The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-15
IN GOVERNMENTAL
EXPENDITURES.

MS iDbECs
-
ECOSOMY IN GOVERN w ENTAIL
EXPENDITURES.
BY Major Sayers' own showing, 'he
savings in the appropriations for the
current expenses of the government
for 1895 will amount to $50, OOO,OOO or
$50, OOO, 900 less than the nppropria'
lions made for 1894 by the Republican
congress-, and Major Sayers Is the
chairman OF the committee on appro'
priatlons aud knows more about II
than any other member of congress
Major Sayers says by a careful esti'
mate of the appropriations already
provided for by the committee an" "a
car, fol estimate OF the appropriations
now asked for and under Gonsidera-
ton. the Wilson bill will not only
provide revenue for the coming
fiscal year for the expenses OF the
government, but will also leave "a
large surplus for the deficiency incur
red by an extravaganza Republican al
minisIration.
The largest item in the bill already
reported by the committee to the
house representatives is the pension
appropriation, which amounts 10
$51 ,58l $40. This il a reduction Oh
So OOO, 600 on the pension appropr'S-
ton of last year, hut was not
made by the committee until the
first ak months demonstrated that
such reduction could he made.
Savings have also been made in
other departments Of governmental
expenditures, but all the appropria-
tions, Major Sayers saye, have been
made upon the broad principle to give
every department of the government
as nearly as could be estimated eX-
actly the amount necessary to meet
the expenses of the fiscal year 1885.
10 the District OF Columbia the
committee has appropriated %,l57,
573, the sundry civil bill $32,3OG,3 1872
These bills show a saving over 1919,
made by the last session of the Forty
second congress, of 1874, 500, 750. In
the sundry civil bill saving was
effected by not appToDfiating dollar
more than the secretary Of war ana
his chief engineers certify can be spent
in the wear. The saving amounted to
SO ,OOO, 600. a. saving of $3.50 600 was
made in the aPpfopr alton for the
new congressional library. There are
' ct but two bills To be reported from
the committee, the general deficiency
bill, which last year carried $22,OOO,.
600, and the Legislative, executive and
judicial, " hich last year amounted to
the same. the committee expect to
make "a reduction on the first of these
bills to $lA,OOO,O0O which will be a
saving of $S,OO0,C00, and the
judiciary will probably be reduced
to 100000, 600. Other appropriations
have been cut in the same scale, but
the committee, Major Sayers says,
cannot be considered as "niggardly,"
as it has appropriated every dollar
necessary in all but two instances,
and these are the public printing office
and the United States courts, In both
OF which laws will be passed changing
the methods ia printing, which will
reduce the expenses, and pill is also
in preparation cutting down the sala,
ries of United States marshals Both
reforms are not proposed so much to
save money as to correct certain
abuses now existing which run up
the expenses in both departments.
Mr.. Sayets says that he IL convinced
that the next session of congress will
be enabled to cut the appropriations
to much smaller expenditure than
this congress found 1t necessary 10
make.