Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-05
APPROPRIATION Ms
WILL TOTAL MORE
THAN A BILLION
RETRENCHMENT NOT USED
BY PRESENT CONGRESS
Demands for Public Buildings,
Rivers and Harbors Improve
ments, Results in Unusually
Large Expenditure.
Morning Journal Bureau,
613 Munsex Building.
Washington, D q, June 2.

80 VS. ffT 49, 49,
min~istration, ii Is already apparent
congress Will be considerably In ex-
cess Of 81, 600, 900. 900. Every effort
has been made by the leaders to hold
expenditures within a billion, but they
admit that they have failed. In
creased appropriations have beer
granted for practically every depart
ment of the government except the
army and the Indian service. There
will be a reduction In the sundry civil
expenses.
II was only n few year ago that %
political issue was made out Of n
"billton-dollar congress" Now, con-
gress appfopriates a billion or more
every session. The expenditures au-
thorized for the current fiscal year
footed up to $1,044, 000, 600.
Indications are hat appropriations
Of this session viii go beyond that
amount. There is q prospect that the
leaders by cutting authorized expen-
ditures may be able to hold the app
preparation dow 10 that figure.
Although the administration urged
retrenchment, members have been as
i-mportunate for appropriations as
ever. A river and harbor bill was
put through the two houses. II calls
for about $50, 1000 600. An omnibus
IaRAA3 cummings hlii - lON vi INV
way. Demands for public buildings
were made In the IA and the
house that If granted would have re-
suited In an aggregate appropriation
of $12b, 900. 900. The bill to be re-
ported by the house committee having
Jurisdiction win appropriate about
$40, 600 600 for federal buildings. The
senate will undoubtedly add at least
Sc, 900. 900 TO this amount.
BF4uf1anf ia - ,huovxtnw that nm |
preparations were mounting up, has
not looked with favor on the river
and harbor and the public buildings |
bills, and IL is not yet assured that
these measures will be approved by
him.
Congressman Grant OF North Caro-
lima has a most ambitious plan for
government cooperation in road
building. He wants congress to APP
propriate 2 5000, 900, which Is to be
used in the states and territories
which put up equal amounts. IL Is a
plan for the government to 70 in,
half and half, with states, counties, |
or civil districts, on road building.
In a bill which the North C%arolinan
has presented In the house, he pro-
vides that the governments share be
distributed by a body of three road
commissioners under a bureau OF
roads, which his bill also creates. The
commissioners are TO receive "a, 900
n year
Not all of the $4,000. 900 is to be-
come available at once. only one-
fifth of the sum Is to be used the
first year and onc-fifth more each
year thereafter until the whole sum
Is expended. II the scheme works,
and the states and counties respond,
Il total of 100000 will be ex-
pended In five years for road inn
pfoVements in the United States.
From time TO time new ideas rs to
government cooperation and encour-
ugement of public highway building
are advanced In congress. Not long
ago Senator Bankhcad proposed a
scheme similar 20 that Of Congress-
man Grant. II was the Alabamian's
idea. though, to Justify his road poll
Icy upon the ground that better roads
would facilitate the rural free mail
delivery.
Congressman Brownlow Of Tennes-
see III the original federal good roads
advocate. He wanted $4,000, 900 ex-
pended outright for roads, and he
brought 10 the support OF his bill the
combined automobile associations Of
the country. SO far, however, CON I
gross has refused Ca launch into the {
business of building highways in the J
,
Republican insurgents in the house
enjoying a new experience. II is !
so long ago that when AN insur- I
gent got up 10 MAKE a speech on n 5
subject except the rules he received I
attention from the old-timcrs {
II was not unusual TO see the leaders .
of the house machine retire 10 the
cloakrooms 10 enjoy their cigars. $
Things are changing in the house G
ts well as In the senate. Tho leaders G
ave come To realize that Il is a v
pretty good policy to listen To what G
The insurgents say. Holding the bal o
ance ot power as they do a speech 81
an insurgent IN these %troublous
is more han likely To swing
votes TO defeat some pet pro- =
leet Of the house organization. .
II was not so long ago that the reg Y
ulars wete wont To poke fun at such a
insurgents as Victor Murdoch of y
n Judge Norris of Ne y
oraska. That today, apparently, has ~
passed. Murdoch had some views ON IL
The Observation-Disclosures clause of the 1
bill and he desired To give 7
The house the benefit of them. As =,
as the victor got on his feet the y
word went around tho corridors and y
.o the cloakroms. Pretty soon the -,
ibsentces began To stroll in. and be- y
lore Murdoch a got well started in ~
his speech, members were standing y
around his desk listening %attentiycly =,
20 every word he uttered IT,.
You are getting 10 be something :,
q drawing card. remarked "a mem ~
Der 60 Murdoch when hc had con- i
'luded his remarks. -
IA Is not Murdoch, remarked the i,
legislator from the plains
y Kansas 1t merely means that !,
folks who have been terribly =.
leepy are waking up 90 the fact that a,
ln insurgent is Of some account and "a,
hat occasionally he has some views =,
ere worth listeEing TO. Bear Il,
n mind also that these views do not III
have a bearing on the rules N
IL the house. Ne are coming along. %.
lust watch our smoke" @,
The first postcards were issued in n
AUSTRIA on October !. 1863 The Idea III
lad already been suggested. but not /,
AT the Fifth German postal oil
'0ngress in 1865. It's adoption ln n
appears 20 be due 10 an arfi- al
le published In 1863 by Prot Eman- lei