The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-10-29

ed the appropriations made by the
last congress would have been impos-
sible
AT that time. Mr.. President, the APP
propriations amounted to five hundred
million. Now they amount to billion
two hundred million, over twice that
amount. The premier continues
why Is ii that the Republican
| party is so much more extravagant
than the Democratic party in the
expenditure of the public money?
There are two reasons: First. be-
cause the Republican leaders are
more intimately associated with the
tax eaters than the taxpayers. They
| hear the hungry clamor of the men
who spend money, more than they
do the protests of the masses who
| contribute revenue.
/ am wondering If that situation has
been in any degree reversed, or If the
| worthy exponent of those lofty and
| economical utterances thinks they still
apply?
have no quarrel with the distinguish
ed and able leader of his party in the
| announcement of his principles; / do
not even complain of his bitter arraign-
ment, but / leave those who essay the
task to reconcile the statement with the
actual conditions as they now exist.
Senator Culberson. of Texas. long a
notable advocate of the tenets of his
party, said on the floor of the senate in
190S
Mr.. President, this record of extra
vagance under the administration of
President Roosevelt Is astonishing.
1t should arrest public attention,
whether II does or not and 1t
should provoke imm ediate and thor
ough reform in our governmental ex-
penditures, for 1t is a menace to the
treasury.
Col. Roosevelt's administration was
one which accomplished great things
and was calculated to be an extravagant
one. But the figures there denounced
as ''indefensible and menacing' are mill
Hons below those figures which are now
| supposed to mark return ito that
simplicity and economy which befit a
Democratic government"
| Now let us take the language of the
| chairman of the appropriations commit
tee, M r. Fitzgerald, a democratic gentle.
| man, most worthy and competent to com
| ment on the present situation brought
about by the acts of his own party. Mr..
Fitzgerald said on this floor during this
session:
| In few months l shall be called
upon in the discharge of my offic-
ial duties to review the record that
| this Democratic house shall have
made in it's authorization of the ex-
| penditures of the public money.
Whenever / think of the horrible
mess that l shall be called upon to
! present to the country on behalf of
| the Democratic party, l am tempted
to quit my place.
We charged the Republicans for
twelve years of my service in the
house under Republican rule with
being grossly extravagant and reck-
less in the expenditure of public
money. l believed that charge to
be true. l believed that my party
when placed In power, would DEM
onstrate that the charges we had
made in good faith were true. We
? are entitled to the help and support
of the members on this side of the
house in honest efforts to carry out
the pledges of the Democratic party.
But we have not had that support.
the public expenditures until the
Democratic party Is becoming the
laughing stock of the country.
To this Col. George Harvey of tn
North American Review. he of tn
trenchent and fearless pen, who bear
the same relation to the mead of tn
present administration. it is general
believed that Christopher Columbu
does to America, says:
Primarily. the blame for wasteful-
ness. so gross and deliberate as to
constitute fragrant violation of a
positive pledge, must attach to the
house of representatives, which
brazenly ignored the repeated adj
monitions of Chairman Fitzgerald,
but the Democratic senators have
been hardly less needless
Mr. Bankhead, the able Democrat
senator from Alabama, recently said o
this floor:
| believe 1t is the duty of the
senate to have some regard for the
condition of the treasury. We are
now preparing to so out into the
highways and byways and levy adj
ditional taxes. We are now engag-
ed in the selection of items upon
| which we can raise additional rev.
enue to the extent of 800, 900, 600.
No man who does me the honor to
t listen to me on this occasion can
tell how long 1t will be before there
will be another emergency that will
require an additional levy.
And that is true, Mr.. President Thi
does not include the s25, 900. 900 that W
are to pay Colombia 1t does not in
elude the 100000 we are to pay Mic
aragua for another right of canal. tn
purpose of 1t being, l presume. that W
having built one canal and given 1t
England, feel now under the neeessit
of building another canal and giving
to Germany This does not include tn
$50 900 for ships the forty odd mil
lions which we are told on the side,
has been scheduled shall be put throug
at the next session to cover a river
and harbors bill nor the deficit whie
will be made up by an emergency bi
after the close of this congress.
We are asked here to raise s105. 900,
900 under the name of a war tax Bl