New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-21
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
HOUSE COMMITTEE TO HOLD A MEETING TO
MORROW.
PARTIAL ESTIMATES ALREADY FURNISHED BY
THE TREAsURY-DEFIClENcY ON ACCOUNT
OF PENsIONs-MR. SAVERS FEARS Ma
TIoNAL BANKRUPTCY AND BIG De-
FICIENCIES AS AN INHERIT
ANCF FROM THIS CONGRESS.
nY rErEGsApH To rnR rRrsuSE.


Washington, Nov. co. .iirman Cannon. OF the
Appropriations Committee, III arrive in washington
to morrow. and regular meeting Of the committee
will be held Saturday. The only members OF the
committee in town to-day Messrs. McComas' Oh
Maryland; Coggswell. OF Massachusetts. ana oayerS
OF Texas. who held preliminary meeting ana IT,
ferred the estimates already received to the proper
subcommittee. The annual estimates OF appropri
atiOns account of Notifications and the District OF
Columbia, and partial estimates OH account OF ti'e
executive legislative and judicial departments OF the
Government, have been received from the Treasury
Department, and most OF the other estimates eAcep
on account Of deficiencies. will be TRANSMITTED heA'
week. which will be an extremely busy one for mem
bers OF the Appropriations Committee.
The deficiency on account Of pensions Will be abou'
$40 100000. against 900. 100000 last year. Ihe ap
preparation for the last fiscal year. Including dehcieh
cles. SlO6.OO0,0 600: and the appropriations LOT
the current year. including deficiencies, Will %
S137 100000, increase OF $3l 100000 OF which,
according 10 Commissioner Rauni, about S2o'oooooo
will be paid to pensioners added to the rolls by te
law approved at the last session. and the rest 10
claimants whose pensions have been allowed Or III
creased under prior laws Tie pension payments
for tho first quarter of the current fiscal year
amounted 10 S29.OOO.OOO. which indicates that tho
increased payments from October l. 1880. to Juno
80, 1901, on account Of new claims allowed ana oiu
pen. ions increased. will amount t. $i5,OOo,Ooo.
Mr. savers, OF Texas who Is leading Democratic
member OF the Appropriations Committee, Is greatly
troubled account Of the large disbursements required
By the Pension laws. Bankruptcy OF the Treasury"
said be seems imminent in the near future. One OF
two things must be done-we must either reduce eX-
penses or devise some means to raise additional
revenue, Mr. Savers asserts that the National sur
plus has sunk to S0,O0o,OO0, not including few
millions held In the banks'-which few Millions BY
the way, is go, 900 600. Mr.. sayers also said
1.-THE Democratic members OF the Appropriations
Committee have got to look out carefully. The coming
session of Congress has TO appropriate for the next
fiscal year. ending June 3d. 1892 This year there VIII
he a big de6cit-S3O, 100000 or ACCOMMODATIONS
pension payments and money VIII he diverted from inc
appropriation for the year ahead TO make up ior
the forthcoming shortage That is the programme Oh
the oppositlon but IL shouldn't go through Each
years appropriation should stand by ITSELF INC Demo
Gratis must insist that the full amount needed to pay
pension claims should be appropriated. II not, our
party will be charged with all the sins Of omission ana
commission during the LID Congress II dehclts mst
come. let the blame where 1t belongs
IL is evident that Mr.. Savers has made what ne
regards as brand-new discovery; and yet he mas
served four years a Democratic member OF the
House when that body was controlled by his own
party during which period the Democrats, as IN all
preceding periods since the War when they were III
control steadily piled up big deficiencies III order 10
cheat the people with false pretences OF economy es
pccaIly when they could do so just before general
election or to embarrass incoming Republican ma
jority or Administration. In the first session OF the
Lth Congress- with a Presidential election impending
the Democratic majority after five years control OF
the House, was driven by necessity to appropriate
nearly 49, on account Of deficiencies for which
IL had refused provide at the second session OF the
XLIXth Congress in the second session OF the Lth
Congress the deficiency appropriations amounted 10
nearly SI6,5 OOOO Sc, 100000 being on account Gf
pensions an amount which was known to be utterly
inadeauae of the first things the present Re
proprate about 500 900 account of pension de
iIcience and that mad TO be done long months before
the Disability act was passed.
Nor was that ALL for the Democrats had piled
M I'm anticipation OF the incoming OF Republican
IIonse and Administration, additional denciencie.
amounting 10 nearly 81 100000, making total OF
nearly S.j7 100000 OF Democratic defcitncie' Tor
which the p esent Republican Congress was compel ed
10 provide at the last session. In view OF these III
disnuable facts and figures, Ii would seem quile as
we'll for Mr. savers his Democratic colleagues 10
cultivate the virtue Of modesty and not be tOo swll.
TO imputing to the Republican majority motives ana
practices which they now appear TO regard as JUS,
honorable but which were not so regarded by tBeh
when the Democratic party was In power even within
co recent period the year which ended Mafch D.
1890. A., ..,,,,., y, cororc
If is already apparent from the ongvng' Oh sayes'
pvuum and other leading Democrats, tns ue "P
nropriaons Of next Congress will be on the eahest
description