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Show DEMOCRATS ROAST APPRDPHIATJOWS Another Billion-Dollar Congress Does Not, Appeal to the Minority Party. WASHINGTON. June 27. Tho appropriations appro-priations made by tho session of congress con-gress Just closed amounted' to $1,027,-133,446, $1,027,-133,446, according to an official announcement announce-ment made by tho house appropriations committee today. Separate statements woro made by Chairman Tawnoy, Bepubllcan, and Representative Rep-resentative Livingston of Georgia, ranking rank-ing Democratic member of the committee, commit-tee, analyzing the figures from tho stand, points of the two parlies. Mr. Tawnoy contended that a reduction reduc-tion of ?2S,529,S21 from tho laBt session of ' the sixtieth congress had been achieved, and that prospects -indicated that tho government's receipts for the fiscal year 1911 would excoed the, authorized author-ized appropriation by 511,937.12. The Democratic view was that "again the high water mark of a billion dollars of expenditures Is passed;" that -Including the authorized reclamation lssuo, river and harbor obligations, public buildings authorized, lighthouses, etc., the total direct and indirect appropriations appropria-tions for tho last session reached $1,09B.-952,051, $1,09B.-952,051, Increasing the previous regular sosslon's appropriations by $15,207,909. "Tho military expenses," declared Mr. Livingston, "amount to considerably more than all the rest of the federal expenditures put together, approximating approximat-ing 70 per cent of all such expenses. I don I believe thero ever was a military despotism on earth that took so large a toll from the taxes extorted from all of the people for purposes purely of war. "Out of these hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus dissipated." ho said, "there was naught but memories of wagos, food and raiment bought for drones and non-producers; non-producers; a few more floating engines of war, costly fortifications that later will become obsolete, the real every day service serv-ice of the people getting comparatively little. |