Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1892 — Page 4

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TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOtJRNAXt Can be found at the following places: rABIS American Exchange In Farts, 86 Boulevard de Capucines. U EW YOKK Gllsey noose and Windsor Hotel. rniIADEUPniX A.XKemble, 3713 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO r aimer Tlouse CINCINNATI-J. It Tlawiey A Co., 154Ylne street. LO U I SVI JLY. C T. Deering,. northwest corner Tblrd and Jeerson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company; Union Depot and Southern lioieL VASniSfCiTON. D. CB2ggS House and Ebbitt . House. If the Ilolman theory of government bad prevailed the Union Pacific railroad probably never would have been built. If the Ilolman idea as to what consti-good-bye to a new federal building in tni: city, or aDy where else. Tiie cold weather of the last few days a a At M will probably cause a revulsion or leeiing in many, worthy people who had concluded that "our climate is changing." The government is expending several thousand dollars this year in strengthf i il. i v... cmng ana improving iuo arsuuai uuuuings in this city. The Ilolman theory of government would let them go to ruin. It seems that the Democratic Lieutenant-governor of Iowa has actually reversed his original notions about a quoi i. T Turn anu proceeueu tu cuuuw uuo c i Heed, whereupon the Senate was organized. - ' Probably the cheapest government 4n the world, though not the beet, can be found in Central Africa. Mr. Ilolman might get some points in cheese-paring economy from the native statesmen of that region. TnK people of fifteen or twenty States are directly and deeply interested in the improvement of the Mississippi riverJ Under the Ilolman theory of govern--ment not another dollar can ever be expended upon it. The majority of the members of the House committee on coinage make haste to explain their refusal to pass a freecoinage resolution by saying that thct feared such a declaration would harm rather than benefit the cause of the silver bullion owners. No doubt it will be assumed that the Massachusetts man who has just paid $150,000 for a horse is one of "the baron protection robbers," a manufacturer and a Republican. As a cold fact, he is a mugwump, a freetrader, and his mill-nons-were made In railroad speculation. ' The Republicans in the Iowa Senato 'refused to yield to the demands of one independent who proposed to vote for their ticket for subordinate officers if he could be permitted to name most of the iho dictation of a man outside their pitty. ' ' "TnE Democratic New York Sun reminds Chairman Springerthathis weakness as an orator is to get himself into the soup as ho did in his recent utterance in regard to silver. Mr. Springer seems to bo laboring under the delusion that he is the Democratic side of the House. The report is going from paper to paper to the effect that Senator Palmer, of Illinois, has put his age at seventy-two years. In his biographial sketch in the Congressional Directory and in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, Senator Palmer's birthday is given as Sept. 13, 1817. ' Now that a navy is needed," it is not out of order to call attention to the fact that the real start to rebuild one was given by the CrstRepubllcan House (that of 1831-2) that had been elected sinco 1S72. The statesmen of the pod-auger variety, like Ilolman, always fought every liberal proposition. Tiie New York Herald nominates Henry Vattcrson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the Lemocratic candidate for President. Mr. "NVatterson would roako a picturesque candidate, but ho is not quite on good terms with David Bennett Hill, who will have as much to do in making the Democratic candidate ns any roan. Vert heavy rains or meltjng snow have fallen for several days past on the headwaters of the Ohio river,, and that stream and several of its tributaries are rising very fast. At Cincinnati the Ohio is expected to be bank full by Monday. This indicates very different sort of weather from that which -has prevailed in this section of the country. Prince Albert Victor is called in tho cablegram announcing his death "tho heir presumptive" to the throne. He has also been spoken of as. the heir apparent. Strictly speaking, he was neither. An heir apparent is one whose right to an estate is indefeasible if ho survive tho ancestor. An heir presumptive is ono who would inherit an estate if tho ancestor should die with things in their present state, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer heir before the death of the ancestor. There were two lives between Prince Albert and tho throne, thoio of Queen Victoria and his lather.

