| Show hley HATE blaine A number of senators fighting bun hard THE reciprocity AMENDMENT expresses H myself on the subject appropriations exceed the expenditures reed scarp correspondence washington sept harmony of the monkey and parrot lind is that which now prevails among alie lican senators and abo closing debate on the tariff hill particularly upon alie reciprocity amendment would have ajen were it not for he fact that the p of this country tor some deais to involved therein this is way senator edmunds to mr blaids blains Bl ains ilea As to reciprocity with central and south america the demand of a country f r commodities docs not depend as upon numbers as nion alie arate of its society ita veath and it when I 1 look at any central american or south american stale I 1 thu th u any one hundred avrus in north america have i le ast year consumed more of 11 aro ducts merchandise food and cloth ing that go to make up the comfort and happiness of mankind than aay one thousand average people in the central or south american states therefore the expectation of the united states being able to dispose of a large increase of its products there ia in my opinion one of the greatest il fusions that brilliant men or bober statesmen have lately fallen into senator sherman in advocating his canadian reciprocity cip rocity amendment was equally emphatic in condemning con deming the blaino idea it is not that these gentlemen have anything specially against reciprocity but they hate biarne in fact the republican senators all seem to hate each other anyway of course the reciprocity amendment will be adopted when the time comes to vote and ill bet a horse cake that both edmunds and sherman will vote for it senator vance had some fun with senator edmunds by giving the old gentleman rope enough to get himself tangled up as to the duties upon tho pro ducts of north carolina mr edmunds is an able lawyer but he knows simply nothing at all about the tariff and every time he has attempted to speak on that subject he has but exhibited his ignorance of it athe house has after a debate which should raise a blush of shame to the cheek of every honorable american citizen unseated representative breckenridge of arkansas representative cannon awing undertaken der taken by a cooked up statement to show the house that the receipts of the government for the present fiscal year would exceed the appropriations made by congress for the sauie period representative of texas who has to a large extent taken the lata samuel J randalls place on the com dittes on appropriation punctured the caubon bubble and demonstrated bv a carefully prepared statement that for the first time since 1866 the appropriations the fiscal year ending june exceed the revenue of the government ern ment the deficit will be somewhere between and ii providing of course that tha majority springs no new and unexpected appropriations to increase it Mr Sayers also presented ted a detailed statement showing that nearly will be necessary to meet the deficiencies of the present fiscal year all of which show that if the united states was compelled on the soth day of next june to pay all of its floating indebtedness it could not do it notel withstanding standing ith the enormous surplus of baah which the democratic administration turned over to the republicans on march 4 1889 fact speak louder tt en columns of argument speaker aeed got so frightened over the reports from his district that he took off his aila sash and russet shoes and started for home this week senator german laughed when he saw the detailed accounts which certain republican papers gave of bis going to main to carry money to beat reed As a matter of fact sir german has never been in the state of maine in his life secretary rusk should hang davy crocketts ketts motto be sure you are right and then so ahead where he can see it all the time then lie would not make another such had break as he did when he stained in an official communication that barley is the only cereal of which there is not raised a sufficiency for home consumption wednesday secretary evarts presented to the senate a com muni cation from the oswego N Y board of trade contradicting secretary rusk and showing that we raised 15 bushels more than we consumed last year it looks very much like mr harrison would be given an opportunity to veto the river and harbor bill as he threatened to do earlier in the session it has absen reported from the conference committee and the senate amendments are practically unchanged I 1 predict that mr harrison will sign it in spite of tho which it carries representative kennedy of ohio com p ired senator quay to gudaa Iscariot in a speech in the house more republican harmony |
