Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-24
COUNTRY FACES
A HUGE DEFICIT
Chairman Tawney OF House Com
mite on Appropriations,
Makes Announcement.
THE AMOUNT is $10o,ooo,oo0.
Calls Attention to the Fact Not for
Purpose of Creating Alarm
But rs a Duty.

washington. Jan. 2S--Chairman Taw-
ney of the house committee on appro-
priations today called up the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill.
Mr.. Tawney said that on the face of
the estimates submitted TO Congress
for the next fiscal year. the country
was confronted with n certain deficit of
$1OO.0OO,00O The estimates, therefore,
would have to be materially revised
and the figures reduced.
MIR. Tawney declared that he deemed
It his duty to call attention to this fact
in order that expenditures may be kept
within estimated revenues.
II do not make this statement for
the purpose of exciting ALARM" he said.
Mr. Tawney made II plain that there
would be no new appropriations this
session for rivers and harbors or pub
lie buildings, for. he said, his calcula-
tons did not include this.
Mr. Mann OF Illinois referred to the
promisese of both parties that. II sue
cessful at the next election, they would
revise the tariff. and inquired of Mr..
Tawney il it was not true. always i'm
medately preceding a revision of the
tariff, there was a great decline in the
custom receipts of the government.
Mr.. Tawney replied that such was the
case and said there was always a de-
crease in the revenues as we'll.
MI Mann asked. also, If II were not
true IL the estimates of the secretary of
the treasury were based on former re-
ceipts and did not take into considera-
ton the fact that the tariff would
probably be revised and that the re-
ceipts would fall off, 80 that" he add
all
our Democratic friends prevail, they
will come into power with a mighty de-
ficit.'
MIR. Tawney responded that the esti-
mates did not take into consideration
the matter referred to by Mr. Mann,
nor the effect on the revenues of the
government resulting from the recent
financial depression. The estimates
were MAZE prior to the money strin-
gency and before the revenues began to
fall off.
rs the gentleman ready to guarantee
revision CT the tariff provided the l;e-
Eubllcens prevail next November ask
ed Mir L'viI ston of Geo -sii.
NO. said MIR. Tawney; and l am
not willing to guarantee that there will
be a tariff revision II the Democrats pre-
va; III November"
Mr.. Tawney's warning was seized up
on by Mr. Underwood of ALBANIA q tie
text fcI lengthy discussion OF the ~e-
cent iir 81 cial oppression. MIR. IT1ter-
:, ., d nairisjied that there Trre no
natural, culinary conditions t'yt Iro-
duced that depression. The country, he
said, was prosperous and there We're no
exterior causes. 1t was not an act Of
God 1t was not because of fire. pes
thence or famine. crop failure or
dearth of money. but because of a lack
of confidence Il therefore had been
demonstrated, ne said, that so far as the
Republican party was working for the
prosperity of the country II had dis
solved partnership with God, because
all that the Almighty has produced In
this country has been lavished bounti-
fully upon il, and only the Republican
party has failed in its part of the part
nership."
The method of making appropria-
lions was criticized by Mr.. Keller of
Ohio, who said II was unbusinesslike.
He favored increased Notifications. and
said that If. for instance, Pearl har-
Dor and. perhaps. Manila We're properly
fortified, we would not be talking so
much or hearing so much about a for
eign war, and we would not have had
to incur the millions Of expense in
sending our fleet of liz battleships
around the Horn in order that We may
show that we have soma spirit left for
war il war should come"