The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

ed compensation to the civil and mill
tary branches of the public service
Mr.. Tawney stated the total appro-
priations of the session to be $751;
oSs.670. He said the total revenues
or the government estimated to con-
gress by the secretary of the treasury
are placed at $S7S,123.O11.
Mr. Tawney said that the estimates
submitted to congress by the executive
as basis for the appropriations made
amounted to $1.07e. 449.2SS, or an ex-
cess of S10,644.394 over the total of
the appropriations of this session and
an excess of s15S,651, JAS over all the
appropriations made at the last ses-
sion. A subtraction of the totals of
estimates and appropriations, he said
showed that the present house cut
down the estimates for the ordinary
operating expenses of the government
$124,347,172. The grand total of ap-
preparations made at this session ex-
ceeded those of last session by $685.
O06.75O.
In conclusion Mr. Tawney said:
whatever the unthinking of the
superficial critic may now say. the i'm
partial and nonpartisan historian will
hereafter record and truthfully state
that in the affirmative work perform
ed and in contending against and sue
cess1ully resisting unconstitutional
demands upon the powers and treas
work of no previous session is COM
parable with the work of the first SEES
sion of the Sixtieth congress-"
The Democrat Side.
Mr.. Tawney was followed by Mr..
Fitzgerald On. W ranking minority
member of the appropriations commit
tee in the absence of Mr.. Livingstone
(Ga.). Mr.. Fitzgerald reviewed the ap-
preparations of the session from a
the Republican party mercilessly for
what he stigmatized as a shameful
squandering of public funds" He pre-
dlcted staggering deficit and de-
nounced the president, the executive
department of the government and the
Republicans in congress as it's causes.
The country" said Mr.. Fitzgerald,
would have been benefited had the
recommendations of the committees
charged with the preparation of the
supply bills been more generally heed
ed by the house. The opportunities of
those outside are sufficiently difficult to
resist without having the members of
the house take sides against it's COM
mittee on questions of expenditure.
THE congress- said Mr.. Fitzgerald.
lis now about to adjourn. This ses-
sion has been the most profiigate in
our history. Extravaganza has run
riot; the treasury has been depleted;
the public money has been shamefully
SQuanoereu. Every energy seems to
have been concentrated upon the task
of emptying the treasury and of maxi
ing imperative issuance of bonds by
the next administration in order to
defray the ordinary expenditures of the
government. The dreaded handwrit-
ing has apparently been seen upon the
wall and the Republican party is de-
moraliZed and shaken.
THE appropriations for the next fiscal
year aggregate the enormous sum of
$1,008 .S04. 1874, as against aggregate es-
Inmates by departments of SLOT, 49,
28S."
Mr.. Fitzgerald quoted the estimated
revenues for the fiscal year 1909 (treas-
ury figures) as sS7s.123. oil. He declared,
I'VE shall find later that this estimate
is in all probability at least 800 OO0 900
too large and that not more than $685.
100000 is likely to be realized. Never
but once in our history he said. did
the expenditures of our government
-