Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-12
TWO STATEN VENTS
The Appropriations Viewed From a
Republican and Democratic Point.
ANALYZED By PARTY LEADERS
Figures That Are Presented by
Messrs. Cannon and Sayers.
T H E INCREA SED DEB T

House appropriations committee, and ex-
Chairman Sayers, democrat. have given
out statements Of the expenditures author
lied by this Congress- each viewing the
matter from party standpoints.
The total appropriations for the session,
Including permanent annual appropria-
tions is $5lj. 7-9, seO4 Mr.. Cannon's state
menI says:
THE appropria tons cha ged to this ses-
sion include $119.O54 100 under permanent
laws. of which amount $50,OOO.OOO Is for
sinking fund and 0JO0.OOO for interest on
the public debt, or s., 35:, ga 40 more than
was included at the last session Of Con-
gress in the statements Of appropriations,
and Is on account Of the increase Of &c.,
315. 400 in the bonded Indebtedness Of the
country by the present administration up
to February, 1895, the interest and sinking
fund charge on account of the later bond
issue Of $100,OOO.OO in February, 1886.
amounting to 81, 100000. not being included
in the estimates of permanent appropria-
lions.
THE increase in the principal of the in
terest-bearing debt Of the country under
the present administration amounts to
S2G2,315. 400. which entails annual inter-
est charge Of $11, 482, 616, and to meet the
sinking fund obligations the further sum
OF 26G5.154. During the administration Of
Mr.. Harrison the principal of the interest
bearing debt was reduced s25s 1872, 800 and
the annual interest charge $10,327, ZIG
THE regular annual bills" says Mr.. Can
non including deficiencies as passed By
the House, made a reduction in the esti-
mates submitted by the executive of s28-
vs., 9l.Gl; that they were increased by the
Senate $22,920, 1920, and that as they be
came laws they appropriate SO, GIG. GA o6
less than as passed by the Senate, sl2. 2s,.-
sis;24 more than IN as they passed the House
and Sl,3I4,3I3.43 less than the estimated
requirements of the administration.
The regular annual appropriations, in
Guiding deficiencies, made at the last ses-
1861. 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 appropria ted
less than was appropriated by the last
democratic Congress"
Mr.. Cannon criticises the Treasury De-
partment because 1t has expended $1,371,-
44o Tor the present year in collecting the
revenue from customs estimated at $780,
OOO,Op; whereas for the last fiscal year 1Sy2,
under President Harrisons administratio
there was collected under the Mckinley
tariff act, S1I7. 452.000 OF customs revenue
at a total cost of only Sc, 601,517''
The bills establishing salaries instead of
the Zee system for officers of the United
States courts, he says, will save one million
liclous proseo utfons Special attention as
called to the fact that Congress made no
increases OF salaries or employees in the
government departments. The following
table Of appropriations ia given:
futy-nrst Congre ss-......... 1855, All, s.. "a
Fffty-second Congress. ....... O2I ldI 541 ~
F1fty-third Congress........ 1859, 223,9 2u5 u,
Fifty-fourth Congress, first
session neutrality-suspicious.. 515, 1.9, $40 80
The revenues for three fiscal years of
the Harrison administration ending June
30, 1892, are given as $1,1JO,63l PA; ex-
penditures, S99s. l32. sol; for the two COM
plete fiscal years of Clevelands administra-
ton. revenues, s6l1, l12,O 94; expenditures,
T23, 1N,5IS
What Mr.. Sayers Says.
Mr. Savers. in his statement, says of the
total appropriations for the session:
This sum exceeds the appropria tons
made during the last session of the Fifty
third Congress by sls,751 1888, and those
Of the first regular session OF that Congress
by $23,52S, l35. 49, 1t Is less than the appro-
priations by the second session of the Fifty
second Congress by only s., IA. 53S72, al
though at the latter session $50 $50 1874 50
more was appropriated for pensions than
at this session. 1t is more than those by
the first session of the Fffty-first Congress
by S21.3"S"l "a, and So, AGA ,040. 50 less than
the Fifty-first
Inc Senate organized this session by a
combination of republican and populist
votes, placing the control of committees In
the hands of republicans, by its amend
ments to appropriation bills, as they passed
the House, proposed to increase the total by
$22,92O, 442-D By conferences between the
two houses this aggregate Increase was re-
duced TO 2.2s3 S1s24. The appropria tions
made AT the second session of the Fifty-
first Congress exceeded those made at the
hrst session of the same Congress by SAG.
I6I,6l2.a, or nearly 10 per cent. If the same
proportionate increase should be made at
the next session then the appropriations will
not be less than $685. 600, OOO'
Contracts authorized by this session he
estimates as follows:
Rivers and harbors. so GIG a0I
Public buildings, lighthouses and
revenue cutters. I 4OG ON
Defenses and armament 4 1ah O1s
Sew Warsnlps -...--.-...-......... Il, 9O0,O00
Distrlct OF columbia 124,WU
y 4l,1Sa
He says that the total expenditures in one
fiscal year have never been so great except