The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-20
EXPENSES WILL BE $7OO,OOO,OOO Repub|icansHaIe So Far Shown WantOn ExtraVagaOcG PIERCE GIVES THE FIGURES Thinks the Democrats ln Coming Cam paien Should Lay Particular Stress
 on the Matter of
 Economy.
PIERCE GIVES THE FIGURES

Washington. April 19.-(SpeciaI)- resentative Rice Pierce of Tennessee, the second ranking minority member of the house committee on appropriations, says the aggregate regular appropriations of the first session of the Fifty-eighth con gress, now about to close. will be in the neighborhood of $70o'0o0.Ooo.
 "The total amounts carried by the bills as reported to the house." said MT. Pierce today. was s597. .So2, ,32426 To this should be added the sum of $Si,97lS20 for permanent appropriations and interest on the public debt. not including the sinking fund This makes the total s6s2.- 77414.26. The senate additions to the house bills which have already been made and those which may reasonably be expected will with incidental expenses easily bring this amount to $7oo0O0,ooo and may exceed this sum-"
 Is Republican Economy.
 This enormous total" continued MT. Pierce represents the best efforts the republican congress could put forward in their efforts to keep the expenses of the government down to the minimum. Early in the session the republicans announced that "economy' was to be the watch word; such bills as the rivers and har- bors and public buildings and grounds were not to be considered; and wherever the opportunity presented estimates were to be cut. The estimates of expenditures for the year aggregated $7Z7, ,317,923, while the estimated revenues of the government were S704 470, ,061 It will thus be seen that the majority party Is proceeding to spend every cent in the treasury and will soon be borrowing There Is hardly doubt that the next session, with it's rivers and harbors and public buildings and grounds bills, not to mention the reported inten- ton of the republicans to pass ship subsidy bill, will bring the total of the next session to one biihey dollars, and open the way to total for ele congress even in excess of the last congress. which carried appropria tions agrgegating one billion eight hundred and fifty millions"
 Show Enormous Increases.
 Not the least important expenditures of the present session have been for the army. navy and Qualifications. They have contributed largely in swelling the total to It's present gigantic figure and are in- teresting in rounding out the last of the four years of the present administration end comparing it with that of the sec ond administration of President Cleve- land. The expenses of the navy in the second Cleveland administration were $107, 41O,094 The naval expenses under the four years of President Roosevelt will be $335, 172, 1885. The expenditures of the army under Cleveland were s94.34 ,5S5. The Roosevelt appropriations for the army will be $360, ,442, s96. Under Cleveland $13, 919,5O5 was spent for Notifications, while under Roosevelt they are $2S,9S2,S74. Un- der Roosevelt the expenses of running the government In these branches has more than trebled, and 1t Is the same way throughout"
 Tn view of those great expenditures of the peoples money" concluded MT. Pierce, Tit seems to me that the demo- cratic party can and should lay particu- lar stress In the approaching campaign upon the issue of economy in the admin istration of the government. The present administration has squandered the peo- ples money in every conceivable way and ought to be held to strict account. I believe these reckless expenditures will be an important factor in determining the result of the election next November"