The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-03-15
MILLIONS WERE VOTED
Total Appropriations By the Recent
Congress.
SOME UNFORESEEN EXPENDITURES.
Representative Livingston Charges Lavish
Expenditures Due TO Mllitarism Mr. Hemen-
way Defends the Administration Deficiency
10 the Revenues OF the Government for Cur.
rent Year viii Not Exceed sl8,00o,Os0.

rent Year Will Not Exceed slS,O0o,0s0.
Washington, d. c. (Spccial) State
ments were issued by Mr. Hemenway,
lately chairman of the House Committee
OIL Appropriations, and by Mr.. Living
ston, the ranking member of the mi
nority on the same Committee, relating
to the appropriations by the session OF
Congress just closed.
The statements as to the total appro-
priations for the session agree, being
$SIS,47S,oT4 for the fiscal year ending
on June 80, 1906, against $7S1,172,375
for the previous year.
Mr.. Livingston makes a comparison of
the four years of the last Cleveland Nd
minstration and the four years OF the
Administration just closed, showing that
in 1So5-o6 the appropriations were $2,-
oI6,343,753, and during the years 1908
90 appropriations were $5I5333+2o2.
Mr.. Hemenway says:
The public debt has been reduced since
August 81, 1865, at which it reached its
highest point, $2.756,43I,57I, to $780,
255,oo7, at the close of February, 1906
or more than S4Io,ooo,ooo in excess OF
the literal requirements of the sinking
fund law
During the four fiscal years (ISo3-.
1900 of President Cleveland's last Nd
ministraton there was applied to the
sinking fund only SI34oo,o47, or an av-
erage of little more than 100000 per
annum.
During the eight fiscal years (ISo7-
1000 of the Administrations of Presi-
dents Mckinley and Roosevelt the ag-
gregate amount applied to the sinking
fund was $237,5Io,6oo, or an average OF
nearly S3o,ooo,ooo per annum.
Another permanent annual appropria-
ton which does not affect the ordinary
receipts and expenditures of the Govern
ment is for the redemption of crculat-
ing notes of national banks that are re-
tiring Or reducing circulation. These
redemptions are made out of deposits OF
national banks required by law for that
purpose, and the estimated amount that
will be paid out of these deposits for
these redemptions during the fiscal year
1906 is $3oooo,ooo.
Speaking of the total appropriations,
Mr.. Hemenway says:
The sum total of these annual appro-
priations for the support of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year 1906 is large.
and when to it is added the amount of
authorized requirements of the sinking
fund, which represents material things
that we have had, including arms and
munitions of war used by Our armies
in preserving the Union, and when there
are also added the amount that may be
used in redeeming national bank notes
and the sums for deficiencies and the
amount carried in miscellaneous acts, it
makes the substantial sum of $8IS,47S,-
Ola.
These figures represent, indeed,
represent great and rich nation of peo-
pie.
Mr.. Livingston, after giving various
expenditures, says;
We have and the country has a spec
tacle presented of appropriations made
at this session of $SIS,47S,oI4, with pre-
dicted revenues for the ensuing fiscal
year OF 1906 amounting to only S725,-
5oo,5I5, a difference of $o2,SS8, 800, a
broad enough expanse between the
buckle of expenditures and the tongue
of revenues to startle he plain and conf
mon people who bear the burdens of
taxation; and it is enough, | am sure,
to bring into play all of the ingenuity
of Republican finaDciering in order to
make the two extremeties meet without
destroying their idols of revenue-rasing,
thai prohibit importations in order to
protest against foreign markets the prod
ucts OF trust combines in our country.
During the four years (I8o3 1900 of
Mr.. Cleveland's last administration, sup
ported by a Democratic Congress for
only two years of that period, the total
appropriations .or every purpose OF the
Government amount TO $2,oIo,343,753.
During the four years (Ioo3- 1900 of
Republican government under Mr..
Roosevelt the appropriations have scared
up to the almost incomprehensible sum
of $3,I53334,2o2, 4 or $I,r3o,ooo,53S of
increase for the present quadrennal peri
cd over that Of the last Democratic Ad-
ministration, which closed only eight
years ago.
The most general analysis of the ap-
preparations made for each Of the two
quadrennal periods mentioned brings
out with staggering force the criticism
that occurs to every thinking, patriotic
citizen against the spirit Of niltarism
that characterizes the latter period.
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