The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-02-18
OVER A BILLION.
CONGRESS- BREAKS ALL FORMER
RECORDS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-Ano'her
billion dollar Congress! Although
5he exact figures cannot be given
until the appropriation bill has been
passed, it is already known, and ad-
mitted by the Republican chairman
of the committee on appropriations
of both House and Senate, that the
total appropriations will not only
exceed one billion dollars; but that
they will 60 enough beyond that
amount to break the high water
mark made by the previous billion
dollar Republican Congress by an
advance Of thirty or forty million
dollars. Yhis, too, in the face of
the general Republican howl about
4he insufficiency of revenue provided
by the present tariff bill. There is
little doubt that the Republican
leaders have allowed the appropria-
tions to pile up, although apparently
fighting for economy by shutting
out bills even for the smallest pub
lie building, in order to make the
deficit big enough to excuss the
tariff bill they are engaged in con-
cocting. They have made success
of the big appropriations, but when
the people get whack at them in
the next Congressional selection,
they will find how their excuse had
been accepted. Representative Say
ers, of Texas, who was chairman of
the committee on appropriations in
the last House, made rattling good
speech, attacking the extravaganza
of this Congress- while the sundry
civil bill was before the House.
Notwithstanding the amendments
made to propitiate the opposition,
Senator Sherman, who was in charge
of the arbitration treaty, was com,
PEELED to bow to the inevitable and
agree to postpone further considera-
ton of the treaty until the next ses-
sion.
In speech made by Pension Com
missioner Murphy, in answer to res
olution commenting his admins
tration of the Pension Bureau, pre-
sented by a Committee from two
Pennsylvania G A. r. Posts, Mr.
Murphy told for the first time in
public, the instructions given him
by President Cleveland when he ap-
pointed him Commissioner of Pen
sions. Whatever may be ones epin
ion of many of his other policies, it
is difficult to see how any man cou d
have outlined in few words a more
just and patriotic pension policy than
President Cleveland did when he
said to Commissioner Murphy: "Mr.
Murphy, [ think you know my ideas
of the Pension Bureau and the pen
sion system. They are just these:
In claims coming up for the action
Of the Bureau, where you find the
case Of a worthy soldier who served
his country faithfully in her hour of
danger, you will be lenient with him
and give him the benefit Of a rea
8onable doubt. In settling the
claims of the widows and orphans,
you will act in the same manner,
but waste no sympathy on the un-
worthy"
1t should be placed to the credit
of Mr.. Cannon, Chairman of the
House Committee on Appropria-
tions, that he reported adversely the
resolution appropriating $500 fol
the erection of stand for the use of
Senators and Representatives and
their families on Inauguration day,
on the ground that Senators and
Representatives should pay for seats,
just as other people do, if they wish
TO sit down to view the inaugural
parade.
Senator Quay is reported to have q
letter written by Mr.. Hanna, before
Mckinley's nomination, demanding
that the Pittsburg Iron and Stee.
Manufacturers put up large sun
of money to be used in McKinley'E
behalf, and to have threatened tc
make it public if the Mckinley
crowd attempt to get too gay with
him. Quay is now in Pennsylvania
where he went to help his sol
"Dick" out, in the libel suit, which
has been thrown on his shoulders by
the publisher of a Piitsburg paper
When democrat, OR populist
uses such language as Representative
CaIderhead, good Kansas Repub-
lican, did before the House Banking
and Currency Committee, Of which
he is member, certain republican
edi'o invariably call it "anarchistit
raving" The text of Mr.. Calder
heads remarks was the bill naming
thirteen American .millionaires
among them Andy Carnegie and Phi
Armour, as inc0rporators of tht
international American Bank,
with authority to establish eigh'
branch banks in other countries
This bill or similar one has beer
before this Committee in severa
Congresses, and it was ouly when al
attempt was made to push it through
the Committee when Mr.. CalderheaC
spoke against il, in part as follows
"The whole United States is in
condition of unrest. The under hal.
of the country believes that it is in
jured, and Injured largely by thu
power of aggregated wealth, The,
actually believe it. They believe i
to such an extent that large areas o:
the country need nothing but lead
er of ability to give US an insurrec-
ton That is the truth, and that i
the political storm that will follow
any attempt, direct or indirect, t.
incorporate the men named here int
a private bank with capital of mil
lions of dollars, and the plea that it il
done for the benefit OF internationa
commerce will not answer that mol
for it is a mob-which only needs
a commanding general to lead it. L