The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-01-24
LARGE DEFICIENCY
ONE HUNDRED MILLION FACES
GOVERNMENT.


washington, Jan. 23.--In accordance
with notice given yesterday, Chairman
Tawney of the Committee on Appro-
priations, today called up for consid-
Grafton by the House the urgent de-
ficiency appropriation bill. An agree
ment was reached to devote the entire
day to general debate on the measure.
which carries total appropriation OF
$24 074,450.
In explanation of the bill Mr.. Taw-
ney sounded a note of warning and
said that on the face OF the estimates
submitted to Congress for the next MS
cal year the country was confronted
with a certain deficit of 100000, 900.
These estimates, therefore, would have
to be materially revised and the figures
reduced.
Mr.. Tawney declared that he deemed
IL his duty I'd call attention to this
fact In order that expenditures may
be kept within estimated revenues. Il
dom make this statement for the pur-
pose of exciting alarm, ne said' or
for the purpose of exciting any appre-
hension in the mind of any one regard
ing the ability of our government TO
meet all OF It's obligations now exist
ing or that this Congress may create.
He said he appreciated the fact that
his reference to a possible dencit would
not BE received with favor here or
anywhere else, especially WhSAO
is a sentiment for increased expendi-
lures" but stil he felt 1t his duty to
states the facts.
Continuing Mr.. Tawney said he had
been ultra conservative in his state
ment of the financial condition OF the
country. Replying to a question by
Mr.. Clark, OF Missouri, Mr.. Tawney
made 1t plain that there would be no
new appropriations this session for
rivers and harbors or public buildings,
for, he said, his calculations did not
include them.
Mr.. Mann, Of Illinois. referred to the
promises of both parties that If sue
cessful at the next election, they wonlo
revise the tariff and inquired OF MI
Tawney II 1t was not true that always
Immediately preceding revision OF
the tariff there was a great decline
in the customs receipts for the gov
eminent.
MI. Tawney replied that such was
the case and said there was always
more decrease in the interhauOi@l
revenues as well.
Pursuing his inquiries, Mr.. Mann
asked also IL Ii was not true that the
estimates of the Secretary OF the
Treasury were based on former re-
CENTS and did not take into consider
alton the fact that the tariff possibly
would be revised and that the receipts
would fall Off so that" he added,
"unless Congress is extremely econom-
teal. IL our Democratic friends preVah
they will come into power with
mighty deficit" .,.-.,
mates did not take into consideration
the matter referred to by Mr.. Mann,
nor the effect of the revenues OF the
government realizing from the recent
financial oppression. The estimates
were made prior to the money strlh-
10 began
to fall of.
els the gentleman ready to guaran-
tee revision Of the tariff provided the
concentrations prevail next Novem-
berg' asked Mr.. Livingston OF Geor-
gia.
No" said Mr.. Tawney. and l am not
willing to guarantee that fhere VIII
be tariff revision II the Demecrats pre-
vail in November
Asked by Mr.. Cochran. New YORK. u
the efficiancy of the Government could
be maintained by calling the estimates
100000, 900, Mr. Tawney emphatically
replied that it could
Mr.. Tawney's warning was seized
upon by Mr.. Underwood. Alabama. as
the text for a lengthy discussion of
the recent financial depression Mr..
maintained that there were
no natural ordinarily conditions that
produced the depression. The country,
he said. was prosperous. and there were
no exterior causes. 1t was not an act
of God II was not because OF nre, pes
thence, crop failures, or dearth of
money, but because of a lack OF conf
dence. 1t, therefore. had been demon
strated he said that so far as the Re
publican party was working for the
OF the country. 1t had dis
solved partnership with God, because
all that the Almighty had produced In
this country has been lavished boun-
tiful on II, and only the Republican
party has failed in It's part on the part
nership."
He put the blame for the recent
money stringency on the present ma
tional banking laws, which, he said, the
had failed TO adjudicate In
order to avert just such a condition.
The method of making appropriations
was criticised by Mr.. Keifer, who said
It was unbueiness-llke. BY appropriate
ing only for the things that bring re-