Had he survived the Queen, his father

being King, he would then have become heir apparent. In that case his title would havo been indefeasible except by his own death. In no event, however, could he have become heir presumptive according to the strict definition of that term. Tho true heir apparent to the throne is the Prince of Wales, who, if he lives, will succeed to it on the death of his immediate Ancestor, the Queen. THE ATTACK ONBECIPB0CITY. Representative Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is one of the ablest Democrats in his party in the House. In point of ability and experience ho has no equal aniong his party associates from the North in the House. He has a great reverence for the Constitution of the United States. To preserve it in all its negative purity, he ceased to be a citizen of the United States when ayounger man and took up arms against that nationality, mainly to prevent the violation of the organic law of tho land. In the course of time Mr. Breckinridge carao back to the United States, or rather the.United States, to use an expressive term, "scooped him in" by virtue of an incident at Appomattox Court-house, April 9, 18C5. Mr. Breckinridge, after he was brought back to the Union, concluded to go to Congress, and he has been there several terms protecting the Constitution. 'In the view of Mr. Breckinridge, the Constitution and the United States are at variance. In fact, be seems to assume that the Constitution was cunningly devised by such men as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton to prevent the expansion of the Republic. These men foresaw that there were possibilities that the colonies might become a great nation, with an ambition to exercise all the functions of a nation, and, according; to the strict constructionists who made war on Washington and Hamilton, the Constitution was adopted to strangle all national aspirations. For more than a hundred years Constitution and country have been at war with each other, in the course of which, it must be admitted, the country has the best of it. Representative Breckinridgo is against the present clause of the McKinley law relating to reciprocity. It is, in his view, unconstitutional, because it is not clearly provided that the President shall be authorized by Congress to declare that a country which does not meet the United States in the reciprocation of favors in trade must pay duties. For years statesmen of both parties have puzzled over the question of the extension . of our trade with other nations. The word "reciprocity" has been bandied about, and even Mr. Bynum was good enough to write the millers of Indianapolis, In 1890, that he would f avor the scheme of reciprocity ; proposed-if it could be presented as a separate proposition. But "Mr. Bynum at that time did not think of the objection of unconstitutionality. Mr. Breckinridge is opposed to the principle of tho present law regulating reciprocity. Ho sees that it is at war -with .free trade, and he docs not wish the Republic to have any advantage in trade with other countries that all the world does not have. Ho is yet pursuing the mirage known as "the markets of the world." Tho reciprocity clauses of the McKinley law aro opening new markets and stimulating American trade. Tho Constitution of the United States was designed for no such purpose. True, there is a vague phrase in tho preamble about promoting "the general welfare," but it was simply "thunder in the index." The Constitution nowhere declares that the government shall do anything to build up the trade and promote the industries of the people. The Republican party and tho mass of active people who live in the spirit of the age believe, in the reciprocity features of the tariff law. They do not believe that the Constitution was designed to make a dwarf of this Nation.' The reciprocity features are doing a good work; They have given us the advantage with Brazil, Cuba and other countries. The responsive or retaliatory features of that provision and other laws have opened Germany, France and Italy to our hog products, and Germany to our wheat and corn, under conditions which give our farmers a decided advantage in its markets. Our trade with Cuba has been nearly doubled, and that with Brazil increased 60 per cent, by this reciprocity legislation. It has caused countries whose people number tens of millions to reopen their markets to our meat products, and there is a prospect that they may be induced to use corn for tread by the agency of the government. During tho past year .the ship tonnage built in the United States was double that of three years ago, construction being stimulated by the impetus given to foreign trade by the reciprocity features of the tariff law. The business and producing people of the country believe in reciprocity. If, therefore, Mr. Breckinridge can succeed in placing his 'party in the Houso in open hostility to the reciprocity features of the tariff law he will confer a great favor upon tho Republican party. ta. EOLMAU'8 IDEA OF G0VEEHMEST. Mr. Ilolman has succeeded in getting a favorable vote of the House on his retrenchment and economy resolutions. The discussion of them elicited some interesting expressions and brought into sharp contrast the Republican and Democratic theories in regard to the administration of tho government. Wo think it may be stated with considerable confidence that the American people do not want cheap government. They want the administration of the government to bo characterized always by wise economy, and never by extravagance or wastefulness, but they do not want cheap government. They want good government and efficient government, no mutter what it costs, aud in this, as in other matters, they hold that the best is the cheapest. There is as much difference between economy and niggardliness as there is between liberality and extravagance. A government, as well as an individual, may be economical without being parsimonious. Tho poorest governments in the world to-day are

