The age-herald., 1901-03-07
STATEMENTS OF
 APPROPRIATIONS
 OF 56TH CONGRESS Amounts to Nearly Billion and
 a Half Dollars SOME INTERESTING FIGURES Cannon and Livingston Pre-.
 pare Statements ONE A DEFENSE OTHER AN ATTACK Livingston Makes Comparisons With Fifty-fourth Congress and Says the Republican Party Has Cost
 the People $4oo, ,ooo, ,ooo.
Cannon and Livingston Pre-.
 pare Statements
ONE A DEFENSE OTHER AN ATTACK

Washington. March 6.-Representative Cannon, chairman of the House commit tee on appropriations, and Representa- tive Livingston of the committee have prepared statements of the appropriations of the Fifty-sixth Congress which will be printed in the Record tomorrow Both places the total appropriations for the Congress at s1.44oO62,545, placing those for the first session at s7lo75o. se2 and for the second session at SIPS, ,s11 ,683.
 Cannon published table showing the expenditures for the previous Congress at Sl l.56S, 212637 and MT. Livingston makes comparison with the FiftyFourth Con- gress. which appropriated s1 s1,544s5so, ,27a. In his statement MT. Cannon says:
 "The appropriations of the session just closed aggregate nearly as can be as- certained at this time, $72D,911 ,6Ss. This sum includes 123.7S2,sSS for the postal service and s53. .00O.Oo0 for the sinking fund. The increase over the appropria- tions made at the first session of this Congress is less than $0oOoo,ooo. and this sum is more than accounted for by the increase of s1O,12A45o made on account | of the postal service and by $18,513.0 .057 in
 
 | ance of our naval establishment and for the construction. armor and armament l of new ships of the navy. One large item | is the appropriation of $5,25000o author l ized by Legislation at the first session of | the Congress for the St. Louis Exposition. | The total appropriations made at the two | sessions of this, the Fifty-sixth Con- gress, SIPS, s,150,091 less than the appro- priations made during the two regular sessions of the preceding Congress.
 "The new revenue law passed at this session will, 1t is estimated, reduce taxes for the coming fiscal year $x1. .O0o ,Oo0, bringing our total estimated income for the coming fiscal year. including postal revenues to S675, ,633.o42.
 Expenditures for 1902.
 "of the total appropriation made at this session at least sSo,o00oO0 will not, in the light of past experience be ex- pended. This considerable margin be- tween actual expenditures and appropria- ations made by Congress indicates sum total of expenditures during the fiscal year of 1902 of not exceeding $69s, ,911 1, ,6SS07
 This sum includes $5S,0oo 600 on account of the sinking fund requirements for the fiscal year, 1902, which, of course, under the terms of law, will be met only to such extent as surplus revenues in the treasury may permit After meeting the fullest ordinary requirements of the pub lie service under the appropriations which have been made there will remain suf- ficient revenues for 1909 to meet not less than $9o eco. GOO of the requirements of the sinking fund.
 Tn the large deficiencies provided dur ing the fiscal year 1899 by the first reg ular session of the flfty-ffth Congress, amounting to sSi9. sS9, were almost in their entirety to cover the expenses. mii- itary and naval. during the fiscal years 1899 and 1900 incident to the war with Spain.
 ''The most marked increase included in the appropriations for ordinary expenses of the government for the years 1901 and 1902 at the two sessions of this Congress over those of the two preceding years. 1899 and 1900, provided for by the fifty fifth Congress, Is for the postal service. The necessity of these increasing appro- priations to meet larger business de- mands Is referred to as a cause for con- graduation. The appropriations have been reduced s12S. .l5G.082 by this Congress under those provided for by it's prede- cessor, and this has rendered possible reduction of taxes in the sum of $A,- o00, ,000
 with a continuance of the wise ad. ministration now enjoyed by the country there is every reason to anticipate ( further reduction of public expendftures in the near future and a corresponding reduction of taxes"
 MT, Livingston says;
 ''The Fifty-fourth Congress was the last one that made appropriations fol the support of the government prior to the beginning of the Spanish war. the Fifty sixth Congress is the first Congress- ap- propriating for the support of the gov ernment since the close of the se-called Spanish American war. The difference between the appropriations made by the Fifty sixth Congress and those made by the Fifty-fourth Congress amounts to S395, ,4S2,27
 Republicans Roasted.
 During the session just closed the de- mands of the people through their Rep resentatives for the construction of the Nicaraguan canal have gone unheeded, for new public buildings they have been persistentiy denied. The river and harbor bill has been permitted to fail The pay ment of just claims and honest people against the government has not been prgs vided for
 Tt is doubtless conceived te be wisdem on the part of the leadership of the dom- inant party in Congress and the adminis- tration to have denied these demands of the people in order to provide for this enormous increase in expenditure that is almost whally required in order to SUD-