The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-02-12
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 90

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90.
The House Of Representatives is hard at worl
upon the Appropriation Bills The Bill for thu
support f the Naval Service Tor l939,-the Bill
for the .yment of the Indian Expenses of thu
Government for 1889 and the Bill making appro
praons for the defence of the Northern Frontie
for 1889, all have passed in Committee of TIT
Whole. The Army Bill was before the Hous,
between 3 and o'clock, when the House adjourn
ed for the ,oant Of quorum--a fact that does no
speak verv well for the attention of some of ou
Legislators.
The discussion upon the Bills passed in com
mittee was very brief Mr. R. Garland of Louis
iana drew the attention of the House the fac
that many of the appropriations made, made
without recommendations either in the Annual
Reports from the Executive Departments or in the
Message of the President Of the u. States Be.
sides this, appropriations were made merely from
memorandums given, without sufficient date from
tho Departments and without proper estimates
Bills thus formed were pushed through the House
and Congress made responsible for all the appro-
priations recommended by the Administration -
Mr. Garland appealed in confirmation of the truth
of what he sad to the fact that The official paper
and members of Congress, whenever the Admins.
tration was charged with making large appropria-
tons, made Congress at RESPONSE ble. All
this is true to the letter have known an appro-
priation for mil lion and more to be made upon
the most incomplete and imperfect estimates, with
the subject considered in hurry, the Bills propos-
ed in hurry, reported in hurry, and then push
ed through the House with locomotive speed
This is the with of the bills passed TO-.
day.
Mr. Cambrelehg manifested disposition to re-
sort TO one of his oldest and most common tricks
iof the purpose Of hurryng the action of the
f1ouse upon his Bills. Let me illustrate one Of
these efforts
In the last Congress,-long scssion,--an appro-
rriatlon was asked for a million item, or a
part appropriation for the prosecution of the For-
da war Opposition was made to the manner of
proposing the estimates and to the manner of con.
Quoting the war. Mr. Cambreleng, quick as a
In ne In fpnta and Tho Nhop, nc
Congress if it is their wish that the savages of Flo
rda shall kill the unoffendng women and children
of the Territory This was MIR Cambrelengs false
issue there
To-day, when opposition was made as to the
manner of making up the estimates for the Bill for
defence of the Northern frontier, Mr. Cambreleng
with wonderful earnestness, springs to the floor d
says to the opposition ,-"Gentlemen, are you not
willing that an appropriation should be made to
Keep the country from being plunged into n war
with Great Britain ?"
This is the way Mr. Cambreeng and some others
humbug Congress and the people. All opposition
TO extravaganza or to the manner OF expendng
money is at once turned into opposition to the OBJ
iect for which the Appropriation was made Thus
in,1S37, the Wings were for having the citizens of
Florida murdered by bands Of savages worse than
hordes of the widest Bedouins of the desert In
1889 they are for Plunging the country into a
with Great Britain.
The Senate Chamber has been n mandatory of
salt again today. Mr. Benton has Of his worst
spasms All his spleen and inyectve has centered
and disallowing the bounty given to fishermen
Today he has made an attack on New England
that would make a New England man rebel;
1t not that the censure of this malicious slanderer
was better than his good opinion.
Mr. Williams, of Maine, of his own party, has
opposed him and his scheme in a speech Of
hour Even Niles, of Connecticut, who 1 had
thought could swallow anything labelled Benton
has taken sides against the Expunger. Benton has
rdculed the compromise act aud declared it with
his usual impudence, bombast and swagger. I" A
humtug Of the largest dimensions" The excite
ment which prompted the compromise act, was a
humbug, and he denton, scould have put in his
vest pocket all the killed and wounded of that day
mad the worst come to the worst - Benton should
have said his era0at instead of his vest pocke,and
associated along with his cravat some reminiscent
of his at Chapel Hill. Again Mr. Benton
says-"No man on God Almghtys Earlh,-Qhis
is favorite expression Of Benton Sand no body
of men disturb this Union" The other day
he told US that ga tax on salt was tax on God
Almighty himself - and put what he has said to-
gether upon this salt debate and you will have
compound of Sasphemyy' , iGsolence and ignorance
gains him. but Mr. Buchanan has taken him 10
task for the remarks Benton made upon the Com.
promise Act. MIR Buchanan was in Russia at the
massage Of the act, and the time OF the reception of
She news in Europe.
Mr. Buchanan felt then, when all Europe was
excIted by our excitements,-when the friends of
kings and potentates said, 10 here and 10 there
see the downfall of your boosted republc,-weak
in its strength, and aged in its youth READY to
crumble to pieces before 1t has received half the
form and stature hoped and prayed for by the ia
theirs Of the republio,-Mr Buchanan l am sure,
from VIII he sad felt then, that the Compromise
was no humbug Rather should it be called the
olive branch and the peace Offering. Mr. Benton
was not made better or more respectful by
MI Buchanan 5 rebuke, pointed and pungent 1t
was. If there is no capacity for feeling in the
hardened and confrmedly vicious, how can there
be in a man like Thomas II. Benton. To-day he
stands rebuked, not by political foes but by his po
litcal friends. -
JAM 31st 1885,
SENATE. Two bills ordered to be en-
grossed--,he one bill in regard to the execution