the cheapest, and the best are those which stop at no reasonable expenditure to carry out the proper functions of government and promote the interests of the people. This is not a cheap country, the American people are not a cheap people, and they do not want a cheap government. This is a great, undeveloped country; we are a progressive "people, and must have a progressive government. Money spent by the government in the promotion of public interests or the furtherance of great public works and enterprises that can only be carried on by government aid is wisely spent. Mr. Holman is a man of small, narrow, . illiberal and contracted views. He is essentially a narrow man. All tho reputation he has as a Representative in Congress has been made as an objector to appropriations. In the course of a long career as an indiscriminate objector he has doubtless prevented some appropriations that should not havo been made, but he has been tho means of preventing a great many that should have been made. He thinks the expenses of the government should bo limited to running tho departments. His idea of economy is like that of a rich farmer who lets his buildings and fences go to decay for want of repairs, who is opposed to the use of agricultural machinery because it costs too much, who does not believe in underdraining, who insists that scrub horses and scrub cattle are as good as blooded ones, who drives his scrub horses with a tow string and starves his wife and children in order that he may add to his bank account. The Holman idea of statesmanship is cheap government. His resolution declares that "no money ought to be appropriated by Congress from the public treasury except such as is manifestly necessary to carry on the several departments, frugally, efficiently and honestly administered." This would cut off' appropriations for public works and improvements 'of all kinds, put a stop to river and harbor improvements and to all public buildings, close many agricultural colleges, extinguish the lights in hundreds of light-houses, abol-j ish soldiers' homes, cut off pensions, end all geological surveys and scientific experiments, prevert appropriations for coast defenses and for strengthening our navy, stop expenditures for the inspection of American pork and the prevention of disease among cattle in short, it would restrict the operations of the government to strictly departmental work. That is the Holman idea of economy in the, administration of government. It demands cheap government instead of good government. ' The opposite theory and the Republican idea was well expressed in the resolution offered by Mr. Dingley, of Maine, as a substitute for Holman'a res-, olution, viz.: Resolved, As the sense of the nonse, that while it is the duty ol Congress to limit appropriations to the requirements of an efficient, honest, economical and statesmanlike administration of national affairs, and always with the view of promoting publio . and not private interests, yet the Junctions of the Nation and the duties of Congress are not restricted to Bimply providing the means for carrying on the several departments, bat exteud to appropriations for such other objects of national importance as in the judgment of the people and of Congress are. directly or indirectly, for the benetit of the country as a whole and are not likely to be secured by private enterprises. We venture the assertion that there is not a citizen of tho United States intelligent enough to have a distinct idea of the functions of government, and patriotic enough to desire the United States to take and hold its proper place among the nations of the earth, who will not say that the Dingley plan of government is far better than the Holman plan. One would support the government while the other would starve it. One aims at good government, the other at cheap government.

.V AN ALLEGED 0VEBEUUN0 P0WEE. Indiana was admitted to the Union in 1816 and Indianapolis was first settled in 1820. Sinco that time the Stato and city have made wonderful progress in many respects. Up to within a comparativelyshort period this progress was generally and probably rightly attributed to the enterprise and intelligence of the people and to their .happy faculty of first making sure they were right and then going ahead. Recently, however, it seems a new and far more potent cauw of progress has been introduced. If the Indianapolis Sentinel is to be believed nothing useful, progressive, important or valuable has been accomplished in tho Stato or city since that paper passed under its present management that is not duo solely and entirely to its influence. In view of its extraordinary claims in this regard and the extraordinary confidence with which it asserts them, one is led to wonder that anything whatever was accomplished before the Sentinel passed under its present management, and yet, as a matter of fact, the State and the city did manage to scratch along and the people wero ablo to accomplish considerable before tho occurrence of the great event which was to chango tho course of their history. Now, however, if the Sentinel is to be believed, nothing great, or notable, or praiseworthy occurs in the Stato or city that is not the direct result of its powerful and beneficent influence. It is a fortunate thing for the State and city to have fallen under tho benign control of so great an engiueof progress and reform, and, while it is somewhat tiresome to have its claims reiterated so often, much can be forgiven to the pride of a paper which evidently feels that it is holding tho universe up by the tail. That modesty which is deemed a virtue in common people can hardly bo expected in a newspaper management which carries tho State of Indiana on its back and tho city of Indianapolis in its pocket. One shudders to contemplate the consequences if the management of the Sentinel should chango or the editor die, but probably even then God; who tempers tho wind to the shorn lamb, would Bt ill care for the commonwealth. Col. A. L. Cokgeu sends a letter to the Journal in which, among other statements, ho says tho Journal was in error in stating that be was in Anderson, Ind., on Jan. 9, the date the Republican primaries were held, at the head of one

hundred , men . wearing Blaine badges, the purpose being to pack the primaries against President Harrison. The Journal's information as to his presence in Anderson on that day was direct and positive, and if tfyis paper was in error in so stating tho error was shared by at least one of the Anderson papers of that date, in which it was stated that he was in the city, and was for a time present in the convention. He was also represented as saying tho convention was a rousing good one, that it would act wisely in declining to express a preference for President, and that he was pleased over the enthusiasm shown; If Col. Conger was not at Anderson on tho date named he will please consider the Journal's criticisms withdrawn.

