Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — Page 6

THE SURPLUS WASTED.

CNCLE SAM’S HOARD NEARLY ALL SQUANDERED. * The Treasury Depleted by Republican Raids to the Point Where the Governmeut May Ke Compelled to Sell Bonds to Meet Expense! Entertaining: Statistics. Ex-Speaker Carlisle has recently been giving much attention to the financial outlook in connection with the many Republican schemes for g tting rid of the surplus, and he has some very interesting statistics on the subject, says the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Herald. It is his opinion, as well as that of mmy other Democrats in Congress, that the Treasury surplus has practically disappeared, and that it is no longer possible to conceal the fact that the Republican Congress has started out on a career of extravagance that is sure to create an alarming deficit. Mr. Carlisle says: “Even if there should be no reduction of the revenue by a revision of the tariff or a repeal of the tax on tobacco, the Secretary of the Treasury estimates in his official report that the total receipts of the Government irom all sources lor the next fiscal year will be §385,000,000, and he estimates that the expenditures already provided for by law, including the sinking fund, will be $341,430,477, leaving a surplus of $34,500,522. But it is already apparent that the appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the Government for the fiscal year will be largely in excess of the Secretary’s estimates. It has been s ated on the floor of the House by a Republican member of the Committee on Appropriations that $442,<99,110 will be required, and, if this is correct, there will be a deficit of $57,090,110 instead of a surplus, even if none of the extra'agant appropriations proposed shall be made. “The repeal of the limitations clause in the law granting arrearages of pensions •will require the immediate payment of $471,00 1,000 on account of ponsions already allowed, i nd a great many millions every year in the future on account of pensions here fte" allowed on applicut cns now pending. The Grand Army servico pensiou bill now pending before the committee will require $114,0.10,000 per uuumti in addition to theamountnow I eing paid on account of wounds and diseases contracted in the servica. This $144,000,000 includes nothing for the widows and dependent parents of soldiers who may hereafter die whilo drawing service pensions. It is estimated thnt there arc now suiviving thirty thousand soldiers who vero in prison during the war, and the bill for their benefit proposes to ipay $2 per day for each day of imprisonmnent, which will require the immediate disbursement of about $10,000,000, and this class of pensioners will take $3,708,000 each year for the future. The dependent pension bill, now under discussion in the Senate, and which will bo pa a sed in a few days, will requ re about $ 0,( OGl.OPO por cnnum. The bill increasing the peusious of a certain class of sildiers from SSO to $72 per month has •already passed, and will increase the pension exp. nditures about $400,000 per annum. Another b.ll proposes to increase the pensions of all soldiers who have lost an arm or a leg to SSO per anonth and to pay the difference between that rate and the rate they have received from the close of the war until the present time, which, it is estimated, will cost $25,500,000. It is also proposed to grant pensions of $25 per month to all army nurses, which would require an annual ■expenditure of $4,000,00(1. "These are not all the general pension bills pending in Congress,” said Mr. Carlisle, “but they are enough to show the reckless manner in which the Republican party proposes to legislate upon this subject. The bills which I have enumerated, if pa-sed, will add $708,d>CS,OOO to the $100,000,000 now annually -evpcnlcd fcrpens’ons. Besides this, the Wbisi to refund the direct tax will lequire $17,000,0C0. A bill will also be passed to pi y subsidies to the owners of steam- • ships for a period of ten years, which will require about $8,000,000 the first year •and at least $9,000,000 per aunum before the time expires. A bill has already been ireported in the Senate appropriating $126,000,000 for coast defenses, $21,000,*OOO of which is to be expended during the ensuing year. And it is proposed, also, in another bill to appropriate $31)0,•000,000 for the construction of vessels, •guns. etc., for the navy. I have not mentioned the French spoliation claims, a laigo p.ait of which will almost certainly be allowed by the present Congress, because opinions differ widely as to the ■amount. Some estimate them as high as $40,000,000. The Blair educational bill proposes to appropriate $79,000,000, of which $77,000,000 is to be expended for educational purposos and $2,000,000 in tbe erection of school houses. ” “Will all these bills be passed?” was Asked of Mr. Carlisle.

