Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-01-09
..,sR TO REDUCE ESTIMATES
ISSUED TO cHAiRMEN OF
COMMITTEES.
COST OF GOVERNING IS HIGH
Army and Navy, Need Much Money
waterway Improvement Advo-
Gates Expect Another Rivers
and iarhors Bill.
ev GEORGE CLINTON.

both houses nave pnSoCu tAS WIN "
tba chairmen OF committees which
deal with appropriations that they
m,st cut the supply estimates as deep
Is las they can without running the
danger of Gripping the government
service. The Democratic party, as is
the custom with all parties, is pledged
10 economy in government, but the
leaders have been little frightened
nv the size of the estimates which
have been transmitted by the secre-
taries OF the different departments,
OF course, everybody realizes that
the population of the United States
continually is growing, and that it
costs more to run the machinery of
government for 100000, 900 tof people
than it does for half that number or
twothirds that number. Moreover,
our branching out in 1898 as in
sense world power, has added to our
expenditures.
Prior to the Spanish war the gov
ernments bills for the navy were a
great many millions less than they are
today. The army appropriation bills
also were much smaller, for today
the land forces of the United States
are three times as great as they we're
prior to the time our troops went into
Cuba. It costs money to run an army
and navy, and the bigger they are
the more they cost.
Rely on the income Tax.
The Democrats believe that from
the income tax they win get enough
money to Offset the losses which may
come through diminished customs re-
ceipts. There are more goods on the
free list today than there were Before
and the duties. on good many arti-
Giles have been cut. The income tax
receipts have been yariously estimat-
ed, but they probably will amount to
about $7O.0O0,000 a year
Recently there was a meeting of the
chairmen of the house committees
which are charged with preparing ap-
propriation bills Speaker Clark
called the meeting and an agreement
was made that the appropriations
should be held down to the actual ne
eessities of the government and to the
demands of such public works as are
now in the process of completion.
The friends of the river and har-
Dor legislation, according to the men
who give to the press the views of the
organization which looks after inn
proved waterways, do not seem to
tGina the agreement to cut the appro-
priation bills will mean that there will
be no river and harbor legislation this
winter Rivers and harbors recently
have been classed by some people
with the public buildings appropria-
tons as pork barrel" measures. This
is resented by the men who want the
waterways improved and the foods
held In check.
Waterway Men Hopeful.
According to statement put out
by the bureau of; publicity of the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors congress,
Representative Sparkman of Florida,
chairman OF the rivers and harbors
committee OF the house of represen-
tatives, has said:
We will have a river and harbor
bill at this session to take care OF
projects for which estimates have
been made UP TO March 4, 1915. II
is difficult to tell at this time what
estimates. or any Of them, will be cut,
Notwithstanding that see in the pub
lie prints that the order has gone
forth to pare appropriations to fit ex.
0x.,~ Q
keep work moving on rivers and har-
oors up to the close of the short ses-
sion of the present congress, which
will be March A. 1915, when another
river and harbor bill will become a
law"
1t is perhaps probable that the chief
thing which gives hope to the pro-
ponents of river and harbor improve
ments is the remembrance OF the
Hoods of last spring. which did such
enormous damage in the middle west.
AS has been said before in dispatches
from Washington, there are two plans
Tor the prevention OF future floods,
one the plan OF Senator Ransdell OF
louisiana and the other that of Sen
ator Newlands OF Nevada. Mr.. Rams
dell wants a large sum of money
spent to build leyees on the big riy.
ers to hold the water in the streams.
while Mr. Newlands wants large con-
unuing appropriations to build reser-
Foirs for the control of floods and for
other means of bringing about the
same thing. Congress this winter
probably will debate these two plans
at length.
II seems to be fully determined that
me house committee on naval affairs
VIII recommend the construction OF
TWO big battleships this year. The
army viii get its usual amount of
money, and the chief pruning, per-
maps, will come in other departments
although the post office department.
which is largely If not entirely self.
supporting, win get anything addition
al over its receipts which it may need.
Wilson's Antitrust Advisers.
Already President Wilson has