New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-30
THE CONGRESSIONAL EEcoRp'

APPEARS Ia rrI>TrD NUMBER OF
TN: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD"
Inv TELEGRAPH 70 TIE rRIBrNr.l
Washington. March 29-TAa last Issue Of The
Congressional Record" for Tho third session q
the Lila Congress came from ne Public PRIMER
to-day dated March IS, 1895. / Is ar inicT-f ing
number. containing the speech % Senator Arinu
p German on The Issue u Shor'-T":m Cs:d;!-
Gates" the speech II Representative William :
Holman on Economy In Puhl'' Expenditures.
-,ot an Increase Of the Public DcDi and TaNat ~
Is What the True Interests O. or Country y 70
mand." and the cul)gy upon tn late senate
Zebulon y. Vance - Representative +. y. WON
ard. Of North Carolina
Senator Germans speech has rot suffered D..
the delay of a month in Its publication. N''h' NJ;
has been expunged from or added t. IT, as - So
of,sn the case in Congress under Inc prevailing
custom Of withholding remarks FOR revision.
,che contents have not lost by the lapse Of zine
any o. their Importance. The matter presented
in relation 20 the condition Of tire financial af-
fairs Of the Government; the necessity for max
inc provision of law authorizing the issue OF a
certificate oe Indebtedness. running only two
years. reieemIbc a; the option IF the Govern
mont ca that there IAN be n excuse hereafter
for the departnen. 20 sell bonds running ten.
twenty or thirty years and the points m@dc oy
the Senator to show The misleading character OF
statements made to Congress by the Secretary ~
the Treasury. affords interesting reaulrg. In MS
argument The Senator endeavor'd 10 demon
stra.e that the Secretary % the Treasury Is en-
tirclv mistaken in his statement that during th'
calendar year If 1895 he will have ievonu" enough
10 meet the expenses Of the Government; tha'
with all the revenues ne viii get TINS calendar
year he will have Il deficiency &C over $3oo1'.o''
II ne paws the debts contracted or apprppfAi ms
made and for the fiscal year which endS June
mex, he will have Il deficiency Of from ApoOjVF'
10 $50 900 900 unless he suspends payments On
various accounts T. q greater extent ih1n hereto
fore; that 1t is only by negleciing II aunt or o.!
postponing the payments that the deficiency can
no ken, within the limits l have named; that
the SocretaIy's statement was made UP by some
official in the department. showing the cXac.
amount the Treasury had on hand without tax
ing into accoun, the checks and the drafts That
had been given and were outstanding; therefore
# is misleading.
II also shows that a. soon as NJ r)IHdn ILL.,
covered this statemcn; in the report TO the Sen
ate he went to the Treasury Department and
said: This statement Is misleading; il is no; &C.
c,rate or else YOUR regular statement, made on
the LIST day Of January is incorre2;' that when
they went to the books and went over them they
said. Certainly: nc correct balance is $6,,G93.-
1874 90 and not sos 1870 3D. as reported 10 III
Senate: that the SecretarNS 'SGDorllha'"H-
some Of the new ones. ! do not know Wh'-ih an
sVering the resolution of the Senate tailed 10 &C.
duet from that the checks that had already been
pas$sd away or given out. That was misleading
There is no hesitation On the part ot IN" Hecie-
rarv of the Treasury. and no question mat IN
stead Of its being 600 ii is s6IWoO0l
There is no question about ii. Nobody DOUBTS H.
That s difference OF thrty-odd milllons 20 DesIr