The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-13
UNTIL NEXT MONDAY
The House and Senate Will Take a
Few Days Of Deserved Rest
Mr.. GROW ON THE MESSAGE
Peffer Wants Less Money En-
pended on Congressional Fu-
nerals-Hansbrou Asks
About Seeds.

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE house de-
cided on convening to-day to meet
again next Monday. Adams. republi-
can. Pennsylvania, objected to the res
olution to appoint Postmaster General
Wilson regent OF the Smithsonian In
stitute. On montion of Lacey. repub-
lican. Iowa, q resolution was passed
calling on the attorney general for a
detailed statement of the accounts.
fees, ETC., of the clerks of the United
States courts. marshals. commissioners.
etc.. Lacey explaining that the material
was wanted as a basis for q law TO
make these persons salaried officers. On
motion Of Cannon. republican. Utah. q
resolution was passed calling on the
secretary of the interior for the total
amount Of land assumed by the Union
and Central Pacific railroads under the
grants of those roads. Mr.. Grow read
that portion Of the presidents message
relating to the results of the new tariff
law. now on the statute books. He
called attention to the fact that Mr..
Cleveland said nothing about the eff
cheney Of the new customs law to pro-
duce the revenue necessary to carry on
the government The president, Mr..
Grow pointed out. did not give the re-
ceipts and expenditures for the last
year. yet II was a fact that the def
cheney for 1894 was $50 200. 900 and for
the first five months of the present fis-
cal year s1s.0o0.o00. The total deficiency
since June 30. 1894. was s131 .000, 900. That
had been the result of the new Gus
toms system which the president ex-
tolled. What Of the customs law which
preceded II. and which Mr.. Cleveland
said in his message was insufficient for
the purpose OF revenue. and which, he
said, ''impeded our entrance into the
markets of the world?"
Mr.. Grow said that the Mckinley law
as well as every other protection meas
ure passed since 1860 had produced
more than enough revenue to meet the
normal expenses OF the government.
From 1868, when the Morrison bill was
passed. to 1880. the protection customs
system had produced sufficient revenue
to meet the regular expenses of the
government save during the war. From
1850 to 1893 the revenues exceeded the
expenditures by s1.320,000. The last
democratic administration before the
war borrowed money to pay expenses.
The present administration. said Mr..
Grow, seems to have begun where the
plause on the republican side.) AS TO
the presidents charge that the McKin-
ley customs law impeded our entrance
to the markets OF the world, Mr.. Grow
declared. amid republican applause.
that no market was better than the
American market. 1T consists" said
he. "of 10000. 900 people who consume
more than any people the sun shines
on" For no similar period had the
balance of trade been so much In our
favor as during the three years the
Mckinley law was In operation. An
emphatic statement by Mr.. Grow
that the greenbacks would not be re-
tired was received with a demonstra-
ton of applause by the republicans.
The president complained that the
greenbacks furnished an endless chain
by which the gold reserve was deplet-
ed. This was not frank. The green
backs would endanger the reserve as
long as the revenues were not equal 10
the expenses. and no longer Paying
the current debts of the government
out OF the reserve was the road to ma
tional bankruptcy.
Mr.. Grow referred to the election last
fall as a condemnation OF the new tar
IN law and the policy OF the admins
tration and warned the president.
when he had leisure to attend to pub
lie affairs" not to disregard the new
comamnd Of the people. The house
then adjourned until Monday.
Among the bills introduced In the
house to-day were the following: BY
Sherman. New York. for the battalion
organization of infantry recommended
by Secretary Lamont and General
Miles; by Hilborn. for a gun factory
at Benecia. Cal, 81. .ooo. 900; public build
ings at Oakland. $500. 1000; Alameda,
100000; by Bingham. Pennsylvania. to