Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-04
TALKING FOR PARTY GAIN
GRAVE SINS OF OMISSION
CHARGED TO THE HOUSE.

Indispensable Items of Government Ex-
pense Alleged to be Left UnprOVided
for by the House in Order to Make the
Senate Insert Them and Thus Allow
the Former Body to Pose as EoonOmi-
cal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-The Senate
mot at IL O'Clock this morning. MIR.
Hale, from the conference committee on
the deficiency bill, submitted report,
and pro ceeded to explain in regard to
certain claims for income tax paid by
nonresident aliens, which the bill regu-
larly estimated tor and which the House
had partially and the Senate entirely put
in the bill. 1t had turned out In the cOn-
ference that there were objections to some
of those put in by the Senate, and the con-
terees recommended that these items be
referred back to the Secretary OF the
Treasury with instructions to report the
facts to Congress next session.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE.
Mr.. Manderson inquired as to the item
for fifteen days leave of absence to en-
plOyes of the government printing office
MIR. Hale said that IL was retained.
AS to the item for the Brazil Steamship
Company the appropriation is struck out
and clause substituted directing the
Postmaster General TO report at the next
session the amount OF services rendered
and the sum justly and equItably due.
The item to pay the Central Pacific
Railroad Company for services rendered
on its nOn-subsidiZed lines IS also struck
| out.
THE WASHINGTON TUNNEL.
The item as to the Washington aque-
Il nj al 80 OF NHft Y.rn
vision that the Board OF Engineers for
| tortitications and river and harbOr i'm
! provements shall report whether any
! changes are necessary in the method OF
| lining the tunnel and the method OF Timing
and perfecting the reservoir.
Mr.. Hoar asked how the appropriation
| bills OF this session compared with those
! OF the preceding sessions, with regard to
the omission by the House of Representa-
tives ofitems appropriations absolutely
necessary for the operations of the gov
ernment, depending upon the Republican
Senate to put them on.
Mr.. Hale replied that in his opinion this
! practice of the House was becoming
| worse from year to year. The Senate
| found bills sent over from the House
| fractional and incomplete.
SINS OF OMISSION.
1t would find, for example, page of
| the regular estimates one-third of the
items on which had been left out,
while there was no difference in point OF
merit between those omitted and those
included. This did give rise to state
ments more or less declamatory in another
| branch Of the government as to the eX-
, travagance of the Senate, while the fact
was that the Senate was very careful to
put in nothing that was not necessary TO
the running OF the government.
There were important utterances at be-
ing charged with these increased appro-
priations, and he was bound to say for
| the Committee on appropriations that in
dealing with this subject it had not been
treated as a party matter, the Demo
cratic members having manifested the
same impatience as the Republicans.
THE BOOK OF ESTIMATES.
Mr., Edmunds read from the book OF
estimates items OF deficiency estimated
! for bv the heads of the departments, ,aggre-
eating more than $3,000,0 900, and said 1t
! was lust as well known when the regular
appropriation bills were passed last year
that the sums appropriated were made
quate to the necessities Of the government
as it is to-day, but they were not increas-
| ed because opportunity was wanted TO
tell the dear people, the workingmen, how
economical Congress had been. The re-
! port was agreed to.
WHAT THE BILL APPRoPRIATEs.
AS agreed upon in conference
the deficiency appropriation bill
apprOpriates S6.S50,O00. The Senate
added nearly $2,000,0O0 to the House
| bill, which was reduced S930,000 in
conference. Among the items stricken
out in conference was the Senate amend
ment directing a readjustment of certain
accounts disallOwed by the First Comp
| troller, the Senate provision for the pay
ment OF government transportation on the
Pacific railroads, and the House provision
limiting to $500 the annual fees of United
States Commissioners.
Mr.. Burnes, of Missouri, submitted the
conference report upon the deficiency ap-
preparation bill to the House to-day. AT
ter a short discussion as to the propriety
of the action OF the conference commit
tee in striking out the clause which had
previously received the approval of both
Houses, the report was agreed to.