The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-18
HUGE DEFICIT
IN REVENUES
Committee on Appropriations
in the House Will Guard the
Treasury This Year.
NEW PROJECTS UNDER BAN
FIGURES GIVEN BY CHAIRMAN
TAWNEY.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Chairman Taw-
ney of the house committee on appro-
priations, which was appointed yester-
day by Speaker Cannon. effected organ
ization today by the appointment of
subcommittee as follows:
Sundry civil Tawney, Smith, Brown
low, Fitzgerald and Sherley; legiSla-
tive, Bingham, Gillett, Brick, Living
ston and Burleson; District of Column
bia, Gardner Madden, Vreeland, Burle-
son and Powers: pensions, Keifer,
Gardner. Brownlow. Bowers, Living
ston; Notifications, Smith, Graft, Gil
lett, Sherley and Fitzgerald; dehcien-
cies, Tawney, Vreeland, Keller, Brun-
dige and Livingston: permanent apprO-
priatiOns. Brick. Graf, Madden, Brun-
dige and Burleson.
Tawney's Statement.
At the close of the committees meet
ing today, Chairman Tawney dictated
the following statement:
THE committee on appropriations in
congress are confronted with a situa-
ton which will require a very material
revision of the estimates submitted for
public expenditures for the next fiscal
year ending June go 1909. in order to
keep the appropriations within the pos
sible and estimated revenues of the
government.
THE estimates submitted at the be
ginning of the new current year to-
tailed 1896. $780, 43. The estimates for the
next fiscal year, submitted at the be-
ginning of this session i'm the book of
estimates, tOtaled 1896, 949. 23S, or an in
crease in the estimated expenditures for
i tho fiscal the
year of 800, 9SS, 465. The estimated total
revenue for the next fiscal year is
/ SS7S. 123, oil, while the actual revenue
! including postal revenues. received dur
ing the last fiscal year-which total
revenue was larger than that of any
/ previous year in the history of the gov
ernment-was only $S46,725,SS9.
Excess of Expenditures.
1T will be seen, therefore. that on
the basis of the estimated expenditures
and the estimated revenue for the next
fiscal year the expenditures as estinat-
ed exceed the revenue by $11S,S26,27
| This excess does not include estimates
for the regular deficiency and miscel-
laneous appropriations. which for the
current year amount to S1S.147 .S99. Nor
does it include any new appropriations
| for spontaneous expenditures. From
this total of $11S. S26. 277. however, should
| be deducted $25.000 900, which is in
cluded in the estimated expenditure for
the redemption of national bank notes.
! This expenditure is not made out of the
! current revenues, but out of the stat
utOry fund obtained from national
| banks, which fund is not carried as
part of the governments revenues.
| "Deducting the $25,000000 still leaves
a deficit of $50, 600 between the esti-
mated expenditures and the estimated
revenue and shows the necessity for a
practical revision of the estimates sub
mitted by the several subcommittee
having Jurisdiction of the appropria-
tons for the next fiscal year, in order
to keep expenditures for that year
within possible revenues and thus to
avoid q deficiency.
ut also shows the practical impos-
sibility of congress at this session au-
| thorizing new governmental services OF
the undertaking of new projects, appro-
priations for which would have to be
met out of the revenue incoming for
the next fiscal year-unless other pro-
vision is made for meeting such ad-
ministration expenditures than to re-
auire them to be betrayed out of the
current revenues of the government"