The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-03-21
Where the Money Goes.

Where the Money Goes.
Washington, March 6.-Rep-
resentative Cannon, chairman
of the house committee on APP
preparations and Represen-
tative Livingston, the senior
democratic member of the COM
nittee have prepared state
ments of the appropriations of
the tifty-sixth congress which
will be printed in the record to-
morrow. They place the total
appropriations for the congress
at $l,440,062,5l5, placing those
for the first session at $7lO,l5O,-
S62 and for the second at S729,-
9l1 .6S3. MIR. Cannon publishes
a table showin the expendi-
lures of the previous congress
at $l,56S,2l2,G37, and MIR.
Livingston makes a compare
son with the tifty-fourth con-
gress, which appropriated ST.
O4+,5SO273.
In his statement Mr.&Cailnon
says: .....
REPUBLICAN STATEMENT.
"Ihc appropriations of the
session just cDosing aggregate
as nearly as can be asccrtained
at this time, $729"ll ,6S3. This
sum includes $l23, 7S2,GSS for
the postal service and $53, ,OOO,-
GOO for the sinking fund.
"Ehe Increase over the ap-
propriations made at the first
session of this congress is less
'!an $2O,U0O,OOO and this sum
is more than accounted for bv
the increase of $lO,l2l,45O. made
on account of the postal service,
and by $l3,513,O57 in the bill
that provides for the mainten-
ancc of our naval establish
mcnt and for the construction,
armor and armament of the
new ships of the navy. One
large item is the appropriation
of $5,25O,OOO authorized by
Legislation at the first session
of this congress for the ST.
Louis exposition. The total
appropriations made ut the two
sessions OF this, the fifty sixth
congress, are $l2S, l5OOD2 less
than the appropriations made
during the two regular sessions
of the preceding congress.
"The new revenue law pass
Fed at this session will, it is
testimated, reduce taxes for the
coming fiscal year $tl 900, 900,
bringing our total estimated
income for the coming fiscal
year, including postal re venues,
to $675, ,633,O42.
"The large deficiencies pro-
vided for during the fiscal year
1899, by the first regular session
of the tifty-fffth congress,
amounted to $349,772.3S9, were
almost III their entirety to
cover the expenses of the mill
tary and naval establishments
during the fiscal years 1899 and
1900 incident to the war with
Spain. The most marked in
crease indicated in the approp
riations~ for ordinary expenses
of the government made for
the two years 1901 and 1902, at
the two sessions of this con
gress over those of the two pre-.
ceding years 1899 and 1900, pro-
vided for by the tifty-tifth con
gress is for the postal service.
(Ehesnecessity of these incrcas-
ffsg appropriations to meet
larger business demands is re-
ferrcd to as a cause for con-
gratulations. The *appropri-
ations have been reduced SIPS,
l5O,O9l by this congress under
those provided for its prcdcces-
sor, and this had rendered pos
sible Il reduction of taxes in
the sum Of S;4l,OOO,OOO."
DEMOCRATIC SvATEMRNT.
MIR. Livingston says:
The fifty-fourth congress
was the last one that made APP
preparations for the support of
the government prior to the
beginning of the Spanish
American war.
"The tifty-sixth congress is
the first congress appropriating
for the support of the govern
ment since the close of the So
called Spanish-American war.
The difference between the ap.
preparations made by the fifty
sixth congress amounts to
$395 ,4S2.272.
During the session just
closed the demands of the
people through their represen-
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