The 'amicable settlement that was hoped" for' between President Frenzel, of the street-railway company, and his employes having , failed, arbitration will be resorted to. Arbitrators have not yet been chosen, but among the names suggested by the employes' committee is that of Judge Howe, and no better selection could be made. While known to be a friend of the workingman, and one who takes a deep interest' in their organizations and general welfare, his judicial mind and calm temperament will enable him to give the matter dispassionate consideration, and to do justice to all concerned. An early and satisfactory adjustment of the difficulty may now be looked for. It must be observed that if the Democratic House keeps the pledges of the Holman resolutions no river and harbor bill can bo passed, but the Democrats along tho Mississippi are demanding $10,000,000, and those in Missouri are crying oat for millions. The Holman performance shows that the river and harbor bill will be passed without rollcall under suspension of the rules. One of the most famous caterers in New York, in fitting his establishment up for great entertainments, after examining the works and wares of tho most famous manufacturers in Europe, gave his orders for decorated china and glassware to American producers. This is a great triumph, since 1 tho free-traders have ftssailcd no industry more bitterly and persistently than pottery. Some ono has been using a column to tell the differonce between McKinley, of Ohio, and Hill, of New York. It is a waste of space. McKinley is a brainy man of convictions, who abhors political trickery. Hill is a less brainy man, without convictions, but always resorting to trickery. One is a first-class Republican, th) other is a practical Democratic politician. . Foreign nations which may bo figuring on the possibility of bombarding American cities or laying wasto the coast of the United States will read with satisfaction that; the House has passed Mr. Holman'a resolutions declaring against any appropriations except for the necessary expenses of tho departments. This cuts off all appropriations for coast defenses. ' v. ' UNDEira jutficious expenditure of pub-' lie money tlm harbor at Michigan City, though not yei completed, has become one of the best . on the lake, and a port of great importance to Indiana. The Holman theory of government would stop further appropriations for the completion of tho work and let that already done fall into decay. TnE Jerry Simpson contingent in the House demanded something for constituents who followed them from Kansas to Washington. Through the intercession of Mr. Livingstone one place was accorded theiV, and the Rev. Smith, State lecturcrior Kansas, is now a cuspidor-washer in the Democratic House. The Sentinel and News are wrangling over the settlement of the strike, each claiming that it did it. In the moantimo tho strike is not settled. . The Evening News seems to feel hart in its feelings because the-Journal failed to give certain gentlemen the benefit of their denial of a statement in its columns. The Journal, gave currency to a report, received on what it considered good authority, that the gentlemen in question some months ago formed a syndicate that held an option on the Citizens' street-railroad. 'This report was published as a casual bit of information, and of interest merely as a part of the history of a corporation now somewhat prominently before the1 public The Journal is always ready to correct mis-statements, but ; none of ' the gentlemen sent in' corrections, and their denials, now found, on reference to an evening paper, to be both furious and profanewore naturally overlooked. This oversight was the more easily accounted for . from the fact that there is.nothins inherently wrong or unlawful In tho forming of a syndicate, or the holding of an option on a street railroad, and there seemed no occasion for offense. People might be engaged in such an enterprise with perfect Innocence. Even now the Journal does not entirely understand the vehemence of the denials, nor tho assumption that the report involved a calumnious charge; but - inasmuch as the gentlemen aro sensitive, and cannot bear to see their names in print, the Journal has no hesitation in giving circulation to their assertions that they were not in it. The Joarnal has grown accustomed to seeins its funniest jokes and its choicest opinions appropriated by depraved exchanges or credited b careless and unprincipled editors toother papers. It is comparatively callous to injuries of this sort, but it does feel moved to protest when the Philadelphia Press, nsually careful and accurate, quotes a foolish paragraph from the Sentinel about the noble principles and amazing growth of the Democratic party aud credits it to the "Indianapolis Journal. Dem." It is such wrongs as these that make helpless editors bowed and gray before their time. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: rieane state la what year the last total eclipse of the sun occurred in this State! L. b. u. In 1SC9. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. Will the lands to be openo-d up lu the Indian Territory be subject to tho homestead actl '2. How much does it cost to get a title under the houiestvl actl L The lands will be opened nnder the homestead act first come, first served. Tho borders of Kansas are already swarming with people, waiting the proclamation of tho President 2. The ofiice fees are all

there is to pay, and they are nominal, but the settler must -conform to certain conditions.

