St. Paul daily globe., 1894-08-18
RIGHT KIND OF A CUT,
Appropriations $4O,OOO,OOO
Less Than Those of First
Session Last Congress.
PROTECTION FUNDS CUT OFF.
Sugar Bounty and Federal
Elections Appropriations
Make a Big Item.
A REPUBLICAN HERITAGE,
Aggregate Swelled by Appro-
priations Entailed by For
mer Congresses.
PROTECTION FUNDS CUT OFF.
A REPUBLICAN HERITAGE,

8.
Sayres, of tie house committee on ap-
preparations, has completed an official
statement of the amount appropriated
by the session of congress just closing.
as compared with past sessions. The
statement represents The views of the
Democratic majority i'll the committee
and In the house of the economy of
government expenses. MIR. Sayres'
statement reads as follows:
1he appropriations made during the
extraordinary session and the first reg
ular session of the present congress.
including permanent appropriations.
show reduction of S2S, ,S35, ,gS9 under
the appropriations made at the last
session of the last congress-: and de-
Quoting the amount OF the river and
harbor bill, 81, 1878, $50, which should be
done for the purpose of comparison,
lnasmuch as no river and harbor bill
was passed by the last congress at its
last session, the reduction is $40, 800, 1863.
AS compared with the laws passed at
the last session of the last congress the
following reductions are shown in the
table:
Agricultural bill. S1O1.476; army bill,
S632, 75o; legislative. etc. bill. which car
rles In the main the great salary list Of
the government, S557. 50T: military
academy bill. S26, ,033; pension bill. SI4,-
949.7S0; Sundry civil bill. s.. 800, 535: on
account of DEFICIENCIES, $40, ,456449; on
account of permanent appropriations,
including S1t.0eJ. 900 for sugar bounty,
which is abolished, and s45O.O0O eX-
penses under election laws that are re-
pealed. Sl4, ,39S, ,593, Total reductions,
4S.624, 119.
The bills showing increases over the
last laws are as follows: Diplomatic
and consular bill, Sc, ,473; District of CO.
lumbla bill. Sl3l, ,3s9; fertilization bill,
Sl26. .949; Indian bill, Sl.475, 4GS; naval
bill. same. IS, 223, G65; postuffice bill,
s.. .232, aS5; river and harbor bill (total),
S11. .473, $50; miscellaneous, S29, 500.
Total increase. S19s7SS, ,229.
The secretary of the treasury, in sub
mitting the annual estimates to con-
gress in December last, stated that he
included therein no amount for the paw
ment of the bounty on sugar, but that
If the law authorizing its payment
should not be repealed it would be
necessary 70 add to the estimates for
1885, for permanent appropriations, the
commissioner of internal revenue esti-
mated that the sum required to pay this
bounty, II not repealed, would be Sl5,-
100000 for the fiscal year 1895. and ST.
100000 for 1896. The expenditures
made Tor bounty on sugar have been as
follows: Fiscal year 1892, S7,550, OPS:
fiscal year 1898, 50, 569 So; fiscal wear
1894. s13.O73. S79.
The poStoffice bill makes the usual
increase incident to the growth of the
country and its commercial interests,
the number OF poStoffices having in.
creased during the period between June
81, 1899, and June 80, 1894, by 7,4O4, the
number of post routes by 4,5l4, the
mules of annual travel in transporting
the mails by 74,615,375. the length Of
post routes by 20, 737 miles. the annual
revenues from the service by S15. .09S, ,155,
and the total annual expenditures by
S17.952, 500.
The sundry civil bill carries S. 400, 900
toward payments under contracts for
river and harbor works authorized
under laws passed duri; g the Fifty
first and Fifty-second congresses.
For river and harbOr work there was
appropriated at this session, including
the amount carried by the river and
harbor bill, Sll, ,4TS.1 $50, and IS. 400, 600
AOl SOutI dStS lH Tic SuiIUEN CIVIL OIL, the
total sum of SI9, SIS, 1S0
During the first session of the last
congress there was appropriated by the
river and harbor bill $685. O3S more
than was appropriated at this session.
At the present session there has been
appropriated the sum of 81, 500. 900 to-
ward meeting the river and harbor con-
tracts authorized by the FIfty-frSt con.
gress, and 81. 100000 toward such con-
tracts authorized by the Fifty-seeoud
congress, leaving S5.44S.779 of the for
mer and Sl4.265, sos of the latter, OF
Sl9.7l2, l47 In all of the river and harbo
contracts, yet to be appropriated for.
70 finally equip and complete the
fifty new vessels or the navy it Is eSti-
mated that there will yet have to be ap-
propriated the further sum of S2S. .OS0.-
974, making total of Sll2,062, los which
the new navy, as now authorized, will
cost.
A subjoined statement shows that OF
the appropriations made at this session
S65. AL were required under laws passed
during the Fitty-first congress; that
only SS4,5T4, 19l were appropriated by
the first session of the Fifty.frst con.
gress under those laws; that OF the ap-
preparations made during the two seS-
siohs Uf the last congress Sl15, 1S6,61S
were the result of those laws. and that
only l&7,S09,ll1 were appropriated at
both sessions Of the Fifty-first congress
under those laws which il passed entail
ing such enormous obligations upon its
successors.
During the present session of congress
the salaried Est of the government has
been reduced by more than 600 in num-
Der and over 100000 in annual cost.
and more salaries have been reduced
than increased.
Mr.. Sayres attaches elaborate tables
to the statement, which give in detail
the points he has summarized herein.
WITH BORROWED WHEAT