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usurp the functions Of the Executive Is very
much greater. All this noise concerning !iie
Democracy: it is u subject useful only before
election. and one which plays no part in the
real history of the country.
PENSION ORDER BASED ON PRECEDENT.
/ should like to go on, but have no right
to occupy your time in discussing the only
mouse that was born OF this parturition
about unconstitutionalism, and that was
Pension Order No. ~. Truly the Democracy
we're n u very bad way. because the only acI
and | challenge the mention of any other
specihcation Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS nio one
made fourteen years ago, and OF William NC
kinley Iapplausel. made seven years ago.
that Judge Parker has to say that it does not
make any difference whether Grover CieNe,
land made such an order, it is unconstitutional
Well, then. Judge Parker says he is going TO
revoke that order-if he can There Il a.
va in 6 'sn r. ahes
he Is going to advise the Southern Democracy
for the Southern Democracy OF Congress ~
advise the Southern Democracy to pass z
service pension bill. ] don't know how much
value win be attached TO that promise promise:
hope upon which to expect that some twenty
or thirty or forty millions of dollars shall be
voted to increase the pension list
With respect to trusts. they have side
tracked the main issue by discussions as 70
the common law Judge Parker thought
mon law. and he has discovered decision Of
the United States Supreme Court in which II
was permitted to private CORPORATION nd 40
the common law rule against Il common
carrier
stand ii. involves the power. of the court.
criminaIIy or to enjoin: and / venture to say
who would dare to risk his eputation-unless
possibly he was running for an office Laughter
nam mfbt go to the District Attorney to
the ,Attorney-General of the United states.
migh 20 into court OF the United States.
Indictment under the common law.:assum-
ing that the sherman Anti-Trust law had not
passed against trusts for violations of the
Interstate Commerce Act; or that he might
go to a court of equity. that is. a United States
court of equity. and ask that court to enjoin
individuals engaged in similar transaction.
THE gXTRAvAGASCE ISSUE.
But there Is one issue-I think we ought
ia one issue that they do make clear. and that
ment; and they say that the Republican party
has spent great deal of money in the last
eight years. and \ undoubtedly has.
proposition that because one does not spend
money and does not appropriate money for
s1 credit That party Is entitled to the graft
tide Of the people that, koowing, what Is
needed for The oo sswGs Ind the nDs
raising the money and paying for it,, lap
plause Judge Parker POINTS to the in.
crease between the year 1885 and the year
1905 In 1885 the. expenses of the Govern
ment-th that is. the Observation-Disclosures S242..
600 600 in 100. they We're s's2 Goo co Coin o. round
he says that ia an evidence Of wastefulness
and extravagance, that III yon. will let US
Democrats in we will cure that.
cLEvELANp's PROMISES OF ECONOMY.
Well We have had some experience with
the promises Of economy on the part Of the
US VIII GO Back to the @ Of 1881 When
The party call at that time was Turn the
rascals ont: we want to look at the books.
These enormous expenses must be reduced"
and so they turned the rascals out and they
had an opportunity to look at the books and
they found there vas nothing lost-by the
Now, You would imagine that expenses
would have been reduced during Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration. AS matter OF fact.
the Government were increased by $40, 900 900
year oyer the administrations OF MIR Arthur
Then Mr. Harrison came in. and under
Mr. Harrison the obligations of the Govern
ment were decidedly increased. Then we
ont and give us a chance to economize. and
the result of that was that during the next
the was in tse oo
second Administration of MT. Cleveland were were
are like men when they don 7 have the NOR,
they don't spend 1t, During the settnd
Ss Moa s Fl b Mr. Ss Ell sSows
we may expect from the Democratic party.
They had 70 borrow s3e2 Goa, 600 OF gold
lust to run the household expenses OF the
Government and when man is borrowing
money 10 do that he has very strong motive
for economy.
PARKER's UNFAIR COMPARISONS.
Now, Judge Parker has had long eXpc-
rienoe ss Judge, and IN the preparatory
[ this e. TSsn Ss %ns n w wbs
the expenses of the Government were that he
complained Of. that he should have selected
Under each Has he DO done that? Well,
1855 was the first a Of Mr. G%velands frs,
fair for him 10 state that in the last year of
Mr.. Cleveland's administration the expenses
thew q sne we Gee in Che first year and wouidn
have been fairer, in selecting comparison.
that he should have !ts , nearer 70
ministration. when it turns out that the aver
age expenses per year were sis,oooooo more
han they were in 1855
Again, in attacking somebody, that some
body is entitled to specifications. whether
ordinary criminal hailed before police court.
Theref ore, Dwight he not to point out the ey-
NJ nditNree in respect to which he thints
his party will EXERCISE some economy and
with rcrpect to which nc charges that the
iepublican part, has exercised q trava-
gance, wasteruiness and corruption? Well,
haa he done that: '.c males nm indistinct
reference 10 the fact that these SIS? 600 00O
may contain the Panama Canal claim. That
uavment was Il payment out of capital: We
had the money in the Treasury and paid it
out j do not think it is too much 10 say
II the Democrats had been in power. they
would have issued bonds to pay. And We
did TINT in order that We might have the
beginning of a canal. | ought to say also
with respect to that 1852 OO0. 900 that he might
also have added that that is not the cNpenCli-
lures of the Government, but that disbursc-
meut Includes not only actual disburse-
ments but IL includes disbursements that are
merely transfers OF money.
For instance, take the 81 100000 that was
pnid into the Treasury OF the United States
by China TO meet the claims that arose out
ont OF the Boxer war, take the 35O0.OO
recovered from The Hague tribunal by the
Catholic Church of California, the Pious Fund:
that went right out again. SO you VIII find
there are S3A 900 200 IN that $685.. 900, 600 that
were not expenses at all, but were mere pay
ments In and ont.
character OF the allegation. The immi-
nration law cost about 81 900 0OO to enforce
Il. II is enforced by the money that rs col;
lected as head tax the expenses are charged
IN the list OF Disbursements, but the fact that
tho million dollars come IN does not appear
IN the statement;