“Of course it is impossible for me to .'say whether they will or not. But one thing is certain, smd the country ought to • understand it—they will be passed if the Republican party wan sto pass them. It i has the Senate, the House, and the President, and the rules have been so changed 'that the Democrats can neither defeat nor •delay any measure that the majority may «ee proper to introduce- The pension hills can be taken up any day and passed, and so can all the others. If the repeated pledges made to ttie soldiers and others by the Republican party ;.re not redeemed (by this session of Congress it will be simply because that party does not want to .redeem them and does not intend to do .so. It has no excuse whatever for a failure promptly to pass all these bills, and if this session closes without their passage it will be useless for it hereafter to pretend that it is in favor of them. The •lime and opportunity have come, and the party must take the whole responsibility tor action or non-action. It is true that the passage of these bills or any considerable part of them would make it absolutely necess ry to impose additional taxes upqp the people or largely to increase the public debt by the issue of new bonds, but the Republican party knew this just as well when it made its promises to the soldiers as it knows it now, and, therefore, it cannot-escape responsibilities on that ground. All through the last campaign the Democrats insisted before thepeoplh that the redemption of the promises made by the Republican party would bonkruptjthe treasury and require

a large increase either in taxation the public debt." Just One Samp e Steal. [Washington special to Indianapolis Sentinel.] The House went into committee of the whole on Friday for the consideration of bills on the private calendar for the first time this session. The first bill on the calendar was in favor of allowing $175,000 to Albert H. Emery for constructing a dynometer for testing structural iron. This is an old claim and has been before Congress ten years. Speaker Reed was always one of its most earnest and this probably accounts for being brought in so euly and placed at the head of the calendar. A history of this claim will enlighten the people as to what they may expect before this Congress terminates. Emery contracted with the government in writing to complete the machine for $25,000. While the plans and drawings were being prepared, the represents, tives of the Government concluded to have heavier material used than had been stipulated in the first contract, and Emery was asked to state the amount he would take to make the change. He agreed ir writing to make the change for the additional sum of $6,500. The machine was completed, and Emery was paid the contract price, $31,500 in cash. Ever since then Emery has been persistent in trying to lobby through Congress an additionaJ appropriation. The Senate passed the bill once or twice for $200,000, and once for $225,000, but in the House the bill has always been defeated. The committee in charge of the same last Friday showed great ignorance of the merits of the claim, and it was apparent that the same had been railroaded through without proper investigation. When it came up, a few old members, who had fully investigated it in past Congresses, exposed its fraudulent character, but did not get an opportunity to defeat it. It is strange that such a claim should be the first reported, when there are thousands of bona fide claims of small amounts pending before the committee. This Congress, it mußt not be forgotten, is organized for action. Farewell, surplus!

ON THE RACE PROBLEM.

Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Says (lie Colored Man Should Learn that l’eace and Moral Elevation Afford tile Only Hope ts Bette ing His Condition. [Washington special.] If the leading negioes could have heard an address delivered in the Senate by Mr. Jones, of Arkausas, during a discus sion of Mr. Blair’s educat onal bill they would have received considerable enlightenment as to the Southern views ol tbe race problem. Mr. Jones said ihe question of tbe passage of the bill was not one of principle, but of expediency. He hrd hoped that leading negroes might be led to think soberly, to reason in s dispassionate way, not as the result ol going to school, but as the result of seeing that the white people of the South wished to do for the colored people the very best they could. Schools and schoolbooks would help to solve the race question, but there would have to be a mom! uplifting of the negro; and this woulr be, of necessity, a slow work. For tha there would have to be peace, but ii seemed that the pretended friends of the negro did not intend that there should be Eeace. It would bo well for the negro if e would learn that when be \yas moderate and conservative bis white neighbors were with him; that those who undertook to incite him to murder and arson were his worst enemies; that his best friends were those who employed him but would not be ruled by him, and that the intelligence of the country must govern it. When the negio had been taught that a great kindness would have been done him and he would be shown the only practicil way of working out the interests of both races at the South.

Taxing Misery.

