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the Senate blocks the wheels to coerce
the popular branch into extravagance.

at Is In vain TO look to executive officers for
reform. Their power and influence depend unon
| executive patronage, and while IRE grant. they
o osf e nor Sv i s a N sJ for He
| task. The House alone has constitutional pOiCer
to perfect . radical reform. The Constitution
| provides that no money shall be drawn from the
| Treasury but In consequence OF appropriations
made by law. and tnat all pills for raising reve-
| nue. shnll originate In the House ~ Representa-
tlves. These provisions tCcre designed To Unrest IN
this House The entire control over The public purse
the pOccr " supply"
Every syllable OF these declarations is
true and apt in regard to the existing
situation. But the man who made them
is now in the Senate and turns his back
upon the professions of the past. lie eats
his own words, tramples great principle
under foot, and audaciously assumes that
the Senate, which "by the theory Of our
system is not fitted for the task" shall die
tate appropriations to the House and
regulate the public expenditures
III ever there was time when tle doc
trine announced by Mr.. SHERMAN should
be observed to the last letter, il is here and
uow. when the whole country is PROSTATE
n suffering and every material interest
and 4, 'dustry is struck down as with a
fatal bl,gb|. In the midst OF tbs gem
oral distress. 'he House OF Representa-
t,ves has proposed an economical policy
Of relief by stopping tne leaks III tho
Treasury, by cutting of the spoilS OF
Rings, by abolshing sinecures, by reducing
salaries of the overgrown civil service
above 81 200 ten per cent, and by diminish
ing the pay rolls Of the departments
twenty per cent.
lions OF expenditure, and to that extent
would afford corresponding relief to bur-
dened labor and the toiling masses who
have TO foot the bills. The reductions
are far more moderate than were ex-
pected. They might have been extend
ed TO sixty millions, without in the least
degree pinching or deranging the pub
lie service. And but for the deter
mined hostility of the President and the
Senate to any measure of reform, which
would curtail their patronage or diminish
the partisan supplies, the House would
have gone that far from the start. 1t was
n mistake to have made any concession
whatever to this selfish aud unworthy OPP
position.
When. as a rule. every household is com
PEELED to retrench its outlay; when private
salaries have had to submit to severe scaling,
and when economy is no longer a dscre-
ton but n stern necessity, the Republicans
in Congress, and especially in the Senate,
demand that the wasteful expenditures.
bred of vicious and venal legislation shall
be maintained on the footing that existed
previous to the financial CONFUSION; that
the officeholders shall be treated rs u pre-
ferred class that barefaced plunder shall
60 OH without restraint, aud that reform
of abuses shall be secuted as a violation of
existing laws"
Stripped of cunning DISCUSSES and false
coloring, this is the ground occupied by
the Republican party to-day. The issue
that divides 1t from the House is broad
and clear, and no artful shams or specious
pretexts will serve TO obscure it, The peo-
| pie fully understand the question in all its
bearings, as one which comes home TO ev-
cry Preside, and means that they will be
relieved OF forty millions of dollars in
taxation If the II ouse prevails, or be bur-
dened with forty millions II the President
and Senate can stop the intended retreDch-
ment.