The herald., 1898-06-16
IN THE SENATE
Thirty-Two Bills Passed in Thirty
Three Minutes


WASHINGTON, June 15.-After passing
a number of pension bills and listening to
a carefully prepared speech on the advan.
tages of Republican tariff legislation by
Mr.. Pritchard of North Carolina the senate
today resumed consideration of the inter-
national bank bill. An amendment was &C.
cepted by the committee extending the
privileges of the measure to all citizens
of the United States instead of restricting
them to those mentioned in the bill. When
the senate adjourned consideration Of the
bill was not concluded.
A Rush Of Bills
During the consideration of the pension
calendar thirty-two bills were passed in
thirty-three minutes. Among the bills
passed was one increasing the pension of
Mrs. Margaret Love Skerritt, widow of
Rear Admiral Skerritt. from $50 to $50 a
month.
Mr.. Pritchard then addressed the senate.
He said:
1.-The great change which has taken place
in the financial, commercial and economic
conditions of our country since the in
auguration of a Republican President and
the enactment of a Republican tariff law,
directs attention again to benefits which
have invariably followed from the admin
istration of the government by the great
party of Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley.
Not in many years, if ever, have the ma
terial prospects OF the United States been
as bright as they are today; and for this
the wise and patriotic Legislation formed
and passed by the Republican party is re-
sponsible.
Pritchard's Predictions
"A prediction made public by the Bureau
of Statistics recently might well have been
received with amazement and incredulity
by those who have not followed carefully
the trend of our national trade during the
year. To suggest that the balance in trade
in favor Of the United States for one year
could, much less would, reach the pro-
digious sum of 5000 900 seemed like idle
folly. Never before in the history of the
nation has the favorable trade balance been
half that much. And yet the prediction
was well founded and unless the law of
probabilities fail, the trade balance, which
for the ten months ending April 3Oth, was
$s14 245, 4s5. will be over six hundred mil
lions by June Goth. The nearest approach
when the balance in our favor was $751;
2o3 la
1T is estimated that for the fiscal year
the net amount of coin received in partial
settlement of our huge merchandise bal
ance will be at least 500 900 900. This is
more than double any previous cash bal
ance for one year, the largest having been
S44. 653 200 for the year 1879"
After describing agricultural and COM
mercial trials through which the South
has passed, Mr.. Pritchard said:
Taffy for Republicans
But brighter day has dawned. Out of
the wreck of scheme and ill-founded hopes
has arisen a new generation, who, working
with head, hand and heart, are raising the
Southern States to place where prosper
ity, plenty and happiness shall be the
familiar portion of their people. In the
front rank of States that are working out
O splendid destiny stands North Carolina.
No State has greater possibilities; none
greater need of the fostering care that
flows from the Republican control of the
government.
1.-THE citizens of my State have not been
backward in entering upon the develop
ment of her industries and the whir of the
spindle and the click of the loom in hum
dreds of cotton mills are daily teaching her
people the great lesson of Industrial ex-
Prosperity has come to North
Carolina to stay. This year there is a
boom; farm products are from Is to 40 per
cent advanced; horses are rs per cent
higher than in 1897 and few are to be had.
Poultry is $50 per cent above last year. The
lumber industry that was Frustrated in