Show I I WORK COMPARED Of This Session of Congress With the Last I I Holman of Indium Makes Comparisons of I tits Appropriation i Jad They Are I low r for This hcssion WASHINGTON Aug 5By authority of the House Holman will print I speech in the Congressional Record tomorrow to-morrow dealing with the appropriations mado at the last session of Congress From a Democratic standpoint he says The appropriations made at this session ses-sion of Congress including permanent appropriations ap-propriations show a reduction of 33129195 under the appropriations of the last session of Congress or a reduction equivalent to 100000 to euch congressional district in the United Mates but for purposes pur-poses of comparison the amount of the river and harbor bill 1153Ulb should have been deducted from tno appropriations appropria-tions of this session for the reason that no river and harbor har-bor bill was passed at the last session of the Congress against the appropriations appro-priations of which those made at this session ses-sion should logically be contrasted Without With-out the river and harbor bill tie appropriation appropria-tion this session is 554GS2009 less toO the wholo appropriation made at the second session of the Fiftyfirst Congress This is how Holman reaches the conclusion con-clusion Second session of the Fifty first Congress Total stated in official tables VJ5Ol50727o add the amount estimated by the treasury unuer indefinite items on tho sundry civil act for pay of county claims S935000 add the amount estimated by the treasury as required under the definite appropriations appropria-tions to refund the direct tax 152J7OUO total 511240072 First session Total as stated in official tables S4C332b570 Add expenditures reported re-ported by treasurer under indefinite items of sundry civil act for pay and bounty claims 1302039 aid expenditures reported re-ported by the treasury under per menent appropriations made during tho last Congress and not Included in official tables 2lG 5G7S total S1744024S local appropriations by the FiftylirH lon rea5 for each of its two sessions 517S4346U Tne total appropriations made at this session amount to 307701321 including the river and harbor Dill being J335i92ai less than those made at the last session of I Congress and the deduction of the river and harbor bill reduction J5lGi290J and in contrast with the average appropriations appropria-tions for tho two sessions Ibo last Congress Con-gress has a reduction of S10142oQ Halman states that iU2JthJ9 of the appropriations mado at tho session just ended were pursuant to the laws pension such aa sugar bounty etc failed by the preceeding Congress He adds I admit that the results of the present session of Congress will fully meet tho expectation of the Democratic party but those facts tho country will consider in comparing the appropriations of the present session with thoso of the last Congress I Representative Henderson of Iowa a Ropuolican member of the House Appropriation Appro-priation Committee reviews the appropriations appropria-tions the past session as follows The appropriation bills as they passed the House at this session without including includ-ing any contracts of reappropriations etc are 21885520 greater tuan the appropriations appropria-tions of the first session of the fiftyfirst Congress as they passed the House Including In-cluding the appropriation for ponnions purposely left for the Senate to add on tUey are 563843104 greater The appropriations appro-priations of the first session of tho fiftysecond Congress without contracts etc exceed the average of the last Congress S74033S The appropriations and authorized contracts etc of this session exceed tho same of tao first session of the last Congress Con-gress 102270380 Tie appropriations of tho last session of the Fiftysecond Congress Con-gress without contracts eLc exceed tho first session of the Fiftyfirst Congress without contracts etc 45b22COO The I appropriations without contracts this session ses-sion are 07701330 The total appropriations appropria-tions of tnia session with authorized contracts con-tracts are 556339251 |