the service of each fiscal year thos
committees would and should by the sam
method of reasoning be charged with pre-
yiding for al deficiencies in the sepsrst
bills, making two regular bills to come fror
each committee, thus multiplying the nun
beg of regular appropriation bills each SCI
siou from the present number IA to nc
less than ffty. 70 commit the power I
control appropriation bills to the stsndiD
committees coupled with their preser
Iso;tmate duties would cut the Hout
oE from any avenue Of informs
| tion regarding the public servic
except through the eoRpi:tse controlhn
each particular branch, thus breskir
down what is now q most wholeson
check possessed by the House, through Il
annropriation comnittee, over each oon
nittee. A patent tact to be considered
connection with this proposition is Il
abatement OF the treasury that the EST
mated expenditures for the ensuing hsc
wear aggregate $33S, $500, while the e
innate revenues for the same Perlr
amount to only S3l5. .000,0 900, being an e
timated excess Of expenditures ever rev
nuss, Of S24 4,5oO,OOO.
}, DEL1GHrFUL muds, elegant quartet
sipsinu at Capitol Rink this week.