BCBBLE3 IX THE Altt. . Easy Enough. Miss Gotrox I Just wish I ooull make him real, downright Jealous once. Jdis Flyrpe Tell him you are going to leave your money all to charity. . Knew the Sign.' Mary Ann Shall I wait up a hit to let the boss in! k Mrs. Flgg No; he won't be in before morning. 1 6ee he has stopped the clock.' On Sufferance Only. 'What do you know about American Instltu--tions, anyway V "American institutional" retorted the Anarchist orator. "I'm one of 'em!" Why Her Sllnd Totters. "They really fear she will go insane. You see, she found a diary he kept before he met and married her 'Oh, I see. And the awful revelations "Kevelatlons nothing! It was In cipher and she couldn't read a word of it." Unconsidered Trifles. Man's fondness for sharing his misfortunes is equaled only by his proueness to exhibit his good lurk. , Tho ice-dealer's portrait should be a waterculler. . . , The escaping lunatic runs away without reason. ABOUT PtOPLE AND THINGS. Tns Pope hopes to be buried in the Laterau by the side of Innocent III, whoso tomb he has just finished there. The grand total of charitable bequests in England daring the past year, excluding 13aron Ilirscb's $10,000,000 for Jewish emigration, was $15,000,000, as against $11,500,000 in 189a There has just died In Poland a once celebrated beauty, who refused the hand of Napoleon HI. She was the Princess Helene Sagonsko. and died unmarried at the age of hf ty-seven. Ex-Kixi Francis of Spain is now the most interesting of the "kings in exile." He lives alone at Epinay, his fat wife, exQueen Isabella, residing in Paris, and is almost a dwarf mentally, morally and physically. The only Turkish poetess is supposed to be Osman Pasha's daughter, a rich young matron of twenty-eight, who lives in a white marble palace overlooking the blue Bosphorus and dines in a conservatory from a service of gold. Senator Morrill's oratory is of the severely classical order, but he knows the benefit of using metaphors occasionally, as he showed in his recent speech on silver, when he said: "Dynamite may not briug rain from the clouds, but the showers of financial balloonists will not fail to bring portentous monetary storms upou our people." Tewfik Pasha, the late Khedive of Egypt, had but one wife, and the notices in the . dispatches of his harem refer to the companions and servants of his wife. In this respect he set his subjects an example that is said to have donemuch towards the uplifting of Arab women. The Khedive's widow is a short, portly woman, goodnatured and rather good looking, but of somewhat limited education. Sin William Thompson's advancement to the peerage calls out this reminiscence: While he was demonstrating an algebraio problem to his class in Glasgow University one of the students peppered him on the bald spot o'f the bead with a hard paper pellet Instantly he threw the chalk he was using on the floor, and, facing round with clenched fists and eyes atiame, he shouted: "Who did that? If I knew who dared to throw that pellet, by heaven, I would crucify him!" Doha Wheeler Keitii has recently completed the portrait of Lawrence Hutton in her series of authors' portraits. It is the artist's purpose to make a complete gallery of the portraits of the foremost people of this period in literature, art and the drama which, will possess historic value in the future. Nothing of the kind has beon done , in any previous period. Among the portraits already completed are those of Warner, Clemens, Howells, Stockton, Mathews, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Gilbert, the actress, and others. The collection is entirely a private enterprise. A well-known French journalist, M. Hagues le Roux. being told that a beggar could make 15 francs a day in the Champs Elysees districts, resolved to try it Dressing himself for the part he began his test, going from house to house. The wife of a physician gave him an old garment Au old man gave him 2 francs. A countess, who received him as if he were "somebody," gave him 10 francs, directing him to call again. In a very abott time he made a sum equal to 20 francs. At tho house at which he reeeived 10 francs the concierge claimed a eommission on his good luck. Politics In Philadelphia. Philadelphia North American. No; it has not been a battle between Harrison and Hlaine. It was a struggle for vindication of local politlciaus. And it has not been an aspiring struggle, anyhow. The public does not care a cupper for the vindication of any Philadelphia leader, and nobody else anywhere demands vindication. If Mr. Quay wants vindicating ho must have changed remarkably. If the publie acts of a publio man do not vindicate him he will go to his grave unvindicated. We do not think anybody outside of Philadelphia wanted to bo vindicated. Probably there was a supposed need of that here. Perhaps somo few persons, being worn threadbare, needed patchiug and darning, or in other words words, neeaed vindicating. They appeared to think so themselves, bnt we doubt if anybody else cared a rap whether men were patched and darned at the primaries or not The result appears to favor our view in some respects, though not in all. Now tbat this cruel war is over, let us bops tbat Republicans will go out of the vindicating business and let every tub stand on its own bottom. m,m A Warning: for Democrats. Atlanta Constitution. Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has now Eassed out of view. He is oue of the most rilliant campaigners in the country, and ho might now be a national possibility with a big P. Jiut in an evil hour ho hearkened to the advice of Eastern Democrat, ran away from his platform aud got lost in th woods politically. Jiis sad ending ought to be a warning to Domociatio politicians who want to run away from the vital issues of their party. Newspaper Reporters. New York Eecorer. 1 Reporter, what are they? They are the n.tn who hold the mirror no to nature. They paint the picture which feasts the public eye. They are worn to akiu and bone in the service of others. They sharpen their wits, as they do their pencils, along the linn of duty, whether duty calls them to the front of battle, to coal-mine depths, to torrid heats or frigid blasts. Truth About Indiana's Vote in 1880. Pittsburg Post (Dem.) Governor Chase is an authorized preacher of the Church of the Disciples of Christ commonly known as the Campbellite Church. Aud the faot General Ciartield carried Indiana in lt0 was generally attributed to the influence of that church going strong for the General, who sometimes held lorth in its pulpits. What Protection Does. New York Itect nler. The reduction of (1 a ton in the price of pig-iron daring the last six months is the result of increased production, and freer American production, under the new protective tariff'. In the iron industry, as in others, protection prevonts monopoly, enlarges the number of employers aud the demand for employes. Hill and the Other Fellow In the Wood-Pile. New York Press. Disappeared from public view one D. IJ. Hill. No reward will be paid for nis discovery, but G. C. will pay any one well to tell where Hill is on the presidential question.

PARSmOH Y TO BE THE ROLE

Ilolman Permitted to Set Up Dis Klckel-in-tho-SIot Machine in tho Ho use. His Bogni Retrenchment and Political ClapTrap Resolutions Passed with a Cunningly-Worded Loop-Dole Attachment. Clerks Provided for Committees After an Interesting and Spirited Debate. Hypocrisy of the Cheese-Parera Exposed ly Mr. , Bontelle in a Speech Fall of Sarcasm and ' Ridicule What Sirs. Flower Found. SARCASM FOR DEMOCRATS. Sir. IJoutelle Castigates House Cheese-rarers and Expose Foible of Hill and Clereland. Special to the Inducapolis JoarnaL Washington, Jan. 15. Mr. Boutelle of Maine displayed the historio humor of Proctor Knott in a speech before the House this afternoon, which, by all hands, is regarded as one of the most brilliant, clever and adroit combinations of sarcasm, ridicule, humor and invective that Congress has heard in years, and it was directed at tho chairman of the committee on appropriations. It was noticed that such Democrats as Holman, Wheeler and Dockexy winced under the sarcastio shafts from the merciless orator, from the lirst to the last word. Ex-Speaker Reed sat near Boutelle during the speech, shaking with laughter, the most interested and most amused man on the lloor, while crowds from both sides of the House filled every inch of space in the aisle leading up. Boutelle took up each of the men who has been leading in the parsimonious crusade for "economy. n. His reference to General Wheeler, of Alabama, as reminding him of 'one of the Darwinian species mounted upon the back of a circus elephant" came very near calling the ex-confederate leader a monkey, and it was all the more significant in view of General Wheeler's peculiar facial characteristics. Of Ilolman he declared that the Indianian was not only trying to run this vast government by a nickel-in-the -Blot machine, but he was trying to beat .the machine by putting a bogus nickel in tho slot He pictured the harrowing expression of Dockery'a face when he gets up in the House to attack extravagance, and the picture was recognized as a true ono of the Missouri member's tragic and pathetic roars. The New York delegation was all agog when Mr. Boutelle told how Mrs. Flower, wife of the Governor of New York, had unearthed, when she entered the executive mansion in Albany, certain evidences of "Democratio economy." as practiced by the two bachelor Governors, Cleveland and Hill, who had preceded Flower. She had found, lemon-squeezers in profusion and napkins in scarcity. She had found cigar stumps in the sugar ..bowl. She had taken from the walls the cheap chromos of ballet dancers and opera bonffe singers in order that she might get back to the classic features of DeWitt Clinton and his associates in oil, who had been displaced by these two bachelor Governors for the vaudeville actresses of the day. Boutelle declared that Mrs. Flower had found the Albany mansion in such condition that she said she could not give a public dinner, as she was ashamed to ask any New York butler to enter such a kitchen. He added tbat he supposed Messrs. Cleveland and Hill had been employing an Indiana butler who bad been running things on "an economical basis." He quoted approvingly Mrs. Flower's remark tbat she would' use nothing in theexecutivemansion unless it was wholly of American make. This was strongly applauded on the Republican side as good protection doctrine, but it was immediately followed by ehout of derision from the Democratio side when Boutelle continued reading Mrs. Flower's remarks that if she could not get the goods at the local stores she would send to the manufacturers or the importers. While the speech was directly personal in its sarcasm against Hill. Cleveland, Holman and the other parsimonious and demagogical Democrats it cleverly avoided any descent into vulgarity, and even when most cutting against Mr. Cleveland it was so good natured that the Democrats themselves laughed instead of taking ofiense. Altogether it was the brightest pieoeof. humor in recent days, and is the only speech in the Fifty-second Congress which has risen above commonplace. Tflj DAT IN THE HOUSE. nol man's Resolutions Adopted Clerks ProTided for CcinniitUes After Spirited Debate. Washington', Jan. 15. The House of Representatives of the Fifty-second Congress has declared its emphatic hostility to subsidies, bounties and land grants and pronounced in favor of rigid retrenchment in appropriations for the government The Holman resolution in its entirety was today finally adopted by the House, hut not until after its author had consented that it should be interpreted in a aense "broad enough to permit any and all appropriate and legitimate legislation." The advocates of the world's fair appropriation are tonight finding great comfort in this interpretation, and even the friends of the mail steamship subsidies and sugar bounty maintain that the pledge of the government having been once passed, appropriations to fulfill those obligations are but "appropriate and legitimate legislation." . When the resolutions vrere reached in the order of unfinished business it was generally expected that Mr. Holman, who had himeelf yesterday entered a motion for tho reconsideration of the order for tho previous question, would roneent to au amendment modifying the sweeping character of the second resolution. But the chairman