Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-03
OPINIONS DIFFER.
Will Uncle Sam Make Both
Ends Meet i'm 1891?
CANNON SAYS HE CERTAINLY WILL

And Have n Little Matter of 81 Z, 900, 900
to Spare-While Sayers Insists That
the Old Gentleman viii BE About
SI1, 500, 900 on the Wrong Side of the
Account - Hale Gives Reciprocity a
Boost-yance Is Reminded of Pain In
the Stomach.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 3.-Reciproc-
ity had its inning in the senate yesterday,
the first move in that direction being the
presentation 10y Evarts of resolutions of
the Buffalo Merchants exchange in favor
of the principle not only with South
America, but with Canada. Then, the
tariff discussion having been resumed,
Hale made an extended speech in advo-
cacy of his amendment providing for reci-
procity with the Spanish-American coun-
tries of South and Central America. He
showed that the idea was not new by
quoting from the records back TO 1884,
and said that it had never been claimed
unth now that those in favor of broaden
ing the market for United States products
were opposing the principle of protection.
He believed that something should be
done to remedy the condition of our trade
with South America, and that the pro-
posed plan of asking some return for free
sugar was the remedy.
Evarts Finds a Weak Spot.
Evarts asked attention to what he called
| very pregnan- point" That was to a
sentence in letter from a Brazilian mer-
chant which Hale had read-that sem
tence being, ave cannot admit your pro-
ducts and manufactures free, but we will
| make little difference between the tariff
| on your importations and the Ia riff of
other nations" What practical results,
| Evarts asked, would come to the United
States from only "little difference" in
| favor of American productsp Hale replied
| that that was matter which time alone
could tell 1t was evident that the feel
| ing not only OF Brazil but of the other
South American countries was strongly
| bent toward reciprocal arrangements.
VIII There BE a Deficiency.
A matter of prime Importance to the
| country came up in both houses during
| the day, and that was the question of rev.
lenue and appropriations. In the senate
Allison made long statement on this
point reaching the conclusion that the
expenditures for the current fiscal year
| would be about $4l1, 100000 The revenue
| for the year he estimated at S460, 600, 600,
| and if the tariff bill was passed he figured
| out decrease of S33, 500, 600 of revenue if
| sugar was put on the free list; thus leav-
| ing surplus of Sl4 600 600 or SIS 600 900
| at the end of the year. In concluding he
said he favored testing the question of
putting sugar on the free list, and was
| also in favor of further extension of re-
ciprocal trade.
The Matter Treated in the House.
But this important question was more
fully treated in the house, where Cannon
discussed it, and presented the figures
| from Republican standpoint He said
that the appropriations were so far adj
vanced now that accurate approximations
of the aggregates could be obtained. He
made some comparisons between the
amounts appropriated during the long
and short sessions of former congresses,
! showing that the former exceeded the lat
ter in marked degree, and called atten-
ton TO the fact that the short session ap-
preparations were those generally com
pared with those of the succeeding long
session, a plan that he did not follow in
his statement.
Getting Down to the Figures.
He then proceeded as follows: AN ex-
animation shows that during the first ses-
sion of the last congress there was appro-
priated, including deficiencies. for the
payment of pensions SIS, 25s, 200, while
during the present session there has been
appropriated, including deficiencies, for
the payment of pensions 1923, 179, 1868, or
an excess of S3S, $40, Cos, which alone is
more than equal TO the whole difference
between appropriations for the support of
the government at this session and at the
first session of the last congress, two years
ago. And when our Democratic friends
cry out extravaganza in the increase of
appropriations, | reply that such increase
results solely from increased legislation
and payment of pensions for soldiers and
sailors of the late war, and that was one of
the issues of the campaign of 1888"
Accounting for AN Excess.
Cannon then read statement in ex-
PLANTATION of the apparent excess of the
appropriations made at this session over
those of the last congress, from which he
reached the conclusion that the whole in
crease in appropriations by this session
over last after deducting the river and
harbor bill and the increased sums for
soldiers PENSIONS is more than accounted
for by the increase of S, 62l 1854, which is
given on account of the postal service.
Figuring Out a Surplus.
He then made an analysis of appropria-
ton bills to ascertain, as he said, the
amount of the whole appropriation made
at this session which is actually charged
BILE against the revenues OF 1891; that is
for the ordinary expenses of conducting
the government during that year The
total revenues for 1891, including postal
receipts, he estimated at 1867, Ala, 49, TAX
ing from this amount the total appropria-
tions left a surplus of So, 279, 475, and add
ing to this the balance of net cash in the
treasury, fractional coin in the treasury
and the amount for the national bank act
of 1890, made a total surplus of Sls6, $780,
tl6. Specified reductions from this amount
left net surplus of s16,974, 666.
A Democratic View Presented.
Sayers of TIE xas submitted the views
Of the minority of the appropriations com
mittee, reviewing the fiscal situation from
the Democratic standpoint. The minori-
~ place the aggregate of appropriations
FOR the current fiscal year at 1851, S44, no,
as against 1850, 4l4, 337 revenues, thus max
ing the excess of appropriations over rev
snues Sll,430, Az Deficiencies, they say,
will be unusually heavy this year, in the
matter of pensions alone 81, 9O4, 1914, and
in conclusion confidently venture the
opinion that revenues during the present
fiscal year will not be sufficient to IN Get
expenditures, a thing that has not &C.
CURED since 1866.
Fiiibustering in Committee.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 3.-Chairman
Rowell, of the house committee on cleo
Inns