Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-12
AlOR|GH FAv0RS
 BOND PLAN
Uncle Sam's Purse is Shy Ninety eight Millions of
 Dollars
TAFT UNAVOIDABLE TO
 REDUCTION OF TARIFF

WASHINGTON, June I1.-Did you know that one day the government spent about $165.Ooo more than it
 took in? And that in the few days since June 1 its expenditures have
 over-reached its receipts by over
 $1.o0o.ooo? And that for this fiscal year the deficiency in the treasury is
 some ninety-eight million dollars? Such is the distressed condition of Uncle Sam's pocket book. although
 in the excitement over the tariff bin the deficit has been lost sight of
 Whenever the tariff bill is out of the
 way, the deficit will loom up as one
 of the biggest questions before con gress. The democrats and progressive republicans have offered to solve the annual hundred million dollar deficit problem. by adding an income tax amendment to the tariff bill. The in come tax would produce ss0.000,00o every year. Aldrich has rejected that solution.
 The democrats and progressive re
 publicans next offer to decrease. if uOt Wlpe Dut OI eAlStenCt. bN TeflS- ing the tarif downward. particularly on necessities. The lower the import duties. the more goods would come in; hence greater revenues. Senator Aldrich also declines that offer. and is sustained by President Taft
 There still remain two other ways expenses. and the other is to issue bonds. To issue bonds means to meet the bills after while instead of now to go in debt If the republi- can party remains in power. and it's campaign of extravaganza increases at the same ratio that 1t has in the last eight years, it will be an abso- lute impossibility for the government to take up the bonds. Nevertheless. 1t is the conviction of close observers here in Washington that Senator Aid rich intends bond issue some time this summer
 But what about cutting down ex- penses? As long as the present ad- ministration leaders remain in pow CT, that is more impossible than any of the other beliefs.
 Here is the reason there is no hope for the expenses to be cut. It is al ready planned that when Congress meets this fall it will appropriate more than s100.000.000 in excess of the sum 1t appropriated last session. There was no river and harbor bill last session. you remember. This year there will have to De one. IL will carry about s50,000.e00.
 The navy bill at the last session carried about s137 o)O, 900. Senator Hale says that at the Sixty-first ses- sion it will run up to about sl60.000.- GOO.
 At the last session on there was no public building bill At the coming session this bill will be necessary. and will carry s20.000,000 at the low est estimate.
 Then money must be appropriated for the taking of the census. The Panama canal will have to be given a further stupenduous financial lift. The army is calling for an increase in Iroportion to that promised the navy.
 Republican extravaganza is des- tined to be one of the big issues of the congressional elections of 1910. and will be still bigger issue in the next presidential campaign. So many commissions and other new of fees have been created for politicians in the last eight years that the run ming expenses of the government are more than double what they were during the last Cleveland admilistra tion.
 Figures tell a story of extravaganza almost Impossible of comprehension. The aggregate appropriation of the last Cleveland administration. tfis- cal years 1893 to 1s97l. amounted 10 sl,574 ,lo5.556. The aggregate appro- priations for the last Roosevelt term reached the government during the Cleveland administration.