The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-08
TO GOLD AND THE TARIFF
Grosvenor Traces the Country's
Prosperity.
ENDLESS CHAIN BROKEN
Protection and the Gold Standard Re-
sponsible For It All-Futility OF
Tariff Legislation Pointed
Out by Underwood.

Washington. Jan. THE house was
engaged all day on the legislative and
judicial appropriation bill and COM
pleted it substantially as reported. ex-
cept the items for the civil service
commission. which went over until
Monday. There We're several side de-
bates during the day, one of these
brought out by Grosvenor of Ohio in a
speech of an hour on current political
questions. The Philippines also came
in for attention on the discovery of an
item of $4,000 for naval charts for the
islands. The item was ruled out on a
point of order by Dockery; the chair
man, Payne, holding that the Philip
pines We're still foreign territory, and
as such not the proper subject for leg
lSlatfon proposed.
On convening to-day the house in
committee of the whole resumed CON
slderation of the legislative, executive
ana judicial appropriation bill. Mr..
cromwell, rep, Ohio. moved a formal
amendment to the bill in order to ask
why the appointments of emergency
clerks IN the war department had not
been made from the eligible list under
the civil service law, and said the cir
pofafN appointments exposed the mani
fest absurdities of the civil service laws,
He thought the law should be generally
overhaued
Bailey replied to Bromwell. predict
ing II the present civil service law con-
tlnued on the statute books. the next
~ years would see the passage of 6,
civil service pension list. Cannon ex-
planned civil service machinery, saying
II was necessary in emergencies to en-
ploy clerks outside that law Bromwell
Withdrew his amendment and the read
ing Of the bill -1roceeded.
AT | o'clock GroSvenor was recor-
nlzed to make an hours speech con-
cernlng the attitude of the political par
ties of the country toward the financial
question. Grosvenor outlined the plat
formS of the two parties, dwelling espe-
c1ally on the tariff and silver policies
OF the democratic and the protective
tariff and the gold standard policy of
the republican party. The result of the
republican policy, he said, was already
seen i'll the increase of our exports
bringing cold to this country and stop
ping che revolution of the "endless
chain,' about which so much had been
heard under the democratic admins
tration of Mr.. Cleveland The issues
had been clearly cut and distinctly de-
hned, and the democratic orators had
dwelt especially upon the menaces of
maintaining the gold standard The
Chinese wall of foreign trade had been
broken down and for the first time in
our history Europe was looking to the
United States to fix the rate of ex-
change He maintained that while
there had been an unprecedented in
crease in the revenues derived from
abroad on our agricultural products,
the eXportation of our manufactures
have kept even pace with them.
Mr.. Underwood dem, Ala, replied
briefly to GrosVenor, urging the fulfill
ity of recent tariff legislation in secur-
ing prosperity and the inaction of the
party in power on financial questions.
Mr.. Cox, dem, Tenn. also took up
the present theme. arguing that if the
government was on gold standard it
was not due to any legislation by the
party in power. but through the course
OF the secretary of the treasury.
Dockery made point of order
against the appropriation of $4,000 for
the construction from government
surveys of a series of engraved nautical
charts of the coast and harbors of the
Philippine islands,
Until the ratification of the peace
treaty. said he, the Philippines will
not be a part of the United States and
there will be no warrant of law for the
appropriation
The chairman, Payne, sustained the
point of order and ruled out the Philip
pine item, saying: THE chair is not
able to see how charts of foreign ISL
ands, as the Philippines are for the
present, can be provided for in the ap-
preparation bills"
An amendment was made to the ap-
plication of the civil service la-- to
emergency employees. Those already in
the service under the emergency appro-
priations are left outside the civil sery-
ice regulations, while those hereafter
appointed are brought within the oper-
alton of the law.
After further amendments of a minor
character the bill was reported back to
the house and agreed to throughout
with the exception of the items relating
to the civil service commission, which
went over until Monday. Mr.. McCleary,
rep, MINI, sought to withdraw from
the calendar the banking and currency
bill. Cox declared this bill had been
irregulary reported and that the demo-
Gratis of the committee had been eX-
cluded from the committee room when
the measure was under consideration
Without granting the request for the
withdrawal of the bill the house at
o'clock adjourned.