The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-15

had refused to appropriate a single dollar
for judgments Of the Court oil Claims
being direct and
SQUARE REPUTATION
Of the claims Of the Government for the
mere partisan purpose Of reducing ex'
peuses. He submitted a table showing
what 1t was should be deducted from
Springers table Of reduction: Error in
addition of Springer's table $54S,940; re-
duction claimed on Pension bill, $780,
500: items in Postoffice bill for which no
credit for. reduction should be made
$3.50, 900; Deficiency bill belonging to last
year, S4,032,2l2; reappropriations, ST.
900, 900; indefinite appropriations lor
assay Offices, $500,000; judgments Of the
Committee Of Claims, 81, 900, 900; Centen'
nial appropriation Sl,500,000; appropri
alton Tor New York poStolhce, S227, 900
forts in the Northeast, 5000, 900; repaying
Pennsylvania avenue, $500, 900; Washing
ton monument, 100000; total, 4,7l9,'
GS2. .He admitted that when these
reductions were made, the net amount o.
the reductions thus made was $24, ,46G.'
$50. He assented that Of the reduction
in Military Academy $4,000 were due
TO the reduced pay OF cadets and probes
sors, and S9S,0O0 TO postponement; that
OF the reduction in the Consular and
Diplomatic Bill $4,000 was accom-
plished by a violation Of trust and injury
10 commerce: that by postponement
S535, 900 for forfeiture had been made
that in the Legislative Bill over SS,OOO,,
900 were made by poStponement, and
that ..over one.fourth OF the S2,274,'
900 reduction worked injury; that the
reduction OF 81, 1,500,0 900 in the Navy Bill
did great injustice to the Nayyothcers, and
that over $1,000, was a postponement
and that in the army bill over S4, 900, 900
was a postponement. and that In tho sun.
dry civil bill over S1l 100000 was as a
postponement, and the reduction OF ST.
00O, 900 was due, mainly 10 the substitn-
tion Of silver for fractional currency. He
set down the figures Of the actual reduc-
tion as SIC, ,355, ,4S9, and Of the postpone
ment Us S24, ,243, 3,909.' He claimed to have
shown Bayard the question that the re-
ductions were only about SIC, 900, 900 in.
stead OF S39, 100000, and that the balance
was simply n postponemento OF the expend.
itures, that they would have to be provided
in the future, and that OF $4,000, 900 re-
duction a considerable portion was OBJ
tanned
ny CgIPLrNa THE GOVERNMENT MACHI-
merry.
Never in History had current facts been
distorted as they had been in this matter
by the Democracy. There was no evi.
dence OF reform on the part OF the Dem
ocratic party. So far as practical legis-
lation was concerned the House had been
an absolute failure. In conclusion he
recapitulated the services Of the Repub'
lican party, and said that the people who
saved the republic were ever watchful
and alert and would. not trust with power
those who sought to trail the old flag in
the dust and substitute in its place the
Stars and Bars.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President in regard TO
the River and Harbor bill, stating that
II it had been compulsory to expend the
money therein appropriated he would
have vetoed it, but as it was not he would
take care that. no public money should
be expended on useless works or upon
any that were not clearly national.
The message created quite sensation.
Mr.. Reagan Immediately rose and NOV
ed its reference 10 the Committee Of Com.
merce, OF which he is amember, and from
which the bill had been originally report.
ell. He criticised the President for'as.
suming that his personal judgment and
discretion were to determine how far the
in. bill were TO be ap.
Piled 10 objects defined and characterized,
that Us an act Of personal government the
message was document Of so remarkable
a Character that ho (Rcagan) regarded It
as so great departure from the ConSti-
tuiion, 80 singular an avowal in advance
Of the Presidents determination not to
obey the law that he thought the peoples
should not permit such a
message to come before them without
some expression Of dissent. 20
Mr.. Hereford, Chairman. OF the Com.
mittec on Commerce, condemned the
message very severely, declaring it en-.
tirely in keeping with the President's
idea, expressed just after the Franco
German war, that there'was great sim
ilarity between the American Republic
and the German Empire. The President
had announced in plain language that he
intended to set at naught and nullify the
will OF the American Congress. What
right had that great Cesar 10 decide
what were or were not national works.
He favored the proposed reference Of the
message.
Mr.. Conger defended the message as
merely suggesting that in q bill hastily
passed on the conference report, there
might be some imperiectlon, and the
President simply should in this message
express adesire to Join thegreat army Of
Southern and Northern reformers in
looking over these appropriations and to
expend money only for the welfare OF
the country. He asked, ironically, the
Chairman of the Committee on Gem
merce what appropriations were in the
bill for objects not national, II there were
none such, then he did not know why
that gentleman should censure the mess.
age. He could not believe that these
Southern wanderers who had come back
to their fathers house to stay as asserted
by Hill, Of Ga, and who came back with
reform on their. lips, apd glory
Of retrenchment. rs halo around
their heads would have crowded into
this bill appropriations for works that
were not national in their character
He reminded his Democratic friends oi
the declaration OF their chieftain, Tilden
that the people wanted reform and that
they should find II IN his heart. and said
that there was not one Of his, Tilden, fol-
lowers in the House who had not some
reason to believe that the work OF redemp,
ton had commenced in that immortal
soul. Laughter.1 He asked again still
ironically what item in the appropria,
tian bill was for work that was not needed
and desirable for national prosperity, and
he reminded his Democratic hearers that
the Improvement Of rivers and haFbors
NEVER HAD BEEN
q Democratic policy. On the contrary Pre-
idcnt Polk had vetoed every such bill
and under President Buchanan, not d
dollar had been expended for that pur-
Mr.. Randall denied the intimation OF
the President that the collection Of reye-
nues had been in the least degree crippled