The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-23
DEMOCRATIC SHAM ECONOMIES
The Boast of Saving 81 900 900 by With
holding Pensions.

The Boast OF Saving 81 Is, 900 900 by With
holding Pensions.
The democratic newspapers contain
the annual claims of the democratic
leaders that they are effecting great
economies in the appropriations Dem
ocratic economy means deficiency. The
cheese-paring methods are for bum
combe. They are a species of check
kiting. Democratic economy consists
in the postpouement of the payment of
obligations This has been made clear
in striking manner by Congressman
Cannon, of Illinois, who called atten-
ton to the fact that some of the items
in the urgency deficiency bill are below
what the treasury department certified
would be necessary; and yet, for the
sake of gaining cheap credit for econ
omy, the house neglects to appropriate
the full amount, knowing very well
that a supplementary bill will have to
be passed. Already democratic news
papers are being filled with accounts
of the millions to be saved" and yet
not single one of the appropriation
bills has become law. At this early
stage, when only seven months of the
fiscal year have ended, congress is
already passing urgency deficiency
bills"
Mr.. Sayers, the chairman of the house
comEittee on appropriations, recently
gave out an interview, nearly column
in length, showing how his committee
was gong to save $50, 900, 900 on the ap-
he
said, sl5,O 900 is to be in pensions.
Instead of this being an honest it is an
exceedingly discreditable, not 10 say
disgraceful, act on the part of the dem
ocratic leaders. The pensions bureau
has been engaged ever since this ad-
ministration came into power in de-
priving veterans of their pensions by
methods denounced by a decision of
the supreme court of this district as
wholly without warrant or authority
of law"
There are 100000 claims pending,
and there are nearly 100000 of these
which have been adjusted and ready to
go on the roll. But to make a fictitious
show of economy the claims are held
up and thousands of names now on
the rolls have been suspended, and
then the democratic leaders have the
assurance to tell the country that they
have saved SIS, 200, 900 ON pensions
Mr.. Sayers says another large saw
ing" has been made in the amount to
be appropr lated for river and harbor
contracts. The treasury department
has been engaged all this year in hold
ing up contract work on the rivers and
harbors, Notwithstanding a million of
unemployed have been seeking work.
Every dollar appropriated in the sun
dry civil bill for this work merely goes
to pay contracts on which the govern
ment is already liable. No new work
Is authorized by the committee on ap-
preparations. That will come later in
the regular river and harbor bill, re-
ported by another committee. Hence,
it makes no matter what the commit
tee appropriates, it is in no sense saw
Ing. The contracts are already made
and the aggregate of liability fixed,
and the cutting down of IS. 600, 900 from
the appropriation for work on these
contracts does not save the government
a single penny. 1t simply delays the
work, hence the saving" which is an
other piece of subterfuge like that on
pensions.-Chicago Inter Ocean.