Just now there is an attempt in some circles of high-taxers to protest against the proposed reimposition of the tax on quickie. It is claimed that this is a tax on misery and fever beds, and. therefore, should never be made. But it must be kept before the people that the tax on quinine is no more a burden upon misery and fever beds than is that which increases the cost of every blanket to the profit of a few grasping mono[ olists. 1 here is no half way in this matter. If the tariff really reduces the cost and selling price of commodities, than it would be worse than cowardice for the high-taxers to refuse the benefit of this form of taxation to the sufferers who need quinine. But if it be true that the tariff is sought by the quinine monopolists simply that they may increase their levy upon the sick an 1 helpless, then the same is true as to blankets and every other necessity of life which is taxed for the benefit of a class and at the expense of the masses. Tne tax on lumber is a tax on fever beds. Tbe same is true as to every article used by the people from the cradle to the grave. The statement that the Philadelphia manufacturers of quinine demand the restoration of their power to levy tribute on the people in the form of a quinine tax, is proof that they know the full effect of the lax, and that it will add to their profits proportionately as it robs the poor of their lights. Let the people understand this matter and there will be fewer taxes levied for the benefit of a favored class. The Leader.

Democratic Success in Minnesota.

A dispatch from St. Paul says: Returns received from the municipal elections throughout Minnesota indicate, wherever party lines wero drawn, a sweeping Democratic victory. This was conspicuously the case in tbe larger towns In the small towns the result turned largely upon tbe local issues, aud particularly upon the 1 cense question, the no-license party generally being defeated. The most signal Democratic victory was won at Owatonna, th 9 home of Congressman Dunnell, where Dr. Mirchouse was elected Mayor over State Senator Crandall, and the City Government in every branch was captured by the Democrats. In Austin the Democrats elected Senator 0. W. Gibson Mayor, aud carried the Council. Alexandr a, the home of ex-Congressman Nelson, end Delano, tbe county seat of Wright, were the scenes of Democratic victories. At Rochester the Democrats made a combination against the nolipense element and carried the city. White Bear, Montevideo, Mound View, and Hector all elected Democrats, Every town named bas"hitherto been strongly Republican. The taritf-refyrm wave is rolling over Minnesota and will reach tidal proportions by next November.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

POLInfAL AND SOCIAL LIFE AT THE ;, ; NATIONAL CAPITAL. An Effort to Remove the Peanut Merchants train the House Corridors —Seua- | tor Blair and His Educational Bill —How Ingalls Got Ahead of the President—A | Variety of Gossip. ISPECIAL COBBE3PONDENCE. | Visitors at the national capital in passing throngh the corridors on the House side of the Capitol building liken the busy scene to a country fair on its liveliest day. On every side are peanut stands, cigar counters, card writers, picture galleries, typewriters and telegraph and telephone offices, to say nothing of the old apple woman in every nook and corner. From statuary hall to the main door of the Honse of Representatives a string of pie counters and show cases block up the passage ways until there is hardly room for the sight-seers. Many of the old-timers in the lower honse of the national legislature are getting tired <of the everlasting turmoil and confusion about the south wing, and are seriously contemplating a general clearing out. It is said that the Speaker in seeking about for new precedents to establish has turned his attention to this matter, and itnowbehooves the old apple women and pie peddlers to keep their weather eye open. The Sen to wing of the Capitol, some years ago, was infested with these nuisances, but they have long since been turned out on the cold world, or rather moved over on the opposite side. An innocent piece of custard pie is charged with the responsibility of this radical move on the part of the Senate. A grave and dignified Senator, who prides himself on his personal appearance and solid statesmanship, was walking hurriedly through the corridors, when he happened to step on the offending pie, that had been thrown down with disgust by some patron of the pie stand. The dainty morsel was carried by the eminent statesman into tbe handsome ch imber, and a few moments after stood forth in bold relief on the beautiful green velvet carpet. This was too much for the Senators, and a resolution to clear the corridors met with no opposition. There is one institution, however, that will be hard to suppress. “Clara Morris” is the name of an old grav-haired worn) n who runs a 1 rge stand in the Bpaco bethe rotunda and statuary hall. She sells all kinds of curiosities and “momentums” to the hundieds of daily visitors. This is a great place for newly married couples to congregate, and old Clara is able to spot them in an instant, and the unlucky I bridegroom rarely gets away without leaving a goodly portion of the contents of his often rather slender purse. This woman is undoubtedly of French extraction, and in her day must have been considered very handsome. Some traces of beauty still linger in her wrinkled face. Time has woven considerable of a romance about this old lady. The oldest member of Congress cannot remember i the time when hers was not a familiar face about tbe corridors. She has a daily hi bit of running around through tbe passage-ways dressed in an outlandish costume and dress short enough to expose a pair of rather dirty white stockings. Henry Clay is given credit for discovering this now rather ancient customer, in his day young and pretty. Tradition has it about Washington that she used to help him squander his wages, or . a considerable portion of them. Whether this is true or not can only be judged now from the stories that are handed down to us in which the name of the illustrious statesman and old Clara are mingled. It is a noticeable fact, too, that the older capital guides, in speaking of the “old girl,” always refer to the great Henry in the same breath. Several attempts have been made at different times to clear the corridor of this stand, but always without success, and she will probablv remain there to the end of her days. She has managed to accumulate no inconsiderab'e amount from the profits of her business. *

