Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-03
SournaI an0 Courier.
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building
 JOHN B. oARRISGToN, HOWARD T. oAaRINGToE. JOHN B. C4RRIEGroF, UP.
Wednesday Morning, May 3. 1882.
HOW THE MONEY GOES.

| HOW THE MONEY GOES.
 There is a ''pile" of money in the treasury of the United States, but the pile bids fair to be much reduced in size by the time Con gress gets through ''appropriating. The account given of the proceedings in the House Monday afternoon when a raid was made on the treasury by means of bills ap- propriating money to pay for public build ings is interesting reading. During the 1 ''grab game" about $1,5O0,OO in all was se- cured by the lucky ones.
 The first bill taken up was one for the erection of public building in Detroit, the cost not to exceed $GOO, ,OOO Nobody pro- tested but Mir Holman, and he did not ob- | ject to the bill but to the manner of passing it. He ventured to say that in each case there should be a recommendation from the Treasury and other departments. As soon as he got through speaking the bill was ! passed with only fourteen negative votes. Mr. | Atkins then had bill passed appropriating $50, ,00O for a building in Jackson, Tennessee. Mir. Holman wanted some information about the matter, but nobody had any for him. A bill for building in Denver, the cost not to exceed $500, ,OOO, was then disposed Of The troublesome Mir. Holman asked for the con- mittee's report, but was sarcastically assured by fellow member that it would not be worth hile to call for anything of that kind AS soon this little $500, 900 episode was over twenty members arose and each held in his outstretched hand a bill for public building in his district. Mir. Scales of North Carolina drew prize first, securing an ap- propriation of fifty thousand dollars for a building in the town of Greensboro. An Iowa man came next with an appropriation of $l0O,OOO for Q building in Council Bluffs A member who did not happen to have bill which he wanted passed here moved to ad- journ, but he found only six supporters. Mir. Tucker of Virginia got $1OO,- GOO appropriated for building in Lynchburg, and there was another unsuc- cessful attempt to adjourn made. Then Pe- oria was heard from in the shape of bill providing for the erection of building there for the use of the United States courts. Mir. Robinson directed the attention of the House to an assertion made by Mr. Springer, to the effect that United States courts were held in Illinois in only two p1aces-Chicago and  Springfield and were not needed elsewhere. We oghut to know what we are doing, said he. ''We do," cried several members. But don't think you do,'' cried Mir. Robinson. ''I don't say that there is not good reason for erecting this building, but the bill seems to be going through on false pretenses, for there are no United States courts there.' Several members then informed NIr. Robin son that enormous quantities of whiskey were made in Peoria, and an enormous amount of revenue collected there. MT. Cox denounced the method by which these bills were passed. Mir. Holman tried to get an adjournment, but Peoria's friends were faith ful and the bill passed. Mir. Jones of Texas was then accommodated with an appropria- tion for building in Galveston, after which further grabbing was postponed until yester- day morning.
 That's the way the money goes." There are about hundred more bills providing for appropriations for public buildings, and though all of them may not be passed too many of them will be. The who gets government money spent in his ''deestrick'' thereby adds to his solidity with his consti- tuents, and the members are very willing to oblige each other when they can.