The Portland daily press., 1886-09-13
coald melt an ounce of metal for a sixteen

inch gun within three years, or an eigh
gun within eighteen months. Since we are
eighteen months away from an . inch, and
three years from Ii inch gun, DO you not
think it time that we started for both OF
them? (Applause.) That was the situation,
and how was it met? Mr.. Randall submit
ted a bill appropriating 100000 to repair
their forts which are good for nothing after
they are repaired, and 100000 for torpedoes,
for guns and for everything in the nature OF
Why, that would hardly defend block IN
Chicago against Anarchists. When the bill
got into the Senate it was increased TO $6,O00-
600, and it was returned to the House, and
Mr.. Randall put it into his pocket, and today
we are within eighteen months of an eight
inch gun and within three, years OF sixteen
inch gun, we are not spending dollar. Why
do they do this? Do they do it from wicked
ness? / am not here to say that the people
of the Democratic party are the enemies OF
their country, that they mean to deliberately
do it injury. l only say to you that the
trouble in this world comes from wrong in
tentions, wrong ideas and lack OF lnfOrma-
tion, and now | will tell you why this work
failed of accomplishment. Men sometimes
do good in this world, and yet keep on in
particular track long after the goodness of it
has disappeared. They get into ruts, and
forget the world in which they are living.
At the close of the war we had got into the
habit of profuse expenditure, ana the lie
democrats came into power they. continued
to do so, and Mr.. Randall rendered the coun-
try good service by cutting down approprla-
tions. But in the 47th Congress, under the
Craftsmanship of Mr. Frank Hlscock OF
New York, that matter was taken hold Oh
Systematically and mercilessly, and the ap-
preparations were pared down to the quick.
To 20 any further was drawing blood, be-
cause there is limit to the amount which
you can cut off from the expenditures OF
10 fbfc Whan il aaml Mr.
Randall's turn he saw what the situation
was, but he was determined to continue MS
course, and so he reduced the appropriations
in the House below what the law allowed;
For instance, postmaSterS salary Is nXed
by law, and nobody can take 1t away from
him. lie takes it out of the till as he goes
along, and at the end, if there is not enough
appropriation, you have got to have de-
fciency appropriation, which is the same
thing. Mr.. Randall appropriated less than
the law allows for that purpose, and he
knew that the Republican Senate have would
to raise the approximation, and they did it,
and then Mr.. Randall went over the country
and | beg to say to you that L have SAID 1t
to him in pubic as fully and frankly as am
now saying it to yOu-he went over the
country proclaiming how economical the
Democratic House had been. and how spend
thrift the Republican Senate had been.
Now you may think this strange conduct;
and you may want some other testimony, and
Il nave III IGIG lUI yOus lCdu INV AOhi O.
speech made by Senator Beck of Kentucky,
a Democrat of the Democrats, straight
forward upright and honest man who says
what he thinks. On the last day of June
he made the following remarks In the Sen,
ate: ssThe Republican Senate, it is alleged
with much show of justice, is compelled to
make many additions to carry on the govern
ment of this country because gentlemen at
the other end of the capital that is, MI.
