The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-01
Presidential Message.
WASHINGTON, July 81,

| WASHINGTON, July OIL.
The following is the message sent to the
house by the president to-day giving his
objections to the sundry civil appropfia-
ton bill
TO the House of epresentatives-The
act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses Of the government for the fiscal
year ending June Both, 1877, is 80 defective
in what it omits to provide for, that can
not announce its approval without a. the
same time pointing out what seem to me
IFS defects. 1t makes but inadequate pro
vision for ths service at best, aud in some
instances fails 20 make any prOvis ion
whatever. Notably among the first class
is the reduction in the orduary annual ap-
preparations for revenue cutter service to
the prejudice of the customs revenue. The
same may be said of the signal service, rs
also the failure to provide for the increased
expenses deyoved upon the minis by the
recent legislation and thus tending to defeat
objects of that legislation. OF this class
also are public buildings, for the ptotec-
ton, preservation and completion of which
there is no adequate appropriation, while
the sum of 500, 900 only is appropriated
for the repairs of the different navy yards
and stations and the preservation of the
same, the ordinary and customary appro-
priation for which are not less than one
million of dollars. A similar reduction is
made in the expenses for armories and
arsenals. The provision for ordinary judi
| cial expenses is much less than the estimat-
ed amount for that important service, the
actual expenditures of the last tlscal year
and the certain demands of The current
year. The provision for the expenses OF
surveys OF public lands is less than one-haf
| OF the usual appropriation for that service,
and what are understood to be its actual
demands. The reduction IN expenditures
for lighthouses, beacons and fog stations
10 also made in similar proporti /.
or the class for which no appropriation
| is made, among the most notable, perhaps,
ia that portion of the general expenses Of
| the District of Columbia in behalf OF the
United States as appropriated in former
years and the judgments of the court of
claims. The failure to make reasonable
contribution TO the expenses Of the nation s
capital is an apparent dere!iction on the
part of the United States, and rank injus-
tice to the people here who bear the bur-
dens while TO refuse or neglect TO provide
for the payment Of the solemn Judgments
of its own courts is apparently to make a
Reputation of o different character. But
40 prejudical to the treasury IS tho omis-
sion to make provision to erG able tho eecre-
tary of the treasury to Lave iehol archives
and records Of captured aad abandoned
property examined and Information iur-
nished tberefrom for the Use Of the govern
ment.
Finally, without further specification Of
detail it may be aaid that an act winch in
it's title purports to make provision for 4
| diverse and greatly extended civil service,
unhappily appropriales an amount MT
more than Go per cent. OF its ordinary &C.
demands. Tue legislative department es-
devolves upon the executive de-
partment the obligations of sub
hitting annually ncedful estimates
of the expense of such service. Congress
properly eXacts implicit obedience TO the
requirements of law in the administrator
of the public service and rigid accounta-
| bility in the expenditure thereof. II is
submitted that corresponding response
| bili'y and obligation rests upon ii 10 make
adequate appropriations to render possible
such administration ard make Ioler-
able such exaction. Apy,nn[ short
| of ample provision for tie s.ot itltd service
| ia necessarily fraughr With dis.s'cr 10 the
public interests And Is possible - justice TO
those charged with its execution. To az
propriate and to execute are spending
obligations and duties. aud the adequacy
of the former ia II necessary measure OF
the efficiency the execution. In
this eighth month of the pres
ent session of congress-, nearly
one month of the fiscal year to which this
appropriation applies having passed, l do
not feel warranted in vetoing an absolutely
necessary appropriation bill, but in signing
it deem it duty to show where the res
possibility belongs for whatever embarrass-
ments may arise in the execution of the
trust contided to me.
Signed, L. S. GRANT.