The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-08-15

startling sum of $40, 9S1 1874,
or more than as much again as it re-
quired to conduct the affairs of Gov
eminent under a Democratic Con-
gress and Executive.
Analysed in detail, the direct ap-
preparations without regard to con-
tract obligations to be met by
future Congresses, made at this
session for the fiscal year of 1903
show increases over those, including
contracts, for 1896 as follows:
The agricultural bill showed an in
crease of 81, 9O5, 21O.
The Army bill showed an increase
of $6s, 277,52s.32, a sum four times
greater than were the appropriations
for the support of the military es-
Establishment for the fiscal year of
1896.
The diplomatic and consular act
showed an increase of 1888, 466. 90.
The District of Columbia act
showed an increase of$2, sO2, Os3.72.
The fortifcation bill showed an in.
crease of So, 1894, 397.5O.
The Indian bill showed an increase
of 1881, 1874.
"The legislative, executive, and
judicial bill shows an increase of
So, 5O6,663.42.
"The Military Academy bill shows
an increase Of So, 163,O62.76.
"The naval bill shows an increase
of $40, 1862, 717.S2, and in the aggre-
gate it is more than double the
amount that was required to main
tain the navalestablishment in 500.
"The pension appropriation bill,
alone of the whole category, exhibits
a reduction, which amounts to ST.
$50, $40. l commend this crumb of
economy to the thoughtful considera-
ton of the Union soldiers of the
country.
"The postoffice bill shows the
enormous increase of $4s, s7O,6OO.-
80.
"No river and harbor bill was passed
for 1896, while the bill for this year
reaches the great sum of $26, 1885,
+42 in direct appropriations, and
authorizes contracts in addition
thereto to the amount of $39, $780,
100, making in all $65,062,6
chargeable to this session of Con-
gress.
"The sundry civil bill shows an in
crease of $13,557, 1873.
"For deficiencies there's an increase
of $1S,O54, $1,000.
"For miscellaneous appropriations,
other than those carried in the
general appropriation bills, an in
crease of So, 3O2, 332.63 appears.
Under permanent appropriations,
which include the sinking fund and
interest on the public debt, there is
an increase of $40, s47,263.6s.
at cannot be demonstrated by any
process of logic or arithmetic that
this enormous growth in public ex-
penditures within the brief period of
less than seven years is attributable
to the natural growth ofthe country,
the increase of population, or to the
expansion of commercial interests.
There is now in the Treasury a
surplus of more than $2OO,O00,OOO,
accumulated as the result of an
onerous protective-tariff policy and
undue taxes levied to prosecute the
war with Spain.
'Instead of applying this surplus
to that great enterprise, the con-
struction of the Isthmian canal, this
Congress has seen fit to authorize an
issue of bonds in order to raise
money for that purpose, implying by
this action that this $2OO,OOO,OOO,
wrung from the people, instead of
being applied to this most worthy
public object, is to be left in the Treas
ury, a prey for jobbing enterprises at
the next session of Congress.
"The total appropriations, includ-
ing contracts, and amounting, as l
have shown, to 81, O59,577,O52, ex-
coed the revenues, estimated for the
next fiscal year at 5000, 52O,63O, by
$42O,O56,422.
"The careful scrutiny of these fig
ures will afford much food for thought
and will lead all intelligent men to
contemplate with manifest disap-
prevail the reckless and extravaganza
methods of the Republican party as
compared with the economical and
prudent administration of the Gov.
eminent by the Democratic party.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION.
A convention of the Second Con-
gressional district will be held at
Havre de Grace, Hartford county, on
August 2Sth, to select nominee of
the Democratic party for the district.
The district is composed of this coun-
ty with 7 votes, Hartford and Carroll
with 5 votes each, and the 18th and
| 18th wards of Baltimore city with