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of the Treasury shall immediately cause to be coined as fast as possible the silver bullion held in the Treasury, purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, entitled 'An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issuing of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes,' to the amount of the gain or seigniorage of such bullion, to wit: The sum of $55,156,681," and such coin or the silver certificates issued thereon shall be used in the payment of public expenditures; and the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, if the needs of the Treasury demand it, issue silver certificates in excess of such coinage. Provided, That said excess shall not exceed the amount of the seignorage as herein authorized to be coined. "Sec. 2. After the coinage provided for in the first section of this act, the remainder of the silver bullion purchased in pursuance of said act of July 14, 1890, shall be coined into legal-tender standard silver dollars as fast as possible, and the coin shall be held in the Treasury for the redemption of the Treasury notes issued in the purchase of said

bullion. That as fast as the bullion shall be coined for the redemption of said notes the notes shall not be reissued, but shall be cancelled and destroyed in amounts equal to the coin held at any time in the Treasury, derived from the coinage herein provided for, and silver certificates shall be issued on such coin in the manner now provided by law. Provided, That this act shall not be construed to change existing law relating to the legal-tender character or mode of redemption of the Treasury notes issued under said act of July 14, 1890.

"That a sufficient sum of money is hereby appropriated to carry into effect the provisions of this act."

Passed the House of Representativesyeas 168, nays 129, not voting 56.

On March 7, 1894, the bill passed the Senate without amendment-yeas 44, nays 34, not voting 10. On March 29, President Cleveland returned it to the House with his objections, and on April 4, failing to receive the necessary two-thirds vote-yeas 144, nays 114, not voting 95it fell.

GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES.

APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY LIID CONGRESS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1893 AND 1894, AND BY THE SPECIAL AND REGULAR SESSIONS OF LIID CONGRESS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1895.

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Miscellaneous

Total regular annual ap-| propriations

Permanent annual appropriations

$385,736,308 71 $404,036,085 29 $419,588,160 71[$391,156,005 03

[d121.863.880 00 d115.468.273 92 h101,074,680 00h101,074,680 00 Totals by sessions.. [$507,600,188 71 $519,504,359 21 | $529,662,840 71/$492,230,685 03 Totals by Congresses...... ..$1,027,104,547 92

a Includes $14,149,724 85 deficiency for 1893. b Includes $1,330,669 67 to be placed to credit of certain Indians for value of certain non-paying State bonds or stocks; also includes $2,472,697 to carry out agreements with various Indian tribes. c No River or Harbor bill was passed for 1894, but $14.166,153 was included in the Sundry Civil act to carry out contracts authorized by law. d Amount originally submitted to Congress by Secretary of Treasury. e Amount estimated for rivers and harbors for 1895, exclusive of $4,885,000 required to meet contracts. f Includes $3,974,646 14 judgments in favor of and claims audited as due the several Pacific R. R. companies. h Note on page 267 of Book of Estimates for 1895: "The Secretary of the Treasury having recommended the repeal of the sugar bounty law, no estimate was submitted for the fiscal year 1895. In case the law is not repealed $11,000,000 will be required for the purpose, which should be added to the sum total of the estimates for 1895."

OF 1892.

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"The representatives of the Republicans of the United States, assembled in general convention on the shores of the Mississippi River, the everlasting bond of an indestructible Republic, whose most glorious chapter of history is the record of the Republican party, congratulate their countrymen on the majestic march of the Nation under the banners inscribed with the principles of our platform of 1888, vindicated by victory at the polls and prosperity in our fields, workshops and mines, and make the following declaration of principles:

PROTECTION.-"We reaffirm the American doctrine of protection. We call attention to its growth abroad. We maintain that the prosperous condition of our country is largely due to the wise revenue legislation of the Republican Congress. We believe that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty, and that on all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home. We assert that the prices of manufactured articles of general consumption have been reduced under the operations of the tariff act of 1890. denounce the efforts of the Democratic majority of the House of Representatives to destroy our tariff laws piecemeal, as is manifested by their attacks upon wool, lead and lead ores, the chief products of a number of States, and we ask the people for their judgment thereon.

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RECIPROCITY.-"We point to the success of the Republican policy of reciprocity, under which our export trade has vastly increased, and new and enlarged markets have been opened for the products of our farms and workshops. We remind the people of the bitter opposition of the Democratic party to this practical business measure, and claim that, executed by a Republican Administration, our present laws will eventually give us control of the trade of the world.

SILVER. "The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by

legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Government shall be as good as any other. We commend the wise and patriotic steps already taken by our Government to secure an international conference to adopt such measures as will insure a parity of value between gold and silver for use as money throughout the world.

FREE BALLOT AND FAIR COUNT."We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot in all public elections, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast; that such laws shall be enacted and enforced as will secure to every citizen, be he rich or poor, native or foreign born, white or black, this sovereign right guaranteed by the Constitution. The free and honest popular ballot, the just and equal representation of all the people, as well as their just and equal protection under the laws, are the foundation of our republican institutions, and the party will never relax its efforts until the integrity of the ballot and the purity of elections shall be fully guaranteed and protected in every State.

SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.-"We denounce the continued inhuman outrages perpetrated upon American citizens for political reasons in certain Southern States of the Union.

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FOREIGN RELATIONS.-"We the extension of our foreign commerce, the restoration of our mercantile marine by home-built ships and the creation of a Navy for the protection of our National interests and the honor of our flag; the maintenance of the most friendly relations with all foreign Powers, entangling alliances with none; and the protection of the rights of our fishermen. We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe Doctrine, and believe in the achievement of the manifest destiny of the Republic in its broadest sense. We favor the enactment of more stringent laws and regulations for the restriction of criminal, pauper and contract immigration.

MISCELLANEOUS.-"We favor efficient legislation by Congress to protect the life and limbs of employes of transportation companies engaged in carrying on interstate commerce, and recommend legislation by the respective States that will protect employes engaged in State commerce, and in mining and manufacturing.

"The Republican party has always been the champion of the oppressed, and recognizes the dignity of manhood, irrespective of faith, color or nationality; it sympathizes with the cause of Home Rule in Ireland, and protests against the persecution of the Jews in Russia.

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"The ultimate reliance of free popular government is the intelligence of people and the maintenance of freedom among men. We therefore declare anew our devotion to liberty of thought and conscience, of speech and press, and approve all agencies and instrumentalities which contribute to the education of the children of the land; but, while insisting upon the fullest measure of religious liberty, we are opposed to any union of Church and State.

TRUSTS.-"We reaffirm our opposition, declared in the Republican platform of 1888, to all combinations of capital organized in trust or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens. We heartily indorse the action already taken upon this subject, and ask for such further legislation as may be required to remedy any defects in existing laws and to render their enforcement more complete and effective.

POSTOFFICE REFORM.-"We approve the policy of extending to towns, villages and rural communities the advantages of the free delivery service now enjoyed by the larger cities of the country, and reaffirm the declaration contained in the Republican platform of 1888, pledging the reduction of letter postage to one cent at the earliest possible moment consistent with the maintenance of the Postoffice Department and the highest class of postal service.

CIVIL SERVICE.-"We commend the spirit and evidence of reform in the Civil Service, and the wise and consistent enforcement by the Republican party of the laws regulating the same.

NICARAGUA CANAL.-"The construction of the Nicaragua Canal is of the highest importance to the American people, both as a measure of National defence and to build up and maintain American commerce, and it should be controlled by the United States Government.

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TERRITORIES.-"We mission of the remaining Territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Territories and of the United States. All the Federal officers appointed for the Territories should be selected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practicable.

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ARID LANDS.-" We favor subject to the Homestead laws, of the arid public lands to the States and Territories in which they lie, under such Congressional restrictions as to disposition, reclamation and occupancy by settlers as will secure the maximum benefits to the people.

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World's Columbian Exposition is a great National undertaking, and Congress should promptly enact such reasonable legislation in aid thereof as will insure a discharge of the expenses and obligations in. cident thereto, and the attainment of results commensurate with the dignity and progress of the Nation.

INTEMPERANCE. - "We sympathize with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality.

PENSIONS.-"Ever mindful of the services and sacrifices of the men who saved

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polls, but in contempt of that verdict the Republican party has defiantly declared in its latest authoritative utterance that its success in the coming elections will mean the enactment of the Force bill, and the usurpation of despotic control over elections in all the States. Believing that the preservation of republican government in the United States is dependent upon the defeat of this policy of legalized force and fraud, we invite the support of all citizens who desire to see the Constitution maintained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have given our country a hundred years of unexampled prosperity; and we pledge the Democratic party, if it be intrusted with power, not only to the defeat of the Force bill, but also to relentless opposiexpenditure which, in the short space of tion to the Republican policy of profligate two years, has squandered an enormous surplus, emptied an overflowing Treasury, after piling new burdens of taxation upon the already overtaxed labor of the country.

