The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-08-31
END Of SLxTY-sECOND CONGRESS
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FlS Al
YEAR is $1,o1e,636, 1886.
General Deficiency Bill Signed by
President-Congress Allowed
Three Texas Measures.

! Three Texas Measures.
Washington-Congr closed ar
other billion-dollar session Monday
but the exact total of the nation
cost Of living" varies as it is seel
through republican and Democrat
eyes.
The total appropriations for tn
fiscal year 1913, which began July !
1912, amount to s1,019, 636, 1886 a:
given to the senate and house Mon
day by Senator Warren and Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald, respectively
chairmen of the two appropriations
committees
1t is conceded by both these leaders
that this is $7,046,O00 less than the ma
tons budget of 1912, but it remained
for former Speaker Cannon, in behalf
of the republican forces of the house,
to produce figures to show that the
present democratic congress actually
had appropriated more for general
purposes than did the preceding re-
publican congress
Representative Cannon declared that
out of the general total should be
taken all expenditures made for the
Panama canal. With such deductions
| he said the total appropriations for
1913 would be $99O,656,143, as COM
pared with a total of 1891, 122,881 ap-
propriated for general purposes last
year.
Predictions that the government
would face heavy deficit at the end
of the year were made by both Sena-
tor Warren and Representative Can
non. Senator Warren said President
Taft and his cabinet had carefully re-
duced estimates to the lowest figures.
The appropriations actually made
were over $21,OOO,OOO less than the es-
Inmates and republican leaders de-
clare it will be impossible for the ex-
listing government agencies to keep
within them.
Sobered by the embarrassments of
Saturdays all night session of fill
busters and disagreements, congress
adjusted its difficulties Monday, in
vited President Taft up to the capitol
once more, and at 4:30 o'clock Mon
day afternoon wrote 'finis" after the
proceedings of the second session of
the Sixty-second congress.
The end was marked with a return
of harmony. Senator La Toilette, de-
handing action on the Penrose cam
paign fund resolution, found all op-
position smoothed away in front of
him and the resolution passed almost |
without discussion.
enators Chamberlain, Martin,
Swanson and Culberson, after fight.
ing bitterly for the payment of the
''State claims" embodied in the gen
eral deficiency bill, yielded to the
urgings Of their colleagues and permit.
ted the senate to yield to the demands
Of the house and strike these claims
from the bill. In return for this con-
cession,. however, they received the
promise of support next winter when
the claims again will be pressed for
payment.
With these old claims, amounting to
for congressional employees which the
senate demanded and the house re-
fused to give. In the last half hour
of the session, while President Taft
waited in his special room to sign
the measures of the dying congress,
IN attempt was made to rush a spe.
cial resolution giving the employees
he extra month";" but the house
again blocked
The president signed the general
deficiency bill at 4:10 o'clock, making
certain the payment of the $1,8OO,OOO
deficiency in army pay, the $15O,O0O
or the Gettysburg memorial celebra
ion next year, the $350,O0O for ex
ension OF customs work and scores
# other important payments that
hinged on the passage of the bill.
The session lust fizzled" out in the :
enate, to use the words of one OBJ
erver A comparative handful of :
aembers occupied their seats and a
all for quorum in either house OF
enate would have forced a return OF
he embarrassing situation of last
yeek.
Texas secured $3.50 which was y
lodged by President Taft to Governor :
'olquitt last year when the State S..
laced rangers and guards along the =
10 Grande to preserve observance of
re neutrality laws during the Mexico
evolution. This money will be i'm. =.
lediately available. =
The bill also carries $4,000 for the :
spair of the water main at the Gal. r
eston immigration station and 500 1
10 for the commission which survey.
the boundary between Texas and "
exico The claim Of Texas for s217,.
. growing out Of the protection of
g border against Indians a,Ga Mexi.
ms was lost, but Senator Culberson
ia he felt confident that the claim 81
Ill be allowed next winter when he e
III introduce separate measure to N
the State. This claim M
vers the amount represented by ad. y
tsonas vouchers discovered in the W
sement of the capitol at Austin after "
Q original claim had been paid in 10