The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-07-05
Per CAPITA COST
Of Running Government is
Very Little, Says Tawney.
ANALYSIS OF FIGURES
Total of Appropriation Made by the
Congress Just Closed $3.50, 1a3,301.
Represe ntative Livingston
Calls 1t Extravaganza.

Representative Taw,ney, chairman
of the house committee on appro-
priations, has prepared a. statement
concerning the appropriations made by
congress during the session just clos
ed for the fiscal year beginning July
l, 1906, in which he claims that the
per capita cost Of government in the
United States including federal and
state is less than in any other coun-
try.
Mr.. Tawney enters upon an analy-
sis showing the various channels
into which the total appropriation of
SSS0,1S3,301 will be diverted. He be-
gins by deducting s139,456,415 provio-
ed for the sinking fund and for the
Panama canal, showing that the real
appropriation for the conduct of the
affairs of government for the fis-
cal year is s740,726,Ss6. To meet this
demand he estimates that the total
revenues (customs, internal and pos
taD will be $7S1,573,364.
The aggregate appropriation is $780,
100000 in excess Of that for last
year.
Of the various increases that of
S3,050,250 is made on account of
meat inspection; s1,420,332 on account
of the army; s96S,O46 to carry the
new consular law into effect; $1,734,-
$40 on account of the navy; $685.
400 On account Of pensions; s10,673,-
905 on account of the postofice de-
partment, Of which S3,0S0,000 was for
rural free delivery. Of the appropri-
ations made about $31,000,000 was
unestimated for. Included in this list
were the following:
Ten million, two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in the statehood ac-
count, s1,OOG,C0O for arming and equip
ping the militia, s2,5O0,O00 on account
earthquake and fire at San Francisco,
100000 on account the new quaran-
tine law, s1o,231, 600 en- account of
public buildings.
Mr.. Tawney comments as follows
on the volume of the appropriations:
"While the expenditures of our gov
ernment are constantly increasing,
and while appropriations made there
for by congress are in the aggregate
very large, yet when we take into
consideration the marvellous growth
of the country, the extent to which
the people demand that the federai
government shall perform services
that should be paid for by the states,
none but the unthinking or misguid-
ed can ind any good reason to
criticize appropriations made by this
session of congress"
In a statement of the minority, Rep
resentative Livingston makes COM
parison of the expenditures provided
FOR by this congress, sSS0,1SS,3Ol,
with the expenditures Of 1898, the
first year of President McKinley's ad-
ministration, in which the figures
were s52S, ,735,O79, difference of $751;
44S,222. Commenting on this showing.
he says:
'This growth in appropriations sus-
tains the contention that the republ1'
can party stands for extravagahce
in public expenditures in order to
use that extravaganza as a cloak Tor
their more Objectionable tariff to ia
vor the unjust combinations OF manu-
facturers Of the country.
Much of this extravaganza grows
out of the practice prevailing WITH
the present administration OF appoint
ment of commissions to do what con-
gress ought to do, and what congress-
men are elected for and paid for, thus
delegating the powers constitutlonally
belonging to congress to others VINO
have no particular relations with the
RESPONSIBILITIES to the public and 90
NOT render an accounting to tax pay
ers of this country