Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-14
FIGURES ARE BIG.
Report as to Appropriations Made
by Congress-.
The Total for the Past Two Years IL
Sl,41O,O62,5A5, More Than Half
of which was Voted DUR
Ing the Short Session
Just Closed.

Washington, March 7.-Representa-
tive Cannon, chairman of the house
committee on appropriations, and
Representative Livingston, the senior
democratic member of the commit
tee, have prepared statements of the
appropriations of the Fifty-sixth con-
gress which will be printed in the
Record to-day. Both place the total
appropriations for the congress at
S1,440, ,545, placing those for the
first session at $40, ,15O,S62 and for
the second at $729,911 .6S3. Mr.. Can
non publishes a table showing that
the expenditure of the previous con-
gress were 81, ,56S S,212, ,637, and Mr.. Ltv-
ingston makes "A comparison with the
Fifty-fourth congress, which appro-
priated $1,544, ,560,279.
In his statement Mr.. Cannon says:
The increase over the appropriations
made at the first session of this con-
gress is less than $40, ,OOO, 900 and this
sum is more than accounted for by
the increase of $40, .450 made on
account of the postal service and by
$13,513,O57 in the bill that provides
for the maintenance of our naval es-
Establishment and for the construction
vi lht new VI tnt OuC
large item is the appropriation of $5,-
25o,000 for the st. Louis exposition.
"The appropriations made at the
two sessions of this the Fifty-sixth
congress are S12S, S,150,092 less than the
appropriations made during the two
regular sessions of the preceding con-
gress.
The new revenue law passed at
= I. II
duce taxes for the coming fiscal year
$41 100000, bringing our total esti-
mated income for the coming fiscal
year, including postal revenues, to
$675, 1888, ,042.
"Of the total appropriations made
at this session at least $30,000,000 will
not, in the light of past experiences,
be expended. There is large mar
gin between actual expenditures and
appropriations
Mr.. Livingston in his report says:
''The Fifty-sixth congress is the first
congress appropriating for the sup
port of the government since the
close of the Spanish American war.
The difference between the appropri-
ations by the Fifty-sixth congress
and those made by the Fifty-fourth
congress amounts to 1896, ,4s2,272.
During the session just closed the
demands of the people for the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal have
gone unheeded; for new public build
ings they have been persistently de-
MED The river and harbor bill has
been permitted to fail. The pay
ment of just claims of honest people
against the government has not been
provided for.
"The casual examination of this
table shows that the army for each
of the two years prior to the Spanish
American war cost a little over $685.
100000, and but little more than $46,-
100000 for the two years covered by
the Fifty-fourth congress, while for
the army for each of the two years
since that war, 1901 and 1902, it costs
nearly S115.000,000, or S230,00O,000 for
the two years, exclusive of deficien-
cies that have been provided for in
large sums out of appropriations
made for expenses of the Spanish war
during the Fifty-ffth congress.
SIN a word, this table shows that
the price to the people of the policy
of this administration is $400, 100000
within two years, and the half that
is contemplated has not yet been put
in ~