Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-19
Recommended by the Senate Com
 mittee on Appropriations
TO MEET CURRENT EXPENSES
Sugar Bounty Amendment of Dolph of Oregon May Be
 Reported FavorabIy.

appropriation bill as reported to the senate this afternoon authorizes the issue of sl0O, eco, GOO of treasury certificates to meet th current expenses of the treasury, appro- prlates money for the Blaine property in Washington and fixes the interest of MT. Blaine at S150, ,O00, with provision that the interest of the iessees shall be fixed by process of condemnation in the courts. The following is the treasury certificate provision:
 moneys not supplied iron. the current reve- nues and miscellaneous receipts and nec- essary for the execution of this act, and necessary for the execution of any act or all the other acts passed or to be passed during the present sesion of congress, appropri- ating money to be paid out of the treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, and also ill order to provide the moneys nec- essary to be paid out of the treasury on &C., count of appropriations heretofore made for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1893, June 30, 1894, and June 30, 1895. and not covered in the treasury, the secretary of the treasury, with the approval of the presi- deut, be, and Is hereby, authorized to from time to time borrow on the credit of the United States such sums of money as may be necessary to meet said expenditures, and to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par, for lawful money of the United States such an amount of certificates of in debtgdness, payable to the bearer, of the denominations of S20, S50 and S100, or any multiple of Sl00, not exceeding S1000, as may be needed for said purposes, bearing interest at the rate of not exceeding per- centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure of the Tnif fod Sfofo aff frpr, fl,afr date, and the secretary Of the treasury is hereby authorized, with the appro bation of the president, to cause such portion of said certificates as may be deemed expedient to be issued by the treasury in payment of warrants in favor of public creditors or other persons lawfully entitled to payment who may choose to receive such certificates in payment at par. And the secretary of the treasury may in his discretion, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed herein authorized at designated Repositories of the United States and at such postoffices as he may select; and the secretary shall use the moneys received for such certif1. cates for the purposes herein prescribed, and for none other, provided that the total amount of such certificates shall not ex. ceed S100, ,000, ,000, and provided further, that tue power to issue such certificates shall terminate on the 1st day of July, 1896. And hereafter any United States ponos soio or disposed or snail De offered to the public for a period of not less than twenty days under the rules and regula- tions to be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, and shall be sold to the highest bidder, in case such bids or any of them are satisfactory.
 The amendment originally introduced by Senator Doiph of Oregon, which proposed to include in the sundry civil bill an ap- propriation of S67 1000 for sugar bounty for the year 1894, earned prior to the passage of the new tariff law repeating the bounty provisions of the Mckinley bill, was not passed upon by the senate committee on appropriations today for the reason that the vote was tie aud Senator Cuilom of Illinois, one Of the mem bers of the com mittee, was absent. 1t was stated that Senator Cockrell of Missouri, chairman of the committee, will endeavor to see MT. Cullom, and if he finds that the Illinois senator favors the appropriation a majority report as coming from the committee will be ordered to be made putting the bounty amendment in the bill.