The Grit-advocate., 1904-05-06
QUESTION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
During the Closing Session OF the Sen

Mr.. Allison, chairman of the COM
mittee on appropriations, submitted
series of tables. prepared by the
clerks of the appropriation commit
tees, showing an increase OF S2S.00o,-
900 over the appropriation for last SEES
sion. He gave the principal items OF
increase as follows:
For the navy. $1G000.O0O; on &C
count of the postal service. including
rural free delivery, $4,000 900. He also
stated there is an increase Of SS,s32.
900 in the permanent annual appropri-
ations. the chief items being $1,000
! 900 for the bank note redemption fund
and the next most important item be
ing s.. $50 900 for the irrigation reclaim
alton fund.
Mr.. Allison also spoke of the in
crease in the deficiency appropriations
| the principal item in that connection
| being the loan of $4,000, 900 made to
the St Louis Exposition. Replying to
an inquiry from Mr.. Aldrich he said
| that outside the loan to the exposition
the cost of that institution to the ma
tional treasury, including the cost of
| the government exhibit, is about So
| 100000.
Speaking generally. Mr.. Allison said
the appropriations wer& in the main
! for the conduct of the government and
he expressed the opinion that theN
| would not be criticised. He also re-
ferred to obligations assumed and said
| those of this year are less than for
many years previous.
Mr. Allison said that the obligations
aside from appropriations incurred at
| the present session amounted to $24,-
| 900, 900.
| Mr.. Culberson presented revieW-of
| appropriations for the past twelve
years. covering the last ad uinistration
of Mr.. Cleveland and TIL Mckinley
and Roosevelt administrations. He
said the total expenditures under the
Roosevelt administration had been 81
$4,000 900. or s211 100000 greater
than the four years Of the Mckinley
administration and $3.50 900 900 great
er than in the four years of the Cleve-
land administration.
These increases he subdivided as
follows:
Civil administration. sl60, 900 900:
naval. $23l000.O0O; military. $2S4,-
0OOO. He also said that for 1905 the
total appropriation on account OF the
military, including pensions, would be
! 1887 600, Coz. aut, said that. excluding
the expenses of the Boer war, tho
military expenditures of the United
States for 1903 were $32 ,00O,0 900 more
than those of Great Britain for that
year: s131 900, 900 greater than those
of Germany. and $139,000,00O in ex-
| cess of those of France.
Replying to Mr.. Allison. Mr.. Cor
man placed the total appropriations or
this session at $7S1, 900, 900 and the OBJ
legations incurred at over $4,000 900.
or more than $500, 100000 all told, not
including the appropriation for tho
Panama canal. He said the figures
were amazing, and predicted that 1t
would be impossible to make expendi-
lures at this rate without increasing
taxes. He attributed the rapid In
! crease to the ambition to make OF the
United States "a great world power
and said that we had reaped no har-
vest except the loss of life and demor-
alization in every branch of the gov
| eminent service.
Mr.. Allison characterized Mr.. Cul-
| bertson's tables as "old and worn out"
| as at the time covered by the tables
the conditions of the country were
totally different from the present con
ditions. He said the extraordinary ex-
penditures of the Mckinley admins
tration had been due to the Spanish
war, which was forced upon the Presi-
dent He combatted also the state
ment that the expenses Of the military
establishments were greater than
those of the European nations. saying
that pension expenditures could not
properly be included in such esti-
| mates.