Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-03-11
BILLION spent
BYC0NGRESSAT
LAST SESSION
Former Representative
Tawney, as Chairman Of
Appropriations Commit
tee, Praises Taft.

Washington, D. c., March 10.-Ap,
gress aggregated S1,025,4 ,662, ac
cording to the statement issued today
! by former Representatives, Tawney d
Minnesota and Livingston Of Georgia
who were respectively chairman and
ranking democrat of the house appro
priations committee in the last con
gress Mr.. Tawney says this is less
than 100000 in excess of the total
estimate of President Taft, on which
the appropriations are based, and he
pays tribute to the executive for good
faith in scrutinizing estimates. He
computes that the surplus of revenues
next year will be not less than $685.
$4,000, which with any part Of the
treasury cash balance may be applied
to the sinking fund.
Divided Jurisdiction Costly.
The committee on appropriations
which reported more than half Of the
total appropriations of congress, re-
ported during the flrst regular session
of the last congress, $16.933,925 less
than the estimates; while the appropri.
ations Of all the other appropriations
committees, according to Mr.. Tawney,
were $27,931, ,4O2 In excess of the esti.
mates. Mr.. Tawney claims that IL this
consolidating reform had been effected
it would have saved $62,OOO,0OO at that
session alone.
Mr. Tawney says one of the evils In
cident to divided appropriations juris-
dictions is the practice Of making ap-
preparations Immediately available,
large portions Of many appropriation
bills being, in fact, designed to cover
up deficiencies in the preceding year.
He points out that the aggregate for
the last session, which includes $4.-
100000 for the Appalachian forest re-
serve, is $2,500,000 less than the ag-
gregate for the preceding session Of
congress- and the aggregate Of the last
congress- which exact aggregate is not
given in his statement. is an increase
of s600,OOO over the preceding con-
gress.
Democrat Hits Army Extension.
Declaring that the democrats want to
save the people Of this country from
the danger which threatens them be-
cause Of the rampant expenditure Of
their money that has been going on
for the last twelve years." Mr.. Living
ston in his statement contends that
militarism is a menace and that demo-
cratic accession will prevent national
bankruptcy. He says 1t is superhu-
man task to restore appropriations to a
normal level because Of the enormous
liability fastened upon the treasury
'"by the statutory Increase of the en-
listed strength of the army and navy
fourfold since Mr.. Roosevelt was SO un-
happily called to the executive Office
of the republic"
Mr.. Livingston Sees Uprising.
Sounding note Of alarm against a
threatened direct tax" with all it's in
ouisitorial features, Mr.. Livingston
says that II that day comes, "the peo-
pie will rise in their might with a cry
that will be heard to the remotest cor
ners Of the earth, and shake from
themselves and their posterity the
manacles Of burdensome taxation fos.
tered by the republican party. That
day is not distant unless we stop in,
stanter in this precipitous money-wast.
ing race we are now engaged liz =