Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
MUSTAPPROPRIATE
That Is Gorman's View of a
Vexed Question.
ECONOMY JUST NOW NOT POSSIBLE.

The Money Must BE Provided as the
Senator-Talk of a Cut Down of $780,
O0o,OO or 500, 900, 600 Unwarranted
A Deficit Ahead, but the Navy Must
Be Built-Notable Utterances of the
Maryland Democratic Leader.
WASHINGTON, May 14-There was some
talk in the senate yesterday which was in
teresting because Sherman emphatically
assumed the role of Holman in the house,
and pleaded for economy, while German
came out fatfooted in favor of aletting
her go" regardless. The naval appropria-
tion was before the senate, and it was a
question of battleships VS.. monitors, when
Sherman and Mcpherson both warned the
senate that the strictest economy was nec-
essary. Chandler had made a speech in
which he had intimated that the rehabil-
itation of the navy was begun by the Re-
publicans, when German said that the
appropriations for the navy, either under
the last administration or this, had never
been treated as party matter In the last
four congresses they had grown from ST.
100000 to s25 727, 900, and had aggregated
nearly S60,000,0O0.
Industries Created by the Acts.
Under the provisions of these acts we
had created plants which were marvels to
the world. More than that he was in
formed and believed we had created plants
competent to produce commercial vessels
at cost within s per cent of the cost on
the Clyde. If the appropriations were
now stopped there would be danger of
paralyzing these great industries The in
crease as recommended by the committee
was about 81, 900 900, to be expended over
period of two years The greater por-
ton would not be drawn upon until 1894
and 1895, so that our expenditures for this
year and the following year would not be
largely increased. 1t would enable the
great factories and forges to go on and
complete their machinery.
Predicts Deficit of $4,000. 900.
He recognized the fact that the financial
problem was a serious one 1t would be
demonstrated, he thought, that the ex-
penditure would exceed the revenue by
$50, 600 900 to SIS, 900, 600 during the coming
year and the next. But he knew of no
great item that could be reduced by this
congress. There had been great expecta-
IlOnS nelQ out Oh n OeCredSe OF S0U,Uuu,UUU
or 800, ,000, 900. But one of his colleagues
on the appropriations committee after the
adjournment of the last congress pub
uslzed statement showing that laws
slready enacted had fixed the expenditure
for this year at about s4SO, 900, 900, so that
when it is charged that we now appro-
pirate $500, ,000, 900 the answer, and the per-
feet answer, was that the laws already
passed made that a necessity or else to
stop the great works of the government.
Wants . Creditable Navy.
GFor one," he continued, II am not pre-
pared, until we shall have navy such as
this country ought to have, to allow
economy to prevent me from voting a pro-
per appropriation to create q proper navy
Of which the whole American country will
be proud and which is necessary for our
commercial interests at home and abroad
In the course of further discussion Nc
Pherson put a construction upon Cor
mans remarks to which German warmly
took exceptions. He said: ~The issues be-
tween the two parties are fixed. The
people of this country know what they are
We may tamper with them, but we can
not change them. We have had on the
one side party that has been in power
with every branch Of the government at
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