The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-03-07
WHERE the
N MILLIONS GO
Chairmen of Committees on Appro-
priations Analyze Disposition
of Money by Congress


ments were made to the senate and
house yesterday by Senator Allison
and Representative Tawney, chair
men respectively of the appropria-
tions committees, and by Represen-
tative Livingston, ranking minority
member of the house committee, re-
garding the appropriations of the
session.
The total appropriations aggre-
gate 9,94S,6S0, of which $780,
622,674 is for the annual expendi-
lures for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1908. The balance of the grand
total is. to be used as follows:
For emergency and deficiencies on
account of the fiscal year 1907 and
prior years, $12,439,6S5; $1,000
900 for miscellaneous objects, such
as private claims and the like, auth
orized in special acts, and $149,SS6
for permanent annual appropria-
lions to meet the interest charge on
the public debt, the requirements of
the sinking fund, expenses of collect
ing the revenues from citizens, re-
demption of national bank notes and
other purposes.
The revenues of the government
for 1908 are estimated at $S50,0O0,-
600, which it was stated, would
leave surplus of $2O,000,000 and
not a deficit, as has been predicted
in some quarters.
In the fifty-ninth congress as
whole, it was stated that $19S, 000,-
600 had been appropriated in excess
of the total for the fifty-eighth con-
gress.
Analysing the increased appropri-
ations for the year 1908 over the
current year, the total of which is
given at s4O,O00,O0O, the increases
are distributed in part as follows:
For the army, 100000.
For Notifications, $1,S00,O0O.
Legislative, executive and judicial,
$2,4O0,O0O.
Postal service, s2O,O0O,OO0.
Pensions, $5,O00,0O0.
The rivers and harbors bill car
ried approximately $S3,O00,O00, but
it is announced that the expenditure
under it would be but $27,0O0,000
in 1908.
The approximation for the Pana-
ma Canal was increased over that
during the fifty-eighth congress,
$50, 100000. The postal appropria-
ton was increased $5,000,0OO.
Representative Livingston, pre-
senting the views of the minority,
agrees as to the total, which he says
is an increase of $4O,539,544 over
the appropriations made for the cur
rent fiscal year, and $57,266,193
over the appropriations for the fis-
cal year 1899, made at the first reg
ular session of the fifty-fifth con-
gress, which covered substantially
the entire expenses of the military
and naval establishments on account
of the war with Spain.
Enormous as are these appropria-
lions for the next fiscal year. there
should be added to them the further
sum of $25,O0O.OO0 on account of
contracts authorized in the naval
bill for additional warsh1ps, and for
which no moneys are yet appro-
priated, and the sum of $49,S29,349
for contracts authorized in the rivers
and harbors appropriations bill, in
addition to the appropriations made
in that act
These sums, added to the ses-
sion's total apparent appropriations
made the tremendous sum of 1884,
77S,029 carried over in direct ap-
preparations or authorizations at
this session of congress, establishing
a new record for federal appropria-
tons approaching the prodigious
sum of billion dollars for a single
session of congress"