Evening star., 1899-02-10
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


The House today, without parliamentary
business, went into committee of the whole
and resumed consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill. Upon Mr. Can
mons motion general debate was to close
With this legislative day
Mr.. Brosius PaD. the first speaker to-
day. characterized the s2oO0O. 600 TO be paid
TO Spain under the terms of the Paris
treaty a mere bagatene The American
neople. he said, would LIT tolerate the idea
Of looking backward in go 7entaI de-
yeIopmcnt
Mr.. DOckery (Aob. who followed con-
graduated the country upon the statement
made by Mr.. Cannon yesterday. mad 1t
bevn made earlier. he said the country
might have been saved many millions Of
doIisTs-
hr. DOckery shows Figures
Mr. DOckery produced figures to show
that there was already in sight deficiency
II s67.o1o."00 for the next fiscal y-lr. But
his was exclusive of the additional expen-
dture of <2.JGuoa9 involved I'm the naval
'ersonnel bill, the new ships to be author
zed in the naval appropriation bill the
cuban claims. The $1,000 900 fer public
buildings and the enormous expenditures
involved III the Hanna-Payne subsidy hill
and the bill for the construction Of the
Nicaragua canal. should either OF these
latter bills be passed.
After the civil war he said Compress bad
reyeled and riCted in the substance of the
people. but the FOrty-fourth Congress had
come Another Forty-fourth Congress would
come. not by that name, however II might
be the Fitty-seventh, IL might not be until
the F'ifty-eiEht, but one would come ami
mated by the spirit that controlled the
Forty-fOurth. and il would cut down IN,
TAX burdens OF the people.
" Lob
rend!tures could be reduced under the for
ign policy entered upon by the administra-
ton Nj Dockery replied that circum-
stances would probably necessitate large
Increases in the cost of our military and
naval establishments. but he did nor he.
heve there could be a great reduction in
governmental expenditures
GU mean then interposed Mr.. John
son. that We must cut down the expenses
Tor our internal affairs at home in order
hat W. may be able TO support a great
army and navy abroad?"
II am not sure but the gentleman IS
about right. replied Mr.. Dockery some.
where the pruning knife must be laid q,
-lse the tax burdens Of the people must bt
Increased"
Mr. De Almond CAIol argued that If N.
people were to bear additional tax burden:
m income tax should be imposed Tn,
lime mad come. he declared when tn,
pohcy OF the government must be de; ;eru,fn
d The people and Congress should not II.
Why should not the bounds and the limit,
ot our policy be fixed in connection witt
the appropriation Of S2euOO 600 in this bill
u we are to keep the Philippines we shoulS
know IL
Mr. DeArmond, speaking of the causes o.
he Wal declared that great injustice hac
been done the Speaker of the House. /
was said everywhere that the Speaker hat
been opposed to the war. Yet, he declared
10 solitary man IN the country no doze,
men, in fact. had done so much TO max,
var inevitable as the Speaker He ba,
Impressed debate In the House had stIfe,
The sentiments and the Conscfences of mem
bers- President Mckinley II he had nee,
mere. had not dared to do so much. Th
waters had been damned up until the foo,
vas inevitable.
At last the indignation throughout tn
rcUntry and the wholly unexpected bloyyinj
p OF the Maine broke the flood gates
Turning 10 the question of the future Mr
OeArnoRd declared that all history prove.
that when republics turned toward i'm
JerialisTn II was only a question of tim
When the end came. There was no goa
We were travelling a new road An on
rand heritage was to be abandoned ShouI
rse oot Pause before we made the plunge!