Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-09
A DEMOCRATIC ADHESION.
Senator Sherman Tripped up Senator German on the Deficit in Gov ernment Revenues Under
 the Wilson Tariff Bill.
From our regular Correspordent.l
 WASHINGTON, May l, 1896.

From our regular Correspondent.l
 WASHINGTON, May l, 1896.
 At last the democrats acknowledge that the present tariff law will not pro vide sufficient revenue to meet the needs of the government. The acknow- ledgement was openly made this week in both House anu Senate, and amounts to putting in plea of guilty of inneffi- ciency for the democratic party. Yet they still pretend to think that the people caE be ban boozied into giving the democratic party an opportunity to put the country still deeper in the hole, when the repu 0licau party with its un- broken record of good management of the governments business and prCsperi- ty for all classes of our citizens, stands ready to again take charge and put a stop to the increase iE the public debt, which has been so great under the Cleve land administration.
 When republicans charged that Sec retsry Carlisle was withholding lapprc- priations made by Congress and refus- ing to pay claims against the govern ment upon the fiinsiest excuses, demo- crats denied both charges. Now comes Senator German fully subsLantist- ing both ch8rgee and saying that Secret, sry Carlisle was obliged to resort to such meth ods because of lack of money.
 Senator Squire's bill appropriating S300,UO0 for the erection of an eques- trlan statue of Gen. Grant, upon govern ment lad n the city of Washington, was this week fgyorebly reported to the Senate, and Senator Squire hopes to get tt passed before Congress adjourne. lie thinks It shame that Congress has not long ago provided for Grant statue, and has done h:s part towards getting one Oy introducing a similar bill to the present one in several Congresses, but circumstances of one sort or another have prevented any Of them becoming laws.
 Senator Sherman ripped up Senator German very nicely this week. Mir. German bad just made q speech dealing with tho enormous and alarming deficit in government revenDes-his total WAS S29S, 000,O0O-and concluded by throw lng few boquets to himself for having leseened the deficit some by preventing the original Wil5on tariff bill from be- coming law, and declaring that he vas prepared to vote for any measure thst would add S75,001,000 6 year to the revenues. Senator Sherman promptly challenged that declaration by stating that the House had pasted non- pRrti- san revenue tariff bill, which would have added S00 ,0U0, ,GUO year to the revenues, and that MT. German had led the solid democratic opposition to it in the Sen ate. The only answer NIT. German could make was that the blIl waa Me KiLleyism. He then tried to make point by asking Senator Sherman if he would vote for duty CD tea and coffee, but MT. Sherman equelched him by re- plying: "No, I will not; for I would not put the whole burden of taxation upon those who drink tea and coffee. 1 am willing co get the revenue from the taxation of foreign goods.
 Senator Ohandler's amendment to the Navel appropriation bill. against the employment of Naval afficere, CT the re- tired list. by Naval contractors after June 30, 1897, was adopted by vote of 45 to Il. This amsndment is one of the results of the recent investigator by the Senate committee on Naval affairs of the making of srmor plate for the government.
 The House this week passed the Pickler pension bill, and is now debating the bankruptcy bill, which will be voted upon tomorrow afternoon. It is consid cred probable that the bill will be pass- ed.
 Senators Vest and Cockrell, of Mo-, were made to realize that the adminis- tration IS in dead earnest in the fight 1t Is making oa Ihe silver democrats when Mr. ?, B. Lyles, one of their special protegee, was forced to resign the posi- tion Of chief clerk of the Bureau of Ami maj Industry, Of the Department of Agriculture, into which they had put him in the early days Of the admiuistrs- tion.
 The result of the Illinois republican state convention was not surprising to any one in Washington who had been in 6 position to get an uuprejudiced statement of the sentiment of the party in that stRe, but the declaration of the republican state convention of Vermont, for Mckinley, was so great a surprise that it created a sensation in among the republicans in Congrese. What caused the surprise was that the Vermont rep- ublicsns had never instructed for any candidate before. not even when it was known that the name of Hon. Geo. F. Edmunde, then Senator, was to be pres- ented to a national convention, and that Speaker Reeds friends had not even asked that he be endorsed by the con- Nsnfinn