The evening times., 1896-02-21
TALKED ABOUT ECONOMY.
Fired Sarcastic Speeches Over
Each Others Head.
THE INDIAN BILL IN ISSUE
Fact That Secretary Carlisle Has
just Given the Morgan Syndicate
More Than $2OO,OOO-Mr Grosve-
nor Denies an Assertion.

| Mr.. Hull, from the Committee on Mill.
tary Affairs, reported in the House today
the hill making appropriations for the
| Military Academy for the year ending June
| 80. 1897, with Senate amendments there.
| to. recommending concurrence therein.
The amendments. he said, were insignifi-
I cant. making an I'm crease OF about $4,000
| only In the total carried by the bill.
The report was concurred In. The fol-
| lowing measures were considered and
passed:
Senate bill to amend section 1894, Re
vised Statutes, SO as to empower the Sec.
retary of the Treasury to remit or mitigate
fOrfciturcs, as well as fines and penalties,
in cases under his Jurisdiction.
Senate bill with a slight amendment
relating to final proofs in timber culture
entries.
The Indian appropriation bill was taken
up in committee Of the whole, the pending
question being the amendment offered by
Mr. Flynn. TO strike ont the item appropriate
ing $4,000 for the salaries of the five
Indian inspectors.
Mr.. Grow moved to reduce the appropria-
tion for salary from $4,000 to $1,000.
To this Mr.. Crisp raised the point of Or
der that 1t was obnoxious to the rule for
bidding the incorporation OF legisla tion
bills. BY an amendment put in the first sec
ton of the bill yesterday he sums named
in the bill are to be accepted in full COM
peDSatiOn for the services rendered, and
any change of salaries under that cordi-
tion was change of law, for the incum-
bent OF any office, the salary OF which
was so reduced, could sue for the differ
ence aud recover Judgment for the amount.
MR.. BARRETT SARCASTIC.
Mr.. Barrett sarcastically deplored the
frequent references made in the debate to
the inability of the Treasury to pay the
salaries provided by law.
He had the best authority for saying that
the Secretary of the Treasury not only
had abundant funds from which to pay
all legitimate expenses OF the government,
but so much indeed that he had only the
day before yesterday presented to J. Pier
pOnt Morgan and his associates OF New
York the sum Of S2Os.44 money be-
longing to the people OF the United States.
At that time, Mr.. Barrett said, there was
something over four millions OF bonds of the
recent issue defaulted. For these bonds
Competent bidder In Boston, who had
been awarded some of the bonds under nm
other bid, had offered to pay the United
States an amount in excess OF the bid OF
j. Pierpont Morgan for the same bonds
by the sum mentioned. And yet the bonds
were given to Mr.. Morgan. thereby depriv-
ing the Treasury OF sos, ,440 that other.
wise would have been placed there for
the USES Of the government.
Mr.. Grosvenor, discussing the point OF
order, warned gentlemen on both sites OF
the Chamber that the people OF the country
had their eyes on this Congress, and one
thing they were looking at 1t for par
ticularly was to see whether or not it
increased salaries or made new offices.
For one, he proposed to make a record
that should be known to Oallmankind against
any increase in salaries in this year of de-
preston.
These salaries were fixed twenty three
years ago. when gold was at premium,
horses worth S125 apiece and cattle 6 and
g cents a pound. The Indian Committee
proposed to put them back to the figure OBJ.
tanning then; now that horses were worth
but S25 apiece and cattle 2 and 3 cents a
pound. He would not follow them In that
course.
MR.. GRoSvENoR'S DENIAL.
Mr.. Fisher-You say you are opposed to
ma king new offices and increasing sala-
ries? Didn't you ask the House to appoint
n clerk for your committee. which never
made a report nor had a meeting?
Mr.. Fisher-Yes.
Mr.. Grosvenor-It was not. The commit
lee had n clerk in the last Congress- and 1
never made a report recommending an in
crease of force by fifteen men and taking
six of them to the committee making tue
report. tApplause)