The Russellville Democrat., 1876-05-25

- KEfREsFnMENT.
 One of the most important measures for retrenchmcnt and practical reform in the admiYlis- tration of the Government yet proposed is embraced in the re- port of Hon. E. A. Willis of Nc W York, Chairman of the Sub Com mittee on Navy Yards. He pro- poses to secure very great re- duetion in the expenses or the Navy; and provides for the clos ing of all the navy yarda except those at Brooklyn, Norfolk aud Mare Island. This recommenda- tion is based upon the theory that the only use which the Gov ernmont now has for navy yards is for the repair of it's vessels and machinery. Eventually, MT. Will lis proposes to close the Norfolk yard also, and to have all work, in time of peace, performed at Brooklyn and Mare Island. An other recommendation is that no further appropriations be made for League Island Navy Yard. Mir, Willis estimates that the cost to complete this yard and put it in good working condition will be $60, GOO, and he thinks that it will be better for the Gov ernmcnt to lose the money already expended upon it than to pay out so large sum as this. At least he would postpone the eXpendi ture until a more emphatic ap- proval of the project is obtained. These recommendations are made solely in interest of economy, and and will, together with the other measures Mr. Willis proposes, effect saving to the government of many millions of dollars.
 Mir. Willis is one of the most active and efficient members of the House, and while his present proposal will meet with local op- position, he cannot help receiving credit for the energy and patient research he has brought to bear Tn the preparation of his report. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
 SPINDLE.
 The House Printing Commit tee, after a thorough examination of this concern, have made a re- port to the House, which, in brief, recommends the removal, Impeachment and criminal pros ecution of Mr. Ciapp, for incom- potency and malfeasancc in office. Mir, Ballou, of Rhode Island, ap- peared as attorney for Clapp, and argued his case before the House in manner more remarkable for zeal than good taste. It is some thing strange to see Republican Congressmen on the floor of the House, defending. like paid attor- neys, officials who have been proved de(aulters and thieves {; but in this case, it is somewhat more so, seeing that in the eX- animation of both Clapp and his son, they acknowledge to system of carlessness and extravaganza unsurpassed in the history of this corrupt Administration. It is not surprising, however, that the Republican party should be 10th to part with so effective a political machine as the Govern ment Printing Office; for now that resources are cut off from the direction of the Whishey Ring, which "blcd" so literally four years ago, the question oc- CUTS as to where the party car get campaign funds, if the Gov ernment Printing Office is also shut up.
 
 Drop by 'irop, the springs run dry.'
 THE CHINESE PROBLEM.
 The immigration of Chinese into California and the prospect of their overrunning, in untold thousands, the whole pacific slope is beginning to be looked upon as serious evil. What promis- ed, at first, to be a hlesslng, is fast becoming a curse. In the Senate, a bill is being pressed, whose object is to stop the Chi nesc trade. The fact is, the effect of transporting an inferior race to America, has been sufficiently tried in the ease of the negro, whose presence among us has cost the country it's best blood, and is now the real bar preventing North and South from coming to. gether. We should, therefore, have taken warning from the South, and avoided the Monooli- an as pestileace, from the first. This Chinese question may lose us the Pacific slope, if not promptly attended to by the Fed eral Government.