Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-02
THE APPROPRIATIONS
Chairman Cannon Analyses
Action Of Congress.
TAXES REPEALED
AMOUNT APPLIED TO REDUCTION
OF PUBLIC DEBT.
Senator Allison's Statement - Repre-
sentative Livingston's Claim of
Billion Dollars.
TAXES REPEALED

Three-quarters of billion dollars is the
| amount of money that Chairman Cannon
of the House committee on appropriations
announces has been appropriated at the
| first session Of the Fifty-seventh Congress.
| In addition to this amount contracts are
authorized to be entered into subject TO
future appropriations by Congress to a total
| amount of $3.50. 1913. 215
In an exhaustive statement setting forth
| the details of these appropriations, Mr..
| Cannon characterizes the Fifty-seventh
| Congress a distinctly business Congress;
| it's enactments wise, patriotic and bene-
| fetal; it's appropriations for the govern
| ment service ample, economical and care
| fully considered. Under the head of great
| things accomplished he mentions the
| peal of the war taxes, the contamination
| Of the isthmian canal project. the authori-
cation of civil government in the Philip
| pines and the re-enactment Of the Chinese
exclusion act. He says il has passed more
public acts and more private acts than any
| Congress that ever assembled in the his
| tory of the republic.
Taxes Repealed.
Mr.. Cannon estimates that. under the
| legislation enacted at this session. taxes
| have been repealed aggregating SO, 1900
per annum-a larger reduction OF taxes
| than was ever before made at any session
| of Congress. This appreciable relief in the
| burden of taxes is additional to the reduc
ton of s41. 100000 made at the last session
| of Congress, which closed on March !,
| 1901.
An analysis OF a table which Mr.. Cannon
| has prepared on the appropriations made
| shows that the total estimated expendi-
| lures forecast by the executive departments
| aggregated S776,34s, 31S.41; that the total
| appropriations made, exclusive of $50 $780,
| 066 toward iSthnian canal aggregate
| $3.50, 063, S37.
| The great increase in the population and
| phenomenal expansion of commercial and
| industrial interests throughout the coun-
| try are declared by Mr.. Cannon to amply
Justify the increases necessary in the ap-
| preparations.
After making complimentary reference
| to each committee chairman handling an
| appropriation bill, and giving the increase
over last year, Mr.. Cannon continues:
| Reduction Of Public Debt.
! at is not inappr opriate here to advert to
| the fact that the expenditures for the past
| two fiscal years, 1900 and 1901, show that
| during that period there has been applied
| to the sinking fund more than S113. O00. 600.
a sum greater than the law actually re-
| quires, and which exceeds the whole
| amount applied to the eXtinguishment Of
| the public debt during all of the nine fiscal
| years from 1891 to 1S99 inclusive. During
| the four years of President Cleveland's last
administration, from 1893 to 1896, inclusive,
| only S13, 4o0041 was applied to the pay
| ment of the public debt, while during the
| same period that administration issued
bonds to the extent of s262, 315. 400 in order
| to raise money wherewfth to pay current
| expenses and maintain the public credit.
| An analysis Of the table which 1 submit
| shows that the appropriations made in the
| regular annual bills, for ordinary expenses
| of the government payable during the fiscal
| year 1903, aggregate 1896, 5tt2, 105, which, to-
| rat heF he Pa cd
| nent appropria lions, and exclusive of the
amount required by the sinking fund,
| makes a total of $685. i23.825. In the nature
| of things, and in the light of past expert
| ence, this entire sum will never be expend-
| ed, but will probably be reduced in the
| neighborhood Of 10 per cent. The revenues
| of the government, as now estimated, on
| the basis of the revenue reduction legtsla-
| ton enacted at this session, amount to
| S649, $40. $50. The expenditures to be made
| under the appropriations of this session
| will not exceed 5000, 600 COO or sum APP
| proximating S40,O0O,000 less than the reve-
| nues which We expect to derive under the
revenue laws as revised by this Congress"
Senator Allison's Statement.
A statement summing up the appropria-
| tionS Of the session was also made yester-
| day by Senator Allison, chairman of the
| Senate committee on appropriations. This
| statement shows the total appropriation
| for the session. by bills, as follows: Agri-
! culture, s.. Dos. 900; army. S91 $50 1876: dip
lomatic and consular, $1,957 925; District Of
| Columbia, SS,547 ,526; Notifications, 81 1885,
| 955; Indian, So, 143, 902; legislative etc. S25-
39S,3S Military Academy, 50 621 .324; navy,
$7S.67s. 1853; pension, S139, $40 go: post Office.
! S13S. 416,59S; river and harbor, S26, 126, 442
| exclusive Of contracts authorized}; sundry
| civil, $50, 12J, 1853: deficiencies S2S O39 911;
| miscellaneous, s., coo; isthmian canal,
| $50, 10000; permanent annual appropria-
| tons, $l25S21 90. Grand total, $500 $780,
| S37.
| The total last year was s730, 1886, $40.
Mr.. Livingston's Claim.
How the democrats review the expendi-
lures made is summed up in statement
sumbitted for publication in today's Rec
ord by Representative Livingston, the rank
ing democratic member of the House COM
| mittee on appropriations. Mr.. Livingston
claims that the session has been billion
dollar session. He says in part in his
statement:
1.-The direct appropriations made at this
session of Congress- including the isthmian
canal appropriation, reach the astounding
aggregate of $500, 1913 s27 To this sum should
be added the further amount of S2J9, 3d.
215, to include contracts authorized to be
entered into in addition to the specific ap-
preparations which are made. These con-
tract authorizations are in the nature of
promissory notes of the government issued
by this session of Congress, to be met and
iiluludleo III tlt anu constitute as
much part Of the appropriations charge
able to this session as are the specific ap-
preparations made, and which are to be
expended. not at once, but throughout the
coming fiscal year.
The two sums aggregate 81 ,0J9. 577. 052
The appropriations including authorized
contracts, of this session exceed those. in
Guiding contracts, of last session by S21O,-
79S. 1902
THE last session of the Fifty-third Con-
gress, for the fiscal year 1896, was demo-
cratic in both branches and the govern
ment was administered by Mr.. Cleveland
1t therefore affords fair ground for the
purpose Of comparison. The difference be-
tween the total then and now amounts TO
the startling sum of sos SS1, 767 or more
than as much again it required to con-
duct the affairs Of government under a
democratic Congress and executive"