The San Francisco call., 1898-02-08
Needs of the Postal Service Are Also Reviewed at
 Length.
PROSPERITY AND FINANCE
Statesmen Resume the Debate on the Money Question and Inn
 proved Conditions.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House TToI~s-&o TaJ1

Call Office, Riggs House
 Washington, Feb. '.
 The House passed the Military Acad- emy bill to-day with only one import ant amendment. The debate on the measure was desultory and touched a variety of political topics. As passed the bill carried s453,540, being s2600 less than the amount carried by the current law. The bill to limit the pe- riod for the refunding of the certifl- cates of deposits of 1879 to December 31, 1899, was passed. Tomorrow the House will take up the Aldrich-P Flow man contested election case.
 The attendance in. the House to-day was small. A bill was passed to ratify the act of the Territorial Legislature of Arizona authorizing the erection Of d capitol building.
 Without further preliminary the House went into committee of the whole and took up the consideration of the Military Academy appropriation bill. The bill car ried $453, $40. being $1S6,769 less than the estimates. and S260,032 less than Is carried in the current law It was arranged that general debate should run for two hours. Most of that time was consumed in the discussion of extraneous matters.
 Samuel Smith (R.) of Michigan submit ted some remarks relative to the needs of the postal service.
 Clark (R.) of Iowa spoke on the Loud bill increasing the rates on second-class mail matter, and Greene (Pop.) of Ne braska made some observations on the much-mooted subject of returning pros perity. He read a dispatch from Wheel ing. W. Va, giving an account of the al- by workingmen. ''Gentlemen may cry Prosperity! Prosperity! said he. but there is no prosperity
 And others may howl Calamity Ca lamity,' cried Perkins, amid shouts of laughter from the Republicans.
 Olmstead (R) of Pennsylvania pro- duced clippings from newspapers in all parts of the country showing great re- vival of business and trade.
 Olmstead said that the continued agita- ton of the silver question was the only thing that retarded the full measure of prosperity that would naturally flow from the Dingley law. The threat con- tained in the Teller resolution had driven $40 900 to investment in foreign securi- ties.
 Do we want a cowardly money that runs away?" asked Bland D) of Mis- souri.
 stead Tt goes to places where it is saf- est and the security is best
 You don't hear of silver running away" reiterated Bland.
 "No," interposed Landis (R.) of Indiana, ''you don't hear of silver running away from Mexico"
 Mexico Is prosperous" shouted a voice on the Democratic side.
 Landis-You don't hear of silver money running away from China.
 Ogden (D) of Louisana-Are you a Chinaman or an American?
 Miers D.) of Indiana and De Armond D0 of Missouri both denounced the ac- tion of the House on the Teller bond resolution. The whole purpose of the Re- publican party in the defeat of that reso- lution. De Armond declared. was to com init the country irretrievably to the gold standard. It had at last thrown off all subterfuges and shams and now had the shameless effrontery to boldly proclaim the robbery which it always secretly con- nived at but never before had the hardi- hood to avow.
 Low CR) of New York said it was no strong marvel that the Democrats were bowling down the evidences of prosperity which confronted them on all sides. When Democrat was brought face to face with prosperity he shook like an aspen leaf
 Perkins CR.) of Iowa said that In the matter of wheat and wool the high prices prevailing had been charged to blind chance. It was said that the Republican party was the party of good luck If that were true, 1t follows that there must preferred to affiliate himself with the party which was identified, present and future. with the prosperity and happiness of the country After some further re- and Gaines D.) of Tennessee the general debate closed and the bill was read for amendment under the fve-minute rule.
 With only one unimportant amendment the committee rose and the bill was passed.
 Dingley asked unanimous consent for the consideration of bill unanimously reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, limiting the time in which the outstanding refunding certificates of de- posit of 1879 can be refunded into bonds of 1907 to December 31. 1S99 About $3O.- 100000 of these certificates were issued in furtherance of the redemption act, and but S42.0o0 of them remain now outstand- ing There was no objection and the bill was passed.
 The Senate amendments to the legisla- tive, executive and judicial appropriation bill were disagreed to and the bill sent to conference.
 At 3:45 p. m. the House adjourned