Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-02-15
COURT COSTS.
The Expenditures OF the Depart
ment Of Justice Criticised.
RESOLUTION on THE BOND ISSUES.
Senator Pcffor Wants an Investigation
The Free Silver Substitute for tho
bond Bill stlli being debated
In tho House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. lathe consider
alton OF the urgent deficiency bill was
resumed In the senate yesterday. The
item Of $4,000 for salaries Of judges
and officers of the federal courts In the
Indian territory brought out protest
from Mr.. Chandler. Two OF the judges
springer and Kilgore) are ex-members
Of congress, and had gone to the Indian
territory with all the extravagant no.
tions engendcred by life In Washing
ton and membership In billion dollar
congress-" He also criticised the grow
ing expenditures under the department
Of justice. These had trebled In ten
years, with little increase In business.
lie declared that the fee system was re-.
sponsible for the growing extravaganza
Of federal court officers He spoke Of
conspiracies in Alabama, South Caro-.
lima and elsewhere, to get up fraudu.
lent prosecutions to swell fees Of Of.
fcers.
This brought Mr.. Tillman, Of South
Carolina, to his feet for q character
istic speech. He agreed with Mr..
Chandler that the fee system was
wrong. A supreme court judge had
recently pointed out that court officials
were encouraged to get up fictitious
prosecutions. There Is q class OF ha-
bitual witnesses in the south. They
do nothing but earn fees, going around
"bnmboozling negroes" and getting
whole teams Of negroes to prosecute
fictitious cases The thing 10 do was
to reform the law.
Mr.. Sherman spoke of the enormous
cost Of our governmental system which
arose in part from the complication OF
appropriation bills. Mr.. Sherman
urged that the budget system in use in
England was far simpler than that OF
the American, and could be profitably
adopted.
Mr.. Vest spoke Of the robbery and
plumber" practiced by United States
marshals in order to obtain
fees. There were coteries and rings
Of these marshals who made 1t trade
10 70 around nrresting men and drag
ying them hundreds of miles to Jail,
not for purposes Of justice, but to swell
marshals' fees. The bill was laid
inside.
Mr.. PETER, Of Kansas, came forward
with lengthy resolution proposing a
senate investigation of the circum-
stances of all recent bond issues The
resolution proposes special commit.
tee of FIVE senators and gives compro.
hensive directions as to the scope Of
the inquiry. the dealings with syndi-
Gates, the effect of such dealings and
explicit information rs to the purchas-
.rs OF bonds, rates and all attendant
circumstances. The resolution went
over.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lathe debate
On the free silver substitute for the
house bond bill was resumed yesterday
morning. Mr.. Underwood, Of Ala.
bama, and Mr.. Cox, Of Tennessee,
spoke in favor OF concurrence In the
senate substitute, and Mr.. Brumm, Of
Pennsylvania, in favor Of the coinage
of the American product.
Mr.. Dolliver, OF Iowa, took the floor
in opposition to the free coinage propo-
,ition. lie reviewed the history OF the
subject from the fourteenth century
md said that decentralization Of silver
in 1873 had mot struck II down." for
turing n previous period Of 70 years
there had been no silver in circulation.
Free coinage, he said, had ut all times
proved failure.
Mr.. McNlillin, Of Tennessee, followed.
lie said there was IN insufficient cur
-ency, and that we should not wait for
The cooperation of any foreign coun-
try before taking steps to improve our
financial affairs lie was not for
monometallism Of any sort, but de-
sired the use Of both metals The
theory that the amount Of currency In
circulation did not affect prices was
unfounded.
Mr.. Brosius, of Pennsylvania, OPP
posed free coinage. Mr. Bailey, OF
Texas, sought to prove that gold had
appreciated within the last 20 years,
saving that IL this was true the oppo-
nents OF silver would have no ground
TO stand on, Us the basis OF their con-
tention was that gold was stable.
The last night Of the general debate
on the bill was poorly attended, there
being but seven members on the foor.
Mr.. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, In OPP
position to the senate free coinage sub
stitute. predicted another 500, 900, 900
bond issue unless some legislation was
enacted covering gold redemptions OF
lie favored IN increase
Of the national bank circulation, the
payment of customs duties in gold and
the refunding of the greenbacks and
the treasury notes into two per cent.
bonds. The only two other speakers,
Wood, OF illinois, and Gardner, of New
Jeraev were npaiust the senate sub