Show WHY A DEFICIT THREATENS Our Republican contemporary claims that our remarks on the extravagance of the late Congress were at fault It says The natural expenses under Mr CLEVE LANDS administration were quite as great as under the present administration with the single exception that in that administration adminis-tration Mr CLEVELAND showed his hatred of union soldiers by wholesale vetoing of pension bills Following in parallel columns are the appropriations ap-propriations of the fiftieth Democratic and the Fiftyfirst Republican Congress Fiftieth Fifty first Acts Congress Congress Agricultural 53335760 54000000 Army 487S7915 56OOUtOO Diplomatic ana consular 3403493 4003000 District of Columbia 10728520 lOOOOOO1 > Fortifications 5a05 M 6000000 Indian nu 16311153 19U0 pip Legislative Executive and JudiciaLn 41001793 49000030 Military Academy lil78lO l 1100 0 I Naval 41G35 45 49000OCO I Pension 1750174rf 243000000 Postofflce nh 13JAVii8 152000000 River and Harbor 23379Gtt5 25000000 Sundry civil 6U1SWG n9030000 fn g Deficiencies 2433901 SSOCOOuO Total 55732ai3l7 706100000 Miscellaneous n ajl2 < 3Gj7 25000000 Sum total of regular an nualand miscellaneous npproprIationsnu 593632004 731100000 Permanent specific and indefinite appropriats estimated h 224331833 266000000 Grand tota1uu fS179535S 97100000 Excess of Fiityfirst Congress over Fiftieth estimated 5180000000 The actual appropriations for the late Congress are given as far as completed and the rest are estimates furnished by the committees themselves and certainly do not exceed but probably fall somewhat short of the amounts It will be seen therefore that two years of Republican rule have cost the taxpayers fully 200000 000 more than the same immediate preceding preced-ing period under Democratic administration administra-tion Even these figures do not tell the whole story Obligations were incurred y I the Fiftyfirst Congress which will mortgage mort-gage future Congresses and seriously handicap han-dicap any effort towards economy which may be attempted There is nothing like facts for overturning overturn-ing some kinds of fiction |