The great Blair educational bill, whiGh. has had the ear of the Senate for the past six or eight weeks, to the exclusion of all other matters, still hangs on. Senator Blair can at least be given credit for an immense amount of perseverance in pressing his pet measure, while the other Senators are entitled to still greater praise for the patience they have displayed in listening to the long and tedious debat 3. Ihe bill has twice passed the Senate, and had the question come to a vote during the early part of the session it would not have failed th s time, but the patience of a number of Senators has teen exhausted, and they have decided to .sit down squarely on Mr. Blair, and gave him to understand that early in the debate. Of those who. have changed their attitude toward the school bill, the most prominent are Senators Spooner and Plumb. Both of these gentlemen voted for the bill last ses-don, but have both made speeches against it during the past ten days. ♦ The pet of the White House, Baby MoKee, succeeded in creating no end ©f excitement in Washington one night last week. A new fire-alarm had just been placed in the \\ hite House, and about noon the youngster, in wandering aoout, caught sight of the apparatus, and began playing with it. All unconsc ously he gave the al rm, and in three minutes the entire fire department had surrounded the house, followed by an immense concourse of people. The report spread that the White House was on file, and it w as not very long before hundreds of house-tops all over the city were covered by excited people. After being closeted a few minutes with Private Secretary Halford, the chief of the department gave it out to the public that the whole affair had been arranged beforehand to try the machine. * * * No man hates to come out second best more than Senator Ingalls, and if the truth is told he seldom does get entirely left. The latest story out on him now is how he came it over President. Harrison. It is in connection with the organization of Oklahoma under a territorial form of government. The President and Secretary of the Interior had given represent - j atives from Oklahoma to understand that l he was going to select the principal officers of the new government from the States, for various reasons. Ah soon as this became known to Senator Ingalls he f went to the President and asked for one