Randall "are withholding what is absolute
- in tbair Offioia1 cOmmu-
nications and personal interviews with the
Democratic officers of the government as
necessary to carry on the government proper
". | sit in that committee, meaning the
committee on appropriations. with GER
tain sense of modification at the delay
which think needless, and L confess feel
Inundated when l hear Republican gentle
men say what | have heard said on this
floor, that very likely many OF the appro-
priatons are diminished so that gentlemen
at the other end of the capital, meaning
Mr.. Randall, 'can go before the country and
tell how economical they have been and
how extravagant this end of the capital was
when this and many other items have to be
inserted as amendments for the very purpose
of enabling the government to be carried on
at ALL (Applause)
Now, have stated it half so strongly as
Senator Beck has stated it? So, then. we
were deprived of navy; we were deprived
of Notifications to enable Mr. Randall to go
ce ceIfEe the 'fs pe@ocracy 'r are Why what is
economy? 1t is the spending OF dollar for
a dollars worth, when you want the dol
lars worth. Refusing to spend dollar Tor
dollars worth when you want 1t, is .parsl-
mony and not ALL We sba # my yprot
man If he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" and l say to you, what shall 1t
profit a man if he loses his own soul
and don't gain the world either
What shall it profit this country II democrat M
appropriation bills, depriyes us OF a navy
and of Notifications? What shall Democrat
ic economy profit us if they do not give us q
navy and do not give us fortlhcatlons and
we do not get lower appaoPada'ifont fant errls on5
| have here Mr.. Randalls speech to prove
it, for am going to prove all | say by sound
Democratic authority. have here MI. KAN
dalps speech of August 9TH, to be found III
the Record on page 1904. Here is the ap-
preparation for the year, $264, 100000; for the
wear before, $219,000,000 for the
year before that $195,000O00, and the
year before that, $231, 100000. In other
words, we have sacrificed our navy, we nave
sacrificed our Notifications, and nevertheless
tee Record for the first Democratic year is
fifty millions, nearly, more than the average
of the last three Republican years. ZAP
plauSe) These burdens are not being n1ted
from the people, are they? 9oudo not feel
But they are not being lifted. when we
get Democratic administration" they said,
"We will show you how this government can
be eheaply administered, Let me give you the
figures on that ;let me show you what tne las5
Republican administration demanded and
what the first economical Democratic ad-
ministraton demanded. | have 1t there. IN
Mr. Randalls speech. President Arthur de-
manded $26S, 100000. President Cleveland
demanded $293, 900, 900, twanty- millions
for ha fret npmOQraflC economical adj
ministration than there was for the last Re-
publican eXtravagant administration! very
strange, is it not, the difference between
hopes and realization, and yet, there you
have it.
Then. 1 say again, that the pretended leg
isation of. the House was never In the inter-
est of the cause which the pretended to eS-
pouse. Take this question OF public lands.
do not propose to answer the gentleman
who SO recently occupied this platform, and
/ will tell you, in word, why do not. There
is one statement thrice reiterated by him,
namely that the Republicans had the 47th
Congress by thirty majority; Now, that IS
a pretty serious matter. Thirty majority Is
working majority, majority that e. renders az 81
Why, no. We had 147 Republicans, and
there were 146 of all others-a majority of
just one. Then the gentleman says there
was a report about the Texas u Pacific lands
which in some way or GtheT %st sappreSsfin ba wi
go to the first aleove upon the left hand side
of the entrance door of the public document
room of the Public Library of this CITY,, the
fifth shelf from the top, the second volume
from the left hand side-vol. 6.-No. 1903,
he will find that report printed at the prop
er time and in its proper place. (Great ap-
plause.) am thus specific, because L want
to encourage his researches into the history
of his country. Great laughter and ap-
plause.) And you will perceive at once that
when a gentleman has permitted hlmself,
upon two points on which he laid the great
est stress, to be so inaccurate, it can hardly
be worth my while to take up the
attention of twenty-five hundred people by
discussing the subject any further. Zap
plause)
There were a great many acres OF the pub
lie domain which had been granted to rail-
roads, granted them in pursuance of policy
inaugurated by the Democratic party under
the sanction of Stephen A. Douglass, and
which received the Endorsement OF Doth po-
litical parties, and which, in the main, In my
Judgment today, was a wise act, ana tne
vast empire that stretches from the MlsslS-
sippi river to Oregon is justification enough
for the wisdom of the plan. But there came
a time when it was no longer necessary, ana
when it was desirable that Congress should
look and see what lands had been actually
earned, and if there were any that had not
been earned. to restore them. The matter
came to the-iudiciary committee, OF which
was chairman 1t came to our committee be-
cause it was a committee of lawyers, whose
business it was to pass upon the rights OF
other people. Now, If a man on such com
mittee fails to give to everybody interested,
including the people OF the United States,
his honest judgment as man knowing the
-, of tho iand ha muSt he n had man. III