Speech #590025747

There are other definite permanent appropriations. but -this is illustrative of the class. There are two types of indefinite permanent appropriations. There are acts providing that all the receipts from a specific source may be utilized for a given purpose. these are indefinite. becaise it is uncertain what the receipts will be. as. for example. it is provided that the head tax of $2 apiece upon immigrants may be used so far as necessary for the payment of the expenses of the Immigration Service. This appropriation is indefinite for two reasons: It is indefinite because it is uncertain what the receipts will be from the head tax and uncertain how much the Department will deemit necessary to expend of those receipts. A second class of indefinite permanent appropriations is to be found in those laws which provide that certain expenses of the Government may be paid out of the Treasury. and it is uncertain as to what those expenses. will amount to. This last type may be illustrated in this way: If an American diplomatic or consular officer starts to his station in a foreign land he is entitled to pay from the time he starts. and the man who is returning is entitled to pay until he arrives here.