Middletown transcript., 1892-10-13

made by the last Congress for the fiscal
year 1891 and 1892, and $5, 788, ,067. "a
more than was proposed and deemed
sufficient by the House.
"Deducting the sums given for pen
sions, including deficiencies therefor,
from the grand totals given in the table,
Of all appropriations made at this ses-
sion and during the last Congress. in
cluding permanents, rivers and harbors,
deficiencies, and miscellaneous, the fol.
lowing results are reached:
1.-The total appropriations made at
this session would be 1858, 289, ,698. 81,
being $50, ,4S5, 626. SO less than the esti-
mates submitted by the administers
ton, including $58, ,064, $50 for rivers
and harbors $13, 406, 331. 33 less than
as they passed the Senate, including
miscellaneous and permanents as finally
charged; $23, 800, $50. ga less than was
appropriated by the second session OF
the last Congress; S17, 3S7, 1912 less
than was appropriated by the first ses7
sion of the last Congress $50. 1885,
priations for both sessions of the last
Congress, and 81, ,039, 1872. 80 more than
was proposed by the House, including
the miscellaneous and permanents as
finally charged.
THE legislation of the last Congress
directly compelled the present session
to an increase of the appropriations in
bounties, subsidies, and the like, to the
amount of $79, 527, ,602.62.
1t was impossible at this session to
reduce any one of those items unless it
had possessed the power to repeal laws
enacted by the last Congress. In I'D
dition to this, the House of Representa-
tives has had arrayed against its efforts
at retrenchment the full force of the Ad.
ministration and of the Senate.
Il submit, therefore, that the House,
in checking this abnormal growth and
alarming excess Of public expenditures,
and especially in cutting down appro-
priations $33, 529, 291. SO under those of
the last session. has done fairly we'll.
'.As late as the Forty-third Congress
the whole appropriations authorized in
the two sessions, including permanent
appropriations, were S653, 794, 991. 81.
The Democratic party controlled the
House in the Forty fourth Congress, and
the entire appropriations, annual and
permanent, for the two sessions were
1886, 597, ,832.2S.
1.-The Republicans did not recover
control of the House again until the
Forty-seventh Congress, which ran up
the appropriations to $777, ,435, 94S. 81,
as against $727, ,537, ,684. % appropriated
by the Forty sixth Congress, an increase
Of nearly $50,OOO,OOO. The Republi-
can party were not again in control of
the House until the Fifty first Congress,
and that Congress, as previously stated,
made appropriations in excess OF its
predecessor, the Fiftieth Congress by
S217, 1913, ,061 40. There is no approach
to this profigacy in our history. Was
not the storm of indignation that arose
such as free people would naturally
express?
THAT party under its new leaders,
however, has treated the party as q
'slush fund.- and it has taxed the
people with an utter disregard of their
welfare. 1t is o very significant fact
that, since the period of the Old lea.
ers, that party has never been ,e~-
mitted to control this House In: lwn
terms, and in each instance. after
first session, has been driven fru...
mower by an indignant pennlA