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design to participate in the debate but to ask the aen

ton of the Senate TO the amendment before them and
should content himself with remakng that he consider
ed that if adopted that amendment would be fatal to
the practical operation OF the law The intention OF the
law TO keep out IN circulation the amount OF treas
notes to be issued oyer and above the other
which went to curail that would be fatal to the opera
ton of the bill The remark OF the senator from Maine
with respect to the law hitherto ISSUING treasury notes.
was not applicable TO the case. The present was war
measure He was ready to vote, and II any other
speeches were made it would not be by him, any farther
than the breest explanation OIL ms views on amendments
NIr EVANS then rose and said that the matter before
the Senate, was, he believed, the amendment which
had been offered by himself Gentleman on the opposite
side had spoken al length but none of them, he
sorry TO say had spoken the amendment The senator
from Michigan ar. CAssl indeed gave the strongest
matters with which the bill had not the slightest con-
nexion! That gentlemen had evidently come with a
speech prepared in answer to some desuitoy remarks
which he (Mr E) had been Obliged to make yesterday,
but which the honorable senator had yet deemed wor
thy of his calm scrutiny and studied examination IN
prepared reply And then he (Nlr Ed was told that u
la single syllable uttered in explanation OF ms
amendment or what he had said before, he would be
taking part with the enemies of the country
Mr. BADGER. Giving them ''aid and comfort"
Mr. EVANS. Yes; giving them "ald and comfort" "
He had almost forgotten the orthodox phrase If he SAID
word in explanation he would be liable, 1t seemed, TO
the charge of delaying and impeding great public meas
ures He was told that he bound to sit there and
take measure simply because the administration was
responsible for it. The administration asked for this,
and the Senate was bound to comply at once-whout
deliberations discussion discussion What
Presume to discuss which the administration
had offered for their acceptance 1t was preposterous
Oh noby no means should they discuss + Ih m Were
discharge their committees forthwith Indeed why not
dsband Senate and Congress altogether! Practically II
was coming to that. "The administration was respon-
sble; the administration had formed its plans; the adj
ministration could carry out its views. What business
had the Senate body else to discuss the measures
of the administration If that accordance with
thn and of their be
But if it were.so--if it had TO this, that the
Senate could not discuss anythngcould not deliberate
Lon anythngcoud not make any suggestlonscould not
offer any amendments-was II not fair that they should
know it Now, he proposed an amendment, and he
asked Them one and all, to tell him why, its merits,
that amendment should not be adoptcd Let them tell
him wherein it was not greatly better than the BILL it
stood Let them discuss it, examine it, show him that
it right and he should withdraw at once. But
LET them not be told, when they sought to improve this
bill! that they must think of such thing. But, was
this the measure of the administration The gentleman
from Michigan had said that he Mr. Ed had imputed IN
consistency to the Secretary of the Treasury and the
senator from Delaware appeared to entertain the
same idea He (hlr. Ed did no such thing. Did
the Secretary of the Treasury say that he had
ury, at the commencement of the sesson---as was
his duyreported plans Tor improving the revenue, that
to raise money by laying more duties. The
Secretary sent that recommendation and followed it up
in short time by letter which had been published
and on which he (r. - could not at that moment place
his hand; but was addressed to the Committee OF Ways
journals of that body public documentand in the
letter the Secretary informed the committee of the
sy of imposing additional duties. This bill, then. was
the plan OF the Secretary The Secretary said he did
not want the twenty -three millions OF dollars except
the that his plans would not with favor from
Congress- This, them was not his plan. The Secretary
recommended the imposition OF duties; and far from
seeking to embarass defeat the administration, he
(Mr Ed in the remark which he had made yesterday
had desired to point out how the public credit could be
sustained and much larger be received from duties
than received. They were told over and over
again that money wanted to-day The Secretary had
not said so--not in any official document What he
Mr. Ed desired was, that the honorable chairman of the
Committee of Finance should tell from what causes it
happened that all the expectations of the Secretary OF the
Treasury the 9th OF December last had proved utterly
fallacious' How was it! Had he obtained much
revenue he expected Certainly No additional appro-
priatons had been made There no greater deficit
in the treasury than had been expected by him. How
then, had happened that they had fallen short and that
the senator from Michigan said he spoke yesterday of the
impossbility of making estimates in such circumstances
That was the only thing which he MIR e. had desired
He desired the chairman of the Committee Finance,
and Others to say how it that when they were anti
cpatng only so much revenue and expenditure, they
altogether wide of the mark Experience was
against it. and he desired educe from that the natural
consequence that reliance could be placed estimates
OF expenditures for the fiscal year ending June, 1913, and
that these twentyt millions of dollars would be
the sufficient to carry them through for the pur
pose OF showing gentlemen that ii their duty to pro-
vide larger means
Mr. SPEIGHT mere begged to interrupt him for the
purpose Of reminding him. that this bill had not been
ported till after the solemn decision of the other House
that no tax would be laid on tea and coffee
Mr.. EVANS continued. The main purport of his re-
mark to show that they who had the responsibility
should maintain the public credit He desired to avert
the awful spectacle OF Frustrated public credit But the
senator from Michigan said there was no danger Of that
The administration said they could get money, !"
They could get loan !" When did they ever saw so
He (Mr. ED would like to them point to any deca-
rations on the part of the administration that they
could get money by this bill On the contrary, he found
IN the report OF the Secretary OF the Treasury made in
the commencement of the session. there was distinct
avermen that, without the imposition of duties to main
tam the public credit there danger of very great diff
liculiy in getting this loan! And he (NIr E) believed
that in the communication of the Secretary the Com
had distinctly said that, without such duties it would
DC impossible to get such a loan. Now they were
told BY the gentleman from Michigan that Con-
gress had nothing whatever to do with It They
were told so, when the Secretary of the Treasury
himself had made such as that to which
to do something to restore the credit of the treasury and
they refused TO do IT, gentlemen still said that the Secre
tary could get the loan II Congress had the reslop ST.
by to incur debts Congress had also the responsibility
OF obtaining the means to discharge them and if they
regulated the MEANS they could throw the RESPONSE
by of liquidation the Secretary much less on those
who were to come after them The senator from Michi-
gan sad that he had compared the bill with the act Of
1914, and did not see great difference But he did not
point out the differences He (AIr E) believed that in
the act OF 1911 there was authority to reissue these
notes, after they redeemed, out of the treasury
seemed to him TO be absurd the face of it, that when
the Secretary should redeem treasury notes which he
not bound to redeemhat when he voluntarily took
them he should be clothed with authority to put them
out again Why allow the Secretary to have the whole
lie securities It enough if they gave him power to
reissue those which he redeemed by conpulson-if he