| Show HOLMANS OPINION Of the Fiftyfirst Congress and i Its Work Is orr THE BAD PRECEDENTS IT HAS SET the Next Congress Will Reduce the Tariff Election Senators by the People Another Measure Ihe Silver Question Special to TiE HEUALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON March ISWhat do you think of this Congress someone asked Judge Holman the great objector It was the worst in the history of the country was the prompt reply Yes I mean it I was bad in its methods and all its surroundings and worst of all it has I made a precedent which will likely have a I bad influence upon the country for all time I has raised a standard by which extravagance extrava-gance will be judged in future and rendered ren-dered greater extravagance liable The individual members of the House were dwarfed and a bad influence dominated dom-inated There were some very warm admirers of Mr Reed who had gathered around him but with the possible exception of Mr Keifer I think there has never been a speaker before who has made as many enemies among members of his n rn nuvtv no Ime Mr Rood Snmn nf thnm have talked to me about the way in which members wero dwarfed by the peculiar methods which were in practice These methods utter disregard of members and tho unprecedented extravagance of Congress Con-gress will furnish an evil precedent for the future and the trouble is that the worst precedents are often followed especially es-pecially when it comes to the spending of public money The Fortyfourth Congress cut under the appropriations of the Fortythird some i > 40JOOOp but the entire extravagant extrava-gant appropriations of the Fortythird i Congress did not amount to nearly as much as the appropriations made at the first session ses-sion only of this Congress which were considerably less than those for the session ses-sion just closed If the next Congress should cut under tho appropriations of this Congress by SlnO000000 the percentage of reduction would not be as great as the Fortyfourth in comparison with the Fortythird I is difficult to curtail an extruvaaence already begun Nothing can overcome the precedents of the late Congress Con-gress unless there should bo a popular revolution as there was in 1840 against the extravagance ot the aristocratic Van o Buren administration But think of ifcj I The expenditures for the first fifty years of the government amounted to 000001 1 000 or ver little more than the appropriations I appro-priations for one year of this Congress i Passing on to the work of the next Congress i Con-gress Mr Holman said I will venture the prediction that almost the first thing jdoco at the opening of the Fiftysecond Congress will be the passage of an act requiring re-quiring the election of Senators by tbe people peo-ple and it will become lan There is astron a-stron sentiment in favor of The measure meas-ure will be introduced in ti 5 House as soon as Congress meets and tiero will be very little delay in its passage I will go to the Senate early enough to give them plenty of time to act upon it And the Senators whether they like it or not cannot can-not afford to defeat tho measure A popular popu-lar sentiment will demand a change arid for Senators to oppose i would be construed con-strued to signify a fear on their part to trust their fates to the will of the people I predict the present method of electing Senators Sen-ators will very soon be done away with What do you think will be done about the tariff in the nextCongress was asked Before the 1st of February the House will send a tariff bill to the Senate It will be a bill making a moderate reduction of duties on lines demanded by the people and very considerably increasing the size of the tree list tion And as to silver was the next ques ton believe the next Concress will pass a free coinage act There is question about the propriety of giving the benefit of the difference between the coin value and the i market value ot silver to the few holders of the bullion instead of letting it go to the whole people I think the government should get the advantage The whole people peo-ple should got the benefit of the increased value of the metal by reason of its morel having the stamp of the government upon it I therefore favor the proposition for the government to receive both gold and silver at their respective market values and to maKe thorn into coins of certain standard weights I would have the coinage coin-age of both alike unlimited The two metals met-als do not always retain the same relation toward each other nor is a gold dollar always the more valuable They sometimes change places their relations being regulated by the supply of each metal and by the amount of each used in art As we know the silver dollar has been more valuable than the gold and it is liable to be so again 1 the free coinage of both is provided for under the same conditions con-ditions I refer to tho market value of the metal itself But there will always be a seigniorage to the government from one metal or the other as they will not remain of exactly equal value I favor the government gov-ernment purchasing the metals at their market value and issuing the coin in return But if it is proposed to make gold the i standard and apply this method of purchase to silver only then in preference to that I should favor the unlimited coinage of sil II ver a dollar for a requisite number of grains letting the holder of the silver get tho benefit of the difference between the I market and coin values I thinK by one I plari or the other the unlimited coinage of I silver will be authorized at the next Congress Con-gress Allisons and Cannons Statements A1isoni WASHINGTON March 17 Messrs Allison son and Cannon chairmen respectively of theSenate and House committees on appropriations ap-propriations have prepared statements making a comparison of the appropriations of the Fftyfirst with the Fiftieth Congress Con-gress The statement of Cannou shows that during the Fiftieth Congress cover ingthe salaries of 183990 the total appropriations appro-priations including deficiencies were S17 063959 The appropriations of the Fifty first Congress embracing tho fiscal years 189192 amount to 938410129 let apparent ap-parent increase S170146J69 Cannon says there should be added to the appropriations appro-priations of tho Fiftieth and deducted from tho Fifty flrstCougress 05321907 to meet known deficiency pensions in the appropriations ap-propriations of the former Congress Cannon Can-non argues against increasing the number of committees having charge of appropriation appro-priation bills and says the system of distributing dis-tributing them among various committees is vicious and tends to extravagance Rethinks Re-thinks one committee of the House should be charged with the preparation of money bills for its consideration Senator Allison in his statement gives in detai the reasons which operated in several seve-ral appropriation acts to increase the expenditure ex-penditure authorized by the present Congress Con-gress over those of its predecessors HQ says the increase of l14l178 under the agrinultural appropriation act was caused by the establishment of agricultural experiment ex-periment stations and the transfer of the weather bureau from tho war department de-partment Under the fortification bill there was an increase of 2802 000 for continuing the construction of batteries for the defense of various harbors In the Indian billjthe increase of 7i07jOOp was made to carry into effect re I cent treaties negotiated with various Indian II In-dian tribes An increase of 1456000 was made for tho clerical force in various departments I de-partments mainly in the pension office The show an increase navy appropriations incease II of 14000000 for now ships improvement of navy yard plans ote Pensions show an increase cf 3113312000 including deficiencies deficien-cies The increase of 2s66S000 under the I postofflco bill Is duo to the growth of the service throughout the country The increase I in-crease for sundry civil expenses of 15 000000 was for river and harbor improvements improve-ments census expenses public buildings life saving service etc The deficiency appropriations exclusive of pensions were 726000 less than the Fiftieth Congress although 1301000 for the French spoliation spolia-tion claims are Included |
