The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-07-05
TAWNEY EXPLAINS
WHERE CASH GOES
ANALyzEs APPROPRIATIONS By
LAST CONGRESS.
DUE TO coUNTRYs GROWTH
Declares People Demand Federal Gov
eminent Shall Perform Duties
Coming Properly Within
Province of States.

washington, July .--hepTsStnIaINe
Tawney, chairman of the house com
mittee on appropriations, has prepared
detailed statement concerning the
appropriations for the fiscal year be-
ginning July /, 1906, made by congress
during the session just closed, in which
he claims that the per capita cost OF
the government of the United States,
including federal and state, is less
than in any European state.
Mr.. Tawney enters upon an analysis
to show the various channels into
which the total appropriation of $780,
1S3,301 viii be diverted He begins by
deducting s139,456,415 provided for the
sinking fund, the Panama canal, ETC.,
showing that the real appropriation for
the conduct of the government for the
fiscal year is SAC, 1856. To meet this
demand he estimates that the total
revenues (customs, internal and post
al) will be $751;, 1913
The appropriations as made in the
various supply bills are as follows:
Agriculture, $685., $40; army, s71,-
e17,165; diplomatic and consular, s3,-
691, 094; District OF Columbia, 10,13s,-
692; Notifications, s5,053,9s3; Indian,
1920, 400; legislative, etc, $29,741 ,0l9;
military academy, s1,664,7Os; navy,
$102, on $50; pension, S140,245, 500; post
office, s1s1,6e5.999; sundry civil, $685.,
274,574. Total, s672,9S7,734
Isthmian canal deficiency bill, SILL
100000; urgent deficiency, 1906 and
prior years, $16,270,332; urgent def
cheney, additional, 1906 and prior
years, s274,925, deficiency 1906 and.
prior years, sill, 573,9
Total regular annual appropriations,
s140,076,S20. Grand total regular and
permanent annual appropriations,
$3.50, 1S3, 3o1.
Where Increase Goes.
The aggregate appropriation is $780,
100000 in excess of that for last year.
OF the various increases, that of So
o50,250 is made on account of meat in
speetion; S1,420,533 on account of the
army: s96S,046, TO carry the new con-
Eular law into effect; s1,734,s70 on ac-
count of the navy; s1,995,4OO on ac-
count Of pensions; s10,673,905 on ac-
count of the post office department, of |
which s3,O30,0o0 was for rural free de-
livery. OF the appropriations made, |
about So, 100000 was unestimated for.
Included In this list were the follow
ing: s1O.250,oO0 carried in the state
hood act; 100000 for arming and
eQuipping the militia, $3.50, 900 on ac-
count of the earthquake and fire at |
San Francisco, 100000 on account of |
the new quarantine law, s1O, 231, 600 on
account of public buildings.
Mr.. Tawney comments as follows on
the volume of the appropriations:
while the expenditures of our gov
eminent are constantly increasing and
while the appropriations made therefor
by congress are in the aggregate very
large, yet when we take into consid
GRAFTON the marvellous growth of the
country, the extent to which the people
demand that the federal government
shall perform services that should be
fulfilled by the states, none but the
unthinking or misguided who do not
stop to consider the care with which
the estimates for appropriations for
the public sercice are scrutinized by
the several committees having juris-
diction of appropriation bills, can find
any reason to criticize appropriations
made during this session of con-
gress."
!. Democratic Comment.
In statement made for the Demo-
cratic minor.ty, Representative Liv-
ingstone makes a comparison of the
expenditures provided for by this con-
gress, $3.50, 11S3,301, with the expendi-
lures of 1898, the first year of Presi-
dent McKinley's administration, when
the figures were $52s, 735 ,079, differ
ence of $685., 44S,222 Commenting on
this showing, he says:
This growth in appropriations sus-
tai1s the contention that the Republi-
can party stands for extravaganza in
public expenditures in order to use
that extravaganza as cloak for their
more Objectionable purpose of main
tanning a high protective tariff to IA
vor the trust combinations of manu-
facturers of the country.
"a reduction of expenditures, they
well know, would compel. common
surate reduction in taxation, and to
thatgextent a lowering of the Chinese
wall of protection that now surrounds
the great body Of consumers, who
constitute the larger portion of our
population and compel tribute from
them to the favored classes
much OF this extravaganza grows
out Of the practice prevailing with the
present administration of appointing
commissions to do what congress
ought to do and what congressman are
elected and paid for, thus delegating
the powers constitutionally belonging
to congress to others who have no par
ticuIar relations with or responsibilities
to the public and do not render an ac-
ce..nting to the taxpayers Of this coun-
try"
To afford an idea OF the magnitude
Of this years appropriations, Mr.. Ly-
ingston says:
''O,r corn crop Of 1899, valued at
ss2s 1e2 1888, could have been paid for
with the total appropriations made at
.his SESSION and few millions to
t-,.trafs