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Show why tiik i:i'i:nsk. Scnalcr Am.ison has made a careful analysis of the appropriations made by the Fifty -lirst congress, showing where the money is to go to and why its expenditure ex-penditure is necessary. The items of increase for the veins Is!)! U2 aggregate about $IT.".(li)i),()00, and me thus distributed: dis-tributed: Pensions, 102,(ltlll,IHMt; post- olliee, $'.".'.0(111,(1110; navy, !II.OIM1,000; fortifications. $.',HilO,(10U; Indians, ?(,-!KK),II00; ?(,-!KK),II00; rivers and harbors, '.'.700,00(1; sundry civil bill, $:i,000,000; World's fair, $1,000,000; French spoliation claims, $l,.'i0l,0(0; direct tax refunded, $15,5(10,0(10; other increases, about $:i,-()0ti,000, $:i,-()0ti,000, making the total given above. The big increase is in the pensions, making considerably more than one-half one-half of the total; and it is worth noting that $14,000,000 of this was to make good a deficiency left by the democratic congress in 1mn;i, 'j'ho dependent pen-siou pen-siou law caused an increase of $H,luo,-000, $H,luo,-000, but the record shows that thirty-j thirty-j six democrats voted for that measure, while forty helped to pass it by dodging. dodg-ing. In other words, over one-half of the deinocratio members supported the bill directly or indirectly, and to that extent tho party is responsible for the "extravgauce,"if that is tho proper term. Over .3.000.000 of tho increase is due to contemplated improvements in the navy, in coast defeuses and iu increased postal facilities. Were these not ueces-sary ueces-sary and desirable? Will not the country be largely bcnelited by the expenditures? ex-penditures? Tho river and harbor excess ex-cess of $'.', 700,000 goes to repair the levees along tho Mississippi and for deepening the harbor at Galveston objects which the democrats did not resist with any great amount of force. The Indian bill increase was necessary to keep faith with the Indians, and many members of both parties .worked hard to secure it, as also to settle the French spoliation claims. The million for I ho World's fair was sanctioned by both parties. If these several increases were but a wanton and reckless wastq of the public pub-lic money, why did tho democratic party join so largely in making them? The republican party does not seek to escape responsibility, being in the majority, ma-jority, and, furthermore, being convinced con-vinced that the appropriations were proper and will prove highly beneficial. The democrats, however, were not the innocent oulookers they would have tho country believe they were while tho treasury was being "looted." For tiie consolation of these democratic editors ed-itors who seem so fearful that there will not be a dollar iu I'ucle Sam's strong box when it comes their party's turn to do their looting, Senator Aim-son, Aim-son, who is always safe and conservative conserva-tive in dealing with figures, is conlideut that there will be $i;o.000.030, which will be a good enough starter for a party that professes such a holy honor for a big surplus. |