The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-16
FORTY.NINTH CONGRESS-.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC LAND
FORFEITURE BILL
Passed the Senate BY an Almost
Unanimous VOte-The Day
In the House.

WASHINGTON, June I5.-House.-Mr.
Frederick la. !, from the Committee
on Invalid Pentions, reported back
with amendments Senate bill for the
relief OF soldiers OF the late war hon
orably discharged after three months
service and who a e disabled and de-
pendent on their own labor for sup
polt. Committee Of the whole.
The House then went into Commit
tee OF the whole, Mr.. Blount [Ga. in
the chair, on the legislative appropri
alton bill.
The pending amendme nt was that
offered by Mr.. 0'Neill No. rest oIing
the salary OF the Assistant Treasurer
at St. Louis to $500, the amount APP
propriatsd by the bill being $4,000.
MIR. Hiscock N VI made q
statement relative to the expenditures
OF the government and the estimated
revenue The aggregate amount Of
the appropriations as the srpropria-
tions bill now stood was 1929, 740,3l3
The amount carried by the suudry
civil bll was sol ,053, $50 The de-
fciency bill would exceed d6,500,000,
and the foriificat on bill wonld amount
10 S725,000. The addition to the naval
biz would be $S,000,0O0; the miscel-
laneous appropriations would amount
TO 81, 100000, and there would be re
quped ,oreiund duties under the re.
cent deci.ioD Of the Supreme Court
$40 100000, the aggregate being 1875
OPS, 1873. The estimated annual appro-
priatious were $llS,000,C COO, max ng a
grand total of 1891 ,02S, 1873 The esti-
mated receipts we're only $330,0C0, 900,
while The postal revenue would amount
TO S47 eco 000, making an aggregate OF
1917 ,0O0,0O0, and eRviug a deficit for
the next fiscal year of over 81 100000;
the next fiscal year was to see deficit
Of Sl4, 100000 on the most tonserva-
tive Fstimats. When the chairman OF
the Committee OF Ways aud Means
rep rted his bill, he said that the
expenditures for the fiscal year 1885
we're 1906, S30,970. The figures he
(Mr. HisCock) presented showed that
the aggregate amount OF RppTopria.
tons would exceed that sum by $685.
000. 900, The Houpe was on the eve OF
an attempt 10 reduce tariff tax and
he thought this was an occasion upon
which hs should call the attention OF
the chsirmPn OF the COMMITTEES on
Ways a Means ard Appropriations
to the Startling figures
Mr.. Randall raid the figures were
not a surprise to him. They could be
in some degree accounted for. In the
first place the Increase this yesr over
last year for pensions was Sl5, 7500 900.
There WIS no man here who was not
will ng 10 give this increase, estimated
TO Re necessary, to pay the pensions
due TO the soldier. Another Cause of
iucr ale was the river and harbor bill,
which appropriated 5,2500O0, max
ing az aggregate incfease OF 1871 ,0)0,-
600. He admitted that the figures
pres ntet by the gentleman from New
York might he correct, but they were
based uron the condition OF the APP
preparation bills at this time, when
some Of the bills had not pass ed the
House, some We're pending in tie
Sem te and some were in conference
He thought the Rentleman's figures
were too Ugh. II was his MIR Ran
dalle) judgment that the appropria-
ton would about equal the es imated
revenue. He objected to the assump-
tons that the river and harbor
bill would be approved Mt the highest
fgures. So far as no was able TO see
there was reduction in every one OF
the annual appropriation bills reported
this House, whether they came
'rIu the Appropriations Committee
o. any committee TO which appropTia-
Il !uties had been assigned. But !
he led TO admonish the House,
o. 4 especially the Democratic side OF
the use, that ii ought TO follow
tlo e. Y the recommendation Of every
OIL ii those committees, and to keep
th appropriations down TO the lowest
roinJ. The condition was not one of
up rOpriation, but il was one that
compelled aud demanded the utmost
caution on the part OF the Democratic
side of the House TO see that not one
urn necessary dollar was appropriated
in any OF the annual appropriation
bills.
Mr.. Morrison [Ill. said that the es
Inmates Of revenue aud expenditure
presented by the gentleman fIom New
York were 90 ineincere as hia purpo'e
in presenting them wa9unjust. lie Mr..
Morris)n) bad had occasion some
time ago to state that the end of the
fiscal year would show an increased
revenue and decreased expenditure,
and now within two weeks of the end
OF the year, he stated on what he
knew 10 bs the fac's that he had
rather undeIstated than overstated
the estimate he had made in his re.
port. Every appropriation bl that
had gone through the House or been
reported to it had appropriated less
than had been appropriated for the
current year. II was true that there
came an unexpected expenditure out
oIt'e decision OF the Supreme Court
to the effect that the government
must refund duties assessed on pack.
ages and covering on imported goods.
BUt the Democratic House was not
responsible for this, The decision
had come rs a result of Repub-
liCan butglng when they passed
their tariff bill. There was plenty Of
money in the Treasury to-day to pay
the Sl0,000,000 for the current year,
and in future yeas, II the tariff bill
were passed with Mr.. Hewilt's amend.
ment attached, the $4,000, 900 would
be paid into the Treasury instead of
being paid out,
After some further debate the amend
meat was agreed TO, as were also a
number of others, after which the
Hou adjourned,
The senate.
Alter routine business in the SEN
ate, Senat Beck remarked thai, owing