Show I 1 0 senate spends hie tile day Dips sin I 1 D THE IT MS M plumb gets in HOMO ome inci dental licks at I 1 THE TREASURY SURPLUS SUI it PLUS I 1 and is answered promptly by beek nuil anti test OMER CAPITAL capiral TOPICS A dangerous raft la in the bin line of atlantia antio steamers postmasters con firmed armed be ft tv to western associated erss to ibe the yesterday work wk in the national dec 21 41 morgan from the committee committe eon on foreia borei g relations reported a ra resolution solution directing the lie amary secretary of state to furnish cop ies lee of all correspondence with mith the mexican government since january 1880 1886 respecting the weil and la IA abra claim salso to beato what amount has been paid by mexico under con convention y a n tor for the tho adjustment of cla claims alms the amount distributed tho tile aau amount aunt undistributed and the reasons for tle the same adopted the resolution reeo lution offered yesterday ay by butler for the appointment of a select committee of five to investigate tit the condition of the five civilized tribes ce of f indians waa was adopted allison called up the holiday re coos resolution and moved its adoption plumb thought there was no reason why congress Congre ae 1 12 hould id adjourn forthe for the holidays he 1 referred to If Hugl iee revolution reco lution n that congress should not adjourn until some deposit di disposition posit on of treasury surplus as and said he lie aree with aith the presidents statement bat the of I 1 non action in the matter of surplus we would uld rest rett with ah congress Congre fM ilia primary a responsibility for the condition of tf the treasury rested with the president who totally disregarded the law which required him to ernd spend the surplus in the purchase of of jhb national debt the tito Pre president in liis ilia ines sago omitted to state that the lat congress a law requiring him affirmatively to pay a pion month thin iu the discharge of the public debt and that the president had put that bill 11 in ili bin his pocket thus preventing its becoming a law the see secretary rotary of the treasury was today to day depositing HO 40 allotted ulylus surplus with national baolto to bo be loaned loa to the people peo pleat at such rates ae as their necessity might them then to pay puy bonds builds of the united states could be 0 purchased at a rate w m aich would yield 2 za L per cent andyes and yet instead of using part odthe of tho surplus tor for that purpose it wae given give n to the national banks to be used for their profit tb the president had forgotten fori totten that the river river and harbor bill vi well appropriated had tailed failed not ot because of any lack of action by congress the d deficiency fici ency bill covering over M had also failed t the last fh wion n because of tho the neglect of the the democratic majority in the house of representatives and these t two 0 gums would have made a very comfortable addition to the cur rent at thie this ho ile plumb never did agree w with ith the republican policy of the treasury department but that policy waa mas not under a suspicion of being unduly influenced by tire new york banks just aa as fast as there was a surplus of in the treasury under the republican publican Ke administration it had been put out in the tha discharge of the obligations of the united sta state te it never neer had been paid out after the consultation with mith the officers of the new york bank banks the trouble with ith the prose administration was that it had no eye to anything except v Atiat hat rel related led to the tile banking interest of new york city he lie presumed the tile adjournment resold afon would paea pass but believed it A not bo be with a fair regard to the public i a interests M k said such a recess wa 0 haual asua usua i I 1 and he ile did not v why by the senate should go into rite a discussion of tho the dr t policy tic when hen they had bad all boxt year before them thom but there were mere noine wine tiling things which had been overlooked by tile senator from kan sas ile had not told the country that the policy of tho the republican party by imposing and dainta maintaining in i i i an anro unreal I 1 high taxat taxation I 1 h had nj a treasury stir and anil that tile same party wae wits determined I 1 ned to hold it there or to waste it in euch such scheme schemes aa as the tile republican party might desire the tile 13 senator had not to told id the country that the republican party had so the tire debts of the tile united stu state that they could not bo be paid with witti money aikus brought by high taxation into tile treasury unions unless such premiums were paid aid to ilie the bondholders aa as the they might demand the policy of ilia Ite publican party rt had P pou W tile payment of of debt till 1891 and of 1 till too the president had haa paid every dollar 0 3 per par cent that i were ere uble v without ine in be the premium winch which tho tile bond holders might bee tit to wk ask the democratic lk larty headed by the tile president wa WAS endeavoring to redu 0 tile tax so 60 that eo so aar gargu a surplus 11 abound not riot come into tt the treasury all AD thattie taa eod wid wa was that it wa not tl proper thing lor for DM Foa ere of the trea tre eory to ray lay or ma lor for every of tho the pub 9 ask and that it m the tile duty of con t to ethe the taxation ol 01 the retho to a that there would riot ao be a surplus ml dolph that it the W p rr t we were to nade aw abo th rims and a tir thle ba 1100 iteal 1111 penar roto ctr the tb ae 01 4 ivr ilia avilea ta 0 no 9 d 1 0 d I 1 y I 1 I 1 ibba S ha 1111 1 u I 1 ang I 1 t ty ter M 71 inin t I 1 W I 1 n J 0 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 the privilege ot of sailing sixteen steamships under the american flag in order to carry r ry it it to foreign 0 11 ports and that n not 0 1 one n 2011 senator would record hia his vote ote in in favor of that bill the senator from ore eon on with w ith all liia his solicitude itu to for the Aine american rIcan ine merchant marine marine would not vote for it and why because the tie republican senators dill not ir I 1 ot propose p to make a it break in the tire solid compact aich h they had mie with the protected rot industries of tire country gy by t tariff a riff legislation gs aaion they feared that thit a creva we mi be created in in that long oi g I 1 line a ot p protected r av t industries which mi might result in in a d deluge belr 1 in