The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-30
END Of SKTY-SECOND congress
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL
YEAR is s1,o1s, sa6, 1886.
General Deficiency Bill Signed by
Pres'dent-Congress Allowed
Three Texas Measures.


republican and democratic |
eyes.
The total appropriations for the
fiscal year 1913, which began July ],
1912, amount to $1,O19, 636, 1886 as
given to the senate and house Mon
day by Senator Warren aud Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald, respectively
chairmen of the two appropriations
committees.
1t is conceded by both these leaders
that this is $7046,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
"h''i'ih |olt''l. itll SuCu uSuuCLUnS
ne SAID the total appropriations for
1913 would be 1890, 656,l4&. as COM
pared with total of 1891, 122,S81 ap-
proprlated Tor general purposes last
year.
FredlcuohS that the government
would face a heavy deficit at the end
OF the year were made by both Sena.
tor Warren and Representative Can
non. Senator Warren said President
ait anu MS caplnet mad carefully re-
duced estimates to the lowest figures.
Inc appropriations actually made
were over $2l,O0O,000 less than the es-
Inmates and republican leaders de-
clare II VIII be impossible Tor the eX-
lStlng government agencies to keep
within them.
Sobered by the emDarrassments OF
Saturdays all night session OF fill
busters and dlsagIeements, congress
adjusted its dlfhcuitles Monday, in
'!ted fFeSiuehI IdlI up 10 lhe cdpiIoi
! once more, ana at 4:50 O'CLOCK Mon
day afternoon wrote 'linls after the
proceedings or the second session OF
the SlXty-Second congress.
The end was marked with 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,
Sena tors Chamoerialn' Martln'
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 Tor
payment.
With these old claims, amounting TO
100000, went the extra months pay
for congressional employees which the
senate demanded and the house re,
fused 10 give III 'ne la'' r"'h i-oui
OF the session, while President TAFT
waited in his special room to sign
the measures OF the dying congress-
an attempt was made TO rush spe'
cial resolution giving the employees
the extra month"; but the mouse
again blocked.
The president signed the general
deficiency bill at 4:1O o'clock making
certain the payment OF the $l,Soo'oov
deficiency in army pay the $loo,ooV
for the Gettysburg memorial ceiepra
ton next year, the SSoo'ooo LOT e6
tension of customs WORK ana scores
7 of other important payments 1ha'
hinged on the passage OF the Dill
The session "just fizzled out In tne
senate, to use the words Oh one %
server. A comparative handlul OF
members occupied their seats and
call for a quorum in either house OF
senate would have forced return Oh
the embarrassing situation OF last