Show UNCLE SAMS MONEY some schemes to deduce the treasury surplus WHOLESALE IMPORTING HOUSES delegates are besieging the capital another special pension persons want to be sent to labina fi our regular correspondent 1 washington D G may 23 there aa a very common impression the american people especially t noe ho disdain to bother themselves with the tiresome details of congressional action and public finance that the U S treasuries are filled with inex haus tible loads of gold and silver and that the problem of reducing the surplus is the great urgency of the times all manner of schemes have been suggested to this end and hy those who should know better A few billions for sea coast defenses with a neat fortune for every soldier and a good estly stocked for every poor man it is thought would somewhat relieve this bulging state of affairs but it re bained for senator plumb of kansas to bri ngoat the most fantastic remedy he has introduced two bills in congress Congre sg providing fur an organization called the grand army of labor all citizens of 21 years of age are entitled to membership ber ship no one shall work more than 4 hours a day bior more than 5 days a eek nor more than six weeks without an intermission of two weeks every countryman in the U sis to be provided with a governmental farm the government ia also to undertake public enter prisa forthe purpose of providing labor for members whose daily recompense is to b 4 ahe e is all this money coming from the last statement from the treasury showed the amount of available cash on liand to be about senator gorman u member of tin appropriation committee stated before alie senate that alie pension payments from 1891 for several years will amount to and nobody contradicted him the new tariff bill is said to reduce the public revenues about this will leave for all public purposes except pensions about of alie annual revenue and which is also about the size of the deficit that will be found in the treasury at the end of the next fiscal year if the bills calling for expenditures which have passed one house and ae likely to the other are perfected besides the importers are organizing and are determined to rut down the the rates on every article in the tariff schedule A delegation of representing all the wholesale importing houses of new york city will besiege the capitol this week and tte importers of other cities will also he on hand in view of the indifference of the majority in congress to money matters aliese visiting delegations will no doubt be graciously received and accommodated private pension bills have been passed by congress this session senator ingalls has introduced a bill to put the minimum rate for invalid pensions at 4 per month senator sherman has introduced a bill providing for a special pension of 25 per month to the surviving soldiers sailors aad marines who were on board the steamer sultana when her boiler exploded april 27 1865 2300 enlisted men who had been prisoners in the south were packed on blaid and sent north about 8 miles above memphis the boilers of the steamer exploded at 2 0 clock at night about 1700 were killed or drowned and about died next dav from exposure in the watce survivors have signed a petition for the passage of the bill senator butler presented the petition of the heads of nine families age rating seventy two persons that congress appropriate prop per capita to enable them to emigrate to liberia and maintain themselves six months the petition had a printed heading and it was said that an organized movement in the south indicated a scheme of wholesale deportation of the colored people of south carolina if these are not good and respectable citizens they have no claim upon public charity if these are good citizens why should the government pay or GOO to beet a family of them out when it lets any number of bad citizens in and charges them nothing in the house the tariff debate was no better than a squabble the amendments being regularly voted down as they were offered olf ered the bill was voted on wednesday and passed the house alrig lit but wait till it gets to the senate senator is waiting for it the west will show its he says he is profoundly convinced thai will handle the mckinley bill so the author wont know it when he sees it in the senate mr teller denounced the windoil silver bill in vigorous terms and promised that with free coin asre wheat would go up to he say that it would w up to that price in liverpool where the worlds price is made but virtually confessed that inflation was the object |