Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-29
THE HOU Sc.

Mr. Outhwaite. chairman of the COM
mittee on military affairs. asked unani-
nous consent in the House today for the
consideration of a joint resolution TO re-
vive the grade of lieutenant general of the
army Gin order that Maj. Gen Schotield OF
the army might be promoted thereto). but
Mr. wadsworth. republican. of New YORK
objected.
The Senate bin to authorize the city or
Charlotte, n. c.. to be iutify the United
States mint property and use it as pub
lie park was passed on motion OF MT. AieA-
andar of North Carolina.
When the conference report on the Dill
granting a pension to Catherine Tod Crit
tenden. widow of Gen. Crttenden, by which
the couferees compromised on $50 per
month 1the Senate bill having made the
mansion s1oO AMI the House amendment
having reduced 1t to SOD. Mr.. Jones tNa)
made the point of no quorum on the auop
ton OF the report
Mr. C,rosvenor (Ohio) thereupon demanded
the yeas and nays. and the ron was cdiieu
The report was adOpted--nl-so .
Mr. Outhwaite (Ohio). from the coHi'llt-
tee on rules. then reported speciai order
setting aside as the hours for furtner ue-
hate on the bill to repeal the discrimination
imposed by the tariff law on sugar I'M
ported from bounty-paying countries St"o
hours for general and one hour Tor DEBATE
under the fiye-minute rule), and proFhilnS
for a vote thereafter The rule was amend
ed by agreement to give an addltlonal man
hour for debate under the five-Ininute rue
Az amended Ii was adopted without divi-
sion Then under the terms of the order
the House went into committee or the
whole and the bill was again taken up
VIZ. DingI"y's Opposition.
Mr.. Dingley CMe) opened the debate to-
day in opposition to the measure.
II had not intended to participate in
this discussion (Which has been conduct
ed So ably by tie gentleman who has pre-
coded mel" said MI Dingley, 80 far as
the merits OF this bill are concerned; but
I am impelled to say few words IN re-
sponse to the observations of the gentle
man from West Virginia (Alr. Wilson,. that
SO far as the condition of the treasury Is
concerned we are all right. We have
flush treasury, according TO the gentle
man-recepts exceeding expenditures anu
surplus in sight
"a fter such a rosy declaration on Saturday
II was certainly a surprise to me to listen
to the message OF the President of the
United States read yesterday morning
from the desk. In which he declared that
the emergency row appears so threaten
ing that / deem it my duty to ask at the
hards of the legislative branch of this gov
eminent such prompt and effective action
as will restore confluence IN our nhlhcia
soundncSS and avert business disaSteI anu
universal distress among the people,
evidently. Mr.. Speaker, the White House
and the gentleman from West Virginia 1aii
to connect. ne fcCIdTdllOH lIOiu tic w iiilt
House of impending universal disaster ana
distress does not comport with the rosy
declarations OF the gentleman from vest
VIRGINIA, on Saturday, that We nave
flush treasury, receipts exceeding eXpend1-
lures. and a surplus already in sight l
wish, Mr.. Chairman, that this cheerful
view OF the gentleman from West Virginia
were substantiated, indeed. by the actual
facts. Nothing would give me greater
pleasure. nothing would carry greater con-
fidence to the people of this country: and
hat han IN 1fT1.a
the facts, this statement of the situation is
hardly warranted by the condition in which
we find ourselves: for ii seems to me that
the basis, in large part, OF the difficulties
under which we are now laboring is to be
found in the fact that our treasury has not
been flush. that our revenue mas not been
equal TO expenditure, and that the surplus
that has been promised during the months
which have passed Is still in the future
" hat Are the Facts.
"WhGt are the facts, Mr.. Chairman? On
the 1st day of March. 1893, there was In
the treasury gold to the extent of Sl0i,-
OtS.ooo. Revenue up to that hour had met
expenditures every year and every month
notwithstanding the reduction of the rev.
enue in 1870 by the abolition Of the duty
on sugar. Since that time. commencing
especially with the LIST of July. 1898. there
has been steady decline In revenue-a de-
fciency from month to month and from
year 10 year For the fiscal year ending
June ~. lS9l last the deficiency was nearly
Eo,fuo.oD. Up to Saturday night last the
deficiency Tor the current fiscal year was
81, Du1.GiE. since the LIST of september last
three days after the new revenue law took
eject. the deficiency up to Saturday night
last. under this new tariff, has been
Si4.GD.isD.
"i;ut the gentleman from West Virginia
tells Us that all this has begun to be
changed. tnat revenues are increasing; that
last week. The revenues exceeded the .x-
perGitures. / wish this were the fact, for,
although II Is true that the revenues DUR
ing the last week were more than the
amounts that were actually paid out from
the treasury for the current expenses Of
the week. yet 1t so happens that last week
the whole expenses for the week were not
pad ont. and consequently what appears
To be the surplus liz the operations of the