The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1896. SUNDRY CIVIL BILL 15 PASSED, Amendments of the Senate Increase Appropriations Considerably. FIVE MILLIONS ADDED. This Is Necessary to Carry On Work on Buildings, River and Harbor Improvements SHERMAN'S MOTION BEATEN, An Attempt to Repeal an Obnoxious Section of Wilson's Tariff Bi.l. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25.—The Benste made very brief work of the sundry civil appropriation bill, having taken only two days in disposing of it. When it passed the House it carried appropriations aggregating $30,000,000. The Senate Ap- propriations Committee reported it back with an addition of §5,000,000, largely made up of sums necessary to carry on work on public buildings, and river and harbor im- provements, and United States Courts for the whole twelve months instead of six or nine months, and the Senate itself, beside carrying out the recommendations of the committee, added sums amounting to $2,000,000 more, so that the bill as it passed to-day appropriates, in round figures, $37,- 000,000. There was little friction in tne consideration of the bill. Before it was taken up an effort was made by Sherman of Ohio to have action tazen on the House bill relative to dis- tillation of fruit brandy so as to have en- grafted upon it a provision for the repeal of that section of the tariff bill which allows a drawback of the tax paid on alco- hol used in the arts and in medicine. stated to have been caused by the sickness and absence of Morgan (D.) of Alabama. A statement was made by Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska that if the forty-four Republi- can Senators would vote for the proposed inguiry the votes of Populist Senators would sustain them, and the investigation would be made. At 5:10 P. M . the Senate adjourned until Monday. e PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. Grosvenor Makes a Most Declaration. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25—The second conference report upon the legisla- tive, executive and juaicial appropriation bill was made to the House to-day and agreed to, another conference being or- dered upon the few remaining matters in dispute. The principal subject settled upon by the report made to-day was that fixing the salaries of the United States | District Attorneys and Marshals. | As agreed upon, the total of salariesof attorneys carried in the bill as it passed the House was increased 000, and that of marshals increased $4500. An animated and unexpected incident was precipitated in connecction with this report. Grosvenor of Ohio inquired re- specting a provision prohibiting the Legis- lature of Oklahoma from considering any proposition to relocate the capital of the Territory. Being informed that that had already been agreed upon by both houses, Grosvenor declared that “it ought to de- stroy any man a party to it.”’ This brought Flynn, delegate from Okla- homa, to his feet with the statement that a similar provision had been contained in every instance, in obedience to the almost universal demand of the people for pro- tection against a repetition of scandalous scenes enacted in the first meeting of the Legislature. The gentleman from Ohio, he assumed, must be rankling under the recollection of other matters, or he would not have made that onslaught. Grosvenor repelled the suggestion, say- ing he did not know what the enormously | distinguished gentieman from Oklahoma | meant by these words. He had but done his duty, ana the Bombastes Furioso per- formance made no impression upon him. The general pension bill was further dis- cussed for a couple of hours by Grosvenor | and Kerr (Republicans) of Ohio in supvort | of it and by Bartlett (D.) of New York and | Miles (D.) of Maryland in opposition, | when, at 2:20 o’clock, under a previous order, public business was suspended and the House listened to the eulogies upon | the late Representative W. H. Crane of " { Texas. Upon the cenciusion of them, at 4:10 o'clock, as a further mark of respect, | the House took a recess until 8 o’clock, the | Peculiar | That section was put in the Wilson bill while it was pending in the Senate with the understandin: that it wouid be thrown out 1n conference, but owing to circum- stances the bill that became law was not the report of a conference committee, and so the alcohol provision was embodied in the present tariff act. Sherman explained that owing to the action of the Treasury Department the drawback was not operative, but that claims running into the millions were be- ing piled up, and it was therefore highly important that the provisions should be repealed before the adjournment of Con- He met, however, the combined tion of Senators on his own side, three of them voting with him to ake up the bill, and those votes were off- set by the opposing votes of three Popu- lists. All the Democrats but three voted for rman’s motion. The result was: Ayes 22, noes 27. A protest of the American Women's Citizens’ League of Massachusetts against the acceptance of the Pere Marquette statue was presented by Gallinger (R.) of New Hampshire. . Sherman (R.) of Ohio asked unanimous consent to take up the House bill concern- ing the distilling of brandy from fruits with the Finance Committee amendment repealing the section of the tariff law which provides a rebate of the tax on aico- hol used in the arts and medicine. Peffer (Pop.) of Kansas objected. Thereupon Sherman made the formal motion to take it up. He said that it was of the highest importance that action on the matter should be taken at this session. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire said there was an understanding for some days that no business calculated to take up time would be brought before the Senate until the appropriation bills were disposed of. Sherman again spoke of the import- ance to the revenues of the repeal of the aleohol provision, which he reminded the Senate had got into the tariff act by inad- vertence. He also stated that the rebate was not allowed by the Treasury, but that 1s were being accumulated, and he hed to put a stop to those claims by the repeal of the section which was now inop- erative. The vote was taken on the motion and it was defeated—ayes 22, noes 27, as fol- lows: Ayes—Allison, Bate, Berry, Black- burn, Bri Brown, Caffery, Call, Chilton, Cocker Gordon, Gray. Martin, Mills, Palmer, Pasco, Pugh, Sherman, Teller, Vest, Walthall, Wolcott—22. Noes—Allen, Bacon, Baker, Burrows, Butler, Cannon, Carter, Chandler, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Hansbrongh, Haw- ley, Lodge, Mantle, Nelson, Peffer, Petti- grew, Platt, Proctor, Tillman, Turpie, ‘Warren, Wilson—2 Only three Republicans—Allison, Teller and Wolcott—voted with Sherman. The three Populists who voted—Allen, Butler and Peffer—voted against the motion. All the Democrats voted for it, except Bacon, Tillman and Turpie. The consideration of the sundry civil ap- propriation bill was then proceeded with, An amendment appropriating $250,000 for a steam revenue cutter on the Pacific Coast was offered by Perkins (R.) of Cali- fornia, and agreed to. The following were also adopted: In- creasing the limit of cost for the public buildinz at Kansas City trom $1,200,000 to $1,216,000; appropriating $250,000 for an adaitional buiiding for the National Maseum, Washington; appropriating §750,- 000 for the public building at Salt Lake, Utah; appropriating §50,000 for buildings at the military post at Bismarck. N. Dak., ard a like sum for the military post of Fort Riley, Kans.; appropriating $150,000 for a revenue cutter for the Gulf of Mexico. The committee amendment appropria- ting $12.500 for the purchase aud distribu- tion of 2500 complete sets of the historical publications of General James D. Me- Bride was agreed to. Anamendment offered by Hawley (R.) of Connecticut directing the_discontinu- ance of the printing of postage stamps at the Bureau of Engravingand Printing was rejected. The bill was then passed. Asitcame from the House it appropriated nearly $30,000, and as passed it appropriates about $37,000,000. The Peffer bond resolution was then taken up and went over till Monday as unfinished business. Several private pension bills were passed. An inquiry was made oy Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire as to the minority report of the Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions in relation to election frauds and outrages in Alabama. The delay rnl gress. evening session to be devoted to the dis- | | cussion of the general pension bill. | Bingham (R.) of Pennsylvania submit- | ted the report of the conferees on the leg- | | 1slative, executive and judicial appropria- | tion bill. It made the following settle- | | ment of disputed points: Salary of As-| | sistant Comptroller of the Treasury, $4000; | a board of ten examiners of surveys at | | $2000 each, to be appointed in the General | | Land Office. | The appropriation of $44,000 for a clas- | | sification division of the Patent Officeis | | stricken out. | The increase of $66,500 made by the | Senate over the House provision for sala- | ries of district attorneys was reduced to | | $23,000, and the increase of $71,500 in mar- | shals’ salaries was reduced to $4500. | Several subjects were stiil in disagree- ment, including provisions for Senators’ | personal clerks; and as to these, a further | | conference was asked. The report was | agreed to and the additional conference | | ordered. | | A bit of Presidential politics was unex- | pectedly injected into the discussion by an | { apparently innocent inquiry by Grosvenor (R.)of Ohio. He wanted to know if there | was anything in the bill relatingto the capital of Oklahoma intended to prevent the people of that Territory from express- | ing an opinion as to its location. Bingham replied that a provision for- | bidding the legislators to entertain a prop- osition to change the location of the capi- | tal had been agreed upon at the first con- | ference and was not now before the House. Grosvenor — It is a proposition that ought to destroy any man who was a party to it. Flynn (R.) of Ohlahoma said that prob- ably he was responsible as much as any one for the insertion of the provision in the bill. *“If the gentleman from Ohio,” he continued, **was not rankling under | other matters he would not have made this onslaught. That provision, or a sim- ilar one, has been 1n every bill since the establishment of Oklahoma Territory.” Grosvenor responded? to Flynn, saying | he was not *‘rankling” under things, and | not know what ‘‘the enormously dis- | | tinguished gentleman from Oklahoma | meant by these words.”” He had spoken because he happened to be the recipient of