The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-23
CONGRESS BUDGET
IS OVER A BILLION
CHAIRMAN TAWNEY or APPRO.
PRlATloNS, STARTLES THE
HOUSE RY STATEMENT.
ESTIMATE GRAND TOTAL
At St,c05, ,244 1853 Which He Says Beats
Record Of All Other Sessions
Senate Debate on Forest Re
serves is Heated.

SC' 'SS - iiCdAChs
! Washington d G. Feb % Chair
man Tawney Of the house appropria-
tions committee created consterna.
lion on the floor when. during the dis.
cussion of he sundry civil bill, he as.
serted that the present congress has
exceeded. the appropriations of any
congress in history.
Mr. Tawney began the general de.
bate by a statement OF the provisions
Of the budget VIII ch carries $l04 ,000,-
/ 600 in round numbers. He then said
I that a rough estimate of the appro-
4 priations already made and to be
made, showed that this last session
Of the Fifty-Ninth Congress would
mount mp 10 81 00O5,2 pa 1853 the larg-
est by many millions of any session Of
the congress. He said that if the rev
crease over those OF the present year
the treasury of the United States was
facing deficit Of $l00,o00,000 at he
close Of the fiscal year 1908.
When the paragraphs were reached
appropriating $1,000 for the protection
of Casa Grande ruins in Pinal county
Arizona, Mr. Sulzer spoke Of the skel.
etons found in these ruins and said.
He e $4,000 is appropriated for the
erection of lot of skeletons in the
Smithsonian institution which the
needy employees Of the government.
the life aaYing service, and other
branches are knocking at the doors
for an increase of salary. am for
the living, not for a lot Of people
who lived in the paleozoic age. and
the $4,000 would help ont a lot Of peo
Pile"
Whole Bill is Read.
Four hours of time was lost by the
refusal of Chairman Tawney TO give
Representative Clark of Florida 'thi.ty
minutes in which TO make a speech
while general debate en- the bill was
in progress.
Mr. Clark wanted 4 tell tie hqlts
ot fBte t,tF .JttEs Gsid La ~
tiles which had b.eu brought out in |
the invee tigation last year Of the gov |
ernmept hospital for the insane. Mr.
said that he would not give
Mr.. Clark the time and Mr.. Clark III
s sted that the entire bill of 1873 pages
be read. and this consumed four
hours.
Forest Reserves AssaIed.
Consideration of the agricultural ap.
pi opriaton bill was regumed by the
senate today with the chief of the
forestry bureau under fire.
"The constant tendency Of the bu-
reau of forestry has been to reach
out and gather to itself land and pow
er never contemplated by congress"
Senator Clark of Montana
Such procedure Is derim ntal injur
IONS and destructive to the interests
1f the various parts of the country in
which the reserves are situated
When in 1891 congress authorized
he pr sideM 10 create a forest re-
serve ne one eelr contemplated that
n this brief time 100000 square miles
If land should be set aside and closed
o settlement
The a Ta Of the forest reserve is
low as large as the whole of New
England with The iates Of Pennsyl-
'an a, New York and Ohio added In
icres the number is 127.O00,00
I'm addition 10 this immense area /
{ now is proposed in this bill 70 with
raw 400 00o000 acres more. the graz
ug lands OF IN un'ry anl place
bis vast domain under the authority
( the chief Of the forestry bureau. ]
Chief Like Monarch.
This IS giving more dominion and
over. to one man than Is held by
ny individual on earth. king or po- b
entate. q
Talk about your lumber barons.'
ontinued Mr. Clark. where is the 4
ian except The chief Of this bureau
no has in hia control l270o0.000
cres OF timber land? He can sell the
mber 10 whom he pleases, at the
rice he 81 cts. and in such puanti
es as ne nav desire and w'tbogt be
.g. RESPONSIBLE TO any one. I say the
'rest reserve IS being made the dam
alton Of the country"
Tells CT 8-ownvills Shooting. Y
Major If there T. not an arrest
ade between this hour and II o'clock
cry enlisted man We see on the
reefs viii be shot according 10 the
stimony OF Wilbcrt Voschelie. form
ly corral boss at For Brown. before
o senate committee on military AZ 't
irs. this threat was made TO Major 50
.nrose. commander Of the negro bat s.
Hon. cd about $50 p ~ on Aug n.
several hours preceding the ?
ho0ting up7 Of The town. yoscheIle "a
white and is the ma1 who has been
Of d by negro Witnesses as saving ~
al he had learned OF a pit 10 mas he
on
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