Show SITUATION IS MOST CRTICAL Many Facts Regarding the Nations Na-tions Finances Have Been Held Back GORMANS GREAT SPEECH I y I INVESTIGATION WILL SHOW STARTLING 1 I START-LING DISCREPANCIES l I i Alleged Impotency of the Senate Defended De-fended By Gorman Who SuyH He Has Implicit Faith That the Body Will Do Its Full Duty in the Nat tcr Carlisle Called Upon Foe Information In-formation Concerning Every Detail De-tail Bearing on Ilevennea Reserves Re-serves Deficiencies EtcPresent Condition of Affairs Due to n Policy Pol-icy Set By Republicans I i Washington Jan 31A critical stage of the financial discussion was vnex pectedly precipitated inHhe Senate at a late hour today Intermittent references had been made to the subject throughout the day but it was without definite fcrm or purpose and the Bsnate finally relapsed re-lapsed into a discussion of the District of Columbia appropriaton bH But the financial question arose 1 cid ntally and finally at i ocljcic Mr Gorman launched a speecn whIch proved to be one of the most effective he has delivered at the present session of Congress He pointed out the gravity of the treasury situation intimating I mating that fats were being held back and that an investigation would show startling deficiencies He defended the Senate against the charges of impotency i impo-tency and declared he had perfect faith that this great body would do its full duty before Congress adjourned I He said a financial remedy would itI necessary be added as a rider to an I appropriation bill Spurred on by the energy Mr Gorman Gor-man had suddenly injected into the question the Senate at once proceeded to consider and pass three important resolutions calling on Secretary Carlisle Car-lisle for information concerning every detail bearing on revenues reserves deficiencies etc defcemie ec A warm party debate occurred during the day on the question of party extravagance ex-travagance Mr Chandler Mr Platt and other Republican senators asserted the total appropriations for this Congress Con-gress would reach 1001000000 a million mil-lion in excess of the billion appropriated appropri-ated by the Fif tyfirst Congress Maiidersons Successor Senatorelect Thurston Republican of Nebraska was on the floor of the Senate today and was introduced by Mr Manderson whom he succeeded Mr Hill Democrait of New York presented to the Senate the petition of the Leather and Hide company of New York urging the issue of 500000 000 of gold bonds Mr Peffer Populist of Kansas Wished to introduce a financial resolution resolu-tion and ito preface i with a statement state-ment Mr Harris Democrat of Tennessee objected to > the practice of making arguments ar-guments when measures were presented pre-sented Mr Peffer characterized this objection objec-tion as cruel in view of the receait wide latitude of financial discussion The title of his resolution is To provide for a special election to take the sense of the people concerning several questions ques-tions as to the financial policy of the government Allens Silver Resolution The resolution of Mr Allen Populist of Nebraska was then taken up requiring re-quiring the secretary of the treasury to redeem government obligations dn silver ver as often as he is convinced a systematic sys-tematic effort is being made to deplete de-plete the gold reserve and force an issue of bonds Mr Allen said he had no hope of its passage but the wanted to call public attention to the action of the secretary of the treasury in ignoring ignor-ing the law which gave him the opportunity oppor-tunity of paying certain obligations in silver and made it imperative they should redeem at least two forrAs of currency in silver I was a usurpa tion of authority He praised Mr Vest for refusing to follow the presidents I dictatorship Mr Allen sought to secure se-cure a yea and nay vote on his resolu tion but after considerable parliamentary I parlia-mentary sparring he failed in this Mr Gorman interposed with a motion mo-tion to take up a pending District of Columbia bill He said it was perfectly per-fectly apparent this discussion of financial resolutions was utterly fruitless fruit-less Appropriation bills were waiting and the days of Congress were flying fast Brought 11111 TJjj This brought Mr Hill to his feet He suggested to Mr Gorman there were measures quite as important as appropriation appro-priation bills and he considered several of these financial resolutions as among these Mr Chandler Republican of New Hampshire interjected a privileged resolution asserting at the time of the recent election of Mr Martin to the United States Senate by the legislature legisla-ture of Kansas the latter body was not legally organized and that Mr Martin was not entitled to his seat The presiding officer ruled that the resolution was not privileged Mr Chandler appealed from the decision de-cision of the chair Mr Gorman moved to lay the appeal on the table The appeal was laid on the tablfr 39 to 6 many Republican senators not voting An effective step was taken at this point to bring the entire financial ques tion before the Senate instead of leav ing it any longer with the finance committee com-mittee Mr McPherson Democrat of New Jersey a member of that committee I moved to discharge the committee from further consideration of the bill of Mr Sherman to provide on temporary tem-porary means oT meeting deficiencies I do this said Mr IePherson for the express purpose of bringing this matter before the Senate at this time Cannot Expect Action But you cannot expect to get action on such a resolution at this time interposed Mr Cockrell and I therefore there-fore object Mr oPherson said that in view of 1 > iX flJtg il the objection he would call up the resolution tomorrow but Mr Cockrell insisted that his objecffion was against the reception of the resolution The finance committee Is unable to agree explained Mr McPherson and it is therefore desirable tq get the subject before the Senate Thfe vic president said he would rule on the resolution when it came up later and the Senate then took up the District of Columbia appropriation billMr Mr Chandler