The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-03-21

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maintain close scrutiny of appropria
lions, and second, in having successful
ly resisted projects prompted by selfish
interests that we're claimed to beproper /
for carrying out public sentiment, but
which would, in reality, have defeated
the realization of such sentiment or
have at least delayed the construction
of great works necessary for the Ma
tional welfare.
During the whole of the four years
covered by Mr.. Cleveland's second adj
ministration the material and indus
trial condition of the country was
calamitous, and its contemplation does
not bring satisfaction to any American
citizen. But the Fifty-ffth congress.
beginning with the administration of
William Mckinley, and promptly call
ed in extraordinary session, as promptly
enacted legislation which has yielded
the additional revenues needed to pay
the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment. and has at the same time pro
tected American labor With the en-
actment of that legislation hope and
confidence struck hands, and the condi-
ton OF the whole country improved
and has continued to improve from that
time to the present. Labor is now
universally employed. with increased
wage, and with such employment the
means are supplied for increased con-
sumption.
In addition, without taking time to
discuss in detail the causes that led
thereto, congress declared war against
/ Spain; and the prompt and decisive
successes of the army and navy upon
land and sea have never been equaled
anywhere in history. The great ex.
penditures rendered necessary by the
war required the enactment of addi-
tionai revenue legislation, and that leg.
islation is now bringing into our treas
ury an additional $500 OO0, 600 per an
mum.
The vast increase of the navy and the
creation of an army of Il quarter of a
million men, together with the increase
of taxation, have not ih any appreciable
degree checked our industrial advance.
which began coincidentally with the IN
coming of the present administration
and the Fif'y-fifth congress.
As a logical sequence of war, outlying
territories formerly belonging to Spain
have. by the treaty of peace and by the
occupation of our army and navy, come
under the jurisdiction of the United
States, and a military government, I'M
der the direction of The president and
in conformity with the peace treaty, is
established in those outlying territories
and will continue until congress in the
future shall provide by legislation such
civil government as the interests of the
3 United States and the condition and
ell-being of the people therein may
demand
The administration of William Nc
Kinley and the Fifty-fifth congress
have grappled successfully and wisely
0 with all questions of peace and of wal
that they have been called upon TO con.
: s;der. And in passing let me call at
tention to our great success in securing
the adjustment of the large indebted
o ness due the government from the
Pacific railroads. Under the admins
tration of Mr. Cleveland, in the then
depressed condition of the country the
u roads was regarded as practically lost
and we would have been glad to have
secured its settlement by the payment
IS of one half of it, But, with the return
a of prosperity so wisely promoted by
a sound legislation and administration
the Indebtedness of the Union Pacific
= amounting i'll round numbers to s59, 900
, 600, has been collected and paid int,
n the treasury, while the principal of the
4 Indebtedness of the Kansas Pacific
h amounting to over S6,OOO.OGO. has also
been collected and paid into the treas
ury. Under legislation enacted by the
second session of the congress just ex
pred, the administration has settled
! and secured the whole of the debt, botf
principal and interest, due from the
, Central Pacific, likewise amounting in
round numbers to $4,000, 600. Ii any
one had predicted, at the beginning Of
this administration, that it would be
p possible to collect and secure these
great sums to the United States, ht
. would have been laughed at as a pro
: phet Astounding in neither inspiration
9 nor wisdom.
J. Mr.. Speaker, q word in conclusion
! l feel that can with proprety con
! graduate the house, the. congress, the
, administrator and the country upon
the legislation and appropriations Of
+ the Fifty-fifth congress as we'll as upon
, the administration OF the executive
Turning our faces toward the new
, problems that will be presented for oul
, consideration and action, am conf.
!, Cent that we shall in the future, as We