Congress
up to this time to provide the necessary means to continue all the
functions of Government make it my duty to call your attention to the
embarrassments that must ensue if the fiscal year is allowed to close
without remedial action on your part.

Article I, section 9, of the Constitution declares:

No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of
appropriations made by law.

To insure economy of expenditure and security of the public treasure
Congress has from time to time enacted laws to restrain the use of
public moneys, except for the specific purpose for which appropriated
and within the time for which appropriated; and to prevent contracting
debts in anticipation of appropriate appropriations, Revised Statutes,
section 3679, provides:

No Department of the Government shall expend in any one fiscal year any
sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year,
or involve the Government in any contract for the future payment of
money in excess of such appropriations.

Section 3732 provides:

No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made
unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation
adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments,
for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation,
which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.

Section 3678, as follows:

All sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the
public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they
are respectively made, and for no others.

Section 3690, that--

All balances of appropriations contained in the annual appropriation
bills, and made specifically for the service of any fiscal year, and
remaining unexpended at the expiration of such fiscal year, shall only
be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred during that year
or to the fulfillment of contracts properly made within that year; and
balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus
fund. This section, however, shall not apply to appropriations known as
permanent or indefinite appropriations.

The effect of the laws quoted, taken in connection with the
constitutional provision referred to, is, as above stated, to prohibit
any outlay of public money toward defraying even the current and
necessary expenses of Government afte