of tho appropriations committee surprised all but a few of his confidants by rofusing to do anything of the kind. )Mr. Speaker," said Mr. Ilolman. ''last evening I entered a motion to reconsider the rote by which the previous question had been ordered. On reliection, I desire, if I am so authorized under the rules, to withdraw that motiou." "That can only be done by unanimous consent." said the Sneaker. "Then I ask for unanimous consent." said Mr. Holman, and. no oue objecting, his motion was withdrawn. "Upon a careful examination of the second resolution," resumed Mr. Ilolman, "and after consulting with gentlemen whose judgments are entitled to great respect. I have reached the conclusion, for myself at least, that the resolution is broad enough to permit anv and all appropriate and legitimate leaislatiou." "Like the Chicago fair for instance!" inquired Mr. Reed. lLaughter. To this query Mr. Holman returned no answer. "As I said," resumed Mr. Holman, "it is, I think, broad enough to cover ail appropriate and legitimate legislation, including all legislation like private pension bills and the like, as they ail belong to departments of the government The three great departments of the government rover the whole field of governmental administration." 1 would like to vote for the first resolution, but not for the second," said Mr. Henderson, of Iowa. "I ask that it be divided." The Speaker pro tern, decided that thejresolntion could be divided. Mr. JJmgleyof Maine inquired whether it wonld bo in order to move to commit the resolution, with instructions to report back his resolution read yesterday, broadenitit; ibe scope of the declaration, but the bueakcr ruled that it would not as one motion had already been yesterday made to commit. Mr. Henderson of Iowa, after consultation with Mr. Dingley, withdrew his de

mand for a division of the resolution, bat Mr. Tracy of New York at occe renewed tho demand. TUB VOTE OS THE RESOLUTIONS. The first resolution was then adooted yeas, 227; nays. 41. It reads as follows: Resolved, That in the J u J men; of this Uouis the (rrantlnir of subsidies nr bounties by Con arrets. In money, puniio lands, bonrl, or !r In. dorsement or ny pledge of the public Credit, tc promote special private InJuntries or enter prises of corporations, ludependent of tiie que Hon of the constitutional jower of ConirreM U make such grant. Is unjust aud Impolitic. an In manifest conflict with the spirit or our re pnbllcsn Institutions, as it directly tends to create and fonter tho wealth of favored closes at the expense of the whole people, who l-.ir tbo burdens of the jrovcrnrnent, and manifestly furnishes undue opportunity for tho enlargement of private estates, a policy which a government of the people rannot Justly or tafely encourage by any form of favoritism in legislation. The second resolution was then agreed to after Mr. Lynch had made a vain efi'ort to present a substitute. The vote stood 164 yeas to 93 nays. The resolution is as follows: Resolved, That in view of the present condition of tho treasury, and because etlicient and honest government ran only be assured by tbe frugal excndlture or the public money, while unnecessary and lavish exi ndltures under any and aU conditions leads inevitably to venal and corrupt methods in public attain, no rconey ought to be appropriated by Congress from tLo Tubllo treasury except guch as Is inabiiotJy noceftftarytn carry on the several departments. Irugallr, eWciently and lioneetly administered. On the second resolution the following membera voted in the negative: Amerman, Halvorsen, Power. Atkinson, Harmer, Qnackcnbusa, llartine. Harter. Itaiuee, Belknap, llaynes, Kandall. lieltzhoover, Henderson (TaO.lUy. JJergen. Henderson (IIL).IUI, Bingham, Hermann, Jleilly, Boutelle, Hoar, Robinson, Bowers. Hooker (N. T.), Scull. Broderick, Hopkins (UL), t?liauk. BrosiU8, Houk (Ohio), ' rtephecsm. Burrows. Hutf, . ftewart iVa). Buahnell, Hull. t-tockd.nl. Caldwell, Jobnwn (Ind.), bume, Chas. W. Chtpinan. Ketcham, Pa.), Clark (Wyo.), Laphain, Btoue, Win. A. Coolidk'C, Llud, (I'a.). Crosby, Lodj2e, Etorcr, Curtis. Loud. ftout. Cutting, Lynch. Sweet, Halzell, McKenna, Taylor. FL B. Davis, Milliken. Taylor. J. !.. Dingley, Mitchell, Taylor. V. A.t Dixon, Morse. Townneud, Doan, Js"ewlerry, Tracy, Dolllver, O'NelU (la), Wadsworth. LLglish, Otis, Walker, Knocks, Owens, Wnu:h. Flick, Tatton, Weadock, Funston, l'aync, TCikLimsfMaM.) Geary, Perkins, Wllsou (Wash.) Ulllespie, rickler, 4J5. Grout Tost MR. nOLMAK DOESN'T KNOW. r Mr. Holman was asked whether he considered that his resolution would preclude an appropriation or loan for the benefit of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. "That will depend,", taid he, "upon the construction that is placed upon the legislation that we have already had in regard to the world's fair. .1 have not tho different acts sufficiently in "mind to be able to express any opinion on the subject It will depend to what extent tho government hn become committed tn the world' fair. Whatever appropriations are made in conformity with these resolutions bay, got to be made for public purposes. Appropriations can be made for a publio object and the world's fair appropriation will do pend npon preceding legislation.' After the adoption ot the resolutions, the House took up lor consideration