The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-04

very agreeable to this side But our
friends on the other side declined to agree
to any proposition which contained authori-
ty to issue bonds | think that was the
general understanding on this side.
Mr.. Gorman-I would not to relieve
myself or for any other purpose in the
world, violate condolences, or cpeat con-
versations that have been made, but have
the right to say that we have been most
unfortunate if we were not understood as
thinking that ii proper bill and one provid
ing for bonds could be passed without any
trouble. agree now with the Senator
from Ohio that the hour for all that has
passed would not have referred to it
but for the fact that the Senator, as [
thought, in his remarks on the 18th of
October, and again today, Willingly or un-
Willingly tried to place the responsibility
of any future failure, or the failure of this
act, to give relief upon this side of the
chamber. tdoes not belong here. What
is past is past and buried. Probably it
may work out the wisest thing that this
bill shall pass just as it came from the
committee That there is to be further
trouble with our financial affairs everybody
who has watched the operations of the
Treasury must know.
AN INHERITED BURDEN.
Mr.. President, we have come into power
and we have inherited load of sin and
iniquity piled on us by another party. The
Treasury is bankrupt, as the Senator from
Ohio says 1t was bankrupt when We ac-
cepted it. Who is responsible for ii?
Fifty millions short, says the Senator from
Ohio.
| hold in my hand a statement showing
that in the last three years you have APP
propriated for various purposes, including
the $40, 1000 900 per annum for the sink
ing fund, S362,000,000 more than the
revenue. 1t has not been spent, of course,
because it has not been in the Treasury.
The obligations of the government created
by law have not been discharged, but in
paying the amounts that are absolutely
necessary to keep the government running,
including the pensions, there is shortage
of S50,000,0 900, soon to be $50, 900, 600.
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United States cannot repudiate it. 1t is
not our fault as party. Seek as you may
to make capital out of it, but the honest
men of the country will know what the
facts are.
Mr.. Sherman remarked that the last
House of Representatives was strongly
Democratic, and that all the appropriations
for the support of the government origi-
mated there He thought that both parties
share the responsibility for excess of ap-
preparations.
Mr.. Gorman-It is true that the last
House was Democratic. 1t is true that
the Republican party has had possession of
the executive branch and of this branch, but
it list rue that these expenditures could not
be cut down, unless we had all branches of
the government, and now we have them.
We hope to cut them down as rapidly as
possible. But, Mr.. President, we have
inherited another thing-contracts that
have been made by law. There is no es-
cape from them. Obligations have been in
cured on all hands They must be met.
All | complain of now is that Senators on
the other side of the chamber at the end of
great crisis in this body-aRd | hope at
the end almost of great financial panic
should bring these questions up here for
the purpose of gaining party advantage
We will take the responsibility of all the
new laws that are enacted. We will go as
far as it is possible for men to go in re-
lieving the country of bad laws now upon
the statute books. We will insist upon
then consideration in season and out of
season, if necessary; but We do object to
being held up to the country as responsible
for laws that were not of our enacting
trust that the Senator from Ohio and the
gentlemen on that side ofthe chamber who
started in this manner to unite with the
President upon one measure, will yet with
draw their partisan remarks and admit that
this matter is above parity that II could
not be passed il it were a party matter on
either side of the chamber, and that we
must all share the full responsibility of
whatever may come from this enactment.