The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-11

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! SAL 900, 600. II the expenditures 1or
pensions during the next fiscal year
| should be S148, coo, 600, as had been esti-
mated, the increase Mr.. Dingley salu,
would not be due to legislation, but 10
more rapid administration of theHpreseEv
laws. 1t would therefore involve hV
additional expense in the end.
The question as to the revenue and ex-
penditures for the next fiscal year. pro
! ceeded MIR. Dingley, was practical eile
which Congress had to face. The stare
ment of the Secretary of the Treasury. ne
said had caused much misapprehensloh
owing to the fact that under q new pro-
vision of law he had been obliged to N, II
clude1estimates of expenditures S73, Goo wv
| for public works which neither he nor Ihe
Secretary of War Tor any other well IL
formed person believed would be eA, ,
pended. Counting this the estimated
deficit he said will be S2l. 900, 600.
| He said he violated no confidence when
he said that the Secretary OF the Treasury
and the President were confident thau
the receipts next year would exceed tne
expenditures.
! Mr.. Dingley said he took it for granted
that Congress would exercise reasonable
| economy. 1t was not expected that the
expeditures for the public works next
year would exceed $50, 900, 900. Continuing
Mr.. Dingley pointed out the fact that the
actual cost of the administration OF the
| government. the ordinary expenses per
capita had remained about stationary Tor
many years. The cost was about 81. 90 per
| eapaGa. AT the present time the expendi-
| lures were slightly In excess of So, but "
per capita went for pensions and about
I % cents for interest on the public debt.
Ihe estimate of the ways and means CON-
ln1ttee had been that the tariff law, with
other receipts would bring in an income
OF hye and one-eighth dollars per capita
and Mr.. Dingley declared that when the
| expenditures were brought within thaB
limit there will be no difficulty. The essi-
mated deficit for the present year, BOT
counting the money obtained and to be
obtained from the Pacific railroads, was
$2S, 900. Zoo.
The anticipatory importatiens had, Mr..
D1ngley argued, placed in the treasury
before July /, S3S, COO 600. These importa
tlens had reduced the deficit last year
from S56 900, 600 to $4,000 inasmuch as
the 1mpertants were for consumption this
year, Mr.. Dingley eontended, that ia
equity that sum should be properly
charged to the receipts of the current
year. II they were SO charged, instead of
deficit there would be g. surplus this
year of $4,000, 600. Mr.. Dingley figured
out q surplus of exactly that amount
| (Sl0, ,609,000) for the coming fiscal year.
| He described the steady manner in which
oIlS T6y6nueS lidQ DS6n Increased al UES
rate of one orstwo millions month. Al
though December was generally a bad
month for iInportations, he said, that if
the increase for the first nine days of this
month were continued, the receipts this
| month would increase from $25, coo. 900 in
| November to $27, COO, 600 in December.
When be confidently predicted that the
effect of the anticipatoRy revenues would
all be overcome during this fiscal year,
and that after May or juno, 1898, the
| revenues would exceed the expenditures,
the Republican side broke into repeated
cheers.
When pressed by Mr.. Richardson, Demo-
crat of tennessee, for an opinion as to the
time when the full effect of the new
schedules would hs manifest, Mr.. Ding
ley replied that the date must necessarily
be problematical, but for practical pur-
poses looking to the pebiod when the reye-
nues would be ample. he unhesitatingly
fixed the end Of this fiscal year.
Mr.. Bailey, Democrat of Texas, asl-
Mr.. Dingley If the treasury was not con
cealing deficiency by counting the re-
ceipts from the sale Of the Union Pacific
as miscellaneous receipts.
Mr. Dingley responded that the only
proper place for this item was in Iniscel-
laneous receipts and he had excluded all
consideration of the Pacific road receipts
in his statement.
y,
not credit your tariff bill with the re-
ceipts from the sale of the Union Pacific
road
Mr.. Dingley disclaimed any such pur-
pose.
Then Mr.. MCMILLAN took q hand in
asking questions.
"If revenues will soon meet expedi-
lures, he asked, twhy do you not use
some of the surplus to extinguish the
public debt -
"Oh," interjeoted Mr.. Cannon, lightly
amid laughter, ''we will get around in
time to step the results of Democratic ex-
travagance."
Mr.. Allen, Democrat of Mississippi,
concluded the general debate with q
humorous speech
During the five minute debate, Mr..
Linney, Republican of North Carelina,
made en- argument in favor OF overthrow
ing the civil service law, which set the
galleries in a roar. He believed that the
spoiIs belonged to the victors. 1t was the
only way to succeed. He fourished aloft
picture from comic paper representing
New York oyerrun by Tammany tigers.
He had never heard anything particularly
good of Tammany, except that it was
vouched for by Amos Cummings, yet
Tammany had prevailed against all the
forces Of Good government. 1t was in
yincible, omnipotent. Why? because 1T
he shouted, 'the Tigers surrounded by
nyriads of little tigers. How would the
tiger look surrounded by monkeys and
mice?' He eulogized the stalwarts of the
party who had ''stuck to their friends. :"
Ali amendments offered, including those
announced by Mr.. Allen yesterday were
voted down or ruled out on points of
order.
The bill was then reported to the House
and passed
Mr.. Hit, chairman of the committee
on foreign affairs, asked unanimous con-
sent for the passage of the bill reported
by his committed to prohibit the killing
of fur seals. He explained the necessity
for the immediate passage Of the act,
owing to the diplomatic negotiations now
| pending.
The passage of this law would prohibit
! pelagic sealing by our citizens interposed
| Mr.. Hopkins, Republican of Illinois.
'ls there any assurance, if it should be
| passed, that the citizens of Great Britain
and Canada will be similarly restricted. "
Mr.. Hit replied that there was rot, but
if we were sincere in our contention we
should pass this law.
Mr.. johnson, Republican, said be
wanted to oppose the bill. He said that