Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-04
BY TAV.
Special Washingtop Correspondence.

offices and the Capitol!
 Touring cars for the president, vice president and 'Uncle Joe.'
 White House receptions which "rival the glory of Napoleon's court" at one of which, ac- cording to the Washington Post, "a dazzling ravine of gold blazed before the vision."
 Another group of "cut- to- -the-quick" econ omies includes:
 More than $2,5OO for appolnaris water for the senators.
 Hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep the senators in vaseline castor oil, olive oil, promo quinine, hair tonic, costly perfumes, glycerine, bergamot nail brushes, clothes brushes, travel ing expenses in attending funerals, etc.
 Then we come to this item which stands by itself:
 The addition in the last eight years of 99,225 federal oAiceholdeS to the payrolls of the re- public, at an increase of expense to the people of more than seventy million dollars. This item helps to explain why it is costing the Taft ad ministration more than twice as much to run the government than it did Cleveland. How does this riotous extravaganza effect the treasury? is asked. These figures tell us Since June 30, 1907, the total balance in the general fund has dropped from $272,0 ,44547 l to $82O03, ,557.61. With an average daily
  two million dollars, but short time can elapse before the government will have to sell more bonds to secure more money to meet more eX- | travagance. Outstanding bond issues are na- | tional debts.
 How does all this concern the average cti- zen? This is how:
 The per capita appropriation by congress jumped from $6 in 1890 to $12.40 in 1909. Since the government raises the bulk of its revenue at the custom houses and internal revenue of fees, you, Mir. Reader are paying for repub- lican extravaganza in increased prices | There is no use of your correspondent report ing further on the proposed investigation of the sugar underweighing frauds, or the alleged illegal sale of rich Philippine sugar lands to the sugar trust. The trust has shown itself pow | erful enough to prevent probe by congress- Just how it was able to protect itself from an investigation the writer does not pretend to know All that is known is that nine resolutions providing for a probe of this thieving trust have been introduced in this congress, and every one | of them has been chlOroformed. The brother of President Taft was the attorney for the sugar trust, and Attorney General Wickersham was | formerly law partner of this brother. The at torney general says the sugar trust should not | be investigated, and the president sustains this I view
 I ''We expect that the customs receipts will fall off from now on,'' said a high official of the treasury to the writer. ''The recent increase in the customs receipts was largely if not wholly due to the interruption of business while the tariff bill was in the making Importers held their orders because of uncertainty of what the new rates would be. As soon as the tariff bill was passed these delayed orders were sent abroad and the increases in the customs re- ceipts of the past couple of months are merely temporary, and do not by any means indicate that the new law is to be much better revenue producer than the old one.''
 ''Aldrich is not a candidate for reelection } and therefore is no longer an issue,' is what the republicans are preparing to say from the stump in the approaching congressional cleo tions. But such progressive republicans as Sen ator La Toilette expect to see Aldrich in the next congress, ready and eager to serve the big
 interests, as usual. There is nothing to prevent the Rhode Island boss from changing his mind after the fall elections are over
 I On April 25, 1910, Vice President Sherman made speech at St. Louis in which he intimated that the new tariff law was bringing in so much money that it might possibly be necessary to re- wise the Payne Aldrich tariff law upward On | hot T to +ba of +l,o +oJ