St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-15
OPENING GUNS FIRED.
collector" Holman's Anti
Subsidy Resolution Warm
ly Debated.
Billion Dollar Congress" In
eidentally Roasted and
Excused.
Financial FallaeieS and Inae-
curaeies Exposed by
Mr.. Dockery.
An Alliance Congressman in
Sympathy With Retreneh-
ment Ideas.

shall be strictly limited to the moneys
necessary to carry on the several de-
partments of the government. For foul
hours fierce warfare of debate wageG
in the house today over the proposition
of the gentleman from Indiana, and
when an adjournment was taken this
afternoon Mr.. Holman had so far re-
coded from the strict spirit of his reso
luton as to ask that the previous
question be RECONSTRUCTED i'll order
that he might consider the
advisability of tomorrow accepting an
amendment modifying the sweeping
declaration of the second clause of the
resolution. That many Democrats, ii
forced to meet the issue presented by
the gentleman from Indiana, will vote
against the resolution there is no doubt.
Opposed as Too Radical.
Naturally. therefore, the chairman of
the appropriations committee had ar
rayed against him the friends of all the
Interests and enterprises so Vitally
affected; and in the absence of a caucus
decree it was impossible to draw the
party lines i'll forcing the passage of a
resolution of such radical character.
The resolution came up under previ-
Gus order Of the house for two hours
debate to side. and was read, as fol-
lows:
Resolved That in the Judgment of this
house the granting of subsidies or bounties
By congress III money, public lands bonds
or by Endorsement or by pledge of the pub
lie credit, to promote special private indus
tries or enterprises of corporatiors indie
pendent of the question of the constitutional
power Oh congress to make such grants is
unjust and i'm polite, and in manifest con-
tiict with the spirit of our Republican insti-
tutlOns. as it directly tends to create and
foster the wealth of favored classes at the
expense of the whole people, vino bear the
burdens of government, and manifestly fur
nlshes UNDUE facilities Tor the enlargement
OF great private estateS-a policy which q
government of the people cannot Justly or
safely encourage by any form of favoritism
in legislation.
Resolved. That in view of The present con-
ditlon of the treasury and because efficient
ana honest government can only be assured
by fruGa! expenditure Of the public money,
Whlle unnecessary and lavish expenditure
under any and ali conditions leads inevitably
TO venal and corrupt methods in public af
fairs no money ought to be appropriated by
congress from the public treasury; except
such as is manifestly necessary to carry on
the several departments, frugally. efficiently
and honestly administered.
Holman Leads OFF.
In opening the debate Mr.. Holman
said that, in view of past experience, he
had not supposed that this proposition
would give rise to any debate. In
former years the same proposition had
been twice before this house. and gen.
tlemen on 10th sides of the house had
deemed those propositions appropriate
expressions of the sentiments and pur-
poses of the house. tending in great
degree to indicate the policy to be pur-
sued.
Mr.. Holman SAID that in the Forty
fifth congress resolution condemning
subsidies haQ been adopted on motion
of DR.. Baker, Republican of Indiana.
He supposed that the objection now
made was directed against the first reso-
luton; and, for one, he was glad that
this issue was fairly and sQuarely made
When similar resolutions had been
adopted in the Forty-fourth and Forty
fifth congresses, the revenues and eX-
pendltureS of the government were SUBJ
stantially balanced: but now the ex-
penditureS were in excess Of the reve-
nues, and the necessity of this second
resolution was manifest.
Defining Subsidies.
Subsidies meant legislation for the
benefit of favored classes, and were a
feature of government belonging to
monarchies. He entered then into a
comparison of the records of the two
parties, and incidently remarked that
the Democratic party had always been
ready, by revenue meaSure-a strictly
revenue meaSure-Jo secure incidental
protection.
Mr.. DingIay, of Maine, here asked
consent ito introduce resolution as a
substitute for the pending resolution of
the gentleman from Indiana, but Mr..
Holman promptly objected, and Mr..
Dingley withdrew his resolution.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, in opening
said that in the resolutions of the for
mer congresses the term public sery-
ice" was used, while in the resolution
before the house now il is departmental
service" 1t referred only to depart
mental work. Under this resolution not
private pension bill could be put
through, and nothing in the nature of
public works could be entertained.
Speaking for himself and for no one
else he would remark that if all the
gentlemen on the other side wanted to
cancel the bounty on sugar he might be
found voting with them. Mr.. Hender-
son then turned his attention to the
speech made some days since by Mr..
Dockery, of Missouri, relative to the
Finances of the Country.
The gentleman had sneered at the
secretary of the treasury for changing
the debt statement so as to make the
subsidiary coin appear as part of the
assets. When the secretary adopted
that plan, he readopted the plan pur-
sued until President Cleveland changed
it. The gentleman had stated that the
receipts for the first hatf of the present
fiscal year fell short Of the expenditures
S273.G00, but he (Mr. Henderson, had
been informed that the revenues for
that period amounted to STA. 144, 600,
and the expenditures to S167, 0s3, 900.
That showed an excess Of receipts over
expenditures of 81, 100000 instead of a
shortage of S273,0 900.
In answering Mr.. Henderson. Mr..
Dockery, of Missouri, said that the ag-
gregate appropriations Of the last con-
gress accurately known as 1.-The billion
congress'0 was without parallel or
precedent in the history of the country.
The average increase from the Forty
fourth to the Fiftieth congress had
been about S30,000,000. On July l..
1890, there had been in the treasury a
surplus of Sl45, 100000. What had be-
come of it? Today the cash in treasury
was $50, 100000, and this included sub
sidiary coin. One hundred and ten
million dollars of the surplus had dis
appeared under the operations of the
appropriations made by the Republi-
can party.
Reminding of Bonds.
Referring to the refunding of bonds
by the treasury department., Mr.. Hook
er, of Mississippi,inquired, if the money
was in the treasury with which to pay
the bonds, why did the secretary of the
treasury ask holders to extend the bonds
1T per cent?
Mr.. Dockery said sarcastically that he
resented the insinuatiOn of the gentle
man from Mississippi that the secretary
of the treasury did not take UP these
bonds because there was not the money
in the treasury. Had not the secretary
said in an interview that it was because
he wished to demonstrate the extraordi-
nary SouEdnesS of the governments Inv