The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-30
A SHRIVBLED SURPLUS.
The Treasury RepIenished by Only
Nineteen Millions this Year.
Increased PostOffice Expenditures
Undar Reform Rule.
The Assumption OF an Economical
administration Exploded.
Senator Blackburn Talks About Per-
jury and Penitsntiaries.

to.
The senate then proceeded TO the
consideration of the conference report
on the suudry civil appropriation Dill,
and was addressed by Allison. In the
closing portion of his speech he stated
that the total appropriations Tor the
current fiscal year. not including what
are called the permanent appropriate
lions. !" would amount to $306, OO0, 600.
and that including the permanent APP
propriations they would amount to
S42i 600 600. and that the estimated
revenue will be $4,000, 600, or only
SI9 .GO0, 900 more than the expenditures.
Both the receipts and expenditures OF
the postofiice department or the gov
eminent for the four years OF Cleve-
lands administration exceeded by $780,
GEO 900 the expenditures for the four
wears of the Garfield-Arthur admins
tration. .,,
sions about the present administration
| faded. one by one, its pretenSlOns were
exploded. The speech of the senator
| from Iowa had exploded the aSSump-
| ton that the present administration
was an economical one; almost every
department of the government COST the
| people more to-day than under former
administrations and it was fortunate
| that the senator from Iowa had eX-
| posed one of the ShamS and pretences
| under which the administration was
sailing, and there were other shamS
which should be exposed. For tlme
the administration sailed under the
| preteuce of being a civil service ad-
ministration; there never was an ad-
miniStration that made wholesale re-
mcvaIs like this or that so proStltuted
| its offices to the use of party politics.
There never had been in the history
- the government any such instance
of The power of administration used to
break dow indictments and protestantS
in its own party and the testimony TAX
en- by the interest paid from the per-
manent annual appropriations which
embraced the interest on the public
debt.
Beck reviewed the general financial
situation and complimented Senator
Allison for his firmness and zeal as
chairman of the committee ON appro-
priations, declaring that all matters
in that committee had been determin-
ed upon their merits and not with re-
gard to partisan considerations.
Blackburn wished To call the atten-
ton of the senate to matter outside
of the appropriation bill which the SEN
} ator from Maine had seen
fit to bring into the De,
bate after fashion that involved
, question of common decency. he
: had seen fit to refer to message OF the
president of the United States and had
: undertaken to make it germane to the
issue by telling the senate that IL was
not in human power TO cal Sulate Ihe
losses which were to be imposed upon
us. Nobody had been disturbed about
the action of the republicans OF the
senate in rejecting that treaty or about
the message which followed it. Ii any
BODY was disturbed or was sweating
, blood by reason of that transaction, IL
occurred to him that it was the repub-
lican side of the chamber. The sena-
tor from Maine in pretending to discuss
an item in an appropriation bill had
seen fit to drag before this body what
. he said was the testimony taken
by committee raised on
his own resolution and of which
he was chairman, and of which he
: | TRiackburnl CHANGED to be member.
He had never found rule and ne de-
fed~any one to point him one which
would warrant the senator from Maine
, in dragging into a political harangue,
testimony taken by committee that
: had never been validated by report
and never been permitted to see the
light of day. The senator from Maine
raised a mud-slinging committee and
started out to find TINS administrator
1 responsible for inconsistencies In the
! execution of the greatest ana grandest
5 political abortion in his [Blackburn'sl
| Judgment that ever afflicted or cursed
people in the shape OF CIVIL SerVlce
law He logged that committee TO
/
York and then allowed days to stretch
into weeks. and weeks into months
before lie called it together again. de
did not call it together now and did
| not dare do it. He was Disguised at
his own failure and was skulklng away
from his own imposing duties, never
daring to make report, never calIlng
that committee together in order TO
consider the testimony. He had gone
a outside of the rule disTegarding prece-
Is dents, flying into the very face OF the
ordinary promptings OF propriety, ana
undertook to lug in the testimony
| which the senate had never seen Tor
the sole aud single purpose as hs
(Blackburnl asserted upon his respon-
sibility as a senator and a man, OF per-
yerting and distortiDg it. Nor was
that the worst; he undertook, and he
dare not ia his presence deny
it. to accomplish the dtsered PUPPIES S;s
resolution by taking testimony
within the very walls of this capitol
without notice given to a majority OF 8
quorum of this COMMITTEES and he took
the testimony without the adnlnlSCra-
ton of an oath and submitted the I'M
sworn statement of a tramp. when the
" committee was never advised OF n1s
!, appearances.
Hale said that every particle Of The
{ testimony taken by the COMMITTEES was
= before the world it had been Gaksa
J. with open doors and the reporters were
invited to be present. The world
Z knew that the administration was dis
credited in its pretence of civil services
reform and even the New York Even
ing Post ciamorous and able organ OF
the administration had said that no
y man was left who placed credit
J: in the reform statements or
,; assumptions of the present
= administration. He asked why the
% senator from Kentucky had not
< brought some member of the admins
tration before the committee as ne was
j; fentitled to do to explain the disclosures
Is that were being brought forth. Nearly
: two months had elapsed since they
were made, and neither the secretary
C of the treasury nor the collector or sur
:. veyor of New York or Baltimore had
asked to be heard. The witness des-
ignated as tramp. was gentleman
to whose responsibility the senators
from Indiana would testify IL pres
ent.
,; Blackburn said the whole case before
r the committee when in New York In
references To the sugar trust turned up
on the testimony of three men;
could not hear the perjury Of two
other witnesses. two brothers. Both
these sugar thieves ought to have been
born in the penitentiary instead Of put
g into high and responsible positions by
Il the republican administration. There
stood those two brothers swearing to
l. the transfer OF real estate (which R3-
fected the whole question: and the
!. deaf fellow who they swore bought it,
p swOre point blank that they lied from
beginning 70 end. and tine same eharac-
ter of testimony was taken in Balki-
more and Philadelphia.