New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-06

.-,J clsns ard from such places As the Prs'idsn'
..-.,r ,,o-,ra Ard NOW It appears tl4t t9e Com
,,.,.,. IN ,h, District of Colombia have reported
,,ir- re.9'rt q f3r a isrt!-r appropriation but Tor
what amount we ar DO informed
Y. Should he clad to know = Oh wls' principle 'D'
r-le of tie RLoic cOuntry are &, be tiNei to supply
ne .rh,i.-snts Of Washington suf Georgetown with
ss,e-. Th,,e may DC some occult reason for sach d
measure bat as ar IS common sense ean Judge there
ycul6 be lust as mach proPrety in making On apPFcpF-
,ion from the National Treasury to furnish them win
broad l. IL tue that for few yearspast tae municipal
evreDses Ct tie City OF Washington have been almost
entirely borne BY the National Government Congress
has graded paved cleaned and lighted the streets,
bul bridges fenced and Ornsmented public grounds,
and derived almost all the charges which in Other
cities are paid ~ tax upon tie citizens. And it is
BOW proposed upon this precedent TO construct water
works at an immense cost, to afford supply Of
wster sufficient for hall the cities IN lie United States
Il il true that no very loud complaints have heretofore
been made on account OF these expenditures but it is
because they have been trifiug IN amount, compared
with The lob now contemplated aud because public az
ten,.on has never been called to the subject Bat the
magnitude OF the outlay contemplated by this project
is such that il cannot be submitted 10 10 silence AMI
calls for scrutiny touching the grOunis upon which IL
is proposed OF course the scheme will be somewhat
disguised for the present. The method will be to keep
the annual expenditure comparatively small at first
and gradually to increase it until two three
uio1s are spent Then further appropriations will
BE- boldly claimed upon the principle of Macbeth that
to 20 back were as tedious go Ter, and that what
has been expended will be lost rless the work is com
petet The advocates of appropriations for the work
five years hence will not hesitate 10 condemn its
monccuent tut viii insist that the policy ofbeginning
It TO orger an open question, and that SO so much
has been already invested in the enterprise it ought 70
be finished.
II may seem marvellous to those not initiated in the
mysterious Influences which preTail az Washington,
how members Of Congress be induced 20 vote for
appropriations 40 extraordinary But is certain that
unless the press and the people speak ont upon the
subject. snd give members Of Congress distinctly to
uaderltand that such course viii bring down upon
then the Indignation Of their rlurlered Constituents
hi thing viii be done Il should be stopped now. be-
fore shy more money is q rown awoy u2onit. Every
dosr that Sc ie7oe,l 90 re work arr every yea- that
passes VIII e7e IL .5l.tior-i strength.
No constitutional .r;. ..,y en- Bee Glni iJr aPpco
rr,are IL orcy .og lar "a 80 tic Pacific o. to make
stsantoat ems, around the Falis OF the OHIO. But
tleIe is 20 Wit 0; power TO go into the SAFE OF
MARYLAND and turn lie waters Of the Potomac into tho
District Of COLUMBIA b a artificial channel for purely
private purposes az the expense OF ten or twenty
millions of dollars