The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29
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 washington. Dee, 2s--tspeciai)-- Representative Tawnsy of Minnesosa' chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is strongly of the opinion that Congress will not during the present session. authorize the construc- ton of any additional battieships or armered cruisers.
 that the government revenues will not justify the expenditures. and that tho ships now under way will be sufficient to place the United States navy on about as good footing as there is any necessity for.
 But the rank and file of the Re- .publicans in Congress will prooapy not agree with MT. rawney. Besides. the regular Appropriations Committee does not prepare the naval bill. In the old days 1t did. but in the Forty ninth Coneress, Speaker Carlisle and Colonel William R. Morrfson of Illinois. the Democratic leader, broke up the old system and scattered the appropriation bills around among . number of com mites, instead of permitting the iste handle them In his own committee room.
 The indications are that there will be quite a contest between the Re- publican managers and others in tnefr party over the proposed enlargement of the navy. The administration fs favorable to big navy. So are more Congress It, therefore. will be . stub born fight between the rulers of the House and those who claim that the majority shall rule. As 'eyerybody knows these rulers are Speaker Can non, John Dalzell and JaTes s! Sher- man, who prepare the gags" backed by Payne. Republican floor leader, Tawney of Appropriations, and watson of Indiana, the Republiccur whip and a few others who help td d{hold down the men who want to raid the Treasury ex- travagantly.
 Mir. Tawney has recently conferred. with treasury officials. and 1t is fig ured that 1t will be Impossible. accord ing to the revenues, to prevent large deficit at the end of the present fiscal year. And what worries the Republi- cans responsible for legislation is that 1t may grow larger next year right In the middle of the Presidential cam paign. That they think would be bad for the grand old party and would give the Democrats club with which to hammer the heads of their op- ponents
 The policy of the Republican man
  appropriations to the very lowest notch They have one ray of hope so far as the threatened heavy deficit is concerned. The exports now are much greater than the imports, and this will tend to. bring gold from Europe, and that will go far towards relieving the financial stringency.
 Just now the Republicans in Con- Rress are like a scattered flock Of birds They hardly know what to do to pass a financial bill such as Is de- manded by the commercial and bank ing interests. Nearly every Republi- can who thinks he knows something about the situation has different plan to propose. There has been no end of bills on the subject. Some of the schemes are wild ones, and of course will not be seriously considered by the committees to which they have been referred.
 It is astonishing how some of the Republican congressman credited with sound Judgment have rushed to the rescue with plans that they would have been ashamed of ten years ago
 Representative Hill of Connecticut, one of the prominent Republican mem bers of the Ways >and Means Commit tee, has an idea that something should be done to prevent the salaries of the higher priced clerks from being paid out in cash, which is done pretty generally in the Washington depart ments and in the various states. Mfr Hill has been studying a plan that would enable the depository banks to issue script in the cities to the clerks which would pass as ready money in the localities where 1t is issued. He would have these banks put up bonds as collateral on this script and in that way there would not be such a drain upon the treasury and the sub-treas- uries for cash money.
 He unfolded this plan the other day to MT Tawney. The letter instantly said that he doubted whether the coun- try would stand for making these de- pository banks government disbursing officers. All this goes to show to what straits the congressman are when it comes to giving the country remedial legislation.
 Alfred J. Stofer.