The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-13
The Subject Of Adverse Criticism by
Several Senators.
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS DISCUSSED,
Silver Bond Bill Still Before
She House.

t1t llDultc COtliiilbttcs hANibk Bifth hohiSo
OF a motion to that effect. But the subject
was not mentioned during the day. and
the entire session was given to routine
business.
The consideration ofthe urgent deficiency
bill was resumed. The item OF $780,
600 for salaries of judges and officers Of
the federal courts in the Indian Territory
brought out a protest from Mr.. Chandler.
Two of the judges (Springer and Kilgore)
are ex-members of congress. and had eone
TO the Indian Territory with all the ex-
travagant notions engendered by life in
Washington and membership in a billion
dollar Democratic congress" Mr.. Chand
Ter said he was not yet prepared to make
charges, but he believed from letters re-
ceiyed that all Is not IA il should be in tho
administration of indian courts.
Mr. Chandler also criticized the growing
expenditures under the department OF JUS
tice. These had trebled III 10 years, with
little increase IN business. The senator
pointed out that the last congress-Demo-
cratic in both branches, and with a Demo-
cratic presidcnt-had appropriated $4,000
for United States marshals, and made IL
necessary TO provide 81, 100, 900 for deficien-
cics for United States marshals. Mr..
Chandler declared that the fee system was
responsible for the ghpwing extravaganza
of federal court Officers. He spoke OF con-
spiracies in Alabama, South Carolina and
elsewhere to get NJ fraudulent prosecu-
tions to swell fees Of officers.
Tiilman Takes a Hand.
This brought Mr.. Tillman Dem. s. CT
TO his feet for q characteristic speech. He
agreed with Mr.. Chandler that tho fec sys-
tenn was wrcng. A supreme court judge
had recently pointed out that court off,
cials were encouraged TO get up fictitious
prosecutions. There is a class of habitual
witnesses in the south. They do nothing
but earn witness fees, going around
''bamboozling' negroes and getting them
to prosecute fictitious cases. When South
Carolina had the fee system for local JUS
tice courts the dockets were loaded with
chicken stealing cases.
Mr.. Sherman spoke OF the enormous
cost of our governmental system, which
arose in part from the complication OF ap-
preparation bills, and urged that the
budget system in use in England was far
simpler than that of the American, and
could be proitably adopted.
Mr.. Vest spoke of the robbery and
AiiN BAt1AAkS' ~ ohANtA DAulC> llltE-
shals in order to earn fees. There were
~coteries and rings of these marshals who
make IL a trade to go around arresting
men and dragging them hundreds of miles
TO Jail, not for the purpose of justice. but
to swell marshals' fees.
Lincoln's Birthday Not n National Holiday.
The deficiency bill was then laid aside.
and Mr.. Hale called up the bin making
Feb. IL (Lincoln's birthday a national
holiday. He said ,t would be an appro-
pirate and graceful act TO pass the meas
ure on the anniversary OF Lincoln's birth.
Mr.. Hill (Dem., y. W said he had in
tended 10 offer nm amendment making the
birthday of Andrew Jackson "a legal hell
day, but in order not to interfere with this
measure he would submit his bill separ-
ately. The bin was about to pass when
MIR. Hawley (Rep, Comm remarked that
he did not wish 10 seem ungracious in
such n matter, but he was of the opinion
that the limit OF national holidays was
about reached. More of them might put
this country into the condition Of those
foreign countries which had SO many
saints days that people had no time to
work. Mr.. Hawley objected to the i'm
mediate consideration of the bill, and this
prevented action.
On motion OF the chairman Of the Re-
publican IA caucus committee, the
Utah senators Were assigned to committee
places as follows: Senator Brown, TO the
committees OF mines aud mining, forest
reservations and Indian d~epredations;
Senator Cannon, to the committees on
pensions, manufactures and relations
with Canada. To render these assign
ments possible, Senator Pcttigrew re-
signed from the committe on mines and
mining; Senator Mantle from the forest
reservations; Senator Sewell from Indian
de~predations; Senator Lodge from pen
sions; Senator Cameron from manufac-
lures, and Senator Perkins from relations
with Canada-the Utah senators being
given the places thus vacated.
A bill for the admission OF Arizona ms a
state was introduced by Senator Carter
(Rep., Mont and referred.
silver Bond BlII In the House.
The house spent another day in the dis
cussion of the silver bond bill. Mr.. Bailey
(Dem., Tex sought to prove that gold
had deprecated within the last 20 years.
saying that II this was true the opponents
OF silver would have nothing TO stand on,
as the basis cf their contention was that
gold was stable. He had no special prefer
ence for either gold or silver, but desired
that which was most stable.
Mr.. McClcary (Rep., Mimi said he
would endeavor 20 answer the statements
made by his colleague, Mr., Towne. He
used the maps employed by Mr.. Towne
last week, and asserted that they did not
bear out the free silver arguments of his
colleague.
At the night session the general debate
on the free coinage substitute bill was
more poorly attended than any OF its pre-
Ieccssofs. The galleries wcro almost
empty, and there were but seven members
on the floor. Mr.. Bingham rep, Pa, In
opposition to the mi free coinage sub
%stitute, predicted another $780, OO, 900 bond
Issue unless some legislation was enacted
covering gold redemption OF greenbacks.
The only W other speakcrs-Wood (Rep.,
ILL and Gardner crop, n. J.)-were
against the substitute. At o o'clock, for
want of moro speakers, the house took q
recess until today.