The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-14


sserseds its, policy and adopted the old
Democratic doctrine of economical sex-
pcnditure of the peoples money.
did not the fifty-second congress,
when all branches of the government
were Democratic, expend as much as
the Republican congress?" asked Mr..
Milliken (Rep.. Maine).
mot within $3S000,000 of the amount
expended by the fifty-first congress- or
to be expended by the present cons
gress.'' replied Mr.. Savers.
He proceeded to draw a contrast be-
tween the appropriations OF 1897 and of
1881 to show their increase in a decade.
The appropriations made by the various
bills in ten years had increased Ground
figures), postofffce, $38, 200. 900; sundry
civil $24,0C0.0 900; District Of Columbia,
$2.174,000; military academy, $151,000;
diplomatic and consular, SITS, 900: pen
stems, $50, $4,000; agricultural, $2,501, 900;
legislative, executive and judicial, $S5A,-
600; Indian, 844,243; naval 114,074,000;
river and harbor. d.175.0O0; besides
SIS ZOO, 600 authorized and Notifications
$7,377 900. The grand total of appro-
priations in 1887 was 1887 $685. 71 against
$51S, 845, 1914, an increase of $145, 1924, 900.
In the face Of this showing of the vast
and rapid increase of appropriations,
Mr.. Savers appealed to members ire
spective of party to take home the ne
cessity of retrenchment.
BILLION-DOLLAR CONGRESS.
Mr. Dockery Oem., Mo- who follow
ed Mr.. Sayens, said, in his opinion, the
expenditures of this congress would
reach $1.050, 100000. But he said he
desired to acquit the speaker of the
house of any responsibility. He COM
mended Speaker Reed for his heroic
attitude against this ''riotous assault
n % frno II hi rtXY "a u
responsible, Speaker Reed, ne said, was
rot entitled to share in the odium.
Speaking of the future, Mr.. DOCkery
said he did not know whether a tariff
bill could be framed which would raise
sufficient revenue ito meet these vast
expenditures, but if any one could
frame such a bill, he said it would be
the distinguished chairman of the
ways and means committee, Mr.. Ding
ley" On his side of the house, how
ever. they did not believe prosperity
could be restored by increasing taxa
ton and limiting still further the vol
ume of money.
Mr.. Catchings Oem., Mss formerly
chairman of the river and harbor COM
mittee, entered into an elaborate de-
feESe Of the policy of the river and
harbor improvements and specifically
a defense Of the appropriation for the
YazOo river and the Mississippi at
Vicksburg.
He was followed by Mr. Hepburn
Rep., Iowa., who denounced the last
river and flarbor bill, not because of
the appropriations for great national
projects, but because, he said, the bill
was made the vehicle Of ruthless and
reckless expenditures in insignificant
improvements"
The merits of the Mckinley law as a
revenue producing measure were also
brought into the debate. Mr.. Hopkins
(Rep., ND contended that it produced
ample revenue, while Mr.. McMilEn
Dem., TENN maintained that for the
four years of It's operation the de-
ficiency was 100000 He declared
that the Wilson Law would have pro-
duced sufficient revenue had not the
income tax been declared uneonstitu-
tionaL He was severe in his structures
upon the supreme court.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Rep.. Ohio said lie
wanted the gentleman from Tennessee
to remember that the majority of the
members Of the court who held the law
unconstitutional were Of the political
utilization of the gentlemen himself.
He proceeded to ridicule the present
tariff law and said no party would have
the hardihOOd to return. again to the
ad valOrem system and the faulty
schedules of the Wilson law. He de-
Scribed the Democrats in the last cam
paign as seeking to avoid responsibility
for that law by getting behind a new
issue. But" he concluded. "they were
hoist on their petard and are now
fighting each other on every question
On Gods green earth
Mr. De Almond Dem., MOI in dis
cussing the adequacy Of the Wilson
law also criticised the supreme courts
decision, which he, as a lawyer, de-
clared was not above just criticism
He said no one imagined when the law
was passed that the income tax would
be declared unconstitutional. .f-
Senator Hill, your great Democratic
leader" interrupted Mr.. Hopkins,
warned you that it was unconstitu-
tional"
THAT statement IS false" replied Mr.
De Almond "Mr. Hill was not great
Democratic leader. He is not now a
Democratic leader at all, great or
small" (ADpIause on Democratic side.)
Proceeding. Mr.. De ArmOnd referred
CCntemptu0usly to the man who had
tclla aged his mind in such a wav that
the hard Of the taX-gatherer had been
lifted from wealth and had fallen
again on povertY and trial" Then he
drifted into soma comment of the grow
ing power Of the judiciary and the
executive. which led to some remarks
on the attitude of the government to-
ward C,Iba that produced several wild
outbursts of applause from the MEM
berS