, 1892-01-16
H0LM MANS HOWL.
Both of His Resolutions Are
Adopted by Congress.
Plenty of Money Forthcoming
for Honest Appropriations.
congressman on Both Sides
Pose as Humorists


Ooh HONSS "
representatives of the Fifty-second con-
eress has declared an imphatic hostility to
subsidies, bountIes and and grants, and
pronounced in favor of rigid retrenchment
in appropriations. The Holman resolu-
ton in an entirety today was adopted by
the house, but not until after its author
consented it should be Interpreted in a
sence broad enough to permit all appro-
PIRATE and legitimate legislation" The
advocates of the Worlds fair a%ppropri-
alton tonight are finding great comfort in
this Interpretation, and even the friends
of the mail steamship subsidies and sugar
bounty maintain that the pledge of the
government having once passed no only
its appropriations to fulfill those obliea-
tons but the Appropriation for all legiti-
mate legislation"
When the resolutions were reached in
the order of unfinished business 1t was
generally expected Holman would consent
to an amendment modifying the sweeping
character of his second resolution, but he
surprised all but a few confidants BY re-
fusiLg to do anything OF the kind. By
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motion of last evening. to reconsider the
vote by which the previous question was
ordered, and said he had come to the con-
clusion that the resolution was broad
enough to permit of any and all sppropri-
ate legislation.
An Associated press reporter asked
Holman whether he considered that his
resolution would preclude an appropriation
or loan for the benefit OF the Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago. That
will depend" said he, ''uton the con-
struction placed upon legislation that we
have already had 10 regardto the Worlds
fair. The appropriation will depend upon
preceding legislation"
Dickerson quoted statistics to show
there was an undue expenditure in regard
TO clerks and favored the minority report
of cutting off several clerks.
In advocating the report OF the COM
mittee Cooper of Indiana incidentally
referred to the investigation oithe pension
Office last session and said since then it
had become known that Com missioner
Raum's son bad sold places in the pension
bureau and had been removed by the
secretary of the interior.
Cummings of New York Iebuked the
house for voting regularly for the appro-
priation for a clerk to every senator, yet
now proposing to cut down its own COM
mittee clerks.
Boutelle OF Maine spoke at some length
in a humorous strain, %inveighing against
the Democratic party for lack of
patriotism. saving that in the last six
months he had heard of only one patriotic
remark made BY a Democrat, and that by a
woman. He referred to the cstimable wife
of the present governor of New York.
That lady, abiding to the necessity of re.
furnishing the New York executive
mansion, had said 1T was not necessary
in order to put the governors mansion in
order to 10 beyond the confines of the
American republic" When the firms in
Watertown did not have the article called
for she would buy of the manufacturers
or importers. AT the word importers the
Democrats bursted into laughter as If the
lady's remark strengthened their view of
the situation Boutelle quoted further
from Mrs. Flowers talk, In which she
stated she was an American through and
through and that she had yet to find a
better and cheaper place IN which to shop
than American stores, Applause on Re-
publican side]
Compton OF Maryland commended to
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advice given by Mrs. Flower, especially in
regard to the purchase Of china. Laugh.
ter and applause on the Democratic side. |
Cummings wished to add to Boutelle' 5
remark this fact: That under two DEM
ocratic administrations of the state of
New York the state debt had been re-
duced 81. 900. 600 and that So. 900. 900
had been left in the treasury when Gov
ernor Hill retired, that treasury having
been emptyywhen Grover Cleveland en-
tered into office. democratic Applause. |
Boutelie having in his speech COM
pared Holman's measure of retrenchment
and reform to the scence in DotheboYs
hall when Mrs. Squeers administered
birthstone and treacle to the students
with a spoon, Enloe of Tennessee said If
Boutelle had read the story further he
would remember that after a time the
students overturned the administration
and taking a spoon compelled Mrs.
Squeers to take birthstone herself. That
was exactly what the people had done
twelve months ago. The Republicans
compelled the Democrat, party to take
birthstone and ~treacle, but the people
overturned their administration and the
Democratic party was now giving brim
stone to the Republicans. Laughter.
He lEnloe) didn't think it courteous 10
the gentleman from Maine to read a news
paper interview with Mrs. Flower, but as
he had done so he should cell the house
where the last set OF china bought for the
white house had come from, and whether
it was not of foreign make. Democratic
laughter :
A Republican member rising to a point
of order that Enloe was not addressing