Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-18
GOVERNOR DooKERY SHOWS TIE
ExTRAvAGANoE OF THE
LAST CONGRESS.
REPUBLICANS TAKEN 70 ACCOUNT.
Former Congressman and Present Gov
nor of Missouri Says Shameful
Raid Was Made Upon
the National
Treasury.



Governor Dockery addressed the
! Democracy of Charlton county at
Salisbury last Tuesday. We make
the following extract from his speech:
"The appropriations Of the recent
session OF the Republican Congress
greatly exceeded the appropriations of
any prior session of the American
Congress. The enormous appropri-
ations Of the 5lst Congress, common
ly known as the Reed Congress, we're
slightly in excess Of one billion dol
lars. This startling total for Con-
gress, which included both sessions,
alarmed the country and led to the
disastrous overthrow Of the Republi-
can party at the ensuing election. The
'Billiondollar Congress, however, has
been shorn Of its laurels. 1t was cas-
lily surpassed at the recent session of
Congress. The American people are
now confronted with a Congress
which at a single session has, in ap-
propriations and authorized contracts,
reached the stupendous aggregate of
81, ,063, 1886, ,96055 The monstrous
waste of the peoples money is with
out precedent in times Of peace.
"The billion dollar session Con-
gress' is a new departure and should
arouse the people to a full realization
Of the prohlgate and rlotous waste Of
their resources. Nothing like it has
before occurred In American history.
1t is practically confiscatlon Of a large
part Of the earnings of the people.
"The Republican Congress, at its
recent session, not only imposed this
enormous burden, exceeding billion
dollars at a single session, but it also
created a vast number of new offices
and increased the salaries Of large
number of those already in office.
"It created specifically 1886 new Of
fees, at an annual cost Of SO, 440, 600. 1t
also appropriated in lump sums, $724,-
072.S4, for the pay Of new offices not
specifically enumerated. In other
words, the Roosevelt Congress in
creased appropriations yearly s7,165,-
272.S4, to meet liabilities occasioned
by the creation of new Offices
"But this does not complete the
record Of the shameful raids upon the
national treasury.
"The last Republican Congress also
raised the salaries Of 100 officials now
holding public positions at an annual
charge upon the treasury Of $685.
456.1O. To concisely state the situa-
tlon: The Roosevelt Congress. by the
creation of new offices and the in
crease Of salaries, added 1920, ,728. 9S
annually to the tax burdens Of the
people. More than ten thousand
men have thus been mustered into the
public service. A full army corps of
Federal officials have been added to
the national pay roll, at yearly cost
exceeding a million and half Of dol
lars over and above the amount re-
quired to pay all the ordinary current
expenses of the State Government of
Missouri for two years.
"The ever-increasing Federal ap-
propriations have gone to swell the
swollen stream of expenditures in sub
stantially every department of the ma
tlonal government. 1t is full time for
the people to send representatives to
Washington who will restore the scale
of national disbursements TO an hon.
est, frugal basis, just alike to the peo-
pie and to the government"