The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21
HOUSE TO HOLD
A TIGHTER REIN
Abuse in Expenditure of Appro-
priations Again Under
Discussion. D
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CASES ARE CITED WHERE
DEPARTMENTS EVADE LAW
Senate Bill Extending Time for
Uintah Settlers Passes
House.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Abuses In the
expenditure of appropriations was the
text of the discussion OF the House today
during the consideration OF the urgent de-
hciency appropriation bill. But little
progress was made in the consideration
OF the bin. which Will be the continuing
topic for Monday The portrait OF ex-At-
torney-General Knox for which the De-
partment OF Justice has asked s2ClS was
egain the topic of comment.
Express Charges on Coin.
Tho most animated discussion Of the
day took place on an amendment by Nh.
Keller OF Ohio TO increase the amount
Tor the transportation OF silver coin Two
well-dciined arguments were advanced on
this question. One was that TO cut this
appropriation meant distress to the in
terror sections of the country where silver
money was used, and the other that the
appropriation was abused by the express
companies for whose benefit IL was stated
the appropriation was annually made.
Congress Loses Control.
III discussing the bill and giving an H.
lustration OF the loss OF control OF APP
preparations by Congress, AR Tawney
said there seemed to be two funds in the
control Of the Navy department with
which repairs To vessels might be made.
One under the direct control OF the Sec
ietary, he said, was being used TO prac-
ticolly refit naval vessels with machinery
The weak poin, In the law OF last year.
he said. was that the required apportlon-
ment could be waived by the head of a
department This is TO be remedied in
the pending bill.
Knox Portrait Comes Up.
Having his attention called again TO the
item In the bill OF S2G15 for portrait OF
eX-Attorney-Gencral Knox. Mr.. Padgett
CTenn.) asked Mr., Tawney If he believed
that To be a justinable appropriation.
Mr. Tawney replied that no man could
Justify the appropriation. but he under
stood II TO have been the custom for
some years In all departments that when
u retired head OF department or bureau
oillcer leaves his position, soon thercaf-
ter his portrait adorns the walls OF the
Office I'm which he served, and the expen-
diture has been paid out OF the contingent
fund"
Carriages for Assistants.
1t developed during the consideration OF
the bill for amendment that, as Mr.. Lit
tauer remarked. the State department had
sought to eVade the law of last year re-
stricting the use of Government carriages
to heads OF departments. and had secured
carriages for assistant secretaries.
To prevent this the item in the bill sup
plying deficiency in this fund prohibits
Its expenditure Within the District OF Co
lumbia except for the entertainment Of
tho representatives Of foreign Govern
ments,
Fund for Entertainment.
In answer to a query as TO what caused
the deficiency In this fund. Mr. Lttauer
said tho Portsmouth peace conference
had cost the Government SOS 0po and the
entertainment OF Prince Louis OF Batten-
berg had cost $B1l. The fund he said.
was not entirely exhausted. Rising TO the
defense of provision for eight clerks in
the treasury to count money, Mr Gaines
said this old money should be retired.
There was an hours debate on an
amendment offered by Mr. Keifer (Ohio)
increasing from 1926 to $1,000 the amount
for transportation OF silver coin,
Kcifer Amendment Lost.
Mr. Keifer closed the debate I'm favor OF
the amendment. He said he would not
attempt TO answer the argument against
the appropriation that IL was abused be-
cause some one In the Treasury depart
ment had made vicious contract for it's
expenditure. His point was that TO cut
of the amendment would leave many sec
tions of the country without silver coin
unless 1t was shipped In at the open e,2-
pense of the Government The amend
ment was lost, 20 ayes and - nays.
Pass the Uintah Bill.
The House passed n Senate bill ex-
tending tho time in which settlers on the
Cintah Indian reservation In Utah may
establish their residence.
An adjournment was had at 4:i5 o'clock.