Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-30


criticism of present governmental meth
DDS will not be taken as made by a
wild eyed anarchist" On March 1G.
In an elaborate speech criticising the
creation of new offices and the increas.
ing expense of running the government,
among other things he said:
l am going to call attention to the anal
ysis of the situation from 1889 until now
In 1883 and 1897 we had some legislation
That required the clerks of the appropria-
lions committees on the part of the house
and the senate to report an analysis of
the appropriation bills for each session at
the close of the session.
These clerks made these reports
want to stop here now to say that | have
mad very material assistance in the in
vestigation of the question that am now
discussing by the very efficient and yalu-
able clerk of the appropriations commit
tee Of this house, Mr.. Courts, one of the
most won't say the most-efiicient, be-
cause that would be an invidious distinc-
ton as to the other clerks but do not
hesitate to say that he is one of the most
valuable and efficient servants that this
mouse of representatives has. He is an
absolute encyclopedia upon the fiscal op-
erations Of this government. / have had
occasion to ask him a great many uues-
tons, and have never found him want
Ing in any particular.
NOW, In the discharge of this very inn
portant duty-and, by the way, | doubt
very much, so far as practical results are
concerned, whether any member of this
mouse or senate has awaited himself of
the information disclosed by these men
as result of this statute-under these
statutes these gentlemen have collected
with these clerks and prior clerks since
1888 these statistics and summaries and
one of the items is, New offices created
and salaries THEREFOR another item is.
offices, salaries of which have been
omitted, with the amount of reduction"
another item is. offices, the salaries of
which have been increased, with the
amount of such increase" another is
offices, the salaries of which have been
reduced, with the amount of such reduce
tion."
Now will give the house the benefit of
tne work Of these gentlemen. Since 1882
1883 being for the fiscal year ending In
lss0-oftices created aggregate a charge
on the treasury of s1,469,779. The offices
omitted We're $1S5,172, showing a net in.
crease in 1889 of s1,334,6O7.
Now, will not go into the Details but
will give the results, because, unfortu-
nately, In every year from 1889 up to 1905
there has been an immense Increase and
l will read them. l will put this list in
the Record. In 1880 the increase was
229; in 1891 an increase of 81, 64, 234: in
lSs2 sSl5,9ls; in 1893, $1,O332 33; in 1894
s1044. SOC; in 1885, s1,621, Jig; in 1885, 1886 O95
In 1887, $1,057,366; in 1888, SIS, 557, s06.
or course, the members will understand
that that was the war year, involving ex-
traordinary and unusual expenditure and
a necessary large increase
In 1899, $13, $685. 096; in 1900, $5132663: in
1901, 81, 955, 221; in 1902, $7165,272; in 1903,
1880, 297; in 1904, s14,3o6,147 and in 1906,
SO. 45O,695.
Now, submit, Mr. Chairman. that that
is not a record of which any of us should
feel entirely proud. Every one of these
creations of office and offices omitted has
been reported to this house from time to
time by some committee who examined
these questions. I do not purpose CRITICS.
Ing the committees, but do wish to sug-
gest that these facts are such-and l am
going to give an average in just a mo-
ment-that should require the committees
before they report these bills creating
these offices to examine with great care
these departments for the purpose of adj
vising us whether these creations of Of
noe are necessary. The average net in
crease per year from 1850 to 1897 was 81, 867.-
052 The average net increase per year
from 1902 to 1sO5-four years-was s11,56s,-
102 In other words, in four years we
have created offices in appropriation bills
to the extent of 34s,242,40S. Now, I think
the time has come when the committees
and the house should halt upon the |
threshold OF this question. I desire to say
this: That there have been unusual ex-
penditures during the last four or five
years that to certain extent will account
for some OF these offices created. We
have had the rural free delivery. l have
not been able, because 1t is partly beyond /
the power Of any one man to investigate |
all the details involved in this situation, |
to give to the house or to the committee |
OF the whole the aggregate amount of in
creased charge upon the public treasury
by the rural free delivery. believe in !
the rural free delivery, so far as that is
concerned. I may say right here that the |
creation of offices in the postal service for |
this very last year carried in the appro-
priation bill ending July /, 1906, that the |
balance was $2,439.s00. and in large de-
gree have no doubt that was due to the |
rural free delivery service.
This is sample Of Judge Littlefield's |
entire speech. Finally Brother Crum-
packer of Indiana, another Republican,
concluded that Littlefield, though Re
publican, was furnishing campaign |
ammunition to the Democrats and led |
an attack on Littledeld. This was par
ticipated In by half dozen Republic
ans until 1t became q bitter contro-
versy. In order to bolster up his own
Republicanism, Littlefeld cited the
tact that the president had appointed |
the Keep commission ito investigate
the extrayagances Of the government"
Altogether it was fine row and ought |
to help the Democrats.
Exit Addieks; Enter schwab.
In the same issue of daily paper
there recently appeared two items
which taken together force one to con-
slider seriously the important question
Whittier are we drifting?" One was
that Hon. Gas" Addicks is no longer
a factor in the Republican politics of
Delaware; the other that Charles M.
schWab, steel trust magnate, has set
about acquiring citizenship in Nevada
for the sole purpose of succeeding Hon.
francis G. Newlands In the senate of
the United States. In plain, unvar.
nishsd language this means that Ad-
dicks, being busted, no longer hopes to
purchase senatorial toga and that
SchWab, having millions, proposes to
buy commission to sit among the
fathers. There never was
any more concealment of the Add rks
ambition to hold seat by purchase
than there is Of cattle merchant ia
Duy fat steer in the open market,
He preferred an eastern state. so he
picked Delaware as the
easiest TO purchase because containing