Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-09-06
Mr. vAHDrvER GIVES FIGURES
Missouri Congressman Quotes the Cost
Of Some Of the Numerous Com
missions and Items Charg-
ed to Miscellany.

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. -Congres'
man W. ID. vandiVer. of Missouri
issues the following, showing, a fai
as possible, the expense to the coun.
try OF President McKinley's govern
ment By commission:
SIT Is impossible to give the exsc|
cost Of the commissions created b.
President Mckinley. The following d
. partial list:
"First Philippine Ccmmission (aftel
battle Of Manila) s210,0oo.
"5econd Philippine Commission
DENLY, Worcester and EchurmaD)
SII7 800.
"Peace Commission, e222,e3i.
"w. j. Calhoun, Special Commits
sioner, 81 900.
"BImetalfIc Commission, s75,00os
"AIger Army Commission, els0,0Oo,
"Samoan Commission, $4,000.
"Quesn's Jubilee Commission, $780,
Especial Paris Exposition Commits
sion, $e0,0 oo,
Reciprocity Commission, S3o.oOo.
"JoInt High Commission with Gan.
ada, e2t0,o00.
"ouba and Porto Rico Evacuation
Commission, ESQ,
"The Hague Peace Commission
$4,000.
"Hswaiian Commission, $500
"Isthmiau Canal Commission, a.
oOO, 200.
"~Insular Commission, CSC,
Industrial Commission Clabor) pen
year, $4,000
Honorable Charles Hamlin, SpeciaI
Commissioner to Japan, $40, 200.
Honorable John W. Foster, Special
Commissioner, $4,000.
Honorable Robert P. Porter,
Special Commissioner to Porto Rice
and Cuba, $4,000.
"This does not include the new
Philippine Oommlszion CTaft Com.
mission.) The Postal and Californis
Debris Commission are also omitted,
as likewise the Mississippi River Com
mission and the District Of Oolumbis
Commission, a. they are under con-
tinuing statutes.
"It is impossible to give the exact
expenses Of these commissions except
as to the Paris Commission and the
second Philippine Commission. They
are charged upon the books OF the
Treasury Department to national de-
fense and emergency under the I'm.
usual and extraordinary column. In
this head, in the receipts and dis
bursements for the year, 1899, appear,
among other items, the following:
"Under the head Of National De-
Tense in the war Department. charg-
ed to'Miscellany, lis an item of $751;
291.
"Under the head Of emergency in
miscellany, is charged an item of s3,-
GOO, 1000.
"Under the head Of navy miscella-
neous, under the item of national de-
Tense, %, Is7, 7o1.
"Under the head OF emergency In
the Navy Department 10 an item Of
. $3.50, 1853.
"These items are put In q lump and
the purpose Of such expenditures lie
not named. The books themselves
show these expenditures to be uHus-
nal and Extraordinary, and they are
the only large expenditures which ara
not itemiEed.
ain these items are contained the
expenses Of the various commissions,
and it seems impossible to learn OF
what these lamp sums consist. All
OF the expenses given r estimated,
except those OF the Peace Commission
andthe second PhilippineC ommission
Applying the rate of cost known to
exist az to these two commissions, n
win be seen that the estimates OF the
other commissions, while based only
upon estimates, are probably too low
rather than too high.
Government by commission seeml
10 be an expensive luxury. But q
the Government has gone into the
commission business, the people must
foot the bills.n