Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-03
NATIONAL EXPENSES,
The Cost of Uncle Sans Government
This Year.
Cost $t25.0 to Punish the Cexeyites-
Trouble Occurred in Fourteen States.


all the rest are cooling their overweight
brains by scaShore or in shady grove. So
this Is good time to take stock Of con-
gressional progress to date. 1t is also prac-
tically the end Of the fiscal year 1894, and
we can set forth the figures and tell where
we are at 1t would be too much to say
that all Of the 1000 and odd bills intro
duced had been considered, but surpris-
1ngly large proportion of them have been,
and great deal Of good work has been
done. First In order arc the appropriations,
mot only because the word comes first in
the alphabetical list, but the question Of
what the people have to pay is one Of pc
rcnnial interest All the appropriations
bills passed the house befor. the fiscal year
ended, but still it was necessary to pass
the usual dragnet resolution continuing
the terms Of the present bills until the new
ones can be got into operation The senate
committee has already reported six Of
s these, with very slight changes and of the
remainder not more than two will require
much care in tho committee. The old SEN
ators estimate that but little time will be
consumed on the agricultural bill and a
littlo more on the naval but the Indian
bin will probably excite some lively scrap
takes considerable time, and as to that on
pensions 1t Is just rs 1t happens.
Expenses For 1895.
Tho pension bill was reported to the
semitic exactly ms 10 came from the house,
and in the other five reported there was so
little change that 1t is taken for granted
that there will be little or no increase in
the totals. For wonder the senate com.
mittee reported In favor Of decrease in
the postoiIice bill, and it is expected to do
the same on two other bills. We can there
fore estimate very nearly the totals for tho
fiscal year 1895. Something is yet to he
added for the increased expenditures of the
United States courts in the northwest and
something to DO deducted on account of
reduction elsewhere, but allowing for all
these md the permanent annual appropri-
ations, deficiencies and all, the total cx-
penses of the national government for the
fiscal year 1895 will be almost exactly
S46i, 900, O0O
Appropriations and annual permanent
outgocs for 1894 wero 1919 900, 900, SO if
there IL no unforeseen trouble to come our
national housekeeping this year will cost
lis s3S, 600, 900 less than last. The biggest
saving, of course, Is IN pensions, but there
Is also "a fargcrcduction In Indian affairs
and some in other lines, with an increase
for tho navy.
Tho attorney general has sent in his re-
quest for Sl95, 600 extra to meet the ex
pense incurred by United States marshals
and other officers of the department of JUS
tce In tho arrest and punishment Of Cox
eyites In the west, charged with stealing
trains, and IN dealing with strikers in
III. a.
mcnt has jurisdictions Tho attorney gen
oral = report shows that these troubles oc-
CURED in IA states and two territories, and
ms the latest industrals to arrive at the
Bladcnsburg camp have declared their in
tcntion to throw themselves on the District
rs voluntary Migrants it appears that first
and last CoXcyism will have cost tho gov
ernment something near $3.50, 000--a good
deal of money TO pay for so little fun
Bills and Their Titles.
Tho senate committee on finance has re-
ccivcd IL bills from the house and has
about u hundred bills and resolutions of
senate origin, and of all these it has report
ed but Ii, having just about exhausted it.
self on the famous house bill 4, S6i, entitled
An act To reduce taxation, to provide rev
onuc for the government and for other pur-
poses i'm brief, the Wilson voorhees, tar
III bill. Tho longest tito to any bill he
fore this committee Is that TO Senator PEI
fer's comprehension bill, which contains
1879 words, setting forth that this net is to
settle the whole question of bonds, treasury
notes, interest, gold and silver, banks and
fiscal economy In general 1t is a fair com
panion piece for Mr.. Walkers comprohen-
sion bill in the house, though at tho other
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of becoming II law. Aside from few such
measures and the tariff bill, nearly all the
acts arc for tho relief 81 various individuals.
The senate committee on commerce has
had before IL 10 original senate bills and
resolutions and 43 passed by the house and
sent over Those chiefly important wero
bridge bills, the most important being the
act authorizing the bridge across the lIud-
son at New York city, which is now u
law There arc also many bills on pilot
ing and minor regulations for steamboats,
, on the western waters. The river and har-
btr bill is also considered by this commit
tee, even when not nominally referred To
IL. All tho other bills before it are of such
purely local interest that even the names of
tho places and streams provided for arc
not known In distant states Tho inter
state commerce committee has somc bills,
Of course, and that on the Pacific railways
continues 10 give hearings without result
in its usual cheerful way.
More Hard Work to Follow.
Tho only really positive announcement
from this committee is made by Senator
Bricc, who says he will take his colleagues
In his private car during tho vacation, and
they will have n delightful summer jaunt
and examine the condition Of tho roads in
person, after which they expect to ho able
to act intelligontly. Those So far mon
toned may be considered the most impor-
tant committees, ard giving 10 each of
their bills the shortest time which previous
experience allows us to hopc for it would
appear that the senate has before it at least
one more month of continuous hard work.
OF course they may sgct excited and rush
things, but the presidents in that limo are
hot numerous.
The house has enough to occupy it quite
as long if 1t considers oven the half of the
bills which the several committee chair
men think of urgent Importance. Even