Show TOE FIRST session of the present Congress will go down into history because of its enormous appropriations appropria-tions for all objects But notwithstanding notwith-standing this the usual deficiency bill has appeared and Congress is now called on to vote over a million and a half of dollars for that purpose pur-pose It is the same old story and it will be told over and over again until the end of the rule of the republican re-publican party It is an abuse that has grown up and flourished under republican administrations It is even more than an abuse because the making of expenditures for which no appropriations are provided pro-vided is positively prohibited bylaw by-law If Congress were to appropriate appro-priate a thousand million dollars for one years expenditures the republican repub-lican executive officers would spend it all and then come to the succeeding succeed-ing Congress and ask that a deficiency be made up In other words Congress which alone shall say how much may be speot of the public treasure is overridden and its prerogative made a dead letter every year by republican officials |