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Show coMiiirsettiN ti. UTiioriimiuv-. 1'AliTV organs are making s gcwJ deal of talk about the re stectlvo appropriations ap-propriations of tbetlnt session of the Fifty-lint and Hfty second Congresses. Con-gresses. Tho former li uiuelly denominated the billion dollar Congress, Con-gress, but thu Inller by Us ap) roprin-tlons roprin-tlons during the session )ust closed exce-etls tlioao ot (ho first session of tho Fifty first by 4l,ots),tnil. l'utllug.the question In this way Is mlileadlug,iud In tho end would remit lu no advan tage to nny party. The licit way la to lice the actual figures before tho I u 1m llo nud let them Ju if for H emselvca. The niproprlatlonaof the two renlons referred to aroas follows! nrtrihit tifiriecead . (..in. .. elensr .lirlrsltorsl II vete l a.m.WSV! Arrnr . .. , SI M 111 S SI AM tl Ull maus led hMilar ... I -10 IIS W IttHOUW liislncl ot Celurs ,. i . , i 1,11 u MH,iti r, t ir ictesuoBs . ... IS.JHDIV 9 IMS ssi tntllin MM. .. rsnSilHOI TjaSllt SI til Utlts eM.... tl,trW -S tl HV.SS1 v- MlllUrr Arafletae tnts.lt t:SI 31 r 51 1 Mull SI t3,MSie les.t.n w-tsitslio lin-roee 1 loare ... li fl l w sjijBIT "I lllrelsn lllarlior Svlsm 0 stlJIjelsbO -nnrirr ttll ... w J.!; sveeil el tiro ensr .... si it s - uh ll.aVtn ' BllrellseHn .. ulmji tt tow 1 0 's"i r frlalloDa HI SIS 111 00 111 MUM! 00 Tolals. .IM3eMlo"-l 1107 711.111 ri Itwlllboaeen that luthu matter of pen.lous an Increase of $18,000,000 bas taken p'acu lu the iermincnt aunual a proprlatlon; JlO.fioo.no) fot sugar' buntles, and $0,001,000 far refunding national hank notes. Tho World's Fair gets $2,000 010. The agricultural doartnicnt also shons nu Increase. Altogether these Items will make uVer $75,lM 0is), the exenJlturu of wlilch Is directly chargeiblu to t'to leglilatlolt of tho Filly first Congre, and hente cannot be falrl) classod as belonging to the I Ifty.recoud. Hut the n It Is i-enn'iMblo to go back an lihow how iiiucli of tlio blllliu dollars dol-lars of thu Kiny.flret Congrtsi was the result of the legislation of the Fiftieth. We are of opinion that tho sum ol $70, 000,1:) of the so called billion dollsr Congress czu be shown to bo tbe result uf legislation In the receding Congress. Con-gress. Presenting Irsuee of tells kind in an entirely one-si led manner only mystifies, the eojdo, and does not help cither I srty flnslly. What the ole of Hi" United Htatei are ( n.rrrnid about la tbo question, was the money wisely expended and to the but ad-vantage ad-vantage of tbo peoi le at large? |