several letters from prominent residents | of the Territory, protesting against the provision referred to—one of which he | read—and he had done what he conceived 1o be hisduty. Flynn replied that he was induced to speak at all only by the statement which Grosvenor had made that the provision should aestroy any man connected with it. “Iam willing to be destroyed by my people, but I am not willing to be destroyed by the gentleman from Ohio.” The house then went into committee of the whole for further consideration of the general pension bill. It was opposed by Bartlett (D.) of New York in detail and in toto. Grosvenor criticized the provisions of the bill by which Confederate soldiers who later also served in the Union army may i be pensioned. He said the only way to | get the question of pensionsout of the heat of partisan debate was to adopt either the service pension system outright or the per diem pension system. He would sup- port the bill, however, for the good things there were in it. The bill was advocated by Kerr (R.) of | Ohio and antagonized by Miles (D.) of Maryland. The hour of 2:30 having arrived, under a special order, the House suspended public | business and listened to eulogies on the | late Representative W. H. Cramn of the Eleventh District of Texas. At 4:30 o'clock the House, on motion of Pendleton, adopted the usual resolutions, and as a further mark of respect took a re- cess until 8 o’clock. A dozen members gathered in the cham- ber for the evening session and heard Hardy (R.) of Indiana, Gibson (R.) of Ten- | nessee, Wheeler (D.)of Alabama, Curtis i (R.)of Kansas and Mahany {R.) of New York made general speeches on the matter of pensions.. At10:05 0’clock, no one else desiring to talk, on motion of Pickler (R.)of South c})akota, the House adjourned until Mon- ay. | Against Joint Traffic. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 25.—The argument before Judge Wheeler in the United States Circuit Court in the matter of the application of the United States District Attorney to enjoin the members of the Joint Traffic Association of the rail- road companies from continuing their agreement was concluded to-day. It is probable the court will render its decision before the summer vacation. GOVERNOR ALTGELD SCORES CARLISLE, An Open Letter in Reply to the Secretary’s Speech on Money. DODGED THE QUESTIONS | The Exponent of Cleveland’s Policy Did Not Stand by His Assertions. PECULIAR CHANGE OF VIEWS. Since 1878 the Financial Orator Has Gone Back on His Ideas About Silver, SPRINGFIELD, Iri., April 25.—Gov- ernor Altgeld has written an open letter in reply to the speech on the money ques- tion, recently delivered at Chicago by Sec- retary Carlisle. He begins by quoting from Mr. Carlisle’s statement in 1878, in which the latter declared that the demone- tization of silver, which he characterized as a conspiracy, *‘would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilence and famine that ever occurred.” Commenting upon this, Governor Alt- geld says: A teacher should pe willing to answer ques- tions. At the close of Mr. Carlisle’s speech a number of gentlemen arose and asked for further information, but he turned his back and slipped off the stage, and by direction of | his managers the questioners were hustled out by policemen. He could have meade himself very interesting on & number of points which he persistently ignored. In 1878, when dis- cussing the money question in Congress, he expressed his convictions in the following language: Ishall not enterinto an examination of the causes which have combined to depreciate the relative value of silver and to appreciate the velue of gold since 1873, but I am one of those who believe that they are transientand tem- porery in their nature and that when they have passed away or have been removed by the separate or united action of the nations | most deeply interested in the subject the old ratio of actual and relative value will be re- | established on & firmer foundation than ever. Iknow that the world’s stock of precious met- als is none too large and I see no reason to ap- prehend that it willever become so. Mankind | will be fortunate indeed if the annual pro- | duction of gola and sfiver shall keep pace | with the annual increase of population, com- | merce aud industry. According to my view ot | this subject the conspiracy which seems | to have been formed here ana in Europe to de- stroy by legislation and otherwise from three- sevenths to one-half of the metallic mines of the world is the most gigantic scheme of this or any other age. The consummation of such & scheme would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wers, pesti- lence and famine that ever occurred in the history of the world. The absolute and in- stantaneous destruction of half the movable | property of the world, ineluding horses, ships, | railroads and all other appliances for carrying | on commerce, while it would be felt more sen- sibly at the moment, would not produce any- thing like the prolonged distress and disor- ganization of society that must inevitably re. sult from the permanent annihilation of one- half of the metallic money of the world. February 21, 1878. JOHN G. CARLISLE. It will be seen that thislanguage is clear and emphatic and has none of the sophistry and pettifogging about it that are found in his | Chicago speech. His