The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-03
MORE MONEY At
EACH SESSION
Republican Extravaganza Due
to High Tariff and System
of Protection.
VIEWS OF THE MINORITY
CLEAR AND CONCISE STATEMENT
MADE.

MADE.
Washington, July Representative
Tawney, chairman of the house com
mittee on appropriations. has prepared
a detailed statement concerning the
appropriations for the fiscal year be-
ginning July 1, 1906, made by congress
during the session just closed, in which
he claims that the per capita cost of
government in the United States, in
Guiding federal and state, is less than
that in any European country.
Mr.. Tawney enters upon an analysis
TO show the various channels into
which the total appropriation of $780,
1891 will be diverted He begins by
deducting $780, 415 provided for the
sinking fund for the Panama canal,
etc, showing that the real appropria-
ticn for the conduct of the government
for the fiscal year is $40 726, 1886. To
meet this demand he estimates that the
total revenues (custOms, internal and
postal will be 1871, 573, 1854.
Appropriations Made.
The appropriations as made in the
various supply bills are as follows:
Agriculture. $685., $40; army. $71,S17,-
les; diplomatic and consular, $3,091, 094
District of Columbia, SOL ,692; forti-
fications. $5,053,993; Indians, SO, 260, 924:
legislative, etc, $29, TAI, 019; military
academy, S1.664. 70S; navy. Sl02,071, $50;
pension, $40. PAS 500; pOstOffice, $191. 695,-
999; sundry civil, $9S,274574. Total,
$672, 9S1. 7S4
Isthmian canal deficiency, $1,000, 600;
urgent deficiency 1906 and prior years,
SIC, 270, 1872; urgent deficiency, additional,
1906 and prior years. $274,925; deficien-
cy. 1906 and prior years, S11,573, 9S9. To-
tai regular annual appropriations,
$40, FOG, 40. Grand total, regular and
permanent annual appropriations,
$780, 1S3, 301.
The aggregate appropriation, S6O,OOO,-
900 in excess of that for last year.
Some of the Increases.
OF the various increases that of So
050, $50 is made on account of meat in
spectiOn. 81, 420. 59S on account of army,
1868, 046 TO carry the new consular law
into effect, 81, 734970 on account of the
navy, 1895, 400 on account of pensions,
S10673, 905 on account of the postOffice
rural free delivery. OF the apprOpria-
lions made about S31 ,OOO, 900 was unes-
timated for Included in this list were
the following: SO, 250 900 carried in the
statehood act, 100000 for armng and
equipping the militia, 100000 on ac-
count of earthquake and fire in San
Francisco, 100000 on account of the
new quarantine law, SO, 231, 500 on ac-
count of public buildings.
Tawney's Comment.
Mr.. Tawney comments as follows OF
the volume of the appropriations:
while the expenditures of our gov
eminent are constantly increasing, and
while appropriations made therefore
by congress are in the aggregate very
large, yet we must take into consider
alton the marvellous growth of the
country, the extent to which the people
demand the federal government shall
perform services that should be paid
by the states. none but the unthinking
or misguided who do not stop to con-
slider the care with which the estimates
for appropriations for the public SER
vice are scrutiniZed by the several
committees having jurisdiction of APP
preparation bills. can find any reason
TO criticise appropriations made during
TINS Session OF congress
Views CT the Minority.
In a statement made for the Demo-
cratic minority, Representative Liv-
ingstone make comparison of the eX-
penditures provided for by this con-
gress, $3.50, 1888, 301. with the expendit-
ures of 1898, the first year of President
McKinleys administration, when the
figures were $52S 1885, 079, a difference of
1881, 44S, 222. Commenting on this show
ing, he says:
This growth in appropriations sus-
tains the contention that the Republic
an party stands for extravagance in
public expenditures in order to use that
extravaganza 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 expenditures. they
well know. would compel a common
surate reduction in taxation, and TO
that extent lowering of the Chinese
wall or protection that now surrounds
the great body OF consumers, who con-
sttute the larger portion of our popu-
latlOn and compel tribute from them To
favored classes.
Sheer Extravaganza.
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 elect
ed for and paid for, thus delegating the
powers constitutiGnally belonging tn |
congress TO others who have no mar
ticular relations with or responsibilities |
TO the public and do not render an ac-
counting to the taxpayers of this conn
try"
To afford an idea of the magnitude of
this years appropriations, Mr.. Living |
ston says:
Our corn crop in 1899, valued NJ
sS2S. 1872. SSS. could have been paid for
with the total appropriations made AZ /
this session, and a few millions 10 /
spare.