Show i BY CONGRESS t Democrats in Rouse Honse Oppose Republican ican Extravagance c t EXPENSE PER PEE CAPITA MORE THAN PHAN DOUBLED t Tax aX Burden n Increased Vily in ma a Decade t I Washington ton Feb 18 house De Devoted e voted tO e excepting eX an hour and a half consumed oon ume in counting co the electoral vote and the result of the thc presidential election to the sundry civil appropriation ap bill bm General debate upon this measure was Vas completed but little actual a 8 progress D was made with the bill Fifteen of Ute the pages of the bill were disposed di d of The measure meu re was taken up when the session opened and aUci an 1 Mr MT Mi Bell of Cob Colo Colorado rado redo a member of the th appropriations committee began a speech on the ex cx ce of the present congress He said 8 the people had bad become alarm alarmed alarmed ed at a the tite rapid growth of expenditure So had hod congress become to vast increases in the appropriations ns he said that it was Wag considered consid red almost disreputable dis disreputably reputably reputable to call attention to the ex extravagance e of the government He produced figures to show that in a single decade the per er capita cost of or o carrying on the government machinery had increased from froni to over 10 Mr lr Cockran of Missouri also made maile mailean madean an attach on tot th recklessness re of the appropriations in this t is congress He de declared dared that th t the total for foi Ol the next year if reckoned in gold would exceed the appropriations of when the fed federal federal federal eral government had hod 1200 ships on the these these sex se J t maintaining a blockade from Gal Galveston Galveston veston to the Chesapeake Ch peake and men on land l nd engaged engage in the most tre tremendous tremendous military enterprise in the his history history history tory of the age Denounces the Policy Later speaking sneaking s king of the United States policy in the Philippines and China Mr Cockran Cochran said Talk bout about progress and Christian Christianity ity if progress a 8 and id d Christianity mean marching under many flags gs of plunder plunderers ers era and the swords of Christian sol sob soldiers soldiers diers dripping in tn the blood of plunder plundered ed people it is time to quit or fling away the th masquerade e and say aay Progress r ress rass SS has ed freebooter Christianity slumbers awl and God is deed dead Demo Democratic Democratic cratic Mr Cockran also argued ar ed that from any standpoint the game in the Phil Philippines waif vas not worth orth the th cost We have already aid he spent money enough there the agu n canal to construct what new warships we w need Beed and we weare are today no nearer p ac than when the first gun was fired Mr Richardson Ten Tenn also com corn commented commented upon unon the vast total of at this session se slon which he said would reach isach Four years ago when r ent ad administration d ministration began the annual appropriations were bou abou t He conceded that appropriations would in increase crease but bit why he asked this pro prodigious prodigious Increase J e of over The w war wr r bad hai 1 been b n two vears years and nd could conid not t be charged barg d with these increases es for the increases were vere not confined to the army anny end ard navy appropriation appropriation Wile bills There was an art increase in La every one o of the appropriation bills Challenged Ch by Colleagues C Did QU w DOt ot t vote tot fop the river riv I and harbor arbor arid and the appropriation bills A he was vas asked Steel V What if J did replied Mr Rioh ardson I j not tand stand S here and hold back bae appropriations for liabilities have ave ben n created Mr y Mass challenged Mr Richar s 11 to point out a single ap apin propria f in the tee sundry civil bill that b Mr Richardson said he lie e would do so o While the n Is talking down expenses observed ed d Mr Moody goody rr I r will wm ask him whether tie he e did jot iet vote ote for fora a soldiers home in inT T Mr Richardson I did It passed I I 1 believe beli ve Mr It thU iQ not I r voted against it Did not the gentleman vote vole for the Bowman Dovman act claims Mr Richardson I did Mr Moody The p pel I agreed on the necessity for foj fo folding down appropriations The trouble tro ble is that he always votes for them while ne I 1 vote against a them Points Out Extravagances ces Proceeding Mr Richardson pointed out as one of the appropriations u which should be for forthe the thC rent of temporary quarters for fr th New NewYork NewYork York custom house and d Mr Gage for his x course ourse in conn the sale of the old ld custom house houe l i Mr Corliss Miss spoke ht In favor n Vor Jf f 1 the construction of a Pacific cable c Upon Unon of order made by Mr Olmstead Pa the appropriation tion of for a tender for the inspector of the Ninth lighthouse J and tind for a tender t for the Tenth T nth dis district district triet for a tender Thir Thirteenth district nd for a a ten tell tender tender der dot fr for r th Sixteenth nth district were stricken from the bill o Mf M Olmstead said that these sro were not authorized by law lawand lawai and ai he wa ivas vas simply the teachings of the chairman of the Ions committee in standing by b the letter J of the rules At the house adjourned |