The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
AS TO APPROPRIATIONS.
HEMINwAY AND LIVINGSTON MAKE
 STATEMENTS.
Georgia Congressman Says Spectacle Presented is Sunlcient to Star
 tie Plain and Common
 People of Country.

Washington. March g.--Statements were issued today for publication in The Congressional Record by MT. Hem inway, late Chairman of the House Committee on. Appropriations. and by MT. Livingston, the ranking member of the ps4nority on the same committee. relating to the appropriation by the session of Congress just closed. The statement as to the total appropria- tions of the session agree. being $S1S.- 47s.914 for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1906, as against $7S1, ,172,375 for the previous year. MT. Livingston makes a comparison of the four years of the last Cleveland administration and the four years of the administra- tion just closed. showing that in 1885 1896 the appropriations were $2,016,- 343.75S and during the years 1so3-1so6 inclusive, they were $3,153.S34.292. In addition to the statement made by MT. Heminway in the House on Satur- day. he submits additional figures and comments on governmental expendt- ture. He says:
 Under the operation of the latter statute and the provisions of the sink ing fund law, the public debt has been reduced since August 31, 1865, at which time 1t reached its highest point, $2,- 756, 6,431,571, to $1,2S0.255,997 at the close of February, 1890, or more than $416,- 900, 900 in excess of the liberal reQuire- ments for the sinking fund law. Dur ing the four fiscal years (1S93-1S96) of President Cleveland's last administra- tion there was placed to the sinking fund only $13,400,047, or an average of little more than $3,000,000 per annum. During the eight fiscal years (1897- 1904) of the administrations of Presf- dents Mckinley and Roosevelt. the ag- gregate amount applied to the sinking fund was $237,516,66s. or an average of nearly $30,000,00o per annum. An- other permanent annual appropriation which does not affect the ordinary re- ceipt and expenditures of the Govern ment Is for the redemption of cfrculat- ing notes of national banks that are retiring 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 $30, 0o0,000."
 l Speaking of the appropriations, MT. | Hemenway says:
 '"The sum total of these annual ap- propriations for the support of the gov ernment for the fiscal year 1906 is
 large. and when to 1t is added the
 amount of authorized requirements of
 the sinking fund. which represents ma l ing arms and intuition of war. used by
 our armies in preserving the Union, and l when there are also added the amount l that may be used in redeeming National bank notes and the sums for deficien-
 cies and the amount carried in Jniscel- l laneous accounts. it makes the sub
 stantial sum of $s1S.47S,914.
 'These figures represent indeed. @
 large sum of money. but they likewise
 represent a great and rich nation of
 people. The wisdom and the honesty of
 the appropriations are not challenged
 and the absolute integrity of their ex- penditure Is guaranteed by the presence
 of Theodore Roosevelt at the head Of
 the government.
 T am advised by those most compe- tent to judge that the deficiency in the
 revenues of the government for the current fiscal year will not exceed
 18,000,000. This deficiency is brought
 about by unforeseen expenditures in
 two directions. namely $13,000,000 on account of new ships for the navy and
 also in the probable excess of five or six millions of dollars of expenditures for the postal service over the postal
 receipts for 1905. These excessive ex- penditures on account of the postal ser-
 vice are largely accountable to the rap-
 i'd installation of the rural free deliv- cry service throughout the country. It
 Is reasonable to anticipate that this
 service will show an increase of reve-
 nues during the next fiscal year."
 Mfr. Livingston. after giving various expenditures says.
 | "We have, and the country has, a lspectacle presented of appropriations made at this session of $S18,47S,914 with predicted revenues for the ensu- ing fiscal year of 1906 amounting to lonly $725, ,590,515. a difference of $92.-
 SSS,399, a broad enough expanse be-
 tween the buckle of expenditures and
 the tongue of revenlles to startle the
 plain and common people who bear the
 burdens of taxation.
 During the four years Qs93-1s9s) of MT. Cleveland's last administration. lsupported by a Democratic Congress