Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-08-12

Ou 1UcSuAy VIC Abt viz piCoiuOus
returned the river and harbor bill
to the house of representatives without
his signature. In explaining his reasons
for vetoing the measure he declares that
congress has gone beyond constitutional
limits in granting favors to localities
where the benefits to be attained are OF
= purely local nature. Referring evil
IDENTIFY to the items injected in the meas
ure by which votes were gained be says:
"As the bill becomes more Objectionable
it secures more support" He also notes
the great increase in the sums demand
cd from year to year. In 1870 only
s., $780, 900 was asked in 1875, $6,64S,.
$3.50; in 1880. $s.976, 500; and in 1881,
$Il ,45l 300. The grab just vetoed pro-
vided for the distribution Of &lS,743.875.
In closing the president suggests that
provision for all necessary improve
ments can be made at the next session
Of congress, four months hence.
Washington, Aug. 2.-Nothing is need
Ell to complete the record Of wild cx.
travagance Of the present congress. The
swift, disrespcctful passage Of the river
and harbor bill to-day over the veto
marks fitting elimination in the acts
Of a congress that has authorized the ex-
penditure Of over s70,OOