The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-21
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Feb. IS, 1901

that the ship Subsidy bill is dead
for this session, but refuses to allow
the corpse to be buried, and is in
dulging in all sorts Of threats of
what he is going to do to get even
with those Republican Senators
who declined to help him jam the
bill down the throats of the minor
ity. Senator Spooner, who has
been classed as one of the Republi-
cans who would prefer seeing the
Subsidy bill fail, but would vote for
it if vote was reached, publicly
put himself on record last week by
saying Il am against this bill,
but as it is in no danger of becom-
ing law, l see no need in work
ing up useless fears" and Senator
Elkins, who has been classed as
supporter of the bill, said /; The
Subsidy bill is dead. There can be
no question about it now. l might
say that it died borning" Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, to whom no
little of the credit for killing the
vicious bill is due, said of its pres
ent status: The Republicans know
themselves that it would be impos-
sible to get the measure through at
this session, and hence their lndif-
ference. The bill is dead" One
OF Hanna threats is that the River
and Harbor bill shall fail, but
whether he can make it stick re-
mains to be seen.
Representative Bell, of Colorado,
a member of the committee on APP
preparations, made a telling speech
against the unprecedented ex .rava-
gance Of the present Congress, in
) which he said it was time for the
people to become alarmed at the
rapid increase in public expendi-
E lures, which had grown in single
f decade from 81 IS per capita to
more than $1,000 per capita. He
said that Congress had become so
callous to vast increases in appro-
priatlons that it was considered al
most disreputable to call attention
to the extravaganza of the govern
ment Representative Cochran, OF
Missouri, made speech along sim
liar lines.
Doubtless the reason why some
5 Of the Republican Senators are not
actively supporting the Ship Sub
sidy billis that they have heard
5 from some of their constituents and
that they wrote something like the
editor of a Michigan Republican
= paper did to his Washington cor
: respondent who had sent him some
favorable comment on the attempt
. to pass the bill "We don't want
t any more such gush. We are not
t running an administration paper,
f but a Republican paper from an
honorable standpoint. There is no
/ more damnable steal before Con-
= gress than the Subsidy bill, and we
will bet you new suit of clothes
that it will never become law. "
Just before the House passed the
Army appropriation bill, carrying a
, little less than $IIS, 900, 900, Rep
r resentative Mcclellan, of New
S York, in a short speech presented
some figures that are worthy of the
! country's most thoughtful consider
: alton. He stated that the annual
E cost Of each soldier to the United
= States, excluding pensions, would
be 81 ,2SS, and including pensions
4 2,S2S, while the annual cost o.
!. each German soldier. including
r pensions and the expense of pas
: wars, was only $227, and that o
a each French soldier, including pen
y sions and the cost of the Franco
a Prussian war, was only saga. HI
If said the total cost of our army
= would soon reach $500, 900, 900 +;
year, to say nothing of the expens
J. of the navy, which Is now NOR
l. than $Ioo, 900, 900.
y Perry Heath has not attempted
W 10 reply to the challenge of Rep
IS resentative Sulzer, of N. Y, i,
re connection with the anonymou
rs letter Mr.. Sulzer had read as par
IL of his speech. which charged Heat
lie with guilty knowledge OF Nicely
t. stealing and other crookedness
e, Mr.. Sulzer said on the floor of tn
lie House: 81 ain responsible for ever
III word in that letter. If Mr.. Heat
In thinks there is anything libelous c
es scandalous in that letter l wi
"a plead the truth of the statement:
ID But ! serve notice that I am goin
to say everything in that letter, an
pc want Perry S. Heath to answe
n If he does truthfully he will be
at for the penitentiary. l want hi
y, to understand that | am responsib
ia in damages for what l say. I'll