Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-05
REVENUES ARE
TOO INADEQUATE
Will Not Equal ApprOpria=
tons Made by
Congress

Statements were made to the senate
and house yesterday by Senator Alli-
son and Representative Tawneys
chairmen respectively of the appro-
priations committee, and by Repre-
sentative Livingstone, regarding the
appropriations of the session. The to-
tai appropriations aggregate $919,-
94S,6SO, of which $756,522,674 is for
the annual expenditures for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1908. The ball
ance of the grand total is to be used
as follows:
For emergencies and deficiencies on
account of the fiscal year 1907 and
prior years, ,6S5; 100000 for
miscellaneous objects, such as private
claims, and the like, authorized in
special acts and $149,Ss6,S21 for per-
manent annual appropriations to meet
the interest charge on the public debt.
the requirements of the sinking fund.
expenses of collecting the revenue
from citizens, redemption of bank
notes and other PUBLIC purposes.
Estimated 1908 Revenues.
The revenues of the government for
1908 are estimated at $s5O,O00,000.
which 1t was stated would leave a sur
plus of $2OOOOO0O and not deficit as
has been predicted in some quarters.
The Fifty-niuth congress as a whole
It was stated had appropriated $685.
100000 in excess of the total for the
Fifty-eighth congress. Analysing the
increased appropriation in the year
1908 over the current fiscal year, the
total of which Is given as $40,000,000,
the increases are distributed in part
as follows:
For the army, s6,700,0O0 for fortifi-
cations. $1OsOO,OOO; legislative, execu-
tive and judicial, $2,4OOOO0; postal
service, $2O.oOO,O0O; pensions, $5,ooo.-
900.
Panama Appropriations.
It was stated that while the river
and harbor bill carried approximately
$50, 600. 900. the expenditures under it
would be but $2700o.oOo during 1908.
| The appropriation for the Panama
canal was increased over that during
the Fifty-eighth congress- $6s,500,000.
During the same time the postal fn-E
| crease, was $5O,OO0,OOO.
| Representative Livingston, present-s
ing the views of the minority on the
subject. agreed as to the total. which
he says. is can increase Of $4o,5s9.644
oyer the appropriations for the cur
rent fiscal year and $57,266,150 over
t the appropriations for the fiscal year
r 1899 made at the first regular session.
!, Of the Fifty fifth congress which COW
, cred substantially the entire expensea8
of the military and naval establish
ments on account Of the war with
Spain.
Appropriations Are Enormous.
r Enormous as are these appropria-
= lions for the next fiscal year, thert
: should be added to them the furtheI
Suits OF AEO,UUU,UUU OH dCCOuiHl VI COhA1s
!. tracts authorized in the navy bin fol
d additional war ships and for which nj
j. moneys whatever are yet appropri
ated, and the sum OF $39,S29349 20
contracts authorized in the river ana
harbor appropriation bill In addition
d to the apuropriations made on that &C
514 D. kt.a
70 sion's total apparent approximation
II make the tremendous sum of $994T7ssi
= 029 carried over either In direct an
! preparations or authorizations at thi
O session of congress, establishing mes
d record for federal appropriations an
t. preaching the prodigious sum OF
billion dollars for a single session
u congress.
y Would Give Away Philippines.
~ Mr.. Livingston concluded with tn
ID remark:
to 81 wish to heaven we could give Il
ee Philippines to Japan and get out
ne that country, whose cost to us no o.
~ can ever predict. / received lett
!. the other day from debating socie
= in my district asking my opinis
IL whether Cuba should be annexed. .
az THAT question I want to reply rig
be here-we have got enough Of Tn
81 kind of races now"
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