The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-12
Financial Statement of Ap-
preparations Committee
Gives Shock.
TAFT TOUCHES ONLY
ORDINARY EXPENSES
Discrepancy Between Presidents
Figures and Committees
Thus Accounted For.

Members OF Congress who were in
terested in that portion Of President
Taft's message dealing with the gov
ernmental estimates for the fiscal year
1872, and who believed that al last
Congress would get away from its
billion dollar session reputation. have
had something OF a shock in looking
over the financial statement issued bF
the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees
Instead Of getting away from a
billion dollar session. Congress viii
come within $1,000 Of that marx
before the adjournment on March If
IL does nothing but enact into law the
estimates sent 10 II by the various
branches or the Government
In his message 70 Congress on De
cember s the President said
The final estimates for the year end
ing June -. 1872, as they have been sent
10 the Treasury, on November =. OF this
year. Tor the ordinary expenses OF the
Government. including those for public
buildings rivers and hsrbOrs- ana the
navy buiidinE probraTns amount 70
500. fSi. Cl3-11- This is S5--s6t ,ssl-.j less
than the appropriations OF tie iscal
year ending June 30 1911 II = Sit -
1914 less than the total estimates. in
GLIDING supplemental estimates, submit
ted 10 Congress by the Treasury for the
year 1911 and is S5,574.659-29 less than the
original estimates submitted BY the
, Treasury for I911-"
Calls for sooe,I4s,so5-
President TafJ-s statement Of the
finances OF the Government differs from
that OF the Appropriations COMMITTEES
OF Congress in that he does not treat
with the Government expenditures as a
whole The statement prepared By
these committees, dealing with these
Government expenditures as q whole
and based OF the book Of estimates sent
! 10 Congress by Secretary Macy eaE1-
show that the aggregate appropriations
over ,lc appropriations Tor 1911 teNclu-
sive OF deficiency and miscellaneous OF
S7,251,52p-1z-
A comparison Of the estimates sent 70
Congress this year with those submitted
a year ago shows that this years e.
Inmates call for 81, f13-l36 more than the
estimates for the fiscal year 1eIL The
, discrepancy between President Tafts
figures and those Of the Appropriations
I Committee = % be found in the fact
that President Taft deals only with the
ordinary expenses Of the Government
Thus he eliminates about $4,000 called
FOR IN the sundry civil appropriation Oil
for the Panama Canal; approximately
SCI sf".ot1 Tor The sinking FUND account
and about So, 003. 600 " hic,1 VIII be car
yied in the pcstoffCe appropriation bill
Canal and Postoffice-
Members Of Congress agree with Prssi-
dent Taft that the Panama Canal IS an
extraordinary expenditure. and 50 long
as he deals only with ordinary expendi-
lures he may safely exclude about SIS
0900lo- The p0stOffice expenditures are
treated as q balanced account. uOrWitl-
SraDdinE the fact that Congress must
first appropriate about SO GO coo. the
money collected BY the department. being
turned p3ck into the Treasury later on
The S6I-0u.f10 for the sinking fund.
however. members OF Congress assert,
should be included in the ordinary ex-
IeuGitures Of the Government 50 that
this more than Wipes out the S5S-O10.O11
reduction in the estimates mentioned
by President Taft in his message
From the standpoint OF members in
favor OF economy who are anxious 10
have session Of real economy CSe most
significant fact IN connection with the
the estimates cali for appropriations
Of SIS. s03.S9-S1 in excess Of the es-i-
mated revenues