The advocate., 1891-01-07

my knowledge whore tho conditions of
prosperity are more stable and permanent.
Senator Blair of New Hampshire re-
marked that he did not coincide with
the views az expressed by the distin-
guished (D Senior Senator from Kansas,
with reference TO the government OF the
district Of Columbia, which he believed
to be corroding canker at the heart OF
the institutions Of the United States. He
said:
believe u 10 be an instrumenality which,
unless divested and eGtirpated from the
bOdy-pOli6io, will ultimately lead the way 10
disasters and troubles In our government
not different 30 those which resulted TO tho
government OF France from the nature OF
Partisan society.
Senator Dolph, Of Oregon, agreed with
Senator Blair in regard to the character
Of the government Of the city Of Wash
ington, as 10 its being like the govern
ment of Warsaw, a despotism in the very
soul Of American institutions and he did
not think II any reason for the continue
tlon Of the present government to say
that IL has succeeded in maintaining
order and protecting life and property.
II Is against the spirit Of our institutions,
II is not democratic, IL 10 unrepubllCan,
and Il Is an anomaly.
Senator Ingalls, having remarked that
"there Is no nOmuniclpal community on this
continent that is as well governed and as
cheaply governed and as satisfactorily
governed as the city Of Washington"
Senator ReSgon Of Texas remarked that
this quarter Of million Of people had
for the annual estimate Of appropriations
for the year 1902, the sum Of 5O,2l5l7,
and for the present fiscal year, $7O64,
54415, which caused him to say:
/ am sure the Senator did not thing OF
these things or he would not have said this
was the cheapest governed city in the
country.
The Senate concurred in the amend.
ment Of arms to the northwestern states
of 1000 strad of arms to each Of the
states Of Montana, Nebraska, South Da-
kota, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Senator Gray in his remarks on the cleo
tlons bill, in an exhaustive view on this
matter said:
Sixty or seventy thousand voting precincts
are TO be guarded and sCrutinized and con-
trolled by men Of one political faith; all the
fraud and all the unfairness that arises in
the heat of political campaign and in the
hot contests among freemen are TO be elm
mated only as TO one side of Che contest.
Representative Morrow, OF California,
In a speech on the pension appropriation
bill, estimated the increase in the num-
Der Of pensions on the rolls for the year
ending June 30, 1891, at64,769.
For the year ending June 80, 1899, at
1O4,OO4.
DeCember.--SenatOr Gorman, Of Mary
land in a general reply to remarks made
by Senator HOar on the elections bill,
made this statement:
We stand today, Mr.. President, upon a
financial volcano. We have heard discus
sions az TO the starving Indians, but we take
no note IL appears Of the fact that the great
agriculturists of the land are meeting and
resolving that there is danger, tronble, IL
not starvation and oppression among them.
The labor Of the country appeals through
every channel ID can through this admins
tratiOn and this Congress Co stay the awful
breaks that is threatening. No man can
tell whether tomorrow or next day every
bank in!the great center of our commerce
will not be closed by the suspension Of pay
ments.
Now beg of the Senator from Mas
sachusetts 10 lay aside for a moment this
bill, which the country, as we think has pro-