Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-29
sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION.


The Senate then proceeded to the consider.
civil appropriation bill and was addressed at
considerable length by Mr.. Allison in expla-
nation of 1t and in general defense of the ac-
ton of the Senate appropriation committee
and of the Senate itself as contrasted with
that of the House. He said that this was
one of the usual great bills of each session
and was estimated for regularly in the book
of estimates. In the regular estimates pre-
scented to Congress at the beginning of the
session the total estimate for the sundry CIV
il bill was $2S, 742, 695. Supplemental esti
mates had been submitted during the session
amounting to $5,124, 900, showing total
estimate for the bill of $50, $3.50, 695. The
priation of S23, 332, 406. Tho Senate COM
mittee on appropriations recommend
ed additions of 81 ,012. 465, SO that when
the bill was reported to the Senate it was
still five and half millions less than the
amount estimated for by the secretary of the
only appropriated one-half of the amounts
authorized for public buildings while the
Senate committee on appropriations had
thought it more economical to appropriate
the whole amount and the bill had been thus
increased to the amount of about eight hun
dred and forty Thousand dollars. In this
connection Mr.. Allison referred with some
aceribity of expression to the distinction APP
parently made by the President in approving
bills for public buildings in Democratic
States and in disappearing similar bills In
Republican States.
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
AS to the river and harbor bill he explained
how the bill of this session is the second bill
that has passed in four years, President Cleve-
land having vetoed a river and harbor bill
appropriating $14, DOC, 900. The Secretary of
War had only estimated for $40, DOC, 900, but
had stated that the chief or engineers reported
that $40 600, 600 could be spent economically
in these great national works. He claimed
to have shown that the additions made by the
Senate to appropriations bills we're additions
necessary to the execution of the laws or were
made at the urgent persistence of the heads
of departments or because of recommends
lions that had come to the Senate in the shape
of supplemental estimates. Il had been said
that the Senate had largely increased the APP
preparations of this year over last. He agreed
to that he agreed that the appropriations of
this year were greatly in excess of those of
last year. If there had been q river and
harbor bill of this year, instead of being $22,
coo, 900, would have been only ten or twelve
millions. Not only that, but it would be
seen by the deficiency bills passed and to be
patsed at this session, that that the expendi
SIS, 900, 600. Adding that sum to the $1O,-
900, 900 or $12 900, 600 for rivers and herbors
and there was totel of $50, OOO, 900 that had
been forced in the appropriation bills of this
session. Therefore, when the appropriations
of this session came to be compared with
those of last session, these facts should be
taken into account.
SIGNIFICANT COMPARISON.
He called attention to the fact that COM
pairing the four years of President Arthur's
administration with the four years of Presi-
dent Cleveland's, the excess of expenditures
in the last four years was $95, 308, 053. He
mentioned this fact in reply to Mr.. Thur
mans recent speeches, characterizing the ap-
preparations of Congress as "monstrous." 1t
was time, he said, that the men who made
such statements should be able to show
wherein the appropriations were monstrous,
and wasteful. If Congress was making these
monstrous appropriations it had made $685.
600, 600 more of them from 1886 to 1889 than
it had made from 1881 to 1885, and those ap-
propriations had passed the scrutiny, not
only of the Republicans of both houses,
but of the Democrats as we'll.
Mr.. Hale said that the illusions
about the present administration faded one
by one. Its pretensions were exploded. The
speech of the senator from Iowa had explod-
ed the assumption that the administration
was an economical one. Almost every de-
partment of the government cost the people
more to-day than under former administra-
tor from Iowa had exposed one of the shams
and pretenses under which the administers
ton was sailing. And there were other pre-
lenses and shams which should be exposed.
The testimony taken by the committee of
which he had the honor to be chairman taken
in the State of Pennsylvania showed that
every kind of discipline had been brought to
bear to break down the forces resisting the
administration in the person of Mr.. Randall.
Nothing that could be brought to bear in the
way of patronage, bus what was bestowed to
pay men for deserving the standard of Mr..
Randall SO that the administration might
carry that State. The postofices and Gus
tom houses had been turned into sideways
through which might run contributions for
partisan purposes. Yet the President had
issued a new order that the civil service
rules must be enforced with greater strength
and Vigor than before. When the fishery
treaty was rejected the President had come
in with message assuming some
new grounds. The Senator from Iowa had
shown that the administration had expended
$95, 00O, 600 more than its predecessor, and
when this exposure should reach the country
we might be treated to a message from the
President declaring that there must be more
economy, holding perhaps, that less money
ought to be paid for pensions to soldiers and
their wives and children.
Mr.. Beck said that what had been spent
since the Democratic administration came
into power had been well expended, he
thought, with one or two exceptions, and the
people knew what had been done with the
money. When money had been spent for a
navy, who had got navy to show for it.
Prior to the Democratic administration hun
dreds of millions had been spent and we got
nothing. We, the Democrats, had had no
star routes; no post leadership and no venal-
i4y that we knew of. But we were spending
annually SOC, 000, 900 for pensions.
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS CALLED.
A caucus of Republican Senators has been
called to meet at Senator Edmund's house on
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