Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-15
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Appropriation Bill.-We have salts
fed ourself that there is great danger of the
entire failure of the civil, judicial and lsgis-
lstive appropriation bill, through the apparent
determination of the Republicans of the House
to resort to its defeat as a means of carrying
out the game Of keeping up the excitement
throughout the North with reference to Kan
sas. Ii turns out that there is nothing in the
bill which goes directly to the members them.
selves in payment for their attendance at the
present session. So none of them disposed TO
trife with their trust-the public interest
after this fashion, will be at all incommoded,
personally, by so doing But for this fact, the
distant public may rest assured, City votes
could not be mustered in tho House hall in
favor Of m aking this SO important measure a
stalking horse for Republican party election.
eering.
Their purpose in this connection is revolu-
tionary-openly, palpably and Enthusiastically
revolutionary. 1t means that at the hazard
OF stopping the wheels of the Government
and thus starving hundreds of thousands Of
persons directly and indirectly depending on
Government (civiD employment throughout
the country, they are determined to seek to
force on the other branch of Congress and the
Executive their Kansas affairs policy. Or
rather, to seem to be bent on SO doing at such
cost to the public interest They aim to keep
alive and Increase the Kansas excitement; and
know we'll that by thus starving those receiv-
Ing wages for labsr Of any and all descrip.
tiOns performed, and civil supplies Of any and
all descriptions furnished to the Government,
that object may be accomplished
Such policy is in strict keeping with their
votes upon the Topeka-make constitution, and
the claim Of Reeder to the Delegates seat in
Congress from Kansas, ard exhibits in its tn.
eolors the dangerous tendency Of the reckless
meas Of the Req ublicanism" Of the hour.
The Mission to Franee.-Ws apprehend
that the rumor in the New York Herald of
yesterday, saying that Secretary Dobbin is
about to take the place Of the Hon John Y
Mason, as U. s. Minister to France, is un.
founded. We have no reason to believe that
MI Mason has intimated a wish to be re-
called, nor have We the slightest idea that Mr.
Dobbin, or any other member of the Cabinet
OF President Pierce, designs retiring from the
Government here until the new Administrs-
ton comes in, on the 4th of March next. The
rumor probably originated in the fact that
the health of Mr.. Dobbin is still delicate. and
that some Of his friends think it would be bet
ter If he should 60 abroad
The Great Measure Of True Economy
We trust that ere the close Of the session its
great measure of public economy will become
law. We allude to the Senate's bill firing
the annual pay Of the members of Congress
~ aoo per annum, their mileage to remain
present We regard it as the measure
Oh economy Of the session, because its enact.
NEXT viii stop leaks in the treasury out Of
which millions annually fow At present tn.
members are gIievOusly underpaid, their psr
diem being barely sufficient to cover their ne
cessary individual expenses in this city, leav.
Ing such Of them as have families at home In
provide for, without means from their paw 10
aeVote TO that object unless they pinch and
nraiten themselves in a manner calculated ~.
iioasiy TO interfere with the proper discharge
VI 'neir chcial duties. The annual book res
o.O''on Is simply round about way of IN akiuy
-" new members portion of the rr;svous
u'''iehcy IN their present compensation. This
year the distribution of books among tho nan
Ders costs the treasury SIS, 500
nearly every bill to appropriate mo,sv 81
Questionable prOpriety, that triumnb. q"
Its success to the fact that Congress i, md,
paid. There are always some needy man u
such bodies whose poverty alone ind uces them
70 come under obligations to others-of graft.
Jude and friendship only, if tho reader pIeases
which are repaid by support of bills to carry
out schemes in which those from whom thew
nave received favors are interested. In a
''0'e contest few votes tell, usually on the
wrong eide. Nearly every successful act of
'peeiai legislation that never should have been
passed owes its triumph to such influence
me public will thu, perceive how unfortun.ts
for the common interest i, is. tba, -.
bsrs are under-psid
dread Of the influence OF dsu.,
has alone prevented them from r.,,eIe.