The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-14
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
To Arm Our Soldiers For Blood and
Plunder.
PROGRESS HAS TURNED FREEBOOTER
Debate Starts on sundry Civil Bill. Mr.. Fich-
ardsOn Says Enormously Increased APP
preparations Are Not Confined 10
the Army and Navy.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, Feb. 13.-The House de-
voted today. excepting an hour and a
half consumed in counting the electoral
vote and promulgating the result of the
Presidential election to the Sundray
Civil Appropriation Bill. General de-
bate upon this measure was completed
and the bin was read for amendment.
Little actual progress, however, was
made with the bill. During the DEBATE
the opposition opened general assault
upon the extravaganza of the present
Congress. MesSrs Bell, tColo), Rich
ardson, (Tenn), and Cochran, (Mo),
in turn made speeches. Messrs. Cannon
tllls.), and Moody (Mass.), defended the
record of Congress in the matter o. ap-
preparations. Fifteen of the 1874 pages
OF the bill were disposed of.
Mr.. Bell (Colo), member Of the
appropriation Committee produced fig
nres TO show that I'm a single decade
the per capita cost of carrying on the
Governmental machinery had increased
from si.75 to over $40 The speech ;sas
interrupted to permit the counting or
electoral votes and was concluded i'm
Hediately after the ceremony
Mr.. Cochran, tMo.). declared that the
total appropriations for the next wear.
if reckoned in gold. would exceed the
appropriations in 1864, when q Federal
ga 'ernment had 1,200 ships on the sea
maintaining a blockade from Galv aston
70 the Chesapeake. and 1,000,00O men on
land engaged in the most trelnend Gus
military enterprise in the history of
the age
Talk about progress and Christian
ity he continued. IF progress and
christianity mean marching under
many flags of plunderers and the
swords OF Christian soldiers, dripping
in the blood of plundered people, it is
time to quit or fling away the mas
Qaerade and say: Progress has turned
freebooter, Christianity slumbers and
God is dead. " Democratic applause)
,Tr. Richardson, (Tenn.), the minor
ity leader, said the total appropria ions
at this session would reach $500, O,OO0 100
Four years ago when President McKin-
iey's administration began the annual
appropriations We're about $470, eco. 900
He conceded that the appropriations
would naturally increase every year,
but why. he asked. this prodigious IN
crease of over $500 100000
The war had been over two years
could not be changed with these IN
creases for the increases were not con-
fined TO the Army and Navy Appro-
priation Bills. There was an increase
I'm every one of the appropriation bills
Mr.. Richardson referred to the ap-
preparation for the New York custom
house as an item that could have been
omitted This aroused considerable
controversy. At the close of the gen.
eral debate the bill was read for amend
ments under the five minute rule.
Upon points of order made by Mr.. Ohm
stead, Pa.), the appropriation of $l15 coo
for a tender for the inspection Of he
ninth light house district; $l15.000 for a
tender for the engineer of the ninth
light house district and $4,000 for a
tender for the tenth district; $500 for
2 tender for the thirteenth district and
S3o.C00 for a tender for the sixteenth
district We're stricken from the bill.
At 5:35 p. m. the oHuse adjourned.