The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-11

shall be in order on any general appropria-
authorized by law" IL is claimed on the
one hand that this rule would positively ex-
ciude the amendment but Mr. Hepburn
points out that Congress has already au-
thorized and appropriated for two surveys
of the Nicaragua canal I'm sundry civil
bills and also Increased the compensation of
the engineer in charge of one of these sur
Veys. Upon these acts of Congress ii viii
be claimed that the amendment is not OBJ
noXtous TO the rule and that 1t Is germane
Should MIR. Sherman, of New York, who is
the chairman of the committee of the whole
rule it out of order it is possible that the
friends OF the bill will seek to overruie the
chairman. Indeed some Of the members
have been sounded with this possibility in
view.
Mr. Brosius CRep., Pa the first speaker
i'm the House to-day. characterized the sd
o00.000 paid TO Spain. under the terms of the
Paris treaty, mere bagatelle. The AHer1-
can people. he said, would tolerate the idea
of looking backward in governmental de-
Vel0pment.
Mr.. Dockery who followed. congratulated
the country upon the statement made by
Mr.. Cannon yesterday. Had 1t been made
earlier. he said. the country might have
Dockery produced figures TO show that there
was already in sight a deficiency of $1,000
COO for the next fiscal year. But this was
exclusive Of the additional expenditure of
$4,000 involved in the naval personnel
bill, the new ships to be authorized in the
naval appropriation bill, the Cuban claims.
the SIOo0O0O for public buildings and the
enormous expenditure involved in the Han
na-Payne subsidy bill, and the bill for the
. construction of the Nicaragua canal. should
either of these latter bills be passed. After
the civil war, he said, Congress had reveled
and rioted in the substance of the people,
but the Forty-fourth Congress had come.
Another Forty-fourth Congress had come.
not by that name, however. 1t might be the
Fifty-seventh, it might not be until the
f1fty-eghth but one would come. animated
by the spirit that controlled the Forty
fourth. and it would cut down the tax bur
n
MR.. JOHNSON AGAIN.
Mr.. Johnson CRep., Ind.) asked how the
expenditures could be reduced under the
foreign policy entered on by the administra-
ton.
Mr.. Dockery replied that circumstances
would probably necessitate large increases
in the cost of our military and naval estab-
lIshments, but he did not believe there
could be great reduction on governmental
expenditures.
You mean, then" interposed Mr.. john
son, that we must cut down the expenses
Tor our internal affairs at home in order
that we may be able to support a great
army and navy abroad?'
Il not but the gentleman is
about right replied Mr.. Dockery. Some
where the pruning knife must be laid.
else the tax burdens of the people must be
increased"
Mr.. De Almond argued that if the people
we're 10 De maze 10 pear 3QQltlOnal tax bur-
dens an income tax should be imposed. Mr..
De Almond, speaking of the causes of the
war. declared that great injustice had been
done the speaker of the House 1t was said
everywhere that the speaker had been OPP
posed to the war Yet, he declared, no soil
tary man in the country, no dozen men, in
TACT, had done much to make war in
eVltable as the speaker. He had suppressed
debate in the House, had stifled the senti-
mentS and cOnScfenceS of members. Pres
ident Mckinley, if he had been here had
not dared to do so much. The waters had
been damned up until the food was inevita-
bic. At last the indignation throughout the
country and the wholly unexpected blow
ing up of the Maine broke the flood gates
Turning to the question Of the future, Mr..
De Almond declared that all history proved
that when republics turned toward i'm
perialism it was only a question of time
when the end came. There was no goal.
we were travelling a new road. All our
grand heritage was to be abandoned. Should
we not pause before we made the plunge?
IN conclusion he appealed to the members
to break their shackles rise in their dignity
and assert themselves in favor of America
in America. in favor of free government at
home and opposed to oppression the world
over. If Congress- expired without acting
and matters were allowed to drift on the
would be appealed to. There would be pro-
tests against parting with the Philippines.
dney were ours, , It would be argued be-
because we had shed our blood for them.
Mr.. Gillett declared that he had rather
pay So, OOOOO TO be honorably rid of the
Philippines than to pay $4,000 coo to keep
them. The islands could in his opinion,
never be AmericaniZed. Corruption and de-
moralization would creep in and there could
be no compensating advantages.
Mr.. Hepburn then gave the notice pre-
viously mentioned.
Mr.. Lentz concluded the debate for the
day with a. denunciation of the President
for committing the sentence of Commissary
General Eagan. He declared that General
Eagan's attack upon General Miles had no
parallel i'm military history. He had called
General Miles liar for simply telling the
truth. to which $4,000 private soldiers could
testify. The troops had been fed rotten
beef, said Mr.. Lentz, and yet General Eagan
was to be suspended with pay for six years
and then retired upon three-fourths pay be-
cause he had denounced the truth as lie
lie was to be rewarded for attacking Cen
eral Miles. With his pay during his sus-
pension, and calculating the length of his
life, according to recognized mortality
tables, General Eagan would draw SIS 600
from the treasury after he had been con-
Vlcted by court-martial of a most heinous
oMense against military discipline
The committee then rose. Wednesday
Feb. Y, was set apart for paying tribute 10
the memory of the late Senator Morrill, At
O'Clock the House took a recess until s
O'Clock, the evening session to be devoted
20 pension legislation.