Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-17
IN THE SENATE.

ses) is $14v,OOO, 600
| Five bills, authorizing officers of the
United States to accept medals from
| foreign governments, were reported by
Mr.. Sherman. who asked unanimous
| consent to have them considered and
passed. Objection was made by Allen.
| Pop, of Nebraska. The bills We're
| placed on the calendar
The pension appropriation bill was
| taken up and Gallinger. Rep. of New
| Hampshire, chairman of the committee
on pensions, said he desire,. to make
some observation touching the matter
of pension frauds. He expressed his
appreciation Of the present administra-
| ton of the pension bill and said the
| man at the head of that great depart
ment of the government was DESTROYS
| not only of administering the pension
laws generously and justly. but his
sympathies We're with the men and
! women seeking the recognition of the
government. He had been very much
surprised. III listening to the reading of
| the Presidents message. that that high
official had not yet disa bused his mind
| of the idea that pensioners We're men of
rascally tendencies.
'li. 'rdiil1Sef Etdu from
| newspaper criticism of them and said
| that in his judgement these continued
attacks OF the Executive on the pen
| siuners of the government and the
| Presidents continued assertions that
| the roll of pensioners was not roll of
| honor. should cease. He was sure that
| Congress would never endorse such
| sentiments as he had read from the
| Presidents message. but would grant
to the men who fought for the govern
ment all that the government haA
soemnly pledged 10 them.
| \ few brief remarks in the same line
were made ny Hawley, Rep. Of Con
necticur. and then the piIl was passed
| without amendment.
| IN speaking on the Dingley bill, Vest
said that the Horizontal bin Of 1894
had been simplicity Itself compared with
it. The Dingley bill re-enacted the Nc
| kinley act and in order To determine
a rate of duty under it, il would be
necessary t. consult not only the new
bill. but the Wilson act and Mckinley
/ act ana make The prices Vest quoted
the WOODEN manufacturers as saying
that even with free raw wool and un-
der the duties in the Wilson act. no i'm
portations of foreign WOODEN goods
could take place. The rates were es
p"cialiy prohibitory
| Referring 10 the late election Vest
said that the people had been told if
MIR. Mcinley were elected. prosperity
would shine upon the country and con-
| iidence be restored Confidence had
teen restored and what was the result Z
The people Mere buying neither domes-
tic nor foreign goods. Did the senators
expect ny increasing the tariff rates
that more money would he put into The
pockets of the people? Speaking IF
Secretary Carlisle's estma,e of the
amount OF money in circulation. Vest
| characterized il a moss grown lie i"
| ard he declared that the only relief
which could he given the country was
giving more money To the country
NO country" he continued emphati-
cally can he prosperous With increas-
! ing population and a decreasing none
tary of money. You have not got Il.
system which congests the money Of
| the country. If we are anarchists and
! lunatics when we ask that the mintS
4 be open to the free coinage of silver
then this country is lost because there
We're 6,499. 600 American freemen Who
stamped themselves lunatics and anar-
chists at the erection in November last.
| But il is vile Islander. The men who
| voted for Bryan are honest. patriotic,
law abiding. This system of a gold
standard is the Vilest monopoly ever
| maintained in the brain of motal man.
| do not care t" say more of the last
election than il was a parody on ropu
| lar government and DEMONSTRATIONS
| Il am curious To know what will be
| the result of the investigation proposed
under the resolution Of the senator from
Nebraska ,Allen). ! would like to un
| derstand why. in those new and grow
| ing states of Texas and the West there
| has been no increase of population in
| four years. while in the old and COM
| pleted states of Ohio. Indiana and Hi
| nois there has been enormous increase.
| | am constrained to believe that the
| senator from New Hampshire tChand
| lerp was correct when he declared that
| the 81. Louis convention was honey
comhcd with corruption and the dele
gates We're brought and sent there for
| the sole purpose of nominating Mckin-
| ley. The average American citizen is
| APT to continue to inquire how the
| stream which comes from 50 corrupt a
course can he called pure
The immigration bin was taken up.
| but the tariff debate continued. Sherman
| addressed the Senate briefly but passion
atelN. The deficiency in the revenue. he
| declared. almost a crime. II was the
! first duty of Congress to provide for the
ordinary expenses of the government.
Sherman called attention to the fact that
the public debt had been reduced from
1855 until the beginning of Mr.. Cleve
lands last administration. by Sl,5So. Wa 900,
and since then ii had been increased 500,
0o1. 600 That increase. he said. was not
the fault of Mr.. Cleveland. but of the eX-
listing tariff laws. Even if the rates in |
the existing tariff law We're apparently |
high enough. the difficulty was that the
duties We're al Nalorem instead of spe- |
ciiic. He sherman would have the Sem |
ate proceed to the consideration of any
tariff law that would increase the rev |
and disgrace that in time of pro- |
found peace the government had, on ac- |
count of insufficient revenue to issue |
bonds That was reproach to con- |
.reSS
"Therefore he continued. II do not |
care in what form it comes or whose |
motion. | am willing to take up the |
Dngley bill. The first thing to be done |
is to provide an increase of revenue so |
that the incoming administration may |
not be compelled to so into debt every |
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