Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-17


how the Payne bill falls short, by over
SbOO0.OO0 a year, of bringing in suffi
Gent revenue to equal the expenses of
the republican administration.
The appropriation for next year are
$1,O44 OLA .29S.23, or more than $12 per
capita if distributed to the individual
To meet this it is estimated that $223,-
340.712 will be received from postal
revenue. 1t is claimed that 100000 900
Is for sinking fund on public debt
and need not be paid; that s35, 100000
is appropriated for the Panama canal.
which can be paid by the sale of bonds
under the provisions of the Payne bill.
After these reductions have been made
the sum left as necessary amount TO
be raised by taxation is $725, 673. 5S623
To meet this enormous sum the fo,-
lowing estimates are made: From
customs duties under the Payne bill,
$3O5, 224 1852; from internal revenue,
$251 100000; from taxes on legacies,
| 500 100000; from miscellaneous sourc.
es, $62 100000.
| The total of these amounts is
$63S, 224, 1929. which is $S7 ,44S,S53. 81
short of equaling the expenditures OF
the government.
| why is Uncle Sam having such a
hard time meeting expenses" is being
asked by the man VINO has little time
I to keep close track of national finances
| Extravaganza" is the answer q
those on the ,cene who are able to get
a view into he business methods OF
the government from close range
Civil War Expense Exceeded.
1t is almost impossible to under
stand that the Roosevelt admnistra
ton could have been more expensive
to the American people that was tht
running of the government during the
civil war, yet it was In the year,
1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865 total expen
ditures were 1884 ,S3O,931, Or $3.50,
GIL ,523.52 less than the expenditure:
during the last four years of tn,
Roosevelt administration, which tota
$3,545, 500, 454.52.
Never but once in the history of tn,
nation, except in the Roosevelt admin
istration, did the expenditures of tn,
government reach the thousand mil
lion dollar mark. For the fiscal yea
1865, when the country was in tn
throes of the expensive civil war, tn
cost of running the go, erument reach
ed a total of 1884 ,G55A4S Of thi
sum 81 ,O30. $50, 400 were for the main
tenance of the army.
In 1862 the total expenditures wer
s477,S7O.OG2; in 1863, 1929, 1913 ,OGG; il
1864, $S77,407,S 1855; in 1865, 1884
655,44S; total for four years, 1884
S30,931.
Under President Roosevelt the e,
penditures were: 1906, $736,717, 532
1907, 1919, 5S9, 1876; 1908, $920,79
1880; 1909 appropriated for !:
Roosevelt administrator, $1.O0S,397
543.56; total for four years, s3,545, 500
45462.
Attracted Attention.
During the Roosevelt admins 10
wastefulness in the navy and in tn
army attracted widespread attention
1t what proportion the exlravagaDc
reached the individual :.me 'i.,an .ra
Ne ShOWH Dy ftIdp5tlfOn VI re
capita appropriations Of the Roosevelt
and Cleveland administrations.
Under Cleveland the per capita nj
preparations for the army for fou
years were $1.35; for the navy. sI.Jl
for Notifications, 20 cents; the ave.
age per capita for the four years TO
such service, $500.
Under the second Roosevelt admin
intration the per capita appropriation
for the army for the four year perio
was $3.GG, more than two and one-hal
times the amount under Cleveland
for the navy, $4.91, more than tire
times the amount under Cleveland; TO
Notifications, 80 cents, or more tina,
so per cent increase over Cleveland
The average per capita cost for tn
three services under Roosevelt wa
$3.50, two and one-fourth times q.
great as under Cleveland.
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