The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-15
Special to the RECoRD-UN1oN.

| Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE House of
Representatives of the Fifty second Con-
gress has not followed the aggressive
leadership of Chairman Holman of the
Appropriations Committee in declaring
that the appropriations of Congress shall
be strictly limited to moneys necessary to
carry on the several departments Of the
Government. For four hours fierce
warfare of debate waged in the House to-
day over the proposition of the gentle
man from Indiana, and when an adjourn
ment was taken Holman had so far re-
coded from the strict spirit of his resolu-
ton as to ask the previous question to be
reconsidered, in order that he might
consider the ACCESSIBILITY tomorrow of
accepting an amendment modifying the
sweeping declaration of the second clause
| Of his resolution.
| That many Democrats, if forced to meet
the issue presented by the gentleman
| from Indiana, will vote against the reso-
| luton, there is no doubt. AS it now
| stands, it is generally interpreted as pre-
| sentlng an inSuperable bar not only to
! the steamship subsidies, but to tie sugar
bounty, Nicaragua Canal bill, Worlds
Fair loan, improvement of rivers and
harbors, appropriations for public build
1ngs throughout the country, and appro-
priations for Indian depredations and
! Court OF Claims cases. Naturally, there
! fore, the Chairman Of the Appropriations
| Committee has arrayed against him the
| friends of all the interests and enterprises
| so vitality effected.
When the House met the following
| bills were introduced and referred: For
| the repeal Of the sugar bounty clause of
! the tariff bill; looking to the adjustment
of international disputes without resort
/ to war.
The Holman anti-Subsidy resolution
was then taken up for discussion
Holman said in regard to his resolu-
! ton that when similar resolutions were
! adopted in the Forty-fourth and Forty
! fifth Congresses the revenues and ex-
penditures of the Government substan-
| TALLY balanced, but now the expendi-
! lures are in excess of the revenues, and
] the necessity of his second resolution was
made manifest. Subsidies meant legisla-
! ton for the benefit of favored classes.
and were feature of the Government
| belonging to monarchieS. He entered
| into a comparison Of the records of the
| two parties, and incidentally remarked
| that the Democratic party had always
! been ready, by revenue measures strictly,
to secure incidental protection.
While inveighing against class legisla-
! ton he was interrupted by Raines of
New York, who asked whether it would
| be class legislation to give to silver
| bullion owners 81 for IS cents worth of
metal.
Il simply answer" returned Holman,
that l am in favor of the free coinage OF
silver on the same basis as the free coin
| age of gold.'
Dingley of Maine asked consent to have
| pending as substitute resolution de-
claring it to be the sense of the House
! that it is the duty Of Congress to limit ap-
preparations to the requirements of an
| efficient, honest. economical and states
manlike administration of national af-
! fairs, and that the duties of Congress are
not restricted TO simply providing the
means for carrying on the departments,
but are to include such other subjects as
are directly or indirectly for the benefit
| of the country as a whole and not likely
to be secured by private enterprise, such
as the establishment of agricultural col
leges, agricultural experiment stations,
geological surveys improvement Of riv-
ers and harbors, maintenance of soldiers
! homes and pension system for the bene-
tit Of those who imperiled their lives in
| behalf of the Union.
After some words Holman objected to
! the substitute being regarded as pend
! ing, etc.
Dingley thereupon withdrew his reso-
! luton.
| Henderson of Iowa opened the debate
| on the adoption of the resolution on the
! Republican side. He said it is not, in
! language or in spirit, the same as resoIu-
| tionS passed by previous Congresses In
| those resolutions the financial conditions
of the country were expressly referred to
with regard to the declaration as to boun-
! ties and subsidies. At that time the
! Government was under heavy and op-
! pressive load of debt. Under Republi-
can management the Government is get
! ting rid of its mortgage. Applause
! Under this resolution not a private pen
| sion could be put through, and nothing in
| the nature of public works could be en-
! tertained. What was the real object of
| the pending resolution? To what boun-
! ties did Holman refer? He understood
! for sugar. Speaking for himself. he
! would say if all the gentlemen on the
! other side wanted to cancel the bounty on
sugar, he might be found voting with
| them. This resolution was aimed at
/ something else. 1t was q deadly weapon
aimed at the starving millions In Russia
! If it was adopted, Congress could not
make an appropriation to send to that
country the offerings of the generous
/ hearts of our people. Here comes the
! gentleman from Indiana, making an as
/ sault on the unfortunate inhabitants of
! Russia. Jews and GentileS, in the pres
! ence of the famine, came forward with
| full hands and generous hearts to help
| their feIlow-mortals, and the reform De-
! mocracy said the Government should not
! carry their contributions to Russia
Henderson then turned his attention to
! the speech made some days ago by Dock
/ cry relative to the financial position of
the country. Dockery had stated that the
receipts Of the first half of the present
/ fiscal year fell short of the expenditures
/ S273, 900. He Henderson, had asked for
information from the Treasury Depart
ment, and had been informed that the
figures for the period in question showed
an increase of receipts over the expend-
lures of 81, 100000, instead of a shortage
! of S273,000. The present administration
! had paid over S259, 100000 of interest
bearing debt. Not bondholder wanted
his money, but the administration made
! him step up and take it. The admins
tration had saved the people $50, 200, 900 in
! interest.
Henderson proceeded to contradict the
statement made by Dockery last week
that the sinking fund was in a depleted
condition. The last Congress had been
| sneeringly alluded to as the ''billion dol
! lar Congress-" The ordinary increase of
appropriations of the Fiftieth Congress
/ over those of the Forty-ninth had been
! S6S. O00. 600. The ordinary increase of the
Ftty-first over the Fifitieth had been
So. 000, 600. All this war about the billion
dollar Congress meant that the Fifty first
Congress had given SI13, 000,0 600 by legis-
lative appropriation and payment to
! soldiers of the Republic, their widows,