Show TE PERMANENT I I I APPROPRIATION r I I I A Billto be Introduced Repealing I Repeal-ing Them I Thex 1 IT WILL CONDUCE TO ECONOMY 1 How Christmas Was Spent at the White Hcusp The President Mrs Cleveland and the Babies are Alniost Overwhelmed Over-whelmed With Presents That Come Front all Parts of the United ed States There Was ISo > Public Reception Washington Dec 25A subject which will receive some consideration at thehanas of the committee on appropriations ap-propriations of the House at this session ses-sion of Congress is embodied in a bill introduced by Sayres its chairman entitled A bill to repeal certain laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations Bills having this object ob-ject in view have appeared perennially during the past ten years but fpr various ous reasons have failed of enactment The object of repealing these permanent perma-nent appropriations and having Congress Con-gress pass upon the matter covered by them each year is that it will conduce to a more thorough and careful examination exam-ination of the items of appropriation than is obtainable under the present system by which accounts are audited and passed upon by accounting pfficers and where no opportunity is Jeft for scrutiny by congressional committees At the same time the objection is made against the changes proposed by the bill because of the injustice that would result to claimants entitled to the amounts paid them under the present pres-ent system without recourse to specific congressional legislation The bill now before the committee excludes from its provisions the various laws thereof specified including thp sinking fund and others the appropriations under which amount to many millions of dollars dol-lars roughly estimated at about ne third of the total permanent appropriations appro-priations The total annual appropriations appropria-tions for the fiscal year of 1894 were 113444688 and the estimates Ol 1895 are 101074680 The committee has referred re-ferred the bill to Secretary Carlisle for his views on the changes proposed and the accounting officers of the department depart-ment will be asked to submit their opinions before any recommendation in is made in the matter by the secretary secre-tary |