thereportc of the committee on accounts, assign in y clerks to the various committees of tba House, and a discussion ensued as to whether there was not extravagance in these assignments. Mr. Dickerson of Kentucky quoted statistics to show that there was undue expenditure in this respect, and favored tbe minority report cutting oti several of these clerks. In advocating the report of the committee, Mr. Cooper of Indiana incidentally referred to the investigation of the Tension Office during tbe last Congress, and said that since that investigation it had coma to be known tbat Commissioner Raum's son had sold places in the 1'ension Bureau, and for that otlense had been removed by the Secretary of tbe Interior. Mr. Cummings of New York rebuked the House for voting regularly for the appropriation for a clerk to every Senator, yet now proposing to cut down its own committee clerks. He maintained there was not a man in the Houso to-day who was riot paying out cf bis own pocket from TiO cents to 81 a day for postage. For what! For the business of his constituents. Now it was proposed, in addition, that the chairmen of committees should be compelled to do their own committee work. Mr. Boutelle of Maine began an arousing speech on the sitnation by the exclamation, "What a comical old humbug the Demo cratic party is!" Year after year, he said. Congress after Congress, there had been the same old tune on ono siring. He had eat there yesterday and looked npon the remarkable spectacle presented by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Holman, who administered to tbe brethren around him, in allopathic doses, the medicine of retrenchment aud reform. Tberu was something familiar about it and he had tried to recall what it was. He had at last been able to do so. It all came back to him. It was very simple. History was repeating itself. The performance was simply repetition of tho portrait made by Dickens aud the caricature of Cruikshank, who had depicted that famous event when Mrs. Saucers gathered the boys around her and administered to them with a long spoon their dose of retrenchment and reform in the shape of brimstone aud treacle, for the purpose of breaking down their appetite and saving provisions. (Lauehter.l Now, according to the prearraugod form. Mr. Pecksnilt arose, and with tatiy in one hand and an amendment in the other, undertook to follow the great onward causa of retrenchment and reform. Then the other friend, the Kev. Chadband, of Kentucky referring to Mr. Breckinridge, came in with "Bless you, my children." and pronounced his benediction. ILaughte:. POCKEKY'S NIG HTM A HE. There was a gentlemen from Missouri Mr. Dockery, a gentleman who wm haunted all the time by .the nightmare of apprehension that he was too good looking to be taken for a Democratio statesman, and therefore felt obliged on all occasions to keep up the assurance of the Democratio party orthodoxy. After all this came the Dens ex machina, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Holman. undertaking to start the reform machinery by protestations; undertaking to deal with public a flairs as if they wero a nickel-inth-slot machine, and even then attempting to cheat tho machine by dropping in a bogus nickel. Laughter. 1 - Mr. BouU-lle then proceeded to inveigh against tbe Democratic party for its lac, ot patriotism, saying that m the last sis months he had l:eard only of one patriotio remark being made by a Democrat, and that Democrat was a woman. He referred to tho estimable wife of the present Governor of tho great State of New 1'ork. 'I hat woman on visiting the executive mansion, which for two terms bad been occupied by Democratic bachelors, had, in an interview with a newspaper correspondent, alluded to the necessity of refurnishing the houso. She had said on that occasion that it was not necessary in order to pnt the Governor's mansion in order to go beyond tbe confines of the American Republic Applause on the Republican side. She had further said that in order to bny tier daughter's trousseau she had fonnd little occasion to go beyond the shops of Watertown. When the firms. there did not have the article called for she would buy them of the manufacturers or the importers. At the word "importers" the Democrats burst into laughter, as if Mrt- Flower's remarks strengthened the Democratic view of the situation. He then quoted further from Mrs. Flower's interview, in which she states that she is an American through and throusb, ana tbat she has yet to find a better and cheaper place in which to shop than in American stores. lApp.ause from tbe Republican side. Mr. Boutelle said in conclusion: "The people of this creat country are going to have a happv aud prosperous new year in spite of the Demo cratio party, the' gentleman from Indiana Mr. Holman and his little slot machine." Applause on the Republican side.) Mr. Compton ot Maryland commended to President aud Mrs. Harrison the good advice given by Mrs. Flower, especially la regard to the purchase of china. Laughter and applause on the Democratic sulci Mr. Cummings of New York wished to add to the speech of the grmlcmau from Maine this fact: "That under the two Democratic, administrations of the State of New York the State debt bad beeu reduced S:,UX),000, and that fiOCXUOO had been left in the treasury when Governor