The Princeton union., 1899-03-09
RESULT o THE w AIR
CHAIRMAN CANNON 4 EXPLAINS the
I5's5 81 HEAVY q EXPENDITURES

Au1nOrixed by the Recent COnGrass--En.
tire Appropriations Made Foot Up
More Than . Billion and = Halt NIr.
Dockery's state,nen DEM oegatio 4 Com.
rnitteeman Declares the Extravagance
1 Most Appalling should Have Been
More Economical In Voting i Regular
Appropriations. .fsss ffssss
4. WASHINGTON, March 9. The official
statement of Represent ntatiVe Cann non sof
Illinois, the chairman of the house ap-
propriations committee, summing up
the appropriations for the FiftJy-tifttlhl:: fttlhl:
congress, shows an aggregate approprl-E
alton by the entire congress Of 81, ,566,-
o9Q,016 and for the session just closed "a
total Of $67S, ,65S, 400, with authority for
contracts subject to future appropria-
lions amounting to $40, 600, 600. Chair
man Cannon says:
The appropriations made at the ses-
sion Of congress just closed amount ap-
proximately to $673, ,65s, 400 and show an
apparent reduction of $s19, ,57S, 900 under
the appropriations made,at the preced-
ing session. This is attributable to the
large expenses
Occasioned by the War With Spain
that were provided for during the pre-
ceding session. The entire apprcpria-
tions lade by the Fifty-ffth congress
aggregate $1,56S, $50, ,0l6.2S Of II this
siSa, ,56a, ,Os3. AT is directly chargeable to
our late war orincident thereto. Deduct
ing this charge from the whole am nount
of the appropriations the remainder,S
1,0S4, ,3s7, ,632.S1, represents the ordi-
nary appropriations made by the Fifty
fifth congress. - ~ + :ss.s.s>.<3s a s.ss
THE appropriations made by, the pre-
ceding congress-; the Fifty fourth,
amounted to 81 ,O44, $50, ,s73. 81. A COM
parison shows an increase in ordinary
appropriations, made by this congress
over those made by that congress OF
$50. TAI ,O00." =, = ~ }''.s E.s<.zf
MT. Dockery's Comment.
Mr.. Dockery, the ranking Democratic
member of the house appropriations
committee, in reviewing the, work OF
the last congress, says: ...s.sT!= :z.ss.s
This congress easily surpasses all it's
predecessors in the stupendous aggre-
gate of it's appropriations. It was
thought that the Fifty-frst congress,
commonly known as the billion dollar
congress, had, in point Of extravagance
of appropriations, touched a limit
which would not be reached Or, at least,
surpassed by any of it's successors. IS. i
This congress, however, has far ex-
ceeded the appalling total Of appropria-
tions then made and it will be remem-
, bered that the billion dollar congress
was followed by overwhelming disaster
to the Republican party at the ensuing
election. -.
War Appropriations Cheerfully Made.
-:;.Confronted with a war with Spain,
requiring the imposition of additional
taxation, it is obvious that rigid econ
ony should have been applied in all
other directions to the expenditure Of
public money. The people were willing
to meet all the demands upon the, ma
tional treasury made necessary by the
Spanish war, but II. is fair to presume
that they expected their represents
in view of the cheerful disposit ton man
ifested to meet these added burdens, tc
limit the ordinary approx ations to the
necessities of wise and economical ad.
ministration. ..st$5 -
,"These expectations have not been
realized. The result is an actual def
cheney in current revenues amounting
on the first of this month to 500, 159,
654 So -. .,4-