The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-10
The Presidents Message on the Sun.
dry Civil Appropriation Bill.
WARRINGTON, July


The following is the message which was
sent to the House by the President to-day
giving his objections 10 the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill:
70 the House 9f Representotires: The act
penses Of the Government for the fiscal year end.
ing June 30, 1877 is so detective in what it omts
to provide for, that cannot announce its ap.
proyal without at the same time pointing out what
seems to be to me its defects. 1t makes
but inadequate provision for the service
at best, and in some instances fails to
the first class is the reduction in the
ordinary annual appropriation for the Revenue
Cutter Service to the pref adice of the Customs
Service, as also the failure to provide for tie in.
creased expenses devolved upon the mints and
assay offices by re- ent legislation and for the vo-
,s ton Preservation and completion Of public
alton The sum of 100000 only is appropriated
for repairs Of different navy-ya,ds and stations,
and the preservation Of the same. the ordinary and
customary appropriations for which are not less
than 81 900 o. A similar reduction is made In
expenses for armories and arsenals The provision
for ordinary judicial expenses is much less than
the estimated amount for that important service
by the actual expenditures Of the last fiscal yeal
and certain demands of the current year.
The provision for the surveys of public lands IL
that service and what are understood to be its
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
Of the Court Of Claims. The failures to
make a reasonable contribution to the ex
penses of the Nations Capital is an ap
parent derelcton on the part of the United States
inluSfiCa naOD1p
bear the burdens; while to refuse or neglect to
provide for the payment OF the solemn judgments
OF different character, but rs prejudirial to
the Treasury, is the omission to make provision tc
enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the
rebel archives and records of captured and absn
doned property examined, and information fur
nished herefrom for the use of the Government
Finally, without further specification in detail
1t may be said that the act which in its title pur
ports to make provision for a diverse and greatly
extended civil service, unhapplly appropriates M
amount not more than sixty five per cent. of it,
ordinary demands.
fines the service, and d wolves upon the Executive
Depart the obligation of submitting annua ly
the needfu estimates of the expenses of such >erv
ice. Congress properly exacts implicit OBJ dience te
the requirements OF the law in the administration
OF the public service, and rigid accountability in
the expenditure thereof. 1t Is submitted that o
corresponding responsibility and obligation rests
possible such administration. Anything short Of
an ample provision for specified service is neces
sarily fraught with disaster to public interests and
fs possible injustice to those charged with it,
execution. To appro. riate and to execute are cor
responding obligations and duties, and the sde
quacy Of the former is necessary measure for the
efficiency. of execution.
In this eighth month of the present session Vi
Cong ess. nearly one month of the fiscal year to
which this appropriation applies having passed, !
do not feel warranted in vetoing An absolutely
necessary appropriation bill, but in signing it
deem it a duty to show where the responsibility
belongs for whatever embarrassment may arise
In the execution of the trusts conhded to me.
u, s. GRANT.