Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-11

warded as though his civil career were as suc-
 cessful as his military; and there the matter
 should be allowed to rest.
 | When, however, the people are eagiven the
 choice the machine proposes to leave them
 between an unworthy nonalnation on the one hand and an unfit nomination on the other as one of the people, our answer ia, repudiate I both! In such contest the party that las
 the most honest, moral, independent voters
 will be beaten the worst it's politicians will
 learn necessary lesson, and one they will nev-
 CT forget; ....,..,.-.........,..a-.s.4.s..s4s.-
 There is no uncertain sound" in Gen Haw-
 ley's remarks regarding Gen. Brady's policy of
 exceeding appropriations, and then attempting
 to force additional appropriations by threats of
 disseminating post routes that are an absolute
 public necessity. In his recent speech on the
 Star route appropriation, he says:
 l The officials say that the statutes give them
 the. right to put service on these various routes as shall be deemed best for the public inter
 est entirely according to their discretion
 But ask if there not a permanent statute I
 Certainly there is. But they say they have
 not exceeded their appropriation. That has
 been said by the Department this year simply because it has not yet spent the whole $5,
 900, 600 appropriated for this fiscal year.
 But it has spent so much of it that at the pres
 ent rate it will be all gone on the 10th day of | April. The Department says, however, that
 if it is really to come to that, if Congress is
 not going to give them any more money, it
 will jump in at the last moment and cut down 1 the expenditures 80 much that they will be en-
 abled to keep within the appropriation. Now could an officer taking that course and man. 1 aging to keep within his appropriation by de- stroying his service for the last quarter of 8 1 year escape an impeachment on such plea ? l 1 trow not. .s9a.As s.... , z z--.
 l Now, suppose an officer sees his appropri-
 ation running out and he says; Fl will com pei Congress to give me more money."1 Rec
 ollect that he has all the while said that he I knew he would get more money, and did not
 care anything about what the Appropriations Committee or anybody else said. He says |: Il will compel Congress to give me this mon- | ey," And then he issues a grand sweeping I order, saying that on every single star route in | the United States the service shall be cut down 1 to once week. Could the man escape by that course? trow not.
 say that an order of that description con- l ing in the face of this current necessity and pending the consideration by Congress of the question, is an insult to adeliberative body be- cause the officer knows that he does not mean | to do any such thing; he knows that he will | no do it. But he knows that the danger of it
 will bring thumb-screw to bear, coa every member of Congress. s.a l He has no right to take this course. au not hunting for criminal offense do not | charge corruption or stealing or anything of that sort. am pleading for a reasonable. honorable obedience to the law. It is the sworn duty of the officer to keep within the statute. He has the custody of the apprOpri- ation, and the common sense of the law is that hls fair current rate of expenditure shall be such as will bring him within the appro- priation at the end of the year. P. il Twill cheerfully vote all the money that is needed for mail service in these new portions of the country. I rejoice in their growth. My own part of the country has little interest in the star service. In my district we are all settled compactly and the mail service is p,ostly done by railroads. with only few stage-routes. In my State the receipts from the postal service more than pays it's expen- ses by $115, ,0O0, but nobody there is jealous of appropriations for the mail service ID more sparseiy settled sections of the country. never heard the slightest complaint in this re- spect. There is not and there ought not to be any local or sectional jealousey over this matter. simply speak in the interest of fair, manly, obedient administration of the laws. Now. am willing to give 5000, 900, $7O0, 900, $500, 900, $9OO, ,080, $1, ,OOO, 900 if need be. know we will get along with very much less than that $2. GOO, 600 demanded, and not wrong anybody. Draw the line where you please. You have heard the case you will hear more of it; your servants have not obeyed your orders. Ton must mend the mischief without hurting the people, and then deal with the servants as you please.
 Acting upon this view the House has appro- priated but half the amount asked by Gen. Brady, and there is serious talk of impeach- nlent, besides.
 Debate has begun in the French Senate on the Education bill. Minister Ferry made a powerful speech, Saturday, ID which he prov cd from the educational works of the Jesuits their hostility to the republican institutions of France. He appealed to the friends of pop ular government to protect the youth of the country against the poison thus insidiously infused into their minds in early life. Senator Jules Simon took the opposite view, following apparently the American theory of the free- dom of the citizen to educate hls children how and where he pleased. This argument is one that we are apt to consider unanswerable; and, were the relations of the French republic to the French churches the same as those of the American republic to the American churches, it would be as indlsputable there as here. The factis, however, that the French churches are supported by the State which has therefore, a right of control and supervision which neither state or national government can claim in America. Cable dispatches report a rumor of compromise between the Republican op- ponents and the Republican friends of the measure, by which the effect of the seventh section of the bill is to be restricted to the Jesuits, and then passed. g'si- +' There are increasing indications that Til den's ''still.hunt" is soon to take the shape of bloom. "' The talk of his retirement from the contest for the nomination turns out in- correct, and 1t is apparent everywhere that vigorous effert is to be made to secure his con
 srol of the Cincinnati Convention. Here in Connecticut the ssorgans" are all out for Til- den. Barnum has passed the word that there
 must be no moro hesitation. The New York Sun also declares in his favor, and an organ. ized effort to control delegations and secure conventions is everywhere observable. The attack on Bayard's war record is believed to have been inspired from Grammercy Park. In |
 the meantime the South is decidedly hostile
 The Democrats Of that section believe that if nominated, he will be beaten, and they mean to win the contest of 80, if possible That section will have to furnish three quarters of the Democratic vote, but it will be in decid- ed minority in the Cincinnati Convention. In