Mr. President. there Is undoubtedly a great deal of truth in that. but that does not account for the fact of the expenditures. That would account for the fact that the expenditures ought to have increased. but it would not account for the fact that they ought to have increased beyond the increase of population in a great. new country. with a high birth rate and an immense immigration rate. Then the Senator from Georgia leaves out. while he is making his statement. the fact tLat when the figures which I~have quoted were given at the beginning of one of these periods the per capita expenditure for the payment of interest upon the public debt and for the sinking fund to extinguish the public debt. as well as the per capita for pensions. was greater than It now is.
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