The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-29
cratic congresses with Republican con
crosses, and adds:

4
Almost Doubled.
| "The appropriations for each of the
nscal years 1895 and 1896. as made by a
| democratic congress-, do not materially
| vary, as will be seen, one from the other.
and average only $494 619 ,6O2 for each
year The appropriations for federal ex-
| penoltures made under a Republican ad-
| mlnlstratlon by Republican congress for
the next fiscal year have reached the
| startling. sum Of 1871 ,574, 629, or an in
the last two years under Democratic con-
years.
81 challenge the wisdom of the poIicv
OF the dominant party that has made
| tneSe enormous expenditures necessary
through the increase of the military and
naval establishments, the maintenance of
WHICh Is at the expense of needed inter-
nal improvements, such as river and har-
Dor works and public buildings
Wind Up of the Senate.
With brief announcement and a
sharp rap of his gavel, President Pro
Tenn. Frye adjourned the senate sine
die at p. m, the hour fixed by resoIu-
ton Of the two houses of congress. The
senate began its days work at TO-: 80 a.
m, but the greater part of the time was
devoted to political debate, participated
in on the Republican side by Messrs.
cratic side by Messrs. German and
Culberson. The discussion was based
on statement by Mr.. Allison Of the
appropriations for the session, compar-
Ing the figures for this year and for the
administration Of President Roosevelt
| with those of other years and other ad-
miniStrations.
The president and his cabinet oc-
cupied the presidents capitol office
| room during part of the debate The
only important acts of legislation dur
| ing the day were the presentation and
| acceptance of conference reports on the
Panama canal government and emer-
gency river and harbor bill Neither
| report aroused debate
Allison Quotes Figures.
Mr.. Allison, chairman of the COM
! m1ttee on appropriations submitted ia
bles showing an increase of SIS, OOO, 900
| over the appropriations for last season.
He gave the principal items Of increase
| as follows:
For the navy $16,O0O,OO0; on account
| Of the postal service, including rural
| free delivery, $8,000,000. There is an
increase of $S,S32,0 in the permanent
annual appropriations, the chief item
being $5,000,000 for the bank note re-
demption fund, and the next most i'm
| portant item being $2,250,00O for the
| irrigation reclamation fund.
Mr.. Allison also spoke of the increase
| In the deficiency appropriations, the
principal statement in that connection
| being the loan of $4,600,000 made to the
| ST. Louis exposition.
| The obligations aside from appro-
| priatiOns incurred at the present ses-
| sion amount to $24,000,000.
On the Other Side.
Mr.. Culberson presented a review of
appropriations for the past twelve
years, covering the last administration
| of Mr.. Cleveland and the Mckinley and
| Roosevelt administrations. He said the
| total expenditure under the Roosevelt
administration had been $2,64O, 0OO. 600.
or $211,000,000 greater than the four
years of the Mckinley administration,
and 1888, 100000 greater than in the
| four years of the Cleveland administra-
| ton.
Mr.. German placed the total appro-
| priations of this session at $7S1, 900, 900
and the obligations incurred at over
| $24, 200, 900, or more than $500, GOO, 900
all told, not including the appropriation
for the Panama canal. He said the fig
ures were amazing and predicted that
1t would be impossible to continue eX-
penditures at this rate without increas-
ing taxes. He attributed the rapid in
crease to the ambition of the president
to make of the United States "a great
world power" and said that We had
reaped no harvest except the loss of life
and decentralization in every branch Of
the governmental service.
MeSSrS. German and Allison enga ged
in a long controversy over the tariff
and kindred subjects and final adjourn
ment followed