response to plumbs of the president tor for vetoing tile river and harbor bill lie reminded that senator thattie that the moet virulent attack upon n tire bill had come from hh himself uj I 1 f I lamb ho ile had fought ilia bill by section sections and in in the aggregate hail had ridiculed it denounced hotl n it and oled voted against it the P Preen rem lent had in lua annual message sharply defined d the issue issue between the tile two great parties and lie vest endorsed that message from the beginning to tile end lie was as prepared ared to goin go into to a canvass up upon 11 it presaged preS an and wh whatever at tho the result might be lie declared now publicly that it if tile president had done nothing less than write that message ho he had proved himself to bo be an li lio noet onest brave patriotic man and worthy of the leadership of any party that eer ever existed in in th the a lii etory of this country teller severely criticised criticized the president for endeavoring to create a public alarm in in order to carry ouk out a pot pat scheme for reducing the tariff lie ile argued that there waa not so much surplus in iii the trea treasury sumas as should ne no haste baste or ca cabie it alarm arm stewart stew art was satisfied Batie fied from the tile da dim cushion cassion today to day that coureas congress ought not to adjourn forthe for the holidays holi I 1 ays As to the aurl us lie helas wae sure it would ouli continue coutin to be locked up it if the only remedy was that 1 9 suggested led by tile president the th reduction 1 ti ams of the tariff th abo 0 issue presented to ill the a american people by the president was whether it would S stop P doing its osa own work and h hire it out nations as well as in individuals dividu divi duals aIs got rich by doing their own work lie ile waa was in in favor of congress remaining in in session session and would voe vole against the resolution allison said tile sex could not selta promote the public it resta eresta by re mamma inai in in session while tho the house was in the tho present unorganized condition there wore were throe three ways of getting rid of t surplus Bur sur plum one waa was 11 the 11 ai way presented by the senator from 0 kansas another was to increase thu the appropriations pr lations iati ons the ilia third was to modify in I 1 FT ro alie to tax law tho the revenue ro venue measures had to originate in the house ile be 0 of I 1 representative i and from the beginning of 1885 eilf till now no revenue measure had come from the house and none would come certainly before the ath of january therefore he lie did not see that the public interests could be I 1 adi advanced alced or promoted by refusing the lie house the adjournment which it asked ked plumb said that the house cou lInt adjourn without tire coni arren of t the b senate I 1 e n 11 t B butler t 1 e r e parsed x contempt tor for the disgusting spectacle which ilia senate w wae VA abing and for the tl affect and b Y I 1 y exhibited tola tolay to lay la thare wa was S not a senator who did h 1 nut kanom kno that all that was said about tin the sen ate remaining in in session grescion wa wa 4 abs 1 lie itc bosh and anti rup hicri any jy it w i tile flim ah 11 ai vet ve t h fpx pery ria hu lie bad had over litno aed I 1 plumb resented the pi ion of fidei alio public me I 1 censor d lv by t tio tie S r from re south linit nt Sher milb tir ha an a V L ith miller that it wae was hardly norih breh while hile tor thu tho senate diate to deny tho noe the ti gitil 1 of a holiday a 1 but de he did lid not agree willi him tit to the tile ii ua ter of of to dav r debate on the ali contrary iw lie 14 herman was very much interested ili in it it had brou brought ait t the he attention of tho the rk senate natal to the lolly tolly of some feature biot i t tire 1 presidents dents message ines notably the folly foil of endeavoring ende avonna to create a eare scare e are and alarm ala I 1 n about bout UK the condition of the ilia couert country r y because fortunately there waa was a surplus 1 ol 01 in the T treasury re abury it if il it were true that there was w ae such a state of alarm as was mas expressed by the th Pre president certainly the democratic Democrat ii not to over the holiday holidays iio lie did not believe however that there was an any 0 occasion aslon for alarm he lie believed tut that alic alie e language of the president was entirely too etring it wae was right and proper for or the republican publican He tw natora to cell call attention to tin folly ot of the tire house of adjourning without even an organization the surplus of was lees less titan was in the treasury at other periods of the pree pros on t administration he ile thought it but right that the humbug by which it wae was sought bought to frighten the tile country a should hould be punctured exploded or explained an am av after further discussion the r resolution t I 1 on VMS was conod in yens you 37 naye nays lq 19 tito blair educational bill was taken up as a ed business and after an executive beeston the senate nate adjourned a a I 1 BILL washington dec dm 21 senator voorhees introduced a bill in ili the senate today to day to solimio tu to ilia court of claims for adjudication the title of wm mcgarrahan raban to to tho iiii interests of rancho grunde io in california dee dec 21 the following postmasters were nero c tok laik d day ay y II 11 t bu burke sant A 4 tuli ala L K B by barnee na X berkeley J N daviee davies arcata calsi caia E howitt te Witt cals W C dar karno 0 truckee gala J B Gardiner Anaheim cara 1 M C Il fresno city ity calf cal J E knox san bernardino cala cella thomas leonard sonora vila cila W V U calm lolin john batena A 1 I norman san lieo diego cala cilia E A ioe los angeles An Relee cala K E 0 0 rollins oroville ororille Or Oro orille fille uala 0 spurgeon banu santa ana gala 1 11 II if II 11 titomas omas co lusa itilia M k 1 JN u clara cala tua edward binm ilan fa ore col 16 U it lr Ur rott rait sit alt like jake 1111 0 1 I 1 W lorne cauz couz washington 11 terri territory I 1 ory M T deck dock 1 lagrande oregon A TX parr WAsi tamm dec I secret ary whiles VLAs 1 inspru odo re gherardi Ghr Gher arai in wil tilmand mand ai a the tile yew now york navy d to a naval vol FA 1 on I 1 a caubo t aar alter tIme raft from ram nova non new now ewt uL rift in 1 the path ot eure oan veel to warn stu of ito ownes prepuce and lf tow tov it to a j w c AXIEN 1 1 iab 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