Show I iOiioi W PUT ASIE The Stupendous Pension Bill Carried S Car-ried the Day CIVIL SERVICE REVOLT REPUBLICANS ATTACK IT ONT ON-T FLOOR j Hot Shot From Brown and Grosven ior Wealthy Pensioners Ding t leys Sensation Says Nest May the Revenues Would Exceed Expenditures Ex-penditures Washington Dec 10The house rest re-st med consideration of the pension appropriation ap-propriation bill which was debated yesterday tfIr Brown Rep Ills attacked the clfil service law because it protected sdfme of the pension examining boards appointed under the last administration administra-tion He styled It abominable and was lustily applauded by many colleagues col-leagues He said the soldiers of his f district regarded this law as Inimical to their Interests and he favored its repeal or radical modification UNPOPULAR LA VIe V-Ie declared that the president was mistaken when he affirmed that the civil service law had the approval of the people The Republicans and the press of his district had denounced i The last Republican state convention of Ohio had declared against the law and en that platform he stood I disloyalty toj the law was disloyalty to the Republican Repub-lican party then he was disloyal Great applause in the galleries Mr Maxwell Pop Neb submitted some remarks in favor of a liberal pension pen-sion and was followed by Mr Gros venor Rep 0 who said that while his colleagues from Ohio seemed to differ on the civil service question he thought they were practically of one mind So far as he was concerned he had enlisted for the war against the law WEALTHY PENSIONERS Mr Sullivan Dem Miss in sup pert of an argument against the payment pay-ment of pensions to those who were wealthy and did not need them quoted at length from an article recently written by General H V Boynton whose testimony against abuses in the present system he said was entitled to respectful consideration by the other side sideDEFENDED DEFENDED CIVIL SERVICE S Mr Johnson Rep Ind in defense of civil service reform which he said was being attacked on this floor by some members from the presidents I own state reiterated his statement of the other day that civil service reform i san essential principle of Rcpubli ofeiism Hayes Garfield Harrison and I McKlnley stood for the law Mr Johnson John-son declared that the enemies of the law were not attacking it openly They hoped a the friends o true civil service ser-vice reform t tear it down piecemeal and do covertly what they feared to attempt directly Messrs Carmack Gaines and Sims Democrats of Tennessee spoke briefly in favor of retrenchment in pension expenditures ex-penditures These remarks drew an important statement from Mr DIngley regarding the prospective revenues and expenditures expendi-tures for the ensuing fiscal year DINGLEYS SENSATION Mr Dingley said he took it for gated gat-ed that congress would exercise reasonable rea-sonable economy The estimated deficit de-ficit for the present year not counting the money obtained and to be obtained from Pacific railroads was 28000000 The anticipatory importations had Mr Dingley argued placed in the treasury before July 1 38000000 Those importations had reduced the deficit last year from 56000000 to 18 000000 inasmuch as the importations were for consumption this year Mr Dingley contended that in equity that sum should be properly charged to the receipts of the current year I they were so charged instead of a deficit de-ficit there would be a surplus this year of 10000000 COUNTING CHICKENS Mr Dingley figured out a surplus of exactly that amount 10000000 for the coming fiscal year He described the steady manner in which the revenues reve-nues had been increasing at the rate of 1000000 or 2000000 a month Although Al-though December was generally a bad month for importations he said that if the increase for the first nine days of this month were continued the receipts re-ceipts this month would increase from 23000000 in November to S27000000 in December When he confidently predicted pre-dicted that the effect of the anticipatory anticipa-tory revenues would all be overcome during the fiscal year and that after May or June 1S9S the revenues would exceed the expenditures the Republican cheers Repub-lican side broke out into repeated FOR THE GALLERIES Mr Allen Dem Miss concluded the general debate with a humorous speech During the fiveminute debate Mr Linney Rep N C made an argument argu-ment in favor of overthrowing the civil service law which set the galleries in a roar All amendments including those proposed yesterday by Mr Allen Dem Miss were either voted down or ruled out on points of order The bill was then reported to the house SSO and nassed I carries 5141263 SSOAt At 450 p m the house adjourned until un-til Monday |