The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-15

the senator, up to the bill that was passed this year all of the appropriations that have been expended by this administration have been these lump-sum appropriations and the only expenditures made by this administration were to carry out projects adopted under republican administrations MT Ransdell. That is absolutely true and we took on not more than l4 aev projects in the bill signed a few day'
 ago. So that practically all of the items in this bill are those which were in course of improvement under republican admin istrations
 MT. Underwood. All except about IA? MT. Ransdell All except IA. MT Underwood. How much Of an ex
 penditure is entailed by the IA new prof ects provided for in this bill? G. o. P. PORK"
 MT. Ransdell. can not tell the sena tor exactly. I think it is between $20Oo, 600 and $3,0OO,0O0. There was one 1T which the senator from Connecticut (Mr Brandegee) was interested. believe tha' was $170,0O0 There was one of $22O.' 0OO if mistake not, at San Diego. Cal There was another one at Los Angeles ol S50O,OOO, and there was one at the mouth of the Mississippi-not new project, but it was for carrying on some work rem dered necessary by the awful storm o1 two or three years ago-that amounted
 to s4O0,000 The total of the new projects
 was $2653,675.
 MT. Underwood The total amount oi
 this appropriation was $44,000.oo0?
 MT. Ransdell. $42,Ss6,0S5.
 MT. Underwood. And in the neighnor.
 hood of $4o,00000O of that was expended
 on projects that had been adopted by
 republican administrations?
 TAFT EXPENDITURES MT. Ransdel. That is true. That is en-
 tirely true, and I thank the senator fol
 his suggestion with regard to that As to the matter of extravagance, re ferred to in these remarks of the repub. lican candidate for President, l shoulc like to show here. right in this connec tion, that during the regime of President Taft there was expended for rivers anc
 harbors in 1911. $49. .3s0. 541; in 1912. $SoSs3, 41s; in 1913, $n.25s,62o; and for the hsca year ending June 90, 1914, tho appropria tions having been made under Mr. Taft $51, ,1ss, ,sss; total of $173. 46s for rivel and harbor work during the four years o MT. Taft an average of $43.160.617 year During the three years of President Wilson's administration there were ex pended the following sums In the fsca year ending June 90, 1915. S2e.ssS.5oo; tn' next year, $33, 9S2 coo; for the current veal total of 2,SS6,0S5 a total for the three years of $1Os. .s56,5s5. or an average fol the three years of $s4,61S,S61. as agains an average under MT. Taft for the pre- vious four years of $43160,617
 In other words. the republicans wer' spending money a great deal faster thar it has been spent under this admiMstra ton, though I am frank to say that f the two bills for 1914 and 1s15-whicf | were wise and good bills-had not beer 1 flibustered to death by the man who fo 1 10 years was chairman of the river ant harbor committee of the House, we prob ably would have spent in proportion un | der this administration about the san' ! that was spent under MT. Taft. HUGHES IS HOISTED
 Mir Underwood. Then, the practica
 proposition is that all the money whicl