| of the judgeships for a constituent. The • President would make no prom se. and ! fs°m the conversation with him, and from woids let fad by tbe Secretary, he became | convin ed that the administration had parcelled the ten lucrative positions out, and this, too, in the face of the fact that the bill organizing Oklshoma ns i a Territory had not yet become a law. j The Kansas statesman said nothing until I the Oklahoma measure came up in the I Senate, when he very quietly tacked on j an innocent-looking amendment to the j section providing for the appointment of officers. The amendment contained seven words, as follows: “And who shall be qualified electors thereof" (meaning Oklahoma Territory). The result of Ingalls’ little joke is th t the President’s promises cannot be carried ont, and he will have to select all the Territorial officers from bona-fide residents of the Territory. * Clerks of Senators and Representatives are busy receiving and sending off packages of seeds, furnished them by the Secretary of Agriculture, while the ladies are in turn sending flower seeds home to their lady friends. Recipients of these favors last year complained that the seeds furnished them did not sprout. Secretary Rusk states that great piinshas been taken this year, and thinks there will be very little like trouble. * The Washington society season is most woefully dull for the hundreds of ladies who come every winter to revel in the gayeties of the national capital. The recent bereavements in the families of the Cabinet contributed in no small measure to this state of affairs. Mrs. Harrison and other ladies of the White House have gone South to remain several weeks, and by the time the party returns the season will be so far advanced that all festivities will doubtless be postponed until next winter. Society leaders are very mr.ch disappointed, as they had every reason to expect, in view of the great wealth contained in the officers of the administration, a very brilliant winter. * * * It may not be generally known, but Washington is tire most unfortunate city in the United States in the number of petty thieves contained “within its boundaries. Old residents have long since learned that to leave almost any trifle about within reach is equivalent to throwing it into the river. Housekeepers find it next to impossible to secure the services of a cook or other servant who can resist carrying away after dark euough for a family to live on the next claj - . The reason given for this is the large number of negroes in the District. There ire over fifty thousand colored people, one-fifth of whom work and the balance subsist the Lord only knows how; and they all look fat and healthy, too. ¥ Jj; ill The Superintendent of Census is much further advanced in his work than was his bureau this time ten yenrß ago. By June 39 it is expected that all the preliminary work will be completed, and by the Ist of August he will be able to announce the population. The bureau now has electrical enumerating machines, which do as much work in five hours as was formerly done in fifty-five. Thesemachines do their work on a basis of 10,000,000 names, so that the Superintendent thinks that within twenty days. from the receipt of the last schedule a close estimate of totals can hegivem. Bvthe time the schedules begin to come in there will be a force of 600 clerks at work. The farm, home, and mortgage statistics, a new branch especially created by the present Congress, adds immensely to the labor. During this month hundieds of agents will be at work in every county searching the records of the Fist ten years for statistics of farm and home property and mortgage indebtedness. Jas. C.. Moody. Copyrighted..]!

Out of His Sphere.

“Prisoner,” said his Honor, “the 1 evidence shows that you were fighting on the street and that you were severely punished by the man who eluded the officers. What have-you to say ?” “Evidence shows thet I was fighbin’, hey V” “Yes.” “An’‘thet I got licked?” “It appears so, yes.” “Say, Jedge, kin I ax a question?” “Certainly.” “Sometimes they says as how you air a Jedge, an’ sometimes a Jestice o’ the Peace. Wot I want to know is, which be ye ?-’’ “Judge or Justice*, it’s alii the same in this connection.” “ Jedge and Jestice mean the same, d®> they ?” “Virtually, yes.” “Well, Jedge, ye maty be at mighty good jedge so fur as peace is consarned; but es ye think I got licked! iin that air little scrappin’ match o’ ourn, ye air a mighty poor jedge o’ fightin’.”—American Commercial Traveller- :

Breaking the News Gently.

Poor Tim O’Toole fell with his hod from the top of a live-story building and was. picked up dead. Larry Noonan was deputized by his fellow-work-men to break the news gently to the newly made widow. He found her at her’washtubs, and put out a feeler by saying: “The ton o’ the marning to yeez, Missus O’Toole, an’ where’s Tim this day?” “Where’s Tim? He’s where he’s been wurkin’ this day tin weeks on the new building on K strate.” “It’s a liar yeez are, ma’am —he’s dead.”—Drake’s Magazine.

Small boy—Oh, Mr. Booby, sister said you were ’bout half killed last night. Mr. Booby—Oh, no, Bobby, she is mistaken. Small boy—Well, she said so, anyway. Mr. Booby—What did she say ? Small boy—Said she saw you down town and you were ’bout half shot. It is a peculiarity of gambling-house proprietors, they "never abuse their betters.

THE LITTLE FOLKS.

Bod-Hoo-800-Hoo-800- Hoot There was a little maiden. Her name was Kitty Grey, And, really. It did seem as though She nothiDg did bqt cry. You'd hear her morning, noon, and eve, And oft at midnight, too, And it was not a pleasant sound, “800-hoo-boo-hoo-boo-hoo!” And to these robs And tear-drops She got bo used that they, Instead of merry laughter, came On Christmas Day. And when she found her stocking filled With presents lit is true Upon my word) she burst out with “800-hoo-boo-hoo-boo-hoo!”

