Show STATEMENT OF MINORITY Mr Ir Tawney Tawne was followed by Mr lr Fitz Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitzgerald gerald pf Qt New York ranking minority member of ot the appropriations committee committe in the absence of ot Mr Livingston of ot Geor Georgia Igla gia gla Mr Ir Fitzgerald reviewed the ap appropriations appropriations of ot the session from a Demo Democratic Democratic cratic standpoint He arraigned the Re Republican Republican Republican publican party mercilessly for what he h e stigmatized as a shameful squandering of ot public funds He predicted a staggering deficit to be Ii b impending and antI denounced the president the executive department of ot the govern government government ment and the thA nn In n nn nn its causes The Tho country said Mr Ir Fitzgerald would have been benefited had the rec roe recommendations recommendations of the committees charged with the th preparation of ot the supply bills been more generally heeded by the tile house The importunities of ot those outside are sufficiently difficult to resist without having the members of ot the house take sides against its committee on questions of expenditure Most Profligate In History The congress said Mr Fitzgerald is isnow Isnow now about to adjourn and this se session sion has been the most profligate In our his tory Extravagance has run riot the treas tress treasury treasury ury UI has been depleted the public money mone has been shamefully squandered Every energy seems to have been boom concentrated upon the task of emptying the treasury and of ot making Imperative issuance e of bonds by the next administration in or der to defray the ordinary expenditures of ot the government The Tue dreaded hand handwriting handwriting writing has apparently been seen on the theall wall all and the Republican party part Is demor demoralized demoralized demoralized and shaken The appropriations for the next fiscal year ear aggregate the enormous sum of Jl SI 1 4 as against aggregate estimates by departments of ot Exceeded But Once In Wartime Mr Fitzgerald quoted the estimated revenues for tor the fiscal fisca l year ear 1910 treasury figures as and he declared we shall demonstrate later that this es is in all probability at least too large and that not more than is likely to be realized Never I b but t once in our history he said s ld did the expenditures of ot our government reach the thousand million mark For the fiscal year 1865 when the country countr was In the throes of a bitter bloody and expensive civil war the expenditures Ag g the enormous total of ot 5 HS of which sum Im was for the maintenance of ot the army Roosevelt an Expensive Luxury Training his fire on the administration Mr MI Fitzgerald continued After the war wai with lilt Spain under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt the cost of ot maintaining the government for or the four tour following years was 10 per cent greater than during the same period when the war ar was waged Evidently Mr Speaker somo somE things are expensive and come high Making a further comparison Mr Ir Fitz Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitzgerald gerald said sald Under Cleveland the per capita ap for tor the army for four tour years ears were 13 for tor the navy na for for fortification 20 0 cents the average per cap i ita for tor the three years ears for tor such service I SUO Enormous Increases Under Roosevelt In his second admin the per capita appropriations for tor the army arm for tor the tle period are 66 more than two and times time the amount under Cleveland for tor the navy more than three times the amount under Cleveland fortifications 32 cents more than 50 per cent increase over Cleveland and the average per capita cost for tor the three services under Roose Booze Roosevelt velt elt two and times as great as under Cleveland After entering into a more detailed detal set of comparisons at ut large comprising fig figures figures figures ures from Great GrEal fiscal records Mr Fitzgerald continued Surely Sureh these significant facts have not i permeated the recesses of ot the White House nor found even een a temporary lOdgment ment in the active brain of ot the dent No other conclusion can be reached for upon no other theor is it conceivable that the admin would have submitted estimates as has been repeatedly pointed out du during during ring the session at least in the revenues estimated for tor the coming fiscal year ear Since these estimates were submitted to congress the country has been afflicted with a panic The business and Industrial Industria depression is growing rather than lessening Yet In the Continued on Page 2 STATEMENT OF MINORITY I T Continued from page 1 plethora of messages m sages to congress from the chief executive there has not been a sin in I Isle Ile gle le warning to safeguard the Interests i i nf or the people by resolutely repelling all aU attempts to raid the treasury i I Indeed when the history his tor of the treas treasury treasury ury Is impartially and truthfully written I IBS I BS 58 It will II he some day da the wielder of the big stick will be pictured in heroic herol I I size at the head of those who openly I encouraged or secretly abetted by him have hae successfully rifled the people peoples s strong box Deficit of Mr lr Fitzgerald had hind this to tu say sa of the promised tariff revision t For the present fiscal I year ear the re receipts will 11 fall below the esti estimate estimate estimate mate The Industrial situation is 1 not im improving improving proving and the approach of a national election n wilt will not be b a stimulant to bust busi business ness flees nes the promise of ot revision of the ta tariff tariff riff rift by br Its friends will tend further to accentuate a constantly growing indus riar depression An impartial review of all the facts establishes firmly the con conviction that the repeated warnings of the gentleman from Minnesota Mr Tawney that hat there will wilt be a deficit of In n the coming fiscal year is ts conservative rather rathe than extravagant Republican Party Responsible In conclusion Mr lr Fitzgerald said The Republican part party is responsible for forthe forthe forthe the results of ot this session Responsibility cannot be shifted from the house tp tho the senate nor from the congress to the executive The Republican party parts is in control of all alt these and is called upon to answer for tor its Us actions The Democracy Democracy I racy mey Is willing to submit the issue to the intelligence of the American people p ople and to abide the result of f their Judg Judgment judgment Judgment ment |