The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
NATIONAL FINANCES

Appropriations Authorized
by Congress.
THE TREASURY is CRITICISED
Joint Statement Made by Chairman
Cannon and ex-Chairman
sayres of Texas.
Washington, June 13. = Chairman
Cannon, of the appropriations commit
tee, and ex-Chairman Sayres, today
made public joint statement concern
ing the expenditures authorized by this
congress. Total appropriations, in
Guiding permanent annual appropria-
tions, are $515, ,759. $40. Mr.. Cannon's
statement begins:
'The appropriations charged to this
congress include $119,054, 100 under
permanent laws, of which amount
$50, 900, 900 is for sinking fund and
$50, 500, 900 for interest on the public
debt, or 90, 355, Ga. 40 more than was
included at the last session of congress
in the statements Of appropriations,
and is on account of the increase of
$162, ,315, 400 in the bonded indebted
ness Of the country by the present ad-
ministartion to February, 1895, inter-
set and sinking fund charges on account
of the latter bond issues of 500, ,OO0,-
600 in February, 1896, amounting to
~,
estimates Of permanent appropriations.
The increase in the principal of the in
terest-bearing debt, under the present
administration amounts to $262, ,315,-
400, which entails an annual interest
charge Of $11 .492, ,616, and to meet the
sinking fund obligations, the further
sum of 80, ,623. 154.
''The regular annual bills, including
the deficiency bill, as passed by the
house, made reduction in the total
estimates submitted by the executive of
$26, ,9S3,191; they were increased by
the senate $22, $40, ,422, and as they
became laws. they appropriated $10.-
836, 1874 less than as passed by the sen.
ate; $12,283,S1S more than as they
passed the house, and $1S,374,373 less
than the estimated requirements of the
administration.
The regular appropriations, includ-
ing deficiencies, made at the last ses-
sion of congress, amounted to $685.
636, 1896, and it 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, $40, ,082,
or more than $40, 900. 900 less than was
appropriated by the last congress. -
Mr.. Cannon criticises the treasury
department because it has expended
$7,377, 44O for the present year in COL
lecting the revenues from customs esti.
mated at $165, ,00O,0 900.
The bills establishing salaries in.
stead of the fee system for officers Of
the United States courts, he says, will
save 81 900, 900 annually, and minimize
frivolous and malicious prosecution.
that congress made no increase of sal
aries of employees in the government de.
partments. The following table of ap-
preparations is given:
Fifty-fir congress, $988, Alt, 1873. "a;
ffty-seoond congress, s. ,O27, 124. 547.92;
ffty-third congress, $3.50, ,239, 900. 69;
fifty.fourth congress (frst SESSION.,
s5l5, 759, ,820.49.
Mr.. Sayres, in his statement, says Of
the total appropriations of the session:
"This SUM exceeds the appropria-
tions during the last session of the
fifty-third congress by $1S,751,S ,S99.
and those of the first regular session of
that congress by $23, 523, 557.
cit is less than the appropriations
congress by only So, 744,5 ,558, although
at the latter session $50, 352, ,494 more
was appropriated for pensions than at
this session. It is more than those by
the first session of the fifty-first con-
gress by, $21 1908, 571, and $25, ,464, ,040
less than the appropriations of the Sec
ond session Of the fifty first congress.
'The appropriations made by the
second session of the fifty congress
exceeded those made at the first session
of the same congress by $46,676, ,612,
or nearly 10 per cent. II the same
proportion should be made at the next
session, then the appropriations will
not be less than $685., 600, 000.'
Contracts authorized by this session
he estimates as follows:
Rivers and harbors, $50, GIG, 404;
public buildings, lighthouse and reve.
nue-cutter service, 81, 406,0 900; defenses
and armament. 4,195,076; new war
ships. $12. 100000; District of Colum-
bia, $125, 900; total, $7S,241 400.
He says the total expenditures in one
fiscal year have never been SO great,
except during the war, and exceed the
estimated valuation Of property in any
one of the South Atlantic states.
Quarrymen Strike.
Berea, O., June 15.-Four hundred
nuarrvmen at the uuarries of the Cleve-