Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-24
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pons the consideration of the Pacific Railroad
: bill until Tomorrow 90 that the Deficiency
bill may be finally disposed or We do moi
exaggerate in writing that want of the money
due 70 honest business men, and provided for
IN the bill in question, is producing great dis
tress IN this community, having already shaken
the credit Of more or less perfectly solvent
persons in business They had legitimate
right to expect to have received their dues
from the Government long since, and made
their calculations accordingly. Hence their
embarrassment on finding it impossible to get
their money up to this time We know that
it is not the disposition Of any member of
either House of Congress to cause serious loss
to the business community of Washington, and
do not believe that there is one of them who
will willingly fail to strain point to relieve
them, so far as prompt action on the bill at
this time may serve to repair the injury they
have already received
Yesterday the committee oft he whole i'stuck
on the water works amendment Of the Sc
nate. We are satisfied that all this hesita-
ton with reference to this SO necessary amend
parties who have schemes for their own az
grandizement in allegiance, in connection with
the particular improvement Indeed, there
never has yet been a Government work IN
dertaken at this point which was not sought to
be embarrassed by the same class of persons
| We have many adventurers and general
spectators in Government jobs around Wash
ington, who make it rule to essay to fasten
themselves on to every thing in their respec-
tive lines to be done by or for the Government
In many cases they are mere dreamers, being
really without the experience, character and
capital necessary to make it possible for pru-
| dent business men to have any thing to do
with them. Yet they are always famous talk
| ers. spending their lives, for the most part,
| in whispering in the ears of members of Con
grese cock and bull stories magnifying the
probable cost Of public works as planned by
the responsible officers of the Government,
and, always proposing schemes or plans of their
own ''tosave half the money" &c. Heretofore
it has always happened that they have found
some members who so lack experience in such
Il
ming of such works, as to be caught in their
mesches. We trust that in the case of these
water works, they will not prove sufficiently
strong to injure all their feIlow-citizens in
their sinister efforts to carve out jobs for them
selves, which is the sum and substance of their
labors. Common sense it strikes us should
counsel all who are to vote upon this question,
that the plans and estimates of the response.
BILE officers of the Government should be
looked to, rather than the carping of such in
dividuals, who have already made themselves
notorious by their previous sinister efforts
They and their agents who are to have per
centage upon what they get from the Govern
ment if they succeed in influencing Congress,
have been particularly active for day or two
past
Father Bentcn.-It will be found that
Father Benton's cock and bull story, all abou,
the connection between the Gadsden treaty
and the Cuba annexation scheme borrowed
secondhand from Horace, Of the T'ri5u1se) will
have about as much effect on the action Of
Congress, as his declarations telegraphsd to
papers about finishing his Nebraska speech in
the rotundo, how he was going to grind the
friends Of the bill to powder-his personal
filings at Senator Douglas, &c.-had upon the
fate Of the Nebraska BILL The abolition press
are re- publishing the story first alluded to, in
all directions, magnifying its monstrous pro-
portions even more than Father B. ventured to
do. in the Hall. though all the world know BY
this time that whom he stops Glowing up O
thing OF the Sort he who can fairly expand i,
further must be fashioned after the frog thai
tried to vie with the OK in size, once ON a time
The outside world lamentably mistake Father
b. . true position here. Among the members
he passes merely for disappointed man, VIII,
spends nearly all his time in inventing mare
nest to get revenge for his grudges against tn
Democratic party. The charac ter of his presen
political labors, is, therefore, such as to rende
it impossible that be should possess 1.-THE O
the influence in the Hall, which would other
wise be due to his great experience and un
doubted talents and attainments A NOR,
melancholy wreck Of position never was see,
in the history Of the public men of America
than his.
Something to be- Noted.-In the course 0
the debate in the House, yesterday, on tn
water works question, Mr.. Stanton, of Ky.
took ground against the Senate amendment
on a plea of the extravaganza of the plu,
adopted. We have heard nearly every speecl
which Mr.. :. has delivered since his entranc,
into Congress, and to the best of our recollec
tion We never before knew him, in any in
stance, to be unfavorably affected towards an,
measure for any such reason We fancy tina
I the experience Of all the old members will
-. bear Us out in the declaration that an extra
ordinary change must, indeed, be coming owe
the spirit Of the dreams Of that honorabI,
gentleman.
The Star on Nebraska. the frs
moment that calculations began to be mad,
as to the strength Of the bill before th,
House, We have steadily maintained that
would pass that body All the other news
papers, commenting on its prospects. de
ceived by momentary signs, have made an,
published calculations widely differing from
ours, relying on statements Of facts widel,
different from those We Published as correc
from day to day. We presume that no ma,
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