The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-03
Tou1ey Tells How s88O,183,3Ol
 VIII Be Spent
POSTOfFICE BIGGEST HIM
Pensions Come Next With the Enor- nous Total of $f4o,245, ,500-Livlnq- ston Says the Republicans
 Are Extravaeant.

Washington. July 2-Representative Tawney chairman of the House commit- tee on appropriations. has prepared a statement concerning the appropriations made by Congress during the session just closed for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1906, in which ho claims that the per capita cost of government in the United States including federal and state. is less than that in any other country.
 MT. Tawney enters upon an analysis to show the various channels into which the total appropriation of $sSC, 1Ss. 1901 will be diverted. He begins by deductng $f39,- 456.415 provided for the sinking fund.- and for the Panama canal showing that the real appropriation for the conduct of the government for the fiscal year is $740,- 726.ss6
 To meet this demand he estimates that the total revenues Customs internal and postaD, will be s7s1 1.573s6i
 ltemized Appropriations.
 The appropriations as made in the va- rious supply bills are as follows:
 Agriculture. s9,9a2, ,94O.
 Army, Sn.S17,l65
 Diplomatic and consular $3,O91, ,094.
 District of Columbia $1C 13S,692.
 Qualifications, s5.O5s,99s.
 Indian, s9,260, 400.
 Legislative, etc. S29.7I,Ol9.
 Military academy. $16s4,7OS.
 Navy, s1o2,O7l.s5o.
 Pension s14O,245,5O0.
 Postoffce, si9l.6s5, ,999.
 sundry eivil.s 9s,27i,574
 Total, s672, ,734
 Isthmian canal deficiency, sii COG, 900.
 Urgent deficiency, 1906 and prior years. s16, ,270,3S2.
 UT, mt deficiency additional 1906 and prev,ous years. s274.9 925.
 Deficiency 1906 and prior years, sl1,573.- 9s9.
 Total regular annual appropriations, $40 1O69St
 Permanent annual appropriations. $140,- 076,320
 Grand total regular and permanent an- nual appropriations, $SS0 1S3,301.
 The aggregate appropriation is S6O,O0o,- 900 in excess of that for last year.
 Items Constituting increase.
 Of the various increases that of S3.050,- 25O Is made on account of meat inspec- tion $l,42O,232 on account of the army; $96S, ,046 to carry the new consular law Into effect; st734.970 account of the navy; $1 g95 400 on account of pensions; s1O 673, ,9O5 on account of the postoffice de- partment of which $3, 030,000 was for rural free delivery. Of the appropriations made, about $3l 100000 was unestimated for ln- cluded in this list were the following:
 s10,250OO0 carried in the statehood &C., count.
 s1.OOO OoOO for arming and equipping the militia
 S2,5OoOOO on account of earthquake and fire at San Francisco.
 s5OO,00O on account of the new quaran- tine law.
 BIO. 231. GOO on account of public build ings
 MT. Tawney comments as fonoWs on the volume of the appropriations;
 While the expenditures of our gov ernment are constantly increasing. and while appropriations made therefor 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 federal government shall perform services that should be paid for by the states, none but the minimizing or misguided who do not stop to consider the care with which the estimates for appropriations for the public service are scrutinzed by the sew eral committees having jurisdiction Of appropriation bills. can find any reason to criticlse appropriations made by thls session of Congress"
 Livingston Talks for Minority.
 In a statement of the minority, Repre- sentative Livingston makes a compari- son of the expenditures provided for by this Congress sSS0. 1es, 9oi with the expendl- lures in 1898, the first year of President McKinleys administration in which the figures were $52S 735.079. Q difference of $35i. AS 222. Commenting on ths showing, he says:
 This growth in appropriations sus- tains the contention that the republican party stands for extravaganza in public expenditures in order to use that extrava- gance as a cloak for their more objec- tlonable purpose of maintaining high protective tariff to favor the just com binations of manufacturers or the counr try.
 "A reduction of expenditures they well know would compel commensurate re- duction in taxation. and to that extent a lowering of the Chinese wall of protec- ton that now surrounds the great body Of consumers. who constitute tne larger Pot- ton of our population and compel tribute from them to the favored classes.
 Much of this extravaganee grows out of the practice prevailing with the pres ent administration of appointment of com missions to do what Congress ought to do and what congressman are elected for and paid for thus delegating the powers constitutionally belonging to Congress to others. who have no particular relations with the responsibilities to the public, and do not render accounting to taxpayers of this country
 To afford and idea of the magnitude of this years appropriations, Mir Living stone says:
 our corn crop of 1899, valued at Ss2s.- i92. .3Ss. could have been paid for with the total appropriations made at this ses- sion and few millions to spare.'
 Commercial Treaties Dissolved.
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