Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-08-18 | Page 1 | Republicans Score Revenue Measure

REPUBLICANS SCORE REVENUE MEASURE Call Attention to Wasteful Appropriations for Unnecessary Un-necessary Projects. WASHINGTON'. Au?. 17. R-puMk a n nierrilers of the senate flnanre i-oinmlttpe, in a. minority report on the admintsira-t:on admintsira-t:on revenue MM, today denounced the principle of the Mil as wronjc a.nl declared de-clared It overlooks entirely the "serious international crisis" which the country will have to face. "It Is sufficient." said the report. ":o call the attention of the country to the fact that the appropriations for this session ses-sion of congress will aggregate approximately approxi-mately Il.SOo.Oft'i.fMO. as acrtlnst $1.1 14,-000. 14,-000. 000 for the fiscal year i:16, an amount that almost staeereJ the country at the time: and it is admitted that the additional addi-tional amount appropriated at this nes.inn for what nay h termed preparedness is not to exceed J3PC.0O0.0OO. demonstrating that entirely outside of preparedness this congress has made appropriations of approximately ap-proximately $2iH, 000,000 more than any prei ed ing con grass. ".Moreover, the minority does not feel called upon at this time to provide sue-gestloris sue-gestloris of ways and means for additional revenue. The statement that this additional addi-tional revenue Is needed for preparedness Is entirely misleading-. The wasteful and Ill-advised appropriations for projects that were unnecessary, the creation of thousands thou-sands of additional offices and general extravagance In expenditures in all departments de-partments of the government, together with the failure of existing legislation passed under the present administration to provide sufficient revenue, even under normal conditions, places the responsibility distinctly on the party In power to show' the way to provide sufficient revenues for a treasury already faclntj a larpe deficit."