The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-05-28
ERA OF EXTRAVAGANCE
ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED A POLICY OF RECK-
LESS EXPENDITURE OF funds


Of b committee Appropriation of the National Repre-
natves in able article contributed Van Magazine:
time people of the United States pause consider
the alarming in the annual expenditures of the Government
and the necessity of checking growing tendency toward
In the past eight years marm and the nquisment of
nove and rights by the the Federal Government
forced Congress apprate billions where hundreds millions
sud have sced and yet the estimates Of the executive
of the Government for that period pared down
Those who recessy of thousands of miles exposed
line and predict Japanese invasion the West European
invasion the East doubtless little for cold facts and figures
Let them their way and will not be many days until
spenng hreefourts of available past and
anticipated is expenditures for military purposes
the result greater than those of any other the
world though army is far smaller than that of either Great
Britain France Germany, Japan or Russia
Appropriations for public expenditures made upon estimates
submitted by the departments of the Government the
beginning each of Congress The aggregate amount of
these estimates during past eight years including the fiscal year
1910 equals the of $2 Upon them
Congress appropriated 1896 This includes S150O0O
600 for river harbor Improvements estimated The rapd
with national expenditures have been increasing during
this period by comparing the total appropriations for the
fiscal year 9O3 which S796633 86479 with the total
paon at the Set Congress for the fiscal
1910 2 the difference between the amount reqrd
public service years ago and the amount required now
being 4334 than three times the total eNpend
lures of the Federal Government the fiscal year 1861
emphasize what stated above that the two primary
leading have been the popular and executive
upon Congress for appropriations from the Federal Treas
uy for the exercise rights and functions belonging exclusively
abnormal and expenditures
time of peace
Fixing responsibility for this Of affairs may be like closing
the horse has fed but only just that 1t be not
charged to Congress- If the submitted during the past
eight years had been appropriated for and II the amounts proposed
in bills introduced and demanded by public sentiment had passed
the treasury deficit the end of the present fiscal year Wou De up
ward of $5O0000O00 instead of about S1OOO0O0O had not
been for the element Congress- we would nave o
been meeting these enormously increased expndrs with
proceeds from the sale of bonds During the eight years previous
March last effort recommendation OF the executive branc
Of the Government the OF the people Deg SdVeu nom
that unfortunate situation.
The of this practice asking for than IS actually needu
manifest 1t entails upon Congress the burden with little any
the Executive trehng the good from the Dad "
derentiatng between the Indispensable the necessary anu W
sirable expenditures should be provided tor II
has not in fact begotten a disposition III i'"iH
departments in estimates for all manner OF
be pressed upon their attention without reference to te
the fact that the total of drafts upon the treasury ~
made through Congress- enormously exceeds the annual
In speech in the House of Representatives on Ap i' @
had occasion to call what believed TO DC
Signal in e form, Of nronoso1 to build four bateshps year
one There was talk by members on Dot @
the chamber of the danger of with some foreisn ~
such danger existed the legislative branch OF re
had not been apprised of the fact Instead noble meet
sixteen battleshps with foreign auxiliary shlPS' was
from San Francisco for trip around the world leaving ~
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts absolutely unprotected le W
asked to appropriate on account of the Navy tor the ~
1903 money than was expended or similar p
any other nation in single year t The
had carefully analyzed the Army ana Navy s I zoe
United States Great Britain France Germany and japan anu
able, by comparison of the expenditures Tor these
country named to show that proportion to the SIZE % @
and Navy expendng for that year more la ~ r. d
nexcess of expenditures of any other naon III W ~ o+
that nation approached our expenditures on account u
and come The House was treated 10 VlVu Lite
would happen if the yellow Man to land MS a - Is
MA, Oregon Washington and was warned III se s. 9TH
that the United States would have to build baues'nP f