The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-24
PUBLIC MONEY
Is SCATTERED
Interesting Debate on Army
Appropriation Bill.
LANeLEYs FOLLY COSTLY
yEvERE CRITICISM OF sECRE-
TARY ROOT.

~ aSnin8 ton Jan. Z3.-Ihe house to-
ssy adopted a resolution request
ing information Of the secretary
sf the navy as 10 the number Of
horses, carriages and automobiles
maintained at the expense OF tie
government for officials of the navy
department. The urgent deficiency piu
was reported and notice given that the
OH would be called up for considera-
tloIt Immediately after the army bill
mad been disposed of. The house then
went into committee Of the whole and
resumed consideration Of the army ap-
preparation bill.
The paragraph providing for the COR
llngent expenses Of the army, on mo-
ton OF 8Ir. Hemenway Of Indiana, wss
amended 50 as To restrict tie use of the
sum appropriated for the Office Of ChIer
OF star TO purely military purposes, and
not fer executive purposes.
No More French Novels.
AIr. Hemenway precipitated a breezy
period Of general discussion in which
the Dreyfuse case and French novels re-
celNed attention, by proposing Ia limit
10 500 the amount available for the
purchase Of periodicals and newspapers.
Mr.. Slayden of Texas offered an
amendment limiting the appropriation
10 the purchase Of technical works per-
tanning TO the work OF the department
Mr Hemenway accepted the amend
ment and withdrew his own.
Causuc Criticism.
AIR. Robinson of indiana said that
the appropriation bill should be sps-
ciiic and limit the use to which The
sums appropriated may be pat. He tools
occasion 10 criticise the expenditure OF
money by the war department in the
Langley airship experiments. He d..
ciared that the expenditure for thGC
purpose lacked the sanction OF congress
and characterized the airship as lack
ing in utility.
"T viii charge directly 70 the officers
Of the government. to IT'S officials and
20 its departments" AR. Robinson said,
n system Of twisting the construction
of cur appropriations, n system OF en-
laTgemenC running wild. and in that
charge [ see that the war department.
yes, ard that the head Of the war de-
aartnlent has permitted an expenGt-
ture Tor scientific purposes OF over $780,
zoo in G. vain attempt to breathe lie
into IN zirsniD pToiecr which collapsed
ana which was known, it seems to ne,
bv every sensible man, had no utility
about t., and this they did without the
sanction of congress by q Elisconstruc-
ton Of an act"
AirsEip Scandal.
Reciting the fact that the establish
meut of the board of ordnance and Tor
tification and OF the provision for ex-
pendrS money Cor experiments, AIr.
Robinson said
$50 that il mas become q scandal that
I-augley's airship. the result of cor
gTessionai action III general terms, has
cost the government over S200,GJO when
Il - ..1 g. o.
and that was under the direct charge
trf the secretary OF war and under
charge of wax and navy officers, boar
sanctioned b. this congress, which gdv-
them at thai time over S3,OO0,pO0 with
which TO operate ard by the fOFtihca-
tons bin OF last year gave them $780,
coo of the peoples money 10 be wastes
on this scientific aerial navigation e.
pertinent that never had any utility be-
cause some man. perchancc Il professor
wandering in mis- dreams, sought TO inn
press and did impress upon the officers
who were charged with the expenditure
OF public money that this aerial fligEt
scheme that was attempted had some
utility. He hypnotze6 them Mr.
S1ayden's amendment prevailed
Out on Point of Order
The paragraph providing s521.5S0 ioT
"a submarine cable from Sitka to Fort
Tfscuu. Alaska, went out on point
of order.
Dir. Hitchcock Of Nebraska ASKED Mr.
hun why Il was that the United States
army requires a greater annual appr5-
rriation than that Of any other nation
Because the United states pays It's
soldiers more money than is paid by
am yother nation 10 its soldiers, fepiiS3
7Tr HuH. He added that when the
American troops went 10 China they
were the best paid. best clothed and
hess fed of any foreign troops that as
sagnbied in Chinas shores
The provision for 300 acting. quartef'
masters at 500 per anrum in addition
while so acting. 10 their regular pay
was stricken out on a point OF order.
At $50 70. IN. the committee arose
only twelve Of the foTty-one pages oil
The army appropriation bin having been
read under the five-minute rule
At S:47 .. m. the house adjourned IN
LII Monday.