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Show How Departments Are Able to Force Congress to Appropriate Money. .... , By J. N. TINCHER of Kansas, Speech in House. You ask how can the departments make congress appropriate money, and I want to explain that. Let us take an example in the department of agriculture. First, say we give the bureau of animal industry one and one-half million dollars to fight tuberculosis in cattle; providing one-half million for administration and one million to be used to pay for cattle destroyed. de-stroyed. That looks as if congress had guarded that appropriation fairly well. " Now, under the law any man in any department can be puniehed for creating a deficiency. So they will not create any, but here is 'what they will do: They will hire enough men to spend this one-half million dollars in eight mouths. Then, at the end of seven months they will serve notice that all work in that department will stop at the end of the eighth month unless congress gives them additional money. It is important to human life that this work be continued; and congress con-gress is practically forced to give this executive officer of the department more money. We can not even remove him for abuse or indiscretion. He has his office by appointment of the president. We will have to acquiesce in the deficiency appropriation. We cannot waste all that former congresses have spent in the work, so his demands must be met; all we do is to pare them down as low as we can and go ahead. |