Speech #600095015

He does not regret it any more than I do. but thus far it has been impossible to check the growth of permanent appropriations or to repeal any of those that are now :bn the statute books. We are this fiscal year expending about $155.000.000 under permanent appropriations. some of them definite and some of them indefinite. The particular permanent indefinite appropriation out of which the expense of this immigration commission has been paid will be repealed at this session of Congress if the recommendation the Committee on Appropriations will hereafter make to the House is adopted. which recommendation will be in line with the recommendation of the Department of Commerce and Labor. In the estimate submitted for the specific appropriations for carrying on this service. the Secretary of Commerce and Labor recommends the repeal of this permanent appropriation. but how long the Government will continue to expend money under permanent appropriation laws nobody can tell. for at every session of Congress we are increasing the number of permanent appropriations on the statute books and increasing the aggregate amounts paid by the Government of the United States under such permanent appropriations. These expenditures are expenditures over which Congress has no control whatever.