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Show eilLli DOLLARS 1 YEAR NOW THE RULE Chairman Tawney and Representative Repre-sentative Livingston Review Appropriations. WASHINGTON'. March 11. Appropriations Appropria-tions ot tho last session of congress aggregated ag-gregated 51.025.-IS9.Gfi2, according to tho statement Issued today by former Representative Repre-sentative Tawney of Minnesota and Livingston Liv-ingston of Georgia, who were respectively respec-tively chairman and ranking Democrat of the house appropriations commlttoo In the last congress. Mr. Tawney says this is Iohs than $1.-ono.000 $1.-ono.000 In excess of tho total estimates of President Taft. on which the appropriations appropria-tions aro based, pays high tribute lo the executive for good faith In scrutinizing estimates and computes that the surplus of revenues next year will not be. less than ?2. S 12.000, which with any part of the treasury balance may be applied to the sluicing fund. Agulnst this Mr. Livingston says tho last session mndo a record which demonstrated demonstrat-ed that when tho Democratic party comes Into complete control of the government "this billion dollar mark for a session's appropriations, established Tour years ago at the session of the sixtieth congress, cannot bo substantially lowered, If lowered low-ered at all." Mr. Tawney reviews his recommendation recommenda-tion for the consolidation of the appropriation appro-priation jurisdiction of the house under a single committee of sufficient size to be representative of all sections of the country coun-try and of all branches of tho public service. ser-vice. Eight committees now consider and report re-port appropriation hills and Mr. Tawney says no reform Is more important. Tho commlttoo on appropriations which reports re-ports more than half of the total appropriations appro-priations of congress reported during tho first regular session of the last congress $1G.033.!)25 less than the estimates, while tho appropriations by nil the other appropriating ap-propriating committees, according to Mr Tawney. were 527.031,102 in excess of the estimates. Mr. Tawney claims that If this consolidation reform had been effected ef-fected It would have saved $02,000,000 at that session alone. Declaring that the Democrats want to save the people of this country "from tho danger which threatens them because be-cause of the rampant expenditure of their money which has been going on for the Inst twelve years' Mr. Livingston contends con-tends that militarism Is a menace and that Democratic accession will prevent national bankruptcy. He savs It Is a superhuman task lo restore expenditures to a normal level, because of the enormous liability fastened oh the treasury "by tho statutory Increase of the enlisted strength of the army and tho navy fourfold since Mr. Roosevelt was so unhappllv called to the executive office of the republic." Sounding a note of alarm against a "threatened onerous" direct tax with all Its Inquisitorial features. Mr. Livingston tavs that If that comes "the people will rise In their might with a cry that will be heard to the remotest corners of the earth and shake from themselves and their posterity tho menncles of burdensome burden-some taxation, fostered by tho Republican Republi-can party." |
