| Show OCR FINANCES It Is a Condition Not a Theory Confront Ins TJs Washington Oct 21An interesting discussion of the financial condition of the treasury and the country took place in the House today McMillan said Is was no longer possible possi-ble to consider the financial straits in whch the treasury was The treasury was running behind every month Nothing had been paid on the sinking fuiul for some time and it was notorious no-torious that the treasury had been driven to the use of a portion of the one hundred million gold reserve main tamed to redeem outstanding greenbacks green-backs to meet current expenses HThe bill to construct a revenue cutter 4 cut-ter for the Great Lakes to replace the Andy Johrson which has been doing service on Lake Michigan for thirty imnrs led to further financial discus ibut the second morning hour expired ex-pired before action was had The House then resumed consideration considera-tion of the printing bill which was completed and the amendments reported re-ported to the House On the passage of the bill the vote was 7 to 3 Beltzhoover made the point of no quorum and the ayes and noes were ordered I resulted 138 to 9no quorum quo-rum Tlifrreupon at 305 the House adjourned ad-journed |