"The representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, in National convention assembled, do reaffirm theit allegiance to the principles of the party as formulated by Jefferson and exempliTARIFF.-"We denounce Republican fied by the long and illustrious line of protection as a fraud, a robbery of the his successors in Democratic leadership great majority of the American people from Madison to Cleveland; we believe for the benefit of the few. We declare it the public welfare demands that these to be a fundamental principle of the principles be applied to the conduct of Democratic party that the Federal Govthe Federal Government through the acernment has no constitutional power to cession to power of the party that advoimpose and collect tariff duties, except cates them, and we solemnly declare that for the purpose of revenue only, and we the need of a return to these fundamental demand that the collection of such taxes principles of a free popular government shall be limited to the necessities of the based on home rule and individual liberty Government when honestly and economwas never nore urgent than now, when ically administered. We denounce the the tendency o centralize all power at McKinley Tariff law enacted by the LIst the Federal Capital has become a menace Congress as the culminating atrocity of to the reserved rights of the States that class legislation; we indorse the efforts strikes at the very roots of our Governmade by the Democrats of the present ment under the Constitution as framed Congress to modify its most oppressive by the fathers of the Republic. feature in the direction of free raw mateELECTIONS BILL.-"We rials and cheaper manufactured goods warn the people of our common country, jealous for that enter into general consumption, and the preservation of their free institutions, we promise its repeal as one of the benefthat the policy of Federal icent results that will follow the action control of elections, to which the Republican party of the people in intrusting power to the Democratic party. has commended itself, is fraught with the Since the McKinley gravest dangers, scarcely less momentous tariff went into operation there have been than would result from a revolution practen reductions of the wages of the laboring tically establishing monarchy on the ruins man to one increase. We deny that there of the Republic. It strikes at the North. has been any increase of prosperity to the as well as the South, and injures the country since the tariff went into operacolored citizens even more than the white; tion, and we point to the dulness and it means a horde of deputy marshals at distress, the wage reductions and strikes every polling place armed with Federal in the iron trade as the best possible boards evidence that no power, returning appointed and such prosperity has controlled by Federal authority, the outresulted from the McKinley act. We call rage of the electoral rights of the people the attention of thoughtful Americans to in the several States, subjugation of the the fact that after thirty years of recolored people to the control of the party strictive taxes against the importation of in power, and the reviving of race anforeign wealth, in exchange for our agritagonisms now happily abated, of the cultural surplus, the homes and farms utmost peril to the safety and happiness of the country have become burdened of all, a measure deliberately and justly with a real estate mortgage debt of over described by a leading Republican Sena$2,500,000, exclusive of all other forms of tor as 'the most infamous bill that ever indebtedness: that in one of the chief crossed the threshold of the Senate.' Such agricultural States of the West there apa policy, if sanctioned by law, would pears a real estate mortgage debt avermean the dominance of a self-perpetuating aging $165 per capita of the total popuoligarchy of office-holders, and the partylation, and that similar conditions and first intrusted with its machinery could tendencies are shown to exist in other be dislodged from power only by an ap-agricultural exporting States. We depeal to the reserved rights of the people nounce a policy which fosters no industo resist oppression which is inherent in all self-governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the people at the

try so much as it does that of the sheriff. RECIPROCITY.-"Trade interchange on the basis of reciprocal advantages to the countries participating is a time-honored

doctrine of the Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham reciprocity which juggles with the people's desire for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchanges by pretending to establish closer trade relations for a country whose articles of export are almost exclusively agricultural products with other countries that are also agricultural, while erecting a custom-house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the rich and the countries of the world that stand ready to take our entire surplus of products and to exchange therefor commodities which necessaries and comforts of life among our people.

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TRUSTS.-"We recognize in the trusts and combinations which are designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor a natural consequence of the prohibitive taxes which prevent the free competition which is the life of honest trade, but we believe their worst evils can be abated by law, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary. PUBLIC LANDS." The Republican party, while professing a policy of reserving the public land for small holdings by actual settlers, has given away the people's heritage, till now a few railroads and non-resident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic Administration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, abroad and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre of land so unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people.

SILVER.-"We denounce the Republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities of danger in the future, which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver, without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value or be adjusted through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in payments of debts and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenceless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency.

BANKING.-"We recommend that the prohibitory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues be repealed.

CIVIL SERVICE.—"Public office is a public trust. We reaffirm the declaration of the Democratic National Convention of 1876 for the reform of the civil service, and we call for the honest enforcement of all laws regulating the same. The nomination of a President, as in the recent Republican Convention, by delegations composed largely of his appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular institutions and a startling illustration of the methods by which a President may gratify his ambition. We denounce a poiicy under which Federal office-holders usurp control of party conventions in the States, and we pledge the Democratic party to the reform of these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local selfgovernment.

FOREIGN POLICY.-"The Democratic party is the only party that has ever given the country a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, compelling respect abroad and inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding entangling alliances, it has aimed to cultivate friendly relations with other nations, and especially with our neighbors on the American continent, whose destiny is closely linked with our own, and we view with alarm the tendency to a policy of irritation and bluster which is liable at any time to confront us with the alternative of humiliation or war. We favor the maintenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of National defence, and to properly maintain the honor and dignity of the country abroad.

FOREIGN OPPRESSION.-"This country has always been the refuge of oppressed from every land-exiles for conscience sake-and in the spirit of the founders of our Government we condemn the oppression practised by the Russian Government upon its Lutheran and Jew. ish subjects, and we call upon our National Government, in the interests of justice and humanity, by all just and proper means to use its prompt and best effort to bring about a cessation of these cruel persecutions in the dominions of the Czar, and to secure to the oppressed equal rights. We tender our profound and earnest sympathy to those lovers of freedom who are struggling for home rule and the great cause of local self-government in Ireland.

IMMIGRATION.-"We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United States from being used as a dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws against Chinese immigration or the importation of foreign workmen under contract to degrade American labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict the immigration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands.

PENSIONS.-"This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the war for its preservation, and we favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents, but we demand that the work of the Pension Office shall be done industriously, impartially and honestly. We denounce the present ad

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