The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-30

class had nearly doubled amounting to sl.156.447,0s5. or si2.s0 per sLo0o of na- tional wealth.
 Mr. Tawney was followed by Mir. FitzEerald. ranking minority of the Appropriation Committed, in the ab- sence of Mir. Livingston. of Georgia,
 Mir. Fitzgerald reviewed the appros priations of the session from a Demo- critic standpoint. He arraigned the Republican Party mercilessly. for. what he stigmatized as shameful squan- dering of the public funds" He pre- dicted a staggering dencit to be im- pending. and denounced the Presi- dent. the Executive Department of the Government. and the Republicans in Congress as It's causes.
 'sThe country" said Mir. Fitzgerald. would hace been benefiitted had the recommendation of tho committee. charged with the preparation of the suply bills been more generally needed by the House. The Opportunities of those outside are suflcientiv dificult to resist. without having the mem bers of the House take sides against It's committees on questions of expend- iture."
 Turning a neat compliment to- Mir :. Tawney, she Republican Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, MT. Fitzgerald said: Tt has been source of keen qualification to have worked with him. knowing that his only ampi- ton has been honestly to serve his country. and to conserve the public Interests. He deserves more loyal sup port. from his party associates hao he received that aid and co-operafion from his own party, which should have Been freely given. all honest men would now have great cause to rejoice.
 Exfrnvaganee Rum Riot.
 "The Congress-" continued Mir. Fhz- gerald, "is now about to adjourn. This session has been the most pronigate in our history. Ertravagance has run riot; the Treasury has been depleted, the public money has been shamefuiIy squandered. "The responsibility rests with the Republican Party. It can nos evade the issue Every energy seems to have been concentrated upon the task of emptyipg the Treasury and making imperative the issuance or bonds by the next administration n order to defray the ordinary expend- itures of the government. The dre@n- ed hand writing has apparently been seen upon the wall. and the Republican Party is demoralized and shaken.
 "The appropriations for the next hs- cal year aggregate the enormous sum of S1 .oos, ,s04. .ss4. as against aggregate estimates by departments or $l.eff,-
 MT. fitzgerald quoted the estimated revenues for the fiscal year IsOl' aaTs sarsasusy Ss assisrsd nSars "we shsii demon strate later that thls estimate Is in all probability at least s1o0,000.0oo toe large, and that not more than 7s5.ooo.. 900 is likely to be realized. Never but once in our history" he said' did tns expenditures of our government reacn the thousand million dollar mark. For fQHE NvhAn inc c0Un- try was in the throes of a bitter and Moody and expensive civil war. the ex- penditures aggregated the enormous totals ofB1, ,30s, ,655, AS, of which the sum S1 ,030, s90 400 was for the maintenance of the army"
 Training his fire on the administra- tfon, Mir. Fitzgerald continued:
 "After the war with Spain, under ths | rrestdaney of Theodore Rooeevelf, th' ! coet o1 rnaintaining the government fp | the four following years. was ten pe | cent greater than during the same pe | riod when the war was waBed. Evid snsly; snssynslSs Mr aSS sPesasr sorse hiSns sSs ~ = | Making a further comparison, MT | kritzgerald said:
 "TInder Cleveland, the per capita ap organizations for the Army for foui | years were $I.35; for the Navy t1.b4 notifications. 20 cents. the averag.
  | aervice, S3g0. Under Roosevelt. In hii second administration. the per capits Appropriations for the Army for thu | Yotir-year period are e3s5. more thar | two and one-nah times the amount un | der Cleveland; for the Navy s4.sls mor' than three times the amount unael @ | Cleveland; for fortincations thirty-tw' cents more than fifty per cent increas' | over Cleveland, and the average pel | capita cost for the three services undel | RooaeveIt is 9s.90, two and one-fourti times as great as under Cleveland. | After entering into a more detailed | set Of comparisons at large, compris
 ing figures from Crate brltaih ns | cal record Mir. Fitzgerald continued: | "Surely these significant facts hav' 1 not permeated the recesses or th' | white House not found even a tempor
 ary Iodgment In the active brain O l the President No other conclusion car
 satisfactorily be reached; for upon n | other theory is 1t conceivable that tn 1 administration would have suOmitte'
 estimates as has been repeatedly point
 ed out during the session. at least SIPS. l O00 000 in excess of the revenues es
 tinated for the coming fiscal year
 Since these estimates were submittel
 to Congress. the country has been af l dIcted with a panic. The business an
 industrial depression is growing rathe
 than lessening. Yet in the plethora q
 messages to the Congress from th
 chief executive. there has not been
 single warning to safeguard the in
 terests of the people by resolutely re
 polling all attempts to raid the Treas | ury. Indeed. when the history of thi
 session is impartially and truthful
 written as 1t will some day. the wielde
 of the big stick will be. pictured in he
 roic size at the head of those who open
 Iy encouraged or secretly abetted D
 him have successfully .rified the peo
 ples strong box"
 In conclusion. Mr. Fitzgerald said
 This is, government by. party. Tn l Republican Party is responsible for tn
 result of this session Responsibilit can not be shifted from the house {
 the Senate nor from the Congress { the executive. The Republican Part l is in control of all these and Is calie
 upon to answer for its actions Tn
 Democracy is willing to submit the is
 sue to the intelligence of the America people and to abide by the result (
 their judgment"