The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
THE APPROPRIATION
aggregate of $500, 800, o16 Made
by the Fifty-Fifth Congress.
TIE VIEWS OF CANNON AND DOCKERY
The Congressman from Missouri Thinks
the Time Has Come 10 Reform the
Scaie Of National Expenditures
a Prob ,bie Deficiency.

Washington, March g. -The official
statement of Representative Joseph
G. Cannon, of Illinois, the chairman
of the house appropriations commit
tee, summing up the appropriation of
the Fifty-fifth congress, shows an
agR 'egate appropriation by the entire
con yress of 81, 5G6, $50, OlG, and for the
sess on just closed II total of S673, 65S, =
400, WITH authority for contracts sub
iect TO future appropriations amount
ing to $40, 900. 600. Chairman Cannon's
statementin full follows:
The appropriation made at the session of
congress closed amount approximately to .6i3,-
bos,iJO, and show an apparent reduction OF
a2l9 $4,000 under the appropriations made AT
the prcc ding session This Is attributable to
the large expense occasoncd by the war with
Suain tnat were provided for during the pre-
ccding session The entire appropriations
made by the tifty-nfth congress aggregate H..
500, s9J.Oh2S OF this sum. 4S3. 3d., usti5 Is di-
reot,y chargoabc To our late war with Spain
or incident thereto Dsductlng this charge
from the whole amount Of the uppropriat ions,
the remainder, tLOsl,3-7d3asl, represent, the
ordinary or normal appropriations made by the
Fifty nith congress
The appropriations made by the preceding
congress, the Fifty.fourth, amounted to H.
in ordinary appropriations made by this con-
gress over those made by that congress, the
Fifty-fourth, OF 80 7I5O but this apparent
increase is more than accounted for by in
creases under eight items alone, namely for
pensions. 100000 for the postal service, RIO =
OOO,O U; for rivers and harbors, including work
under contracts previously authorized, 3,6OJ,-
900 for new ships for the navy. 6OOO0 OO for
beginning the work OF the twelfth census. II, .
JOLOOO; for the Paris exposition i.2OO OOJ for
new public buildings. including the building
for the department OF justice. and for site and
partial construction Of the new government
printing office, about 5000 900 and for pay
IN mt OF judgments rendered against the gov
eminent on account OF French spoliations and
under the Bowman act, 70, 10000
In addition to the direct appropriations made
Mt this session, contracts were authorized, sub
Ject to future appropriations to be made by
congress, amounting to Scout 5000 OJJ. or
this amount $4,000 900 is for additional ships
for the navy. i22 100 Is for work on rivers
and harbors and something over 10000 is
for public buildings The contract system is
OF necessity. applied to the construction OF new
warships which require periods Of years for
their completion. In the case OF river and har-
Dor improvements and the construction OF pub
lie buildings experiences has shown that the
authorization of contracts tends materially to
expedite and cheaper the same
Dewey tRik- Of HIS Fate.
Manila, March G.-ln consequence of
the spreading of the campaign
throughout the Philippines, Admiral
Dewey will not return to America
now. at may be my fate to die out
here" said he. II am beginning to
think may never see' my own again
but the campaign is now assuming
such an aspect that cannot think of
going home. ! am grateful to my
country for gratifying my highest am
bition. All / now ask is that the peo-
pie stop writing to me-"