The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-14
UNCLE SANS PHILIPPINE 0AUcz
COSTS QUITE A PARRISH
BIT OF MONEY
TOTAL MONEY SPENT THERE
WOULD BUILD AND FORTIFY NC
ARAGUA CANAL AND FUR
NISH WARSHIPS
ExTRAvAGANCE OF CONGRESS
Government More Expensive Now
Than in the Most MOmentOus
Year of the War of
the Rebellion.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1S.-The house de-
voted today, excepting an hour-and q baIr
consumed IN counting the electoral vote
ana promulgating the result of the prest-
oental election, to the sundry civil an
| preparation bill. General debate upon the
measure was completed but little actual
| progress was made with the bill Durino.
the debate the opposition opened a gem
eral assault upon the present congress.
Fnteen of the 1874 pages of the bill were
| disposed Of Woo
The sundry civil bill was taken up when
the session opened and Mr.. Bell. of COL
raoo' member of the appropriation
committee, took the floor with a speech
! against the unprecedented extrava-
| gance of the present congress- He said
| 1t was time the people became alarmed
! at the rapid growth of expenditures
! so callous had congress become to vast
increases in the approprla tions, he said,
Cnat II was considered almost disreput-
able to call attention to the evtrava-
| gance of the government He produced
nsures to show that in a single decade
| the per capita cost of carrying on the
governmental machinery had Increased
from $4.75 to over $40.
Business at this point suspended to per-
| nit counting of the electoral vote Upon
conclusion of these ceremonies. Mr.. Coch-
| ran, Of Missouri, made an attack upon
the recklessness of the appropriations in
! this congress.
WORSE THAN IN 1864
He declared the total appropriations for
next year, If reckOned in gold would
exceed the appropriations in 1864, when
the federal government had twelve hun
! dred ships on the seas maintaining a.
| blockade from Galveston to the Chesas
peake and 100000 men on land engaged
| in the most tremendous military enter
| prise. in the history of the age
| Later, speaking of our policy in the
| Philippines and China, Mr. Cochran said:
Talk about progress and Christianity,
if progress and Christianity mean march
| ing under many flags of plundeFers and
the swords of Christian soldiers, dripping
in the blood of plundered people, it Is
time to quit or fling away the masquer-
ade and say: Progress has turned free
booter, Christianity slumbers and God
Is dead Democratic applause.)
Mr.. Cochran argued that from any
| economic standpoint, the game In the
Philippines. was not worth the COST
COST OF PHILIPPINE PICNIC.
1--WE have already" said he, spent
money enough there to build the Near
aqua canal, to fortify every foot of It's
| course, to construct what new warshipS
we need and we are today no nearer peace
than when the first gun was fred
| Mr.. Richardson CTenn.), the minority
leader, also commented upon the vast
total Of the appropriations at this ses-
sion of congress, which he said. would
reach $500, ,O00, 900. Four years ago, when
| President McKinley's administration be-
gan, the annual appropriations were
about $407 600. He conceded that the
| appropriations would naturally increase.
every year, but why, he asked, this pro-
digious increase of over $500, 0,0O0,0 000 The
war has been over two years and could
the increases were not confined to the
army and navy appropriation bills. There
was an increase in every one of the ap-
| preparation bills.
IN THE SENATE.
When the senate convened today the
blind chaplain made a beautiful and
touching reference to the death of Mrs.
Thomas C. Platt, wife of the senator
from New York
During the greater part of the day the
senate was engaged in executive session,
and in the counting of the electoral vote
for the president and vice president Of
the United States.
Late in the afternoon consideration OF
the agricultural appropriation bill was
| resumed, but little progress was made.
At night session, begun at o'clock,
! the District of Columbiag code bill was
read.
The monthly statement of the imports
and exports OF the United States, for
January 1901, issued by the commissioner
of statistics shown as follows: Mer-
| chandise,- exports, $133. $50 ,032; increase,
| $15, 0OO Gold, imports, $4,161,012; in
| crease, 50, 100 900. Gold, exports, $8,221,159;
increase, 2,60O,OOO. Silver, imports, $780,
O34; increase, $1,O0O,OOO. Silver, exports,
J 81, ,49O, ,239; increase, 100000.
| r7xIDO
Frequent inquiry has been made at the
state department respecting the distrl-
| button of medals awarded to American
| exhibitors by the Paris exposition. A
letter has been received by the depart
ment from Mr.. J. H. Gore, speaking
for Commissioner General Peck, in which
he says:
| "The authorities of the exposition will
| not send out any medals until all are
ready and. as there will be about $1,000,
several months may elapse before any
| will be distributed. The medal of the
| exposition will be presented to each re-
| cipient of diploma. This medal how
ever, will be in bronze The recipient
| can have this silvered or gilded so as to
agree with his diploma
ELECTORAL VOTE COUNTED.
Tho ceremony Of counting the electoral
| vote for president and vice president cast
| at the election last fall, took place In
| the hall Of the house or representatives
at o'clock today st a joint session of
the house and senate. The method OF
counting the vote is prescribed with
| great detail by the statute and was fol'l
| lowed literally today. Great crowds,
thronged Tie galleries to witness the in
teresting spectacle. Many distinguished
personaEes in political, social and private
life were present. The spectators waited
| patiently through the session Of the
house which preceded the great event OF
the day.
A lapsus linguae by Gen. Grosveror
when he announced the vote Of Colorado,
created a general outburst of mcrriment.
He announced that Colorado has cast
four votes for William Jennings Bryan,
of Nebraska, for president, and four fop
Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, as
vice president
"Oh, no. shouted Mr.. Richardson, one
| of the Democratic tellers, while the
members of the senate and house on
the floor and the spectators in the gall
leries joined in the laughter which fol-
lowed
Mr.. Grosvenor corrected the error and
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