The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-16
END TO WASTEFULNESS.
This Congress Emphatically Hostile
to Subsidies, Bountles and
Land Grants.
But Will Not Be Niggardly in Mat
ters of Importance to the
Country.

Adoption oF tho Holman Resolution After
Further Debate.~Dem oeratic Woman
Quoted In Congress.
M WASHINGTON, Jan. l5. The house of rep
resentatiyes Of the Fifty-second congress
has declared emphatic hostility to subsi-
dies, bonnties and land grants, and pro-
nonnced in favor Of rigid retrenchment in
appropriations. The Holman resolution in
its entirety to-day was adopted by the
house. but not until its author had con-
sented that it should be interpreted in a
sense broad enough to permit all nppro-
priations and legitimate legislation. The
advocates of the Worlds fair appropria-
tion Tonight are finding great comfort in
this Interpretation and even the friends of
mail steamship subsidies and sugar bounty
maintain that the government, having
once passed these appropriations. is
hound to fulfill these obligations, as cap
propriate and legitimate legislation" :"
When the resolutions wers reached in the
order Of unfinished business, it was gener-
ally expected that Holman would consent
to.an amendment modifying the sweeping
character Of the. second resolution, but he
surprised all but few confdants
iby4refusing to do anything Of the kind. BY
unanimous consent he Withdrew his motion
of last evening, to reconsider the vote by
which the previous question was ordered,
and said he had come to the conclusion that
the resolution was broad enough to permit
any and all appropriate legislation. It
would include all such legislation as pri-
vate pension bills and the like.
Bowers (Cal.) asked the gentleman to
specify anything it would cut off, any mat
ter or thing for which appropriation had
been made by the last congress. Holman's
time having expired, he could make no
reply. The question was taken on the first
resolution relating to bounties and subsi-
dies. Il was adopted. yeas 227, nays forty
one. The question was taken on the second
resolution, referring to limitation of ex-
psnditures. Lynch (Wis.) making vain
efforts to present a substitute. 1t was
3aRseed to. Yeas 1854, nays ninety-th three.
Dixon (Mont.) voted no.
\ The house then took up for consideration
the report Of the committee on accounts
assigning clerks to various committees Of
the house, and discussion ensued as to
Wsasther there was not extravaganza in these
assignments. 4sf
Cooper (lnd.) incidentally referred to the
investigation OF the pension office last Sos
sion, and said that since then it had be-
come known that Commissioner Raum's
son had sold places in the pension bureau.
and had been removed BY the secretary of
the interior. Cummings IN. W rebuked
fOF ipr ro ,1o IL f,,r
priation for clerk to every senator, yet
now ia proposing to cut down it's own
committee clerks.
Boutelle Me- spoke at some length in
humorous strain, inveighing against the
democratic party for lack of patriotism
saying that in the last six months he had
heard of only one patriotic remark made by
Il democrat. and that by woman. He re-
,ferred to the estimable wife of the pres
ent governor of New York. That lady, al
luding to the necessity OF refurnishing the
New York executive mansion, said: "It is
not necessary in order to put tho governors
mansion in order to 90 beyond the confines
Of the American lepublie." When firms in
Watertown did not hnve the article called
for she would buy of manufacturers or i'm
porters. Boutelle quoted further from
Mrs. Flowers talk, in which she stated that
she was an American through and through
and that she has yet to find better and
cheaper place in which to shop than in
American stores.
Compton (Md. commended to President
and Mis-. Harrison the good advice given
BY Mrs. Flower, especially IN regard to the
purchase Of China. Laughter and ap-
plause on tho democratic side. Cum
mings wished to add to Boutelle's remarks
this fact: Under two democratic admins
trations of the state of New York the state
debt had been reduced S7,0000O0, and that
lpfA L. 4.
Gov. Hill retired, that treasury havlng been
empty when Grover Cleveland entered into
office. Democratic applause.
Boutelle having i'll his speech humorously
compared Holman's measure of retrench-
ment and reform to the scene i'll Dotheboys
hall, when Mrs. Squeers administered brim-
stone and treacle to the students with a
spoon, Enloe (Ienn.) said if Boutelle had
read the story further he would remember
that after time the students overturned
the administration and taking the spoon,
compelled Mrs. Squeers to take birthstone
herself. That was exactly what the people
had done. Twelve months ago tho republic
cans compelled the democratic party to
take birthstone aud treaclo, but the people
overturned their administration and the
democratic party was now giving birthstone
to the republican party. Laughter].
republican member, rising to a point
of order, that Enlos was not addressing
himself to the question under considera-
tion, Enloe exp essed the hope that tho
chair would allow him to flap his wings
little. In tho last congress the czar had
chopped them off with hatohet, and la
hnd to 60 TO his own state to seek that free
dom of debate which belongs to American
citizens. Laughter.
The minority substitute, providing for
twenty--four clerks, was defeated, yeas
eighty-four, nays l5f, and the majority re-
Il.