The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-17
WHICH is CORRECT!
CONFLlC TING CLAIMS AS TO CON-
GRESs!ONAL APPROPRIATIONS.

GREss!ONAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Expert Juggling With Figures-Cannon
Defends the Record of Expenditures OF
the Republican Majority OF tie Fifty
Fourth Congress and Say ers Condemns 1t.
WASHINGTON, June 11.-Chairman
Cannon of the House appropriations
Committee and ex-Chairman Savers
today made public a joint statement
concerning the expenditures author
lied by this Congress, discussing them
from the Republican and Democratic
standpoints respectively. The total
amount of appropriations, for the ses'
sion, including permanent. annual ap'
priations is s515, 759, $50 .49. Mr.. Can.
mons statement begins:
The appropriations charged to this
session include s119, ,054, $50 under
per manent laws, of which amount
$50, ,OOO,O is for sinking fund and
$50, 500, 900 for interest on public debt.
or So 355, GA. 40 more than was includ-
ed at the last session of Congress in
the statements of appropriations and
is on account of the increase OF 1852,
3l5, 400 in the bonded Indebtedness Of
the country by the present administra-
ton to February, 1895, the interest
and sinking fund charge on account
of the later bond issue Of $l0O, 900, 600
in February, 1896. amounting to 81
400, 600, not being included Ill the esti-
mates of permanent appropriations.
The increase in the principle of the
interest bearing debt of the country
under the present administration
amounts to s262, ,3l5, 400, which entails
an annual interest charge of Sll, 1872,
6l3, and to meet the sinking fund OBJ
legations the further sum Of 1898,
154. During the administration OF
Mr.. Harrison, the principal OF the in,
terest bearing debt was reduced S25S,
1872, 900 and the annual interest charge
s10,237,716.
The regular annual bills, says Mr.
Cannon, including deficiencies, as
passed by the House, made a reduc,
ton in the estimates submitted by the
executive of S26, ,OS3, 19l.67; they were
increased by the Senate s22. 92O, 1920;
and as they became laws they appro-
pirate $40, ,636, ,624.06 less than as pass.
ed by the Senate, SI2, 1888, SIS "a more
than as they passed the House, and
50, 374, ,373. 43 less than the estimated
reouirements of the administration
The regular annual appropriations,
including deficiencies, made at the last
session OF Congress amounted to 1888,
636, ,S96.97, and included no river and
harbor bill. Excluding the river and
harbor Act passed at this session, the
regular annual bills as passed by the
House appropriated only 1878, sos, ,0s2-
.25, or more than SIC, 600, coo less than
was appropriated by the last Demo
cratic Congress.
MIR. Cannon criticises the Treasury
Department because it has expended
81, 81, 440 for the present year in col
lecting the revenue from customs, eS
timated at 1851, ,00C, 600; whereas, for
the last fiscal year, 1892, under Presi-
dent Harrisons administration, there
was collected under the Mckinley tar
if ct$l77, 452. 900 of customs revenue
at a total cost of Only S., COZ, 517."
The bill establishing salaries instead
of the fee system for officers of the
United States Courts, he says, will
save 81, 900, 900 annually and minimize
frivolous and malicious prosecutions.
Special attention is called to the fact
that Congress made no increases OF
salaries of employees in the govern
ment departments. The following
table of appropriations is given:
Flfty-frst Congress, $9SS, All. .1S3 "a.
Flfty-second Congress, Sl,027, 1884,
54792.
Fifty-third Congress, 1888, 239, ,2O5 SO
Fifty-fourth Congress, first session,
s5l5, ,759, ,S20.49.
The revenues :or the three fiscal
years of the Harrison administration
ending June 80, 1892, are given as
81, $50, 631, ,2l4, expenditures, S99S, 1872
SOL; for the two complete fiscal years
of .Cleveland's administration, reVe-
nues S6I1, IL, ,094, expenditures, s723,-
720,57S.
Mr.. Sayers in his statement says of
the total appropriations for the ses-
sion:
"Thesum exceeds the appropriations
made during the last session of the
Fifty-third Congress by SIS, Isl, 299. So
and those of the first regular session
of that Congress by s23, 529, l35. .46. 1t
is less than the appropriation by the
second session of the Fifty.second
Congress by only 50, IA, 53s:72, al
though at the latter session $39, 1852. IS
more was appropriated for pensions
than at this session. 1t is more than
those by the first session of the Fifty
fist Congress by $21, 1903, 571.S4. and
$25, ,464, 04O.S0 less than the appropria-
tions at the second session of the Eff
ty-hrst.
The Senate organized this session
by combination of Republicans and
Populist votes, placing the control Of
the committees in the hands of Re-
pubIicans, by its amendments to ap.
propria ton bills of the House proposed
to increase the total by $22, ,920, 42 30.
By conferences between the two houses
this aggregate increases was reduced to
Sl2 ,253, ,Slo 24 The appropriations
made at the second session OF the Eff