The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-03-15
The NATIONAL EXPENSES.
Chairman Cannon Gives Extended
Report of the Labors of the
y-Fifth Congress.
ANNOUNCES THE TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS
They Amount 10 1850, ss0.OIe and
ara, 1000, O0O I'm Contracts-The War
with Spain Cost $4sO,O02, 0s3-Di-
vision of the Excess Success OF
War Revenue.

Washington, March IL. - Awaiting
himself of the privilege accorded by the
house of representatives previous to
adjournment, Chairman Cannon, of the
committee on appropriations, has pre-
pared for the Congressional Record a
more extended statement of the APP
preparations made by the Fifty-ffth
congress than he made the day after
adjournment. He places the total APP
preparations for the entire congress at
81, SOC, s9O,016 and the appropriations
authorized for future congresses under
the continuing contract system for bat
tleships, river and harbor improve
ments and public buildings at $70, OOO,-
600. The total appropriations made at
the last session Mr.. Cannon places at
S673, 65S, 400. showing an apparent re-
duction of $219, 573,214 below the APP
preparations of the preceding session.
Mr.. Cannon attributes this reduction
10 the extraordinary war expenses OF
the preceding session. OF the total APP
preparations for the congress he says
that the sum of $4S2, 5G2,0S3 is directly
chargeable to the war with Spain. He
thus shows that the ordinary eXpendi-
lures for the two years covered by the
congress were S1.O44 ,5sO,273 and this
sum exceeds the total appropriation of
the Fifty-fourth congress by $780,
TAO, 65s.
Division of the Excess.
This excess is accounted for as fol-
lows: For payment of pensions, 3d.
200; for the postal service, TO meet
increased demands of commerce, &c.
619.5S1; for river and harbor improve
ments, So, 4O1 12S; for constructing new
ships, $6,0SO, S3s; for beginning the
work of the twelfth census. $1,000,000;
for the Paris exposition, $1,210,O00; for
new public buildings, $5,000,000; for
payment of judgments against the
government under the Bowman act
and for the French spoiation claims,
s.. 100. 76S; total. $40. 2S7,516.
Success of War Revenue.
SIN addition, without taking time to
discuss in detail the causes that led
thereto. congress declared war against
Spain, and the prompt and decisive
successes of the army and navy upon
land and sea have never been equaled
anywhere in history. The great eX-
penditures rendered necessary by the
warrequired the enactment of addition
al revenue legislation, and that legis-
lation is now bringing into our treas
ury an additional S10O,000,000 per an
mum. The vast increase of the navy
and the creation of an army of 100000,
together with the increase of taxation,
have not in any appreciate degree
checked our industrial advance. which
began coincidentally with the incom-
ing Of the present administration and
the Fifty-ffth congress"
=. VIII Not Shirk Duty.
In conclusion. Mr.. Cannon declines
to enter upon the present discussion Of
future legislation, saying: II prefer
rather TO await the logic of events and
the full information that will doubt.
less come. as | hope, between now and
the organization in December next of
the newly elected congress. But ! ven
ture the assertion and prediction that
the United States could not if they
would, and would not if they could.
part with the territories acquired from
Spain by the treaty of peace or shrk
their duties and responsibilities touch