awful predictions made in 1878 came to pass. He not only saw his own prophecy fulfilled, but he saw the misery of his country become even greater than he hed predicted. Finding that his views had been correct he continued to hold them until he entered Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet, when, in some mysterious manner, there was a change of heart, but for some reason he seems unwill- ing to talk about it. There are two other | members of the Cabinet—Hoke Smith of Georgia and Herbert of Alabama—who, like Carlisle, had made their voices heard for nearly a lifetime 10 demanding the restora. tion of silver and denouncing the great con- spiracy that struck it down; and, strange to y, when these two men entered Cleveland’s Cabiuet they underwent a change of heart, 8nd, like Carlisle, they avoided talking about it. When Saul of Tarsus saw a great light and changed his views he was anxious to tell the world about it; but these three statesmen seem to be ashamed to discuss the manner of their conversion. Why @id not Carlisle throw a little light on this question? Second—Allof these men now denounce those people who sre opposed to the single gold standard as being scoundrels and lunatics. Yet they are only following the doctrines which Carlisle and company preached. Are we then to infer that Carlisle and his two Cab- inet associates were scoundrels and lunatics | until they got to be old men, and that the tin- sel of a Cabinct position not only made them honest but gave them brains? If not, then how are we to know which end of their career was honest, intelligent and patriotic? For in the absence of any legislation some of us might think that they were honest and pa- triotic when in the vigor of their manhood they were standing by a wronged peogde, and thaiit is the latter end of their caceer that is destitute of honesty, intelligence or patriot- ism. Carlisle should have told us. Third—Mr. Carlisle should have explained why it was that for 200 years gold and silver held the market ratio of about 1514 to 1. The ratio fixed by laws, 15 to1in some countries, 15!4to 1in most countries, and for & while 1601 in our country—in other words, the market ratio as shown by the tables remained practically the same as the stetutory ratio during all that time. If the two metals can- not stand together how does it happen that they did so without serious fluctuation for 200 years, notwithstanding the fact that the an- nual production of each metal varied greatly from time to time? Fourth—If only one of the metals can be a standard and & measure of the value of things, and if a combined standard of both gold and silver is as impossible as it is to have two yard- sticks of different lengths, why was it that some of the greatest financiers of the world, and particularly Baron Rothschild, stated in 1869 that it was the sum of the two metals taken together which formed the measure on the value of things? No matter which metal might for a time predominate, nevertheless the sum of the two taken together was the measure of the value of all property. If the same countries had stricken down gold by law and destroyed it for monetary uses and made silver the sole standard, would not silver have gone up and the purchasing power of gold gone down ? Fifth—Mr. Carlisle should have explained why it was that In every country where silver wes stricken down, it was done by the arbi- trary act of Government, and that neither com- merce nor business had anything to do with it Sixth—It is & fundamental law, recognized by all gold financiers except recent converts, that when the volume of money in the world is reduced the selling price of all property and commodities goes down correspondingly. Therefore, the wiping out by law of nearly half the money of the world had to reduce the sell- ing price’ of commodities proportionately, And inasmuch as the debts were not reduced, as interest was not reduced and as [taxes were not reduced, does not Mr. Carlisle think even now, just as he did in 1878, that a great crime | bonds . thus increasing the burdens of our peo- | clinched was committed against the entire debtor class and against the producing class by bringing about a condition of affairs by law which com- pelled the debtor, the producer and the laborer to sell twice as much property or labor as were formerly necessary to get the same amount of money? Seventh—If prices are 80 reduced that it takes everything the debtor can get together to pay his fixed charges and everything the la- borer can get together to buy a little coarse clothing and plain food for his family, can either the debtor or the laborer spend much money buying other articles, and if he cannot, then must that not result in the destruction of ‘what we once called our great home market? If this is destroyed so that our great factories end industries are unable to dispose of their productions, must they not shut down and throw labor out of employment? Is not that exactly what has happened in this country? Eighth—As the laborer prospers most when there isa Iarge demand for the articles he creates, does it not necessarily follow that until there is a rise in prices, so that the debtor class and the producing class can again do large miscellaneous buying, there is no hope for the laborer? Ninth—As there cannot be a general rise in prices without an