The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
NECESSITY AND NOT POLICY
MUST BE CONSIDERED IN AKING
APPROPRIATIONS THIS TERM.
Some Anxiety Being Felt Regarding
the Revenues of the Government
and Expenditures.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

the United States Senate shall take any
notice of the determined efforts on the
part OF the opponents Of Senator Smoot, of
Utah. to rid the Senate of his presence, IT
is certain that much feeling has been Gre
ated all over the country on the subject.
and that in Utah the case is being watched
with close attention.
1t is not believed that the Senate will Dust
Senator Smoot. There is an important diff
ference between his case and that of the
member Of the House, Mr.. Roberts, who
was unseated three years ago. In the Rob-
erts case the official was proved to be a
~polygamist. II any such charge is made
against Smoot it is done carelessly. without
any prospect Of its being proved. The
charge against Smoot, however, has the
effect. to arouse the people, as is shown
by the thousands upon thousands of pc
titions pouring into the Senate every week
urging his removal from the body.
The reports come from Utah that the
lines are being closely drawn between Nor
mons and g~entiles over all issues affecting
the Mormon Church. A leading attorney
of Salt Lake has been In the city the past
few days. While for obvious reasons he
declines to enter into a public discussion
of the situation in Utah. he said the Nor
mon strength is increasing, rather than
diminishing, and that the day is not far
distant when it will be unpleasant for gen.
tiles to live In the State. The present
laws of Utah against polygamy," said the
attorney, do not operate as a deterrent to
the practice. and it is believed by those
who have noted the leniency with which
the Mormon courts Of Utah treat glaring
cases of ~polygamy that it is necessary to
| have a constitutional amendment adopted
by the United States in order that such
practices may be brought within the juris-
diction of the United States courts. In
no other way can the practice be stopped
dominant party as Ii is represented by the
church. 1 do not believe that Mr.. Smoot is
a p~olygamist, and that Is the impression
in Salt Lake. The complaint against him
is not that he is a polygamist, but that
being an apostle of the Mormon Church he
takes an path to support the church in its
religious and political life, and such oath
is inimical to the relation which an official
of the United States must occupy when
he takes an oath to support and defend
the Constitution Of the United States"
xxx
Republican leaders are beginning to ex-
press the opinion that necessity, and not
policy, must be considered in making ap-
preparations this winter. Those who ex-
anime the daily statement of the treasury
are beginning to show some concern over
the revenues of the government. For the
first twenty-five days Of November the ex-
cess Of expenditures was about 5000, 600,
and for the period from June 80 to date
$4,5OO,0OO. There was a deficit for the
twenty-five days of November, 1902, of ST.
100000, but the excess of receipts for the
four months and twenty-five days of that
year was 81. $685. 67. This large difference
between the two periods was caused by
increased expenditures this year, the aggre-
gate for the current year being 1921 .61S, OH,
against 1923, 305 $40, a difference of IS. 3D., 027.
For the same period of this year the total
receipts were SCI lIe, ga, against 1926, III .s37.
receipts and increase in expenditures for
the current year leaves the treasury, COM
net loss of SIG, 267. 300. The loss in revenue
this year was entirely in customs, the
figures showing, compared with last year,
a falling off from that source of $12.O 00, O0O,
while the receipts from internal revenue in
creased $3,000.000. and from miscellaneous
sources $1,000, 900. These figures will un-
doubtedly be used by the President in his
forthcoming message, and the secretary of
the treasury in his report to Congress to
urge economy in appropriations, and Ii is
expected that the leaders in that body will
set their faces against many of the con-
templated projects that would take large
sums from the treasury. AS chairman of
sentative Hemenway will probably be
called upon to sharply direct the attention
of members who are clamoring for appro-
priations to the necessity for rigid economy.
While it is impossible to say at this time
whether there will be any financial legisla-
ton this winter much interest is manifested
in several bills introduced. Representative
Hill, of Connecticut, a prospective member
of the ommitte on banking and currency.
insists that the passage of a conservative
q. r-a,fIy ~aalnl NJ. II;lI H..
introduced a bill embodying seven distinct
propositions. 1t makes no provision for an
issue of asset currency, which was the fea-
ture of the bill for which Mr.. Hill and
Representative Fowler. the chairman Of
the committee, commended in the last Con-
gress. The new bill provides for uniform
treatment of pubic moneys, eliminating the
exception with regard to receipts from GUS
toms which, under the present law, must
be held in reserve. and proposes to treat all
alike. 1t also repeats the $3.oOo.oo0 with
drawal clause In the present statute, which
limits the total withdrawal of circulation
to that sum within any given month. Fur
ther provision Is made In the measure for
the issuance of subsidiary silver when the
bullion is exhausted. Ii gives discretion to
the secretary of the treasury to reissue
silver certificates and greenbacks in sub
sidiary denominations as they are called
for rather than under present restrictions.
The bill authorizes the issue of gold GER
tifcates in denominations OF SO to fill in the
gap which would be occasioned by cutting
| up THE liz Illus IiAlIlB the
minimum gold certificate at $40 instead of
$40, as at present. 1t repeats the clause in
the act of each bank to one-third of its
total issue in s. notes, and permits them
TO be issued as public necessity and con-
venience may demand. Lastly, the measure
fixes a uniform tax upon circulation re-
CARELESS of what issue Of bonds 1t is based
upon.
Tests which shall determine the strength
of the principal American timbers used for
construction purposes are now in progress
at Purdue University. in Lafayette, and
other institutions of learning throughout
the country. DR.. w. X. Hall, who is sta
toned at Purdue University. is carrying on
a series of tests there with hardwood tim
bers and is preparing for publication the
results of all the tests of the United States
Bureau of Forestry These tests are made
under the direction of the Bureau of For
estry and are for the benefit OF lumber
men. construction engineers and scientific
men who are interested in the strength OF
different wood fbers. The Bureau of For
estry plans from the results OF its tests
to make tables OF the strength OF different
American woods, 10 which the engineer
timbers to use for certain purposes. The
tests will be in cross-bending and break
ing, compression with and against the