The Newtown bee., 1880-01-21

appreciative people will not send these i amateur law-makers to G less, they | have know recourse but to IT pare bills enbodyfng their cru lite conceptions and send them to ''our number. with request that he present them. II obliging member complies, but has no further interest in the matter This Is wh so many unwise measures are offer ed. It is a sort of ventilation that does no great irarm, while it makes many per sons happy.
 Senator Davis, of West Virginia, chair man of the Senate Committee Oil Appro- priations. has proposition to repeal all permanent annual appropriations. An investigation has deveIopcd tine fact that there are nearly ore hundred permanent annual appropriations which are never supervised by the legislative branch of the Government, and about which it
 knows nothing. Sometimes the amount Of the expenditure under these appropri- ations have exceeled the amount Of ap- propriatiun5 made by Congress ill the re- gular appropriations bills in many i"- staMcr where fees are collected and th@ expense of Iunnin:, the Department of the Government collecting them is paid out of the fees so collected, there is little supervision over the expenditures what ever, by evln the highest branches of Government, and none at all hy Congress. The bill of Senator Davis will provide for
 repealSlg all the permanent appropria- tions except the provision for the inter- est on the public debt, 50 as to make the
 Treasury the grand receptacle for all moneys collected for or on behalf of the Government, and requiring 3 specific ap- prUprlatiom to get it out. Secretary Sher- man joins with Senator Davis in recon- mending this important change.
 The action of the Supreme Court in re- fusing to advance the legal tender case on the calander is something of a disap- pointmeEt, to ConSressmen especially, yet it is not an unreasonable result. While members of Congress are anxious to have decision of the Court that would ! relieve them of responsibility, it is not unnatural that the court should decline to go out of it's way to gra2ple with the troublesome questions involved. The Court has once passed upon tho legal ten- der qualities of the sreenback, and the remaining question as to the duration of Iher necessary eXist.nce will perhaps settle itself if let alone. And now, Con- gross must answer to the people for its course in the premises, without any as si>tence from the Court. Considering the uncomfOrtably mixed condition of the Congressional mind on the subject, this may be misfortune ill which the l business interests of the country will have to share. Speaking of greenbacks, Dennis Kcarney has been this week ill 1 attendance upon the National Greemback- Labor Conference. He says he represents , the people of the Pacific slope, and wants e. convention of national rGformerS, who
 will furni9h :" the people d platform to stand upon and support, and if they fail ! to do this they may continue to starve. ' l He opposed a fusion of any kind with any 1 party, and says the greenbackers, work
 ing men and nationals will never fly as a
 tail to any party's kito.
 By an agreement made prav ou5 to the
 resess, the House has been uevOting it.
 self to a discussion of the revised rules
 of that body submitted by the Commit
 tee OH Rules. The consideration of this
 subject is to continue from day 10 day, to | ,, ,P oil
 til disposed of. None of the work done
 by the com -nittee touches questions in
 volviny political discussions CT tie re-
 latiOne Of maj iority and minority, except
 to give iu a single instance one addition
 al weapon to the minority with which tc defeat measures. This is afforded hy
 making privileged a motion for tht
 House to take a recess, which will tc il
 order at any time except when a moiiol
 to fix Jay to which the House will tG
 journ, or d motion to adjourn, is pending
 The new privileged motion rule is due tl
 Mr. Stephens, and is pretty sure to bt
 adopted. As whole the new rules ar'
 all admirable reyision and simplitcatiOG
 of the intricate and conplicate code noN
 followed. Representative Blackburn ha
 itu amendment, under the operation, 0
 which every member may be compelled
 to vote oil every question when present
 This would stop the breaking of quo rum by the mi.ority by simply sittin: dumb in their seats. MT Black burn ha , been "spOiling" for speech on thi | subject Another Democratic member 0 the committee says that, while he woui' be glad to see such rule i'll force, H. has no expectation that it ever will b. :. adopted. He thinks that neither palt. will be willing to abridse the rights o he minority, which although Republical now, is not unlikely to be Democratic il the next Congress.