Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
Upon the Appropriations Of the
Present and Last Congresses.
POSITION OF THE REPUBLICANS
xplained BY Allison, Who says Neither
Body Was EItravagsnt.
HOLMAN MAKEs CLAIMS Of ECONOMY

pEldtiOH Ol tne iAtc seSsiOu oi SoHBTeSs, pro-
pared respectively by William 8. Holman,
Chairman of the House Committee on
Appropriations, from q Democratic stand
point, and by William S. Allison, Chairman
of the Senate Committee, from q aRepublican
standpoint, together with speeches covering
substantially the same ground by Representa-
tives Sayers and Dockery, Democrats, and
Representatives Henderson, Dingley and
Grout, Republicans, from the House Appro-
priation Committee.
The edition Is now running through the
presses of the Government Printing Office,
In accordance with compact entered into
between the authors of the various speeches
last Friday, when official leave was ac-
corded them to print their remarks in the
Record without orally delivering them.
Each of the speeches will be accompanied
BY elaborate statistical tables and compara.
tive statements Of the appropriations made
by this and the last Congress, and they will
doubtless be used extensively as formidable
campaign weapons In the coming contest by
stump orators of both parties Mr.. Allison
In . interview with THE DISPATCH cor
respondent tonight, outlined the substance
Of his speech upon the subject:
No Reductions " orth Considering.
1.-THE savings made by this Congress, I"
said Mr.. Allison. tor what they call saw
ings, are found only in reduced appropfia-
tions for rivers and harbors; for the con-
struction of the navy, for Notifications and,
of course, fewer deficiencies because of the
suficiency Of former appropriations These
are the only items of importance in the
regular bills We made some extraordinary
appropriations two years ago which were
counted against Us, 81, ,ooo, 900 or &c, ooo, 900
for the census, the refunding of
the direct tax, and large ap-
propriations for the construction of
the navy. Many of these appropriations
are not yet expended, and so the work goes
on without similar appropriations at this
session. But this Congress has made no re-
ductions worth considering In any of the
great departments of the Government, or
upon any of the great bills other than I
have suggested. 49,,
'The same Legislative expenses have
been provided for; the same for the Agri-
cultural Department; the same for the reg
ular conduct of the Navy, for West Point
and Indian service. There have been in
ereases In the appropriations for the Postal
service. SO that the Democratic party,
having scrutinized anew all Of these appro-
priations, justiies the appropriations of the
last Congress and clearly shows that no
great reductions can be made In the general
ordinary expenses of the Government
The Drficienoies Not Larg-.
'They say that these increases of appro-
priations were necessary because Of the laws
Of the lsst Congress, and they quote the
pension aot and the sugar bounty law. Yet
they do not propose the repeal of the PEN
sion laws or of the sugar bounty"
Mr.. Allison said that he did not consider
the appropriations Of the present session of
Congress at all excessive. There might be
small items which were extravagant, he
said, but they were too small and composed
too small an aggregate to be enumerated.
The deficiencies of this year, he said,-the
unpaid debts Of the last Congress-were not
large; in fact they were not SO large a.
usual
There was a deficiency in public print
ing" said Mr.. Allison, "and In the Depart
ment Of Justice, and sundry deficiencies
here and there also; but the aggregate was
not large. There are always Unforeseen ex-
penditures which have to be met In this
way"
In answer to q question, Mr.. Allison said
that he expected that the appropriations of
the next session of Congress would be
greater than those made at this session. The
natural increase In the business of the coun-
try, together with the Increase In the pen
sion appropriations, which was to be ex-
pected under the present law, and the In
GREASE in the postal expenses made it most
inevitable that appropriations would be In
creased.
The Democratic idea OF Economy.
Judge Holman's speech IL headed: GAP
propriations reduced So, ,529, 291 9s," and
starts thus:
of Congress, including permanent appro-
priations, show reduction OF $33 529, ,29l SO
under the appropriations made at the last
session Of the last Congress, or q reduc-
sionaI district in the United States, but for
purposes of comparison the amount of the
river and harbor bill, 81, l5S, ,els, should be
deducted from the appropriations OF this
harbor bill was passed. ut the last session of
against the appropriation OF
which those made at this session should
logically be &c controlled without the river
The appropriations of this session are s4,-
6s2, ,s09 90 less than the whole appropria-
lions lion made at the second session Of the
and other observations that I will make
the subject Of appropriations,
will submit at the conclusion OF my remarks
showing the Statistical history Of the appro.
prfation bills OF this session and the appro-
priations made at the second and first ses-
sions Of the Fifty-frst Congress. By this
table 1t will be seen that the appropriations,
annual and permanent, made by the last
Congress, were as follows:
The Figures for It.
Second session-Total, as stated in official
sables, s52a aols672 IS. Add amount estimated
BY Treasury under indefinite items in sundry
,fvil act for pay and bounty claims, 1886, 900
Add amount estimated by Treasury, as
required under indefinite appropriation to
rstund direct tax, $l52 900. Total, s541, 23o
First session-Total, as stated in official
tables, $463, ,89S, $40 70. Add expenditures re-
ported oy Treasury under indefinite items
Claims. 81, ssa oss is. Add espenditures EXP Ssn rs.
ported by Treasury under the remnant ap-
preparations made during the last Congress
rs o. Tosai ~ a ss total aes spSHSpTi yasSss
atoms, Fifty-frst Congress, sl.035 500 cal o.
Average appropriations by the Fifti-first
ls7 sIs ss for each OF its two sessions,
The total appropriations made at this ses-
sion amount to s507 7ol, $50 81, including the |
river and harbor bill, being S83, 529 29l 9s less
than those, mads at the last session of Con-
zress, and deducting the river and harbor
bill, the reduction Is $H, $50 900 90; and in
.he two sessions Of the last Congress the re-
1uction is 80, 143, 0a9 03. u,
The II regular bills which make appropri-
atoms for the essential conduct of the sew.
,ral departments of the Government are
grouped in the table SO as to show the totals
IF the whole.
Administration Estimates Reduced.