The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-28


This will make the grand total OF the
session about S510,00O,000, or S47, 000.00
more than the aggregate Of the last
(Republican) Congress ut its corre-
spending session.
These figures deserve a brief analysis.
It will be seen that tho pensions appro.
priation shows an increase OF S47,000,-
900. The legislation which necessitated
that increase was voted for by the Dem
ocrats MS we'll as Republicans. 1t was
non-partisan. Neither party can shout
der of the responsibility OF the DISABLE
ity Pension bill on tho other. Deduct
ing these appropriations the total for
the two sessions stand: Fifty-frst Con-
gross (Rep.l, 1904, 900, 900; Fifty-second
Congress (Dem.), 1888, 10000. Further
examination Of the table kindly sup
piled by the Democratic organ shows
that the last Congress had to appropri-
ate $S8, 1000 TO meet deficiencies Gre
ated by its Democratic (Cleveland)
predecessor. The deficiencies appro-
priated for by the present Congress
amount to only $l6,000,000. Therefore
the correct totals-for purposes of
proper comparison-are: First session
Republican Congress, $S26,300,0O0; first
session Democratic Congress, S347, 000,-
600; Democratic excess, $2l,000,0 900.
Or, assuming that the Worlds Fair
subscription is not made, an excess OF
$l6,0O0,000. This is economy with a
vengeance.
Prior to the meeting Of this Congress
Economist Holman and other Demo-
cratic bosses announced with much
earnestness that the "extravagantpolicy
of the Republican billion dollar Con-
gross" must be sternly rebuked, and
they declared that the appropriations
could and must be cut down a hundred
million dollars below that Of the "pro-
figate Reps" These figures show that
even if the ~Tammanyites, the Con-
federate Brigadiers, and the Massachu-
sets mugwumps kill the subscription
to the Worlds Fair and thus knife that
national enterprise as a stroke Of
Democratic policy, their appropriations
will DO Sirteen millions in excess of what
they were at the corresponding session
of the last Congress, which they have
so fiercely denounced.
The Democratic national convention
only a month ago, in this city, pledged
the party to RELENTLESS opposition to
the Republican policy Of p%rofligate OK
penditure, which in the short space Of
two years has squandered an enormous
surplus and emptied an OVERLOOKING
treasury" Why did not the convention
send a copy of that. declaration to the
Democratic members OF the house SO
that they might act on it? Surely they
cannot have seen it or they would not
have made appropriations footing up
sixteen millions more than the "pro.
tigate'' appropriations which the Dem
ocratic platform denounces.
The reader has before him the prom
ises OF the pseudo-reformer, Holman,
who will spend money on that local in
stitution known as the Big Miami, but
objects to giving a cent for a grand ma
tional institution like tho Worlds Fair.
He has before him the pledge OF the
Democratic party in national conyen-
ton assembled. He has also tho fig
ures showing how the promises have
been kept. The Democratic reader, il
intelligent, can draw his own conclu-
sions and should vote against the hypo.
critics.