Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-10-06
ANNAPOLIS Md THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER g. 1899.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.


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The situation in regard to appropri.
ations of the session of the Fifty second
Congress was clearly set forth in a
speech by Representative Holman. the
Watchdog of the Treasury. Mr..
Holman saws:
The appropriations made at this ses.
sion of Congress. including permanent
appropriations, show reduction os
S33, 529, 29l 9S under the appropriations
made at the last session of the last
Congress, or reduction equivalent to
$l00.0 600 TO each congressional district
in the United States but for purpo.
ses of comparison the amount az the
river and harbor bill, S21, 153, ,6lS,
should be deducted from the appropri-
ations of this session, for the reason
that no river and harbor bill was passed
at the last session of Congress, against
the appropriations of which those made
at this session should be logically con-
trasted, Without the river and harbor
bill, the appropriations of this session
are S54, $50, 900. 98 less than the whole
appropriations made at the second ses-
sion of the Fifty first Congress
/" The total appropriations made at
this session amount to $507, 70I, $50. 81,
including the river and harbor bill, be-
ing $33, 529, 291. 9S less than those made
at the last session of Congress, and, de-
Quoting the river and harbor bill, the
reduction is $54, 6S2, 900. 98 and in con-
trast with the average appropriations
for the two sessions of the last Congress
the reduction Is SO, I42, ,08003.
IAN examination of the eleven regular
bills which make appropriations for the
essential conduct of the several depart.
ments of the government shows;
IL. That these bills, as passed by the
House, made reduction in the esti-
mates submitted by the administration
of S27, 1888, 1921
80 That they were increased by the
Senate in the sum of $1S, 725, 6S1. So; and
"3. That as they finally became laws,
they appropriated $22, ,095, ,724. % less
than the estimates $12, ,937, ,613. 81 less
than as they passed the Senate; $780,
422, S62. 10 less than was appropriated
for the last fiscal year by the last Con-
Sress $10,712, 464.71 less than the
average of the same appropriations
made by the last Congress for the fiscal
year 1891 and 1S92, and $5, 7Ss, OCT. "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
The total appropriations made at
this session would be 1858, 2S9, ,69S. 81, !,
being $50, 485, 626 SO less than the esti-
mates submitted by the administra-
ton, including $5S, 1904, $50 for rivers
and harbors $13, 406, 331 33 less than
rs they passed the Senate, including
miscellaneous and permanents as finally
charged S23, 800, 590.'64 less than was
appropriated by the second session OF
the last Congress 81, 1887, ,181.72 less
than was appropriated by the first ses-
sion of the last Congress $40. 1885,
1856. 18 less than the average of appro-
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 $40, ,527, 500. .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 adj
iition to this. the House of Representa-
tiyes has had arrayed against its efforts
ut retrenchment the full force of the Adj
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 S33, 529, 291. SO under those OF
the last session. has done fairly well.
'As late as the Forty third Congress
the whole appropriations authorized in
the two sessions, including permanent
appropriations, were 1868, 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
S595, So, 1892. %.
The Republicans did not recover
control of the House again until the
Forty seventh Congress, which ran up
he appropriations to ST., ,435, ,94S. 81,
IS against S727, ,537, ,6S4. % appropriated
ny the Forty Congress. an increase
of nearly $4,000, 900. The Republi.
can party were not again in control Of
he House until the Fifty first Congress,
and that Congress. as previously stated,
made appropriations in excess of its
predecessor, the FiftietlI Congress by
s217, 723, ,061. 40. There is no approach
% this profiigacy 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 .
slush fund, and it has taxed the
people with an utter disregard of theil
welfare. II is a very significant fact
that, since the period of the old lead
ers. that party has never been per
united to control this House but two
terms, and ia each instance, after ths
first session, has been driven from
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