increase in the volume of money, must not the present paralysis and stagnation continue in the world until the volume of money is again restored to what it was before it was stricken down? Tenth—There are in the United States over 9000 banks, National, State and private. The Comptroller of the Currency, one of Mr. Car- lisle’s assistants, received reports from these banks showing the total amount of money of every kind that each bank had on July 11, 1895. From this report it appears that there were in round numbers only $127,000,000 of gold 1 allof the banks of the United States. This was all of the aveilable gold in this country, There wasabout$100,000,000 in the treasury at that time, but this is not ayailable. Mr. Carlisle did not refer to these figures, which are known to be accurate. But instead he cited the figures given out by the Director of the Mint, also one of his assistants, in which it is claimed that there are about £600,000,000 of gold in this coun- try. Mr. Carlisle must know that these fig- ures are incorrect, and that the tables given out by the Director of the Mint on this point are worthless, because itappears from his re- vort for 1892 that he assumes that every dol- lar is put in circulation, except whero & record ‘was made of its exportation, and that he has made no allowance for the money that was carried over the northern boundary and our southern boundary for twenty-four years, nor for the money carried back by Chinese during that time, nor for gold coin used in the arts andnot reported during that time, nor for all that was lost, nor for all that was carried across the ocean in the pockets of our people during all these years. Yet the director says in hisreports of 1891 that during the Paris Exposition the total sum spent by our people abrosd in one year was $90,000,000. Why does Mr. Carlisle use figures that he knows are incorrect and are manifestly given out oniy for the purpose of misleading the American | people on the question as to the amount of | money they have in circulation ? Eleventh—A year ago Mr. Cleveland sent for his former law partner and close friend, and through him Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle together made a secret contract with another friend, who was a former client of Cleveland, by which that friend ana his associate specu. lators were enabled to make nine or ten mil- lions out of the Government in a few weeks on 2 small bond transaction. And the reason given for this extraordinary and even crimi- nal procedure was that the speculators and sharks of Well street had agreed to protect the Government sgainst the gold raids until the following November. That is, the wealthiest, the mont enterprising, most powerful, most industrious and thrifty nation on the globe peid tribute to & small band of specula- tors for protection. And when the month of November arrived these speculators withdrew thelr protection, and then the Government proceeded to issue another $100,000,000 of ple. Now, Mr. Carlisle might have expatiated on this and pointed out to the American people the lofty character of the statesmen involved in these transactions; for, strange to say, many of our intelligent people are utterly un- able'to comprehend it. While Carlisle does | not seem to have been much of a success in the | capecity of bunko-steerer among the laboring men of Chicego, there are many points upon which he could be very interesting, and I would suggest that they bring him back and let him talk about mattersin which he is at home. —— MUSCULAR EDITOR CAEKMACK. Backs Up His Silver Argument With a Elow. MEMPHIS, TexN., April 25.—The silver Democrats held a rally to-night prepara- tory to the primary election next Tuesday to choose delegates to the County Conven- tion which will select delegates to the Congressional and other coming conven- tions. One of the chief speakers was E. W. Carmack, editor of the Commercial Ap- peal, the recognized champion of silver's cause in the South. In the course of his remarks, Carmack dwelt at some length upon the fact that the gamblers and other law violators of the community were solidly arrayed against the silver Democrats. The sig- nificance of this lies in the fact that the son of Congressman Patterson 1s District Attorney, with mllgower to suppress the element, as provided by law. Patterson made his way to the stand at the close of Mr. Carmack’s address, and, after he had obtained a hearing upon the request of Mr. Carmack, stated that if the gen tleman who had just spoken intended to connect him with the attitude of the law-breaking element he_desired to pro- nounce the statements as infamously false. Hardly were the words out of his mouth before Mr. Carmack sprang upon and al- most knocked Patterson down with a ter- rific right- hand blow. Rallying, the latter bis adversary and bystanders separated them. Trouble was imminent between the followers of these two men, but the police restored order. NEW TO-DAY. Immense Line Best Tapestry Brussels Sewed, Laid and Lined, 75¢ per yard. Largest and Best Selected Stock on the Coast. Bigelow Body Brussels Made by the Bigelow Carpet Company, oldest and most reliable factory in this or any other country. Regular price $1 35 per yard. 50 patterns. 10,000 yards to close at $1 12 per yard, sewed, laid and lined. W. & J. 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