The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-15
TALKED ABOUT ECONOMY
The Majority of the House Not
Willing to Blindly Fol-
* low Holman.
Other Matters Of as Much Com
Germ as That the Clerks
Are Paid.
The Recklessness Of the Billion Dollar
Congress W.il Not he Initiated.
.-Otler Capital News.


WAaHINGToN, Jan. A.--The house OF rep
resentatives of the Fifty-sccond congress
will not follow the aggressive leadership Of
Chairman Holman, Of the appropriations
committee, in declaring that the appro-
prations of congress shall be strictly
limited to moneys necessary to carry on
the several departments of the government.
waged in the house to-day over the PROPOSE
tion of the gentleman from Indiana, and
when adjournment was taken Holman had
30 far receded from the strict spirit of his
resolution as to ask that the previous ques
ton be rsconsidered in order that he might
consider the advisability tomorrow Of
accepting an amendment modifying the
sweeping declaration Of the second clause
Of the resolutioH.IA a That many democrats,
if forced to meet The issue presented by the
gentleman from Indiana, will vote against
the resolution, there is no doubt.
As it now reads, it is
generally interpreted as presenting an in
sIperable bar not only to steamship subsi.
dies, but to sugar bounty, the Nicaragua
canal bill, Worlds fair loan. improvement
Of rivers and harbors, appropriations for
public buildings throughout the country,
and appropriations for Indian depredations
and court of claims cases. Naturally,
therefore. the chairman of the appropria-
tipns committee had arrayed against him
the friends Of all interests and enterprises
SO vitality affected. When the resolution
came up in the house Holman said that
when similar resolutions were adopted in
the Forty fourth and Forty-fifth congresses
the revenues and expenditures Of the gov
ernment substantially balanced but now
the expenditures are in excess of the reve-
nues and the necessity for his second
resolution was manifest. As to the
meant legislation for the benefit of
favored GLASSES and were feature of gov
ernment belonging to monarchies. He en-
tered into comparison of the records of
the two parties and incidentally remarked
that the democratic party had always been
ready by Il revenue measure, strictly reve-
nue. measure, to secure incidental protec-
lection. While inveighing against class
legislation. he WIS interrupted by Raines
4 nv. Y.).. Who asked whether it would be
class legislation to give to silver bullion
owners ST for Is cents worth OF metal.
| IT simply answer" returned Holman,
that am in favor of the free coinage Of
|
of gold"
/! Dineley (Me.) asked consent 10 have
| pending as substitute a resolution 0eclar-
ing it to be the sense of the house that it is
the duty of congress to limit appropria-
tions to the requirements of efficient, hon
est, economical and statesmanlike admin
istration of national affairs; that the duties
of congress are not restricted simply to
| providing means for the carrying on of the
departments, but include such other sub
! iects as are directly or indirectly for the
4 benefit of the country as a whole, and not
likely to be secured by private enterprise,
such as the establishment of agricultural
colleges, agricultural experiment. stations.
geological stations, improvement of rivers
and harbors, maintenance of soldiers
homes, and a pension system for the bene-
tit of those who imperiled their lives in be
| half of the union.
Holman objected to the substitute being
regarded as pending, and Dingley there-
upon Withdrew the resolution. Henderson
| opened on the republican side. 1.-The reso-
luton under discussion" said he, lis not
in language or spirit the same as the reso-
lutions passed BY the previous congress. In
those resolutions the financial condition of
the country was expressly referred to, with
regard to the declaration as to bountieA
and subsidies. At that time the country
was under heavy and oppressive load OF
debt. Under republican management the
government is getting rid of this mortgage.
| APPLAUSE Under this resolution not a
and nothing in the nature of public
works could be entertained What
is the real object of the resolution?
1t is deadly weapon aimed at the starving
millions Of Russia. If it is adopted con-
gress could not make an appropriation TO
generous hearts of our people. Here comes
the gentlemnn from Indiana making an
assault on the unfortunate inhabitants of
Russia. Jews and gentiles. in the presence
of famine, have come forward with full
hands and generous heaits to help their
fellow mortals, and reform democrats said
the government should not carry their con-
tributions to Russia"
Henderson then turned his attention to
the speech made some time ago by Dock
cry, relating to the financial condition OF
the coutrny. Dockerey had stated TINT the
receipts of the first half of the present
fiscal year fell short of the expenditures
$273,00O He (Henderson) had asked for
information from the treasury department
and had been informed that the figures for
the period in question showed an excess OF
receipts owe. expenditures OF ~, lOV,00o
instead of a shortage of S273.OUN. The
present administration had paid over S259-
COO, 900 interest bearing debt. Not bond
holder had wanted his money, but the ad-
ministration had made him step up and
take it. The administration saved the poo
Pile $55, ,000,0 600 in interest.
1 Replying, Dockery said the aggregate ap-
proprintions OF the billion dollar con.
gress was without parallel or precedent i'll
the history of the country. The Record
showed that. deducting the sinking fund
and interest on public debt, and tho extra
ordinary charge for pensions. there remain
cd more than one hundred millions of dol
lars increase III tho appropriations of the
Fifty-tirs congress over the Fiftieth. The
average increase from the Forty-fourth to
the Fiftieth has been about $50, ,00O,0O0 On
tho first of July, 1890, there had been in the
treasury u surplus of $ll50OO,0o0. What
had become Of it? To-day the cash in the
treasury is $35, 100000, and this includes
subsidiary coins. One hundred and ten
million dollars Of surplus have disappeared
under the operations of appropria-
tions made by tho republican party,
Referring to the refunding Of bonds
Dockery said had not the secretary OF the
treasury said in an interview that it was
because he wished to demonstrate the ex-
traordinnry soundness of the government
by showing that it could float two per cent
bonds? But the controlling reason for his
extraordinary action, asi7 from tho cond,-
tion Of the treasury, was the fact that II
would accommodates the national banks and
prevent the expense on their part Of OK
changing bonds and buying lonrs ut pre-
MUM. And this by an administration
whose most distinguished official had, II
Maine, in 1888, denounced Mr.. Clevelant