took occasion during the discussion to saY the present Congress Con-gress promises to be much more than a billion dollar Congress That cry had been hurled against the Republican Republi-can party and now instead of the stern economy promised in stump speeches this record of the Republicans Republi-cans was to be far outdone Mr Harris said he had far greater respect for the estimates of officials as to their needs for appropriations than he had for Mr Chandler Mr Gorman said he was not surprised sur-prised that Mr Chandler should still I feel the results of that public rebuke which the people gave the Republicans I Republi-cans for their extravagance Policy Set By Republicans I hope and expect the total expenditures expendi-tures of this Congress will be under a billion dollars said Mr Gorman but this expenditure approximately a billion bil-lion must go on as a result of the policy set by the Republican Congress Con-gress He reminded Mr Chamdler of the difference between economy and parsimony par-simony It was now evident a full fledged party of extravagance was under way Mr PlaIt Republican of Connecticut Connecti-cut said that party discussion had thus far been withheld by the Republican Side of the chamber The time had now come to show the false pretenses of the party in power No spsndthrifit ever squandered his patrimony with such reckless extravagance extrava-gance as the Democratic party during the last two years said Mr Platt The only reduction made by this administration adminis-tration was in cutting down pensions taking it out of the pockets of the Holdiers Mr Chandler said the total appropriations appro-priations for the present Congress would reach 1001000000 Dont you believe in this District appropriation asked Mr Gorman Dont you believe in the Democratic platform responded Mr Chandler Oh yes answered Mr German amid laughter And do you believe in carrying out your platform continued Mr Chandler Certainly its a good platform said Mr Gorman Glr Aldrich Republican of Rhode Island said he did not object to ample appropriations but he asked Mr Gorman Gor-man where he was going to get the money Stewart Sarcastic The president is going to borrow It suggested Mr Stewart Mr Sherman Republican of Ohio said that the District appropriations were exceptional being the seat of the national government and ithere Should be no niggardly action Mr Allison Republican of Iowa spoke of the manner in which the government gov-ernment was running behind in its revenues The first duty of Congress was to raise revenues as well as to appropriate for necessary expenses Mr Allison said that the tariff bill had largely increased the free list and brought in foreign articles with lower duties There was therefore ample means of increasing our revenues by a small Increase in the tariff rates This should be done instead of drawing from the treasury the reserve to pay current expenses tMr Allison n said if a surplus had been maintained the gold reserve would not have been in trenched on to meet the treasury notes This brought on the financial discussion discus-sion again To Redeem Greenbacks Mr Gorman said the gold reserve was originally created to redeem greenbacks green-backs Up to the time of the passage of the McKinley bill the government had plenty of gold and the goJd reServe re-Serve was intact But the McKinley law starred a change and one year from the time air Harrison retired from the presidency we were unable to meet the demands on the treasury The bankruptcy of true government began at I that time We have inherited this load con tlnued Mr Gorman We are carrying I thus tremendous burden The senator declared the crisis was far graver than was known He hoped the real deficiency of the treasury would be disclosed in response to Senate resolutions reso-lutions It was time the country knew it He had hoped the officers charged with the highest executive duties would appreciate the gravity of the conditions as to lack of revenues and would make them plain to Congress By this time i I Mr Gorman was speaking with great earnestness In the present grave emergency emer-gency he did not fear the Senate would I be found impotent Will Meet the Emergency It will meet this great emergency said he If in no other way It will place in an appropriation appropria-tion bill the means by which every obligation of this government will be amply met and the honor of the government be maintained He did not care what the details of this provision might be but he appealed ap-pealed to Republican senators to join in meeting the issue It was their duty I as well as that of the Democratic senators sen-ators Mr Hill was at once on his feet asking ask-ing why the senator from Maryland had not allowed the financial resolutions resolu-tions to pass earlier in the day Mr Gorman said he wanted them to pass and would move to lay aside the District DIs-trict appropriation bill and put the financial resolutions on their imimediat passage The resolutions were according brought forward and agreed to within a few minutes without a word of arcu ment The first resolution proposed by Mr Hill calls on the secretary of the treasury treas-ury to inform the Senate if legislation is necessary or desirable toward the issue of bonds to meet deficiencies in revenue and if so what the substan tial features of tills legislation should be This was agreed to on a viva voce vote only Mr Allen voting nay Mr Song resolution calling on the Secretary for information as to the amount of gdld reserve used for current expenses and the amount of proceeds from bonds similarly used was also agreed to with an amendment by lIr Gorman The amfendrnferit is very com prahensiye and calls on the secretary for details on every possible detail of revenue reserve deficiency assets etc that can shed any light on the financial situation The amendment and resolutions Were adopted without diSsent after Mr Tel ler had suggested that Mr Gorma > ought to ask for information as to ivy the Democratic president and the Dem ocralfcie leaders in Ithe Senate could not agree on what was the trouble The Senate at 520 Pi m adjourned |