The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
The Message on the Sundry Civil
Appropriation Bill.

NAsHiNGT0N, July 81.
The following is the message which was
sent to the House by the President to-day
giving his objections to the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill:
Tn He House Of Representatives: The act
making appropriations for the sundry civil cx-
pen%rS OF the Government for the fiscal wear end
ing June 30. lSI7 is 50 defective in what il Omits
TO provide for. that | cannot announce its ap-
proyal without at the same time pointing out what
seems 10 be to me its defects 1t makes
b"t inadequate provision for the service
at best. and in some instances fails to
make any provision whatever. Notably among
the first class is the reduction in the
ordinary annual appropriation for the Revenue
Cutter Service to the prejudice of the CustOms
Revenue. The same may be said of the Signal
Service, also the failure to provide for the in
cre"scd expenses devolved upon the minis and
assay offices by recent legislation and for the ro
ie' non. preservation. and con2leton of public
buildings Tor which there is no adequate apprODri
alton. The sum of 800 600 only is appropriated
Tor repairs of different nayy-yards and stationa,
and the preservation Of the same the ordinary and
customary appropriations for which are not less
than $1,000 u. similar reduction is made in
expenses for nrmories aud arsenals. The provision
the estimated amount Tor that important service
by the actual expenditures Of the last fiscal year
and certain demands of The current year.
The provision for the surveys Of public lands is
less than one-half of the usual appropriation for
TINT service and what are understood To be its ac
tual demands.
The reduction in the expenditures for light
houses, beacons and fog stations is also made in
similar proportion
OF the class for which no appropriation is made
among the most noticeable, perhaps, is that por-
ton Of the general expenses of the District OF
Columbia in behalf of the United States as
Appropriated in former years, and judgments
of the Court of Claims. The ures TO
make a reasonable contribution TO the ex-
p5nsts of the Nations Capital j. an ap
parent dereliction the part of The United States
and rank injustice to the people here, who
bear the burdens; while to refuse or neglect TO
provide for the payment of the solemn Judgments
of it, own courts is apparently to repudiate
OF different character, but as preIudiUlal TO
the Treasury. is the omission to make provision to
enable the Secretary OF the Treasury to have the
rebel archives and records OF captured ana aban-
doned property examined and information iur-
nshcd hcrefrom for the use Of the Government
Finally, without further specification IN detail,
II may be said that the act which in its titrr pur
ports TO make provision for diverse and greatly
extended civil service unhappily appropriates IN
amount not more than sixty five per cent. OF Its
ordinary demands.
The Legislative Department establishes and de-
fines the service and devolres upon the Executive
Departments the obligation of submitting annua ly
the needfu estimates of the expenses of such serv
ice Congress properly eXsCts implicit OBJ dleHct to
the requirements of the law in the administration
of the public service, and rigid accountability in
the expenditure thereof. 1t is submitted that
corresponding responsibility and obligation rests
upon it to make adequate appropriations to render
possible such administration Anything snort OF
al ample provision iSO iS iiSN'"
sarily fraught with disaster to public interests, and
is a possible injustice to those charged with Its
execution. TO appropriate and to execute are cor
responding obligations and duties, and the ade-
utlacy Of the former is necessary measure Tor the
efficiency Of execution.
In this eighth month Of the present session OF
Cong ess nearly one month OF the fiscal year to
which this appropriation applies having passed,
do not feel warranted ia vetoing an absolutely
necessary appropriation bill, but in signing i
deem it u duty to show where the responsibility
haI for yxh pmDalrlssmBnfs
in the execution OF the trusts conhded to me.
U. S. GRANT.