Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-03-09
SUM UP THE BUDGET.
RECORD-sREAKlNG APPROPRIATIONS
OF FlFTY-FlFTH CONGRESS.

Total Amount Carried In Appropriation
Bills Is $1,566, 79O, O,O16-Of This Sum
4s2,a6e, ,Os3 Is Directly Chargeable to
War With Spain-Dockery's Statement
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The official
statement of Representative Cannon,
the chairman Of the house appropria-
tlons committee, summing up the ap-
preparations of the Fifty-ffth congress,
show an aggregate appropriation by the
entire congress of 81, $50, 800, ,016, and for
the session just closed total of $685.
65S, 400, with authority for contracts
subject to future appropriations amount
ing to $7O,OOO,OOO. Chairman Cannon's
statement is as follows:
"The appropriations made at the ses-
sion OF congress just closed amount ap-
proximately to $673, ,65S, 400 and show an
apparent reduction of $219, ,573, 900 under
the appropriationsmade at the preceding
session.
"This is attributable to the large ex-
penses occasioned by the war with
Spain that We're provided for during the
preceding session. The entire appro-
priations made by the Fifty fifth con-
gresS aggregate $1,566,S 6,S90,016.2S. OF
this sum, $4S2, 562, ,OS3.47 is directly
chargeable to our late war with Spain
or incident thereto. Deducting this
charge from the whole amount of the
appropriations, the remainder, 1,0S4,-
327 ,632.Sl, represents the ordinary or
normal appropriations made by the
Fifty-tifth congress.
1.-The appropriations made by the
preceding congress, the ty-fourth,
amounted to 81, ,044, ,5SO,273.S A com
parison shows an increase in ordinary
appropriations made by this congress
over those made by that congress, the
Fifty fourth, of 500, ,747, 900; but this
apparent increase is more than ac-
counted for by increase, under eight
items alone, namely, for pensions, ST.
600, ,OCO; for the postal service, $16,000,-
900; for rivers and harbors, including
work under contracts previously author
lied, $3,600.0O0; for new ships for the
navy, $G,000,00 for finishing the work
of the twelfth census, $1,000,O00; for
the Paris exposition, 81 ,200,O for new
public buildings including the bnilding
for the department Of justice, and for
site and partial construction Of the new
government printing Office, about s5,-
100000, and for payment of judgments
rendered against the government cn &c
count of French spoliations and under
the Bowman act, So, 100000. These very
natural and necessary increases aggre.
gate $50, 800, ,000-more than dissipating
the entire apparent increase in the or
dinary appropriations by this congress
over those made by the Fifty fourth
congress.
Dockery's Statement.
Mr.. Doclery made the following state
ment, giving the Democratic view:
"The appropriations Of the original
billion dollar congress amounted to
$l,OS5, COS, 109.94. The appropriations
Of the congress just ended reach the
mighty aggregate Of $1,566, $50, ,O16.2S.
1t is fair to deduct from this total $4S2,-
562,Os3.47 made necessary to meet the
liabilities on account of the Spanish
war. so if we deduct from the grand
total the liabilities on account of the
war with Spain it appears that the ap-
4 propriations for the ordinary expenses