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land and sea for tho promotion OF commerce,
or soldiers homes and II pension system for
the benefit OF those who have imperillcu their
lives In defense OF the nation.
MIR. Holman promptly objected TO MIR.
Dlngley's re solution and II was withdrawn
by the author.
Henderson of Iowa's Plain Talk.
THE resolution which is under discus
sion" said Mr.. Henderson OF Iowa, In open
ing the discussion on the republican SHE, is
not III language or spirit the same as the
resolution which the gentleman from Indiana
has had read, and which was passed by
former houses. In those resolutions the
financial condition OF the country was ex-
pressly referred to with regard to the
declaration as TO bounties and subsidies. AT
that time the government was under n heavy
and oppressive load of debt. Under repuo-
llcan management, the government is getting
rid OF the mortgage. Applause. In
the resolutions of the former congresses
the term public service is used. In the
resolution before the house it is depart
mental service 1t refers only to depart
ment work. Under this resolution not a pri-
vate pension bill could be put through aud
nothing in the nature of public works could
be entertained. ll2epu blicaE applause.
Continuing, MIR. Henderson inquired what
was the real object of the pending resolution.
To W nat bounties did the gentleman refer.
He understood 1t was sugar. Speaking for
himself aud no one else, he would remark
that, If all the gentlemen OIL the other side
wanted to cancel the bounty on sugar he
might be found voting with them.
Aimed at Starving People.
This resolution was aimed at something
else. 1t was u deadly weapon, aimed at the
starving millions of Russia. If it were
adopted congress could not make an appro-
priation to send to that country the offerings
of the generous hearts of our people. Here
came the gentleman from Indiana, making
an assault upon the unfortunate inhabitants
of Russia. Jews and %gentiles, In the presence
Of famine, came forward with full hands and
generous hearts to help their fellow mortals,
and the reformed democracy said that the
government should not carry their contribu-
tions to Russia. lGreat applause on the re-
Du bllcan side.
MIR. Henderson then turned his attention to
the speech made some days since, by Mr..
Dockery Of Missouri, relative to the financial
condition of the country. The gentleman
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 pursued until
Grover Cleveland changed 1t.
Dockery of Missouri Called Down.
The gentleman had stated that the re-
ceipts OF the first half of the present fiscal
year fell short of the expenditures 1927, 900.
He Mr.. Aendersonl had asked for informa-
ton on the point from the Treasury depart
ment, and had been informed that the rev.
enues for that period amounted TO SlI4. l43,-
600, and the expenditures to Sl6T, DAB, 200.
That showed an excess of receipts over eX-
penditures of 81, 1000, 900, instead of n short
age of 213,000 Tue present administration
had paid over S25Y, 00O, 900 of the interest
bearing debt. Not u bond-holder had wanted
his money, but the administration had made
him step up to the cashiers office and take it,
The administration had saved TO the people
$50, 600, 900 in interest.
MIR. Henderson then proceeded TO contra
dict the statement made by Mr.. Dockory last
week that the sinking fund was in a depleted
condition. The last congress had been
sneeringly alluded TO as the "oillion dollar
congress- The ordinary increase OF appro-
priatlons of the Fiftieth congress over those
of the Forty ninth had been S6S, 600, 600.
The ordinary increase of the Fifty first over
the Fiftieth had been s37, 900, 900. All this
war about a billion dollar congress meant
that the Fifty-frst congress had given Sll3,-
600, 900 by legislation, appropriation and pay
ment to tho soldiers of the republic, their
widows, children and dependent relatives.
The Fiftieth congress had revised the tariff,
but in doing so it had increased the price of
the product Of the American farmer, made it
sure that labor could get a fair and just com
pensation, and made it impossible for starva-
ton to enter the republic and remain under
the folds Of the American flag. Great ap-
plause.
Dockery Quotes Statistics.
In, answering Mr.. Henderson, Mr.. Dockery
Of Missouri, said that the aggregate appro
priation of the last congress, accurately
known as the Billion dollar congress. was
without a parallel or precedent IN the history
of the country. Public attention to the stu
penduous appropriations of that congress
had been SO frequently challenged that the
people had come to connect the term "Billion"
congress, with the Fifty-irst congress. He
hoped that no such stigma would attach
itself to the present congress. The record
showed that, %deducting the sinking fund and
the interest on the public debt, and the
extraordinary charge for pensions,
600, 600 of an increase of appropriations
made by the Fifty-tirst congress over that
made by the Flftieth congress. The average
increase from the Forty-fourth TO the
Fiftieth congress has been about $50, 000, 600.
On the lst of July, 1890, there had been in
the treasury a surplus of sl45, 900, 900. What
had become of It2 Today the cash in the
treasury was S35,0 900, 600 and this included
lion dollars of the surplus had disappeared
under the operations of the appropriations
made by the republican party.
Suggested by MIR. Hooker.
Referring TO the refunding of bonds by the
Treasury department, Mr.. Hooker of Mis-
sissippi, inquired if the money in tho treasury
with which to pay the bonds, why did the
secretary OF this treasury seek to extend the
bonds at 9 per cent!
Mr.. Dockery thanked Mr.. Hooker for the
suggestion. He said, sarcastically, that he
resented the insinuation or the gentleman
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 lemon
strate the extraordinary souDdness of the
government by showing that it could float a 9
per cent bond. But the controlling reason
for tee extraordinary action Of the secretary,
aside from the condition OF tho treasury, was
the fact that it would accommodate the ma
tional banks aud prevent the expense on
their part of exchanging the bonds and buy
ing the is at a premium. And this by an ad-
minlstration whose most distinguished official
had, in 1883, in Maine, denounced Mr.. Cleve-
land because he had deposited money in ma
tional banks. Under the Harrison admins
tration Sl5, 600, 600 yet remained in national
banks. Is the estimates not 81 was esti-
mated for rivers and harOors, because, with
them, there was IA deficit of $40, 900, 900.
Candidate for RraziI's Presidency.