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Show A SENATE SITTING COMMITTEE. With the present session of ( ongresl the Senate has organized a new com mittee, called the Committee on Public Expenditures. This committee is com- I posed Of the following Senator-. The rnalrman ot the committee on ap-proprlatlona ap-proprlatlona (Senator Hale), the chairman chair-man of the committee on finance (8en-atoi (8en-atoi Aldtieh) the chairman of the commute.. com-mute.. ,.n military affnlrs (Senator Wnr- ren). the chairman of the committee On naval affaire (Senator Perkins), the ' hall-man of lb committee on pontofflces and post roada (Senator Penrose), the chairman of the commlite.. on aRrleuttur, and forestry (Senator Dolllver), the chair' man of the committee on Indian affairs (Senator Clapp) and Senators Nelson, Gamble, Crane, Carter Bonnie. Cummins, Burton, !'..-, a McLaurln Newlands. Owen, Fletcher, and Hughes Il is not likely that this committee to cheek up on the expenditures of the Government and undertake to bring 1 them within the anticipated revenue j is proyided because of the recent promotion pro-motion of Senator Smoot of this State to membership on the, Senale Commit tee on Fiuance. Xor do wo believe that Smoot. "s presence on that committee com-mittee would necessarily mean the. reck-less reck-less squandering of public money that i the BUggestion would imply which might account Eor the organisation of this supervising committee by Smoot 's presence' pres-ence' in the Senate Committee on Finance. Tho function of litis new committee not specifically defined iu the action of the Seuale which resolved upon its formal ion. The general idea, howev er, appears to bo that the committee will act as to public expenditures somewhat in the same manner that the sitting committees iu tho Utah Legislature have been acting from time to time alone towards the latter portion of the sessions as to the bringing forward or suppression of bills, that is, by throwing throw-ing out. reducing, amending, and check ing up on the various general appropriation appropri-ation bills, as well as the. special appropriations ap-propriations mado at each Congress. It has beSn evident for a long time I ha I there is need for some such an authority author-ity as this to supervie the Congressional Congres-sional appropriations. The body which would naturally be supposed to take the leading action, however, is the Lower House of Congress. But since the Lower House showed no disposition disposi-tion to act. the Senate has taken the matter in hand. and. it seems lo us. in dealing with it iu the right way, always al-ways provided that tbe chairmen of the various committees as named, can come to some accommodation as to the liberality of expenditures under their committees' respective control. con-trol. The deficit of upwards of . i in.miK 000 which is sure the present fiscal year, with the outlook for a greater deficit next year, and with the uncertainty uncer-tainty of revenue from I tie new tariff bill that is to be enacted, the precaution pre-caution of providiug this or some other ageucy through which expenditures may be checked up and limited, is evident. The country vi!l have a right to expect ex-pect from this extraordinary committee commit-tee of the Senate the best and most practical results The action creating it is in the right direction, and the membership of it is precisely the membership mem-bership which ought to have the controlling con-trolling influence m the Srnate. |