IVhy Baity Jane Didn’t Go to tli© Party, There was to be a “ tea-party ” at Uncle John’s house. Mamma and Papa Warren were invited, and Lew and Becky though it very hard that they should be left at home with grandma to spend the long evening. “I ’most know my eyes won’t stav open till supper-time without mamma to tell me stories,” complained little Becky, dolefully, with her chubby hands wrapped close in her pinafore, while she trudged from window to window’ to catch the very last glimpse of the sleigh before it dashed out of sight over the hills. Lew. I’m sorry to say, kicked the chairs light hard w’ith his copper toes, and scowled blackly. “Oh, yes, they will, dearie!” cried grandma, cheerfully, winding in the numerous balls of bright yarn which had been wandering about the floor, and doubling together the long wool “comforter” she was knitting for grandpa. “Yes, of course they will! And they’ll be bright as buttons, too, for I’ll tell you a story myself.” "A story of when you’s a little girl V” queried Becky, her sleepy eyes opening suddenly. “Oh, but that’s an astonishing long time ago!” said grandma. “But I like the long-agos best!” cried Becky and Lew together. “A long-ago it shall be, then,” said grandma, picking together the burning brands w ith the long-legged tongs, putting another stick on the brassheaded andirons, and brushing the coals from the broad hearth with the gray goose-wing. “It shall be of the time when my lather and mother were invited—not to a tea-party, but to Squire Holm’s daughter’s weddingparty. I wanted to go right bad, and teased and teased, but father and mother said ‘no,’ and I knew that no was meant. “But I thought upon it a long time, and I concluded in my naughtiness that if I could only in some way get there unbeknown, why then it couldn’t be helped, fco I went on planning, till by and bv a bright scheme came into my silly head. “The- sleighs of those days had backs that would reach above the, heads of anybody riding, and the seats were a kind of box, with a lid, that would hold a bushel or two. “Near the night of the party I slyly put on my linsey-woolsey cloak and woolen hood, and crept into this box. “It was a pretty snug, fit, for I was a chubby girl of 8, and the lid wouldn’t come down very close; but when father and mother got in it came down so quick on the top* of ray head that it made me see a whole skyful of stars for a minute. “But I didn’t dare to erv out, and away we-w’ent rumblety-bump across the meadow, through the long stretch of pine woods, down into Rick’s Hollow, then away up steep Young Hill that was nearly a mile long and full of curves and twists. “I giggled to myself, and thought I was having greatt fun. But it was cut short pretty quick. About half-way up Young Hill, iu the very steepest part, was the Elbow. Here it always drifted badly and was awful sidling. Mother wanted to> get out, but father thought ’twas safe. “All at once over we went, bedquilts, hot-water jugs and father and mother together. The lid of the sleigh-seat flew up and out I tumbled with a shriek on to<p of the heap. “■‘Patty Jane Swift!’ (that was my nanue them), ‘where under the sun did you e©me from ‘F cried mother, struggling from under a huge wool bedquili and looking at me with stern astonishment. “I couldn’t say a word. “‘Hid in the sleigh-box, I’ll be bound,’ she added. ’Now you may just march home aloue for your disobedience !’ “There was no help for it. Ah, I shall never forget how I ran up and down hill, for it was now quite dusk! Then there was the long stretch of gloomy pine woods to go through. I stopped on its edge. I thought 1 never could; but waiting only made it worse. I shut my teeth hard and ran with all my might. I was about half-way through when “ ‘Who who —■ Whoo-oo!’ sounded right close beside me. “I nearly dropped in my tracks w ith friglit. “•‘Who! who! whoo-oo!’ “It was only an owl in a tree over my head. But when I got home I xvas ready to stay at home when I was told to by those who know best.”— Youth’s Companion.

He Didn't Know It All, After All.

Yellowly—Whitely is a very intelligent fellow, isn’t he ? Brownly—He pretends to be. Y. —He knows lots. B.—There’s one thing he doesn’t know. Y.—What is that? B.—He doesn’t know that he doesn’t know everything.