The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 5, 1900, Page 2

erent stenenenenmecrrtenrertinnen semen BIG BURDEN FOR THE TAXPAYERS. Cost of the Army of Imperial- ism Brought Out in Debate on Appropropriation Bill. For Each Soldier in United States Army the Taxpayer Will Pay $3.230 This Year. Washington, D.C, March 2 debate on the army appropriation bill in the house this week has brought out many facts of supreme importance to thetaxpayers. It has furnished for the first time since the war in the Philippines began an ac- curate basis for computing the cost of the army of imperialism and the cost of each individual soldier. It has also furnished figures, the relia- bility of which is not disputed by chairman Hull or by any member of the house, which proves beyond a contradiction that secretary of war Root not only did not deal fairly with congress when he reported to it that the war operations in the Phil- ippines within the last eighteen months have cost only $58,000,000, but that he deliberately falsified the figures for partisan administration purposes. For the transportation of the sol- diers, clothing of soldiers, commis- sary department and all other strictly military purposes for the period covered by Secretary Root, congress has appropriated in round numbers $250,000,000. For the present fiscal year, alone, and during it, there have been ap- propriated for the military establish- ments the sums: On army bill, $80,- 430,204.06; on the military academy ._—The executive and judicial appropriation bill, $1,026,765.24. The latter two bills carry the great majority of the 2,140 clerks now employed in the war department for the permanent establishment of the United States; that is, a proportion of a about one clerk to forty-two enlisted men as- suming the figures of thechairman of the committee on military affairs to be correct; that our army is not within ten per cent of the total limit allowed by law. Beside these amounts there are carried on the urgent defi- ciency bill $45,930.977.61, giving a total of $130,387,753.33. That does not inelude the fortification appro- priation bill.‘ With that included, $4,990,900, there is a total for the permanent establishment of $135,- 297,653.38. This statement includes transpor- tation and construction, but not any appropriations growing out of the civil war or the Spanish war. WHAT ARMIES IN EUROPE COST. During 1897 the Austrio-Hunga- rian army, 584,196 strong cost in Pound numbers $56,000,000; the French army, 538,759 strong, cost in round numbers $125,000,000: the German army, 598,000 strong, cost in round numbers $136,000,000, and the Italian army, 730,000 strong, cost in round numbers $45,000,000, All the war budgets of thecontinental armies include not only the cost of maintaining the standing army itself, but the charges arising from past wars. Thus the war budget of Ger- many, which is $136,000,000, carries with it expenses arising out of the war with France and the war with Austria. The French war budget, which is $125,000,000, includes the expenses growing out of the late war with Germany, as well as pensions, claims, ete. Any accurate comparison between the cost of the army of imperialism and the armies of Europe, must in- elude, with the appropriations for the support of the army for the cur- rent year, the appropriations grow- ing out of the civil war and other wars. These amount to $156,291,- 6858.63, making the total annual war budget of McKinley on the Ger- man, French or Austro-Hungary basis, amount to $291,589,642.01. Chairman Hull of the military af- fairs committee says that there are 90,000 enlisted soldiers drawing pay at this time. On that basis the cost of maintaining each enlisted man of the United States army isnot $1,000 @ year, as s been contended. On the contrary, for the al year, ex eluding the appropriations for forti- fications, it has amounted to $1,447. Ifthe appropriations for fortifications are included, then the cost for each soldier this year aggregated $150: | including expenditures for pensions, letc., then the American tax payer | pays this year $3,240 foreach soldier enlisted in the army. These figuaes are not disputed: their | correctness is admitted. The debate on the army bill has brought out these additional import- ant facts concerning the cost of the military establishment of President McKinley, emperor of the Philippines and tax collector of Porto Rieo: The cost of the military establishment per capita per population is, in Austria, $1 >in France $3 ; in Germany $2 ; in Italy $1.47. In the United States, including appropriations for the cost of the present war and the xpenses growing out of past wars 4.16. In other words.every man, woman and child in this country is taxed, under the present system of » i French Stea “benevolent assimilation’ in the Philippines and ‘15 per cent of Ding- leyism”’ in Porto Rico, $4.16 each every twelve months for the mainte- nance of the standing army and the payment of pensions. Fought in the Dark. Columbia, Mo., March 25.—Students of the state university engaged ina furious pitched battle in the audito- rium of the institution last night. There was intense rivalry between the classes over the preliminary con- test to select representatives of Mis- souri University to appear in the debate with Nebraska University, which takes place here in May. While awaiting the decision of the judges when the debate was over, members of the academic classes and the law students came together in front of the rostrum and fought. The lights were turned out and the strug- gle went on in the dark, doors being broken down and furniture smashed. Six of the students had their clothing torn into ribhons, but none were badly hurt. The debaters selected by the judges are Milton M. Mearing of Columbia, John Framer, of Carrollton, Mo., and R. L. Ward, of Clubb, Mo. Born in Havana Palace. Havana, March 29.—Mrs. Wood, wife of the governor general, gave birth to a ten-pound girl at the pal- ace at noon to-day. Mother and child are doing well. The records of Havana do not show the birth here of any other governor general’s child. Under the Spanish regime, the wife of a gover- nor general invariably left for Spain that the child might be born there. The afternoon papers had gone to press before the palace event was an- nounced, although the Discussion learned of it indirectly, and was thus able to say: “We wish all happiness to the gov- ernor general. to his wife and to the Cuban little girl, who, we hope, will be a fervent partisan of the independ- ence of her native country.” Cut Glass on a Transport. Washington, D. (., Mareh 29.—Mr. Driggs of New York, a democrat, an- nounced in the house yesterday that he should call for an investigation of the extravagance in the fitting up of the transport Sumner, on which & million dollars spent. Mr. Driggs said the enormity of the ex- travagance in the fitting up of the ship was beyond credence. An $s,- 000 silver service had been placed in her, he said, with cut glass tumblers which cost seventy-five cents apiece. The palatial furnishings of the Sum- ner were such as could be found no- where except upon a yacht was millionaire’s Big Factory to Leave Detroit. Detroit, Mich., March 2: —Prepa- rations are being made for the removal of the Great Scotten tobacco manufactory from Detroit. All the 100 employes have been notified that their services will not be required after May 1. The machinery and appliances will probably be distribut- ed to other plants of the Continental tobacco company, of which the Scot- ten company became a part two years ago. It is probable that parts of the Detryit factory will be taken to the Continental company’ t 8 plants in St. Louis, Louisville and Jersey City. Managers of the Seotten fac- tory decline to state definitely the reasons for the removal. mer Sinks. Santo Domingo, Mare French stes to Cuba, with Sengers, is sunk ieorges Croise, bound outside this er New York, which has DICK COMBS HAS BEEN ARRESTED. Culton’s Confession Does Not Charge Him With the Act- ual Shooting. CHARGES AGAINST YOUTSEY. He Denies That He Owned the Rifle With Which Goebel Was Killed and That He Carried It Away. ).—The | tle and eighty pas-| port. | | The Kind You Have Always Bought Frankfort, Ky., March 29.—Henry E. Youtsey was arraigned before County Judge Moore to-day, charged with complicity in the Goebel assas- sination as accessory before the fact. Youtsey was unaccompanied by his attorneys and asked that his case be passed until they had decided whether he should stand examination or await the action of the grand jury next week. “Tallow Dick’? Combs was arrested in Beattyville this afternoon on an old sentence for violating the liquor laws. He will be rearrested on a new warrant charging him with being ae- cessory to the assassination when he has been removed to Winchester. The warrant was sworn out in Clark county. Lee county republicans will endeavor to prevent his transfer by habeas corpus proceedings. It is al- most certain. in view of Culton’s con- fession, that Combs did not fire the shot. Not only is Youtsey charged with having purchased steel bullets, one of which was used by the assassin, but it is also asserted that as a re- sult of the confession evidence has been adduced that the shot was fired from a rifle owned by Youtsey. Yout- sey says the rifle has been rattled off, but he declines to say where it now is. Youtsey fled by way of the base- ment to the office of the governor when the shot was fired, having been in the office of the secretary of state or just outside the private entrance toit. It was observed by witnesses that he walked stiff-legged, but Yout- sey denies that he was carrying away the fatal weapon, saying his revolver had slipped down his trouser’s leg and that it was not the rifle which caused him to run that way. Taylor was in hisoftice when Youtsey arrived by way of the basement and the east door, and through this door Captain John Davis and Holland Whittaker immediately after emerged and ran to the office of Adjutant General Col- lier to give the call for the assembling of the militia. There are witnesses to show that the militia was in readiness for the caH an hour before the shooting. They had been assembled in the arse- nal, and overcoats and cartridges had been issued to them. When the call came they were in full marching order, and came im- mediately, on the double-quick, thus being able to instantly surround the the building, which prevented the po- lice officers from getting into the building to make a search for the as- sassin, who is said to have escaped in the next day or two, when two full regiments of militia had been called out, and had taken possession of the building. The commonwealth claims to have much more damaging evidence, which it has not made public, and will not make public until the grand jury meets, when the whole matter will be laid before it. Thegrand jury will assemble Monday, and probably will devote its entire time to the as- sassination conspiracy. The Court of appeals held its final session of the spring term to-day handing down about forty opinions. The court refused to meet at the Statehouse, because of the armed men and the soldiers and owing to the threats of assassination which have been made. It met at the res. idence of Justice White. On Monday the court will go to Louisville, where it will sit to decide the governorship case. The Judges will not return until April term, by which time the armed forces now as- sembled probably will have been sent away. London, March 29, 5:15 a. m.— Lord Roberts has sent 10,000 troops to Glen, ten miles north of Bloem- fontein, on the railway. This CASTORIA For Infants and Children. ein 1 is aj preliminary to the general advance. j JOUBERT IS DEAD. The End Came to the Great Boer Commander at Night. Whipped the British at Majuba Hill and Commanded ali Boer Forces in the Present War. Pretoria, Mareh 28.—General Jou- bert died last night at 11:30 o'clock He had been suffering from a stom- ach complaint. The town is plunged into mourning for the true patriot, ht and hon gallant general and up orable gentleman. While Joubert the advocate of foree, generally, in opposition to the diplomacy which President Kruger favored, he believed the present war was unnecessary. He believed the Uitlanders would become good citizens and favored giving them the franchise. The general was 68 years old, and, General has been with the addition of some polish, was a typical Boer. He came of an old French Huguenot family,long settled in South Africa, with a strong infu- sion of Dutch blood. His full name was Pietrus Jacobus Joubert and his last name was pronounced ‘Yow- bert.” His family moved to the Transvaal when England annexed al and he soon entered public life. President Kruger, he was born in Cape Colony. He was bred ona farm and began life as a farmer there. He became state attorney to the South Afriean republic and afterward vice president. He hed long been ambitious to be president, and in 1893 came within 881 votes of win- ning this honor from Kruger himself. He stood as the Liberal candidate. At the outbreak of the present war the ger assumed chief command of the Transvaal forces on theagstern boundary. It was he who drove the British from Dundee and Glenc surrounded White’s force at I smith and, time after drove back General Buller in his attempt to retrieve the city. He was considered the greatest leader in the republic, and by his conduet of the present campaign, had shown himself the equal of modern European generals re, time, Russia Preparing for War. 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