New-York tribune., 1878-04-27

80 G72 600 y "Tho Pacific Mails several mes
goo 27O OOO:p ITO provide for the payment OF
claims for Indian depredations Including these IN
Texas as well as in the North, Sl,OOO,OO0; 10
improve the channel of the Mississippi RIVER tlhe
most of which, if the expenditure should De lnaue'
would be used south OF Mason and DlXons Lane,
50 O2O.O0Or Beside these MIR. Money has ihciHue"
the cost of the lighthouse system of the Eastern
coast by which Southern lines of vessels are bene-
flied as well as those of the North the usual river
and harbor improvements expenses of the unltea
States Courts all sums asked for for the cohs'i"'
tlon of public buildings, etc, etc.
After having insulted the intelligence of tie
House by the introduction of q table OF this chal-
actcr, Mr.. Money goes on to say
This sum Is so stupendous that it bewders the com,
prehonson The mind cannot entertain at one tIG h te @
idea of even thousand different objects But Wheh We
reach hundred OF thousands, millions, hundreds oL 'I
lions billions the impression IL ed ot r and hoscs
would this relievcl How many accounts IL wouiu ,
misery. Gcntlencn look at this! How contemptby
insignificant appears the sum asked for ny the sont
reckless ncxacncss of TIE NEwYoRK TRIBrNE Win us
Implications Of bills brings the aggregate ahlont ha
for by the south 10 only 1jO0OOOO0. Millions! ndecdli
really appears ridiculous 10 speak Of millions; ana
ashamed of the wrctched poverty OF ine So,,' , %
idea OF appropriations when view we W H.
titanic schemes of our large naiured heghD"s o. n
ragged regiment 10 the purple ana goa sHtleI,iinb
myriads OF the Persian mOnarch-a mere sklrnlsh hh
to the grand army They speak or the southern m"N
What have they to say Of the Northern NAV Inc one
Is 10 bc other s the nv eddy IN the brook 10 the Nac
strom of the NOrway coast. This Northern NAV om
orous ard Unsuitable. The millions OF acres OF pupie
land the millions o. public money have not appeascd'
but only whettcd It's appetite
Just before Congress adjourned to-day, Mr.. fhii-
lips of Kansas, called the attention OF the House 10
Mr. Moneys speech. lie said that he was aware
that Democrats could do remarkable things III
Mississippi especially in the way of arithmetic at
election times but he scarcely thought they were
equal to this. The Democrats were not anxious TO
hear Mr. Phillipss explanation, and did everything
in their power to prevent him from speaking; but lac
persisted and finally showed how insubstantIal
basis there was for the analysis of bills presented 10y
Northern men, by showing the real character of the
bill introduced by himself, which has been explained
above He said that il was for survey of the Mis-
sissippI River, and how Mr. Money could make ont
of this $4,000 appropriation one OF Tl3ooooo'oco
was something he could not understand. Nor WAS
he able to comprehend how il happened to be
classed in a list of Northern claims when it was for
the improvement of the Mississippi River south OF
St. Louis and when nearly every dollar otlt was TO
be expended in the Southern States.
When Mr. Phillips reached this point the Demo
Gratis began To get very excited aud insisted that ne
was not speaking to n question of privilege. MI
Finley of Ohio, thought il an outrage for gentle
man to rise to a question Of privilege and then take
advantage of the opportunity To make c0npdii-
son between figures published in a Democratic
speech and the facts IN the case. Mr. IhllpS dlt
not let the Democrats oil unill he had fcEIH"Vu
those who were tauutuC him, that they ought not
to forget that the North had cX""nded S1,oOoouo'-
600 10 suppress the late rebellion, and that most
of the money was expended in the southern States