The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-03
Tawney's and Living
 stones Statements.
$8So, ,l83,3oI FOR FISCAL YEAR
Analysis by Chairman of Appro-
 priations Committee.
Ranking Minority Member Accused Republican Party of Extrava- gance In order to Prevent
 Reduction of
 Taxation.

w dShluStO Juiy S-rtSpi Tawney, chairman of the House Com mittee on Appropriations. has prepared a statement concerning the appropria- tions made by Congress during the ses- sion just closed for the fiscal year be- ginning July 1. 1906, in which he claims that the per capita cost of government in the United States. in- cluding federal and State, Is less than that in any other country.
 Mir. Tawney enters upon an analy- sis to show the various channels in to which the total appropriation of $SS0,1s3,301 will be diverted. He be- gins by deducting $139, 9,456,415 provided for the sinking fund and for the Pana- ma canal, showing that the real appro- priation for the conduct of the govern ment for the fiscal year Is $740,726,- SS6. To meet this demand he estimates that the total revenues (customs.) in- ternal and postal, will be $781,573,- 864.
 The appropriations as made in the various supply bills are as follows:
 Agricultural $9,932,940; army. $71,- S17,165; diplomatic and consular $3,- 091,094; District of Columbia, S1O,13S,- 6s2; Qualifications. $5,053.993; Indian, $9,26o,400; legislative and executive, $29,741,019; Military Academy, $1,664,- 7os; navy, $1o2.o71,650; pension, $140,- 245,500; post office. $191, ,695.999; sundry Of.t
 Isthmian canal deficiency, $11,000.- 900; urgent deficiency. 1906 and prior years. $274.S25; deficiency 1906 and prior years. $11,573,9S9; total, regular and annual appropriations. $740,106 981.
 Permanent annual appropriations. $16,076,320.
 Grand total, regular and permanent appropriations. $S80,183, 3O1.
 S60,OOO,0OO Over Last Year.
 The aggregate appropriation is ESQ., 900, OO0 in excess of that for last year.
 Of the various increases, that of S3,- o50,250 is made on account of meat in- spection; $1,420,332 on account of the army; s968,046 to carry the new con- sular law into effect; $1,734,970 on &C., count of the navy $l.s95, 400 on &C., count of pensions: $10.673.905 on ac- count of the Postofice Department, of which $S,030,000 was for rural free de- livery.
 Of the appropriations made about $31,000,000 was unestlmated for. In cluding this list were the following. S1O,25O.000 carried in the Statehood ac- count; $1,0D0.000 for arming and eouip- ping the militia; $2,5O0,O00 on account earthquake and fire at San Francisco. $5oO.0O0 on account the new quarantine law; $10,231,60O on account of public buildings.
 MT. Tawney comments as follows on the volume of tho appropriations:
 While the expenditures of our Goy- ernment are constantly increasing and while appropriations made therefor by Congress are in the aggregate varv large, yet when we take into consider ation the marvellous growth of fha country, the extent to which the peo- pie demand that the Federal Govern ment shall perform services that should be paid for by the States none but tbe minimizing or misguided who do not stop to consider the care with which the estimates for appropriations for the public service are scrutinized hv the several committees having iuris. diction of appropriation bills can find any reason to criticise appropriations made by this session of Congress
 In statement of the minority, Ken resentative Livingstone makes ! com parison Of the expenditures provided for by this congress, $SSOlS3S0I with the expenditures of 1898. the first wear of President McKinley's administra- tion in which the figures were s52s. 5S5,079, a difference of $35144S228 Commenting on this showing he says:
 MT. LivingstOne's Deductions.
 This growth in appropriations sus- tains the contention that the republican party stands for extravagance in public
 
 travagance as a cloak for their more objectionable purpose of maintaining a high protective tariff to favor the trust combinations of manufacturers of the country.
 "A reduction of the expenditures they well know would compel a commensu- rate reduction in taxation and to that extent lowering of the Chinese wall of protection that now surrounds the great body of consumers, who consti- tute the larger portion of our popula- ton and compel tribute from them to the favored classes.
 Much of tsis extravagance grows out of the pFSctice prevailing with the present administration of appointment of commissions to do what congress ought to do and what congressman are elected for and paid for, , thus dele Eating the powers constitutionally be- longing to congress to others who have no particular relations with the re- responsibilities to the public and do not render an accounting to tax payers of this country"
 To afford an Idea of the magnitude of this years appropriations, MT. Liv- ingstone says: Our corn crop of 1899, valued at SS2S,192.3SS. could have been paid for with the total appropriations made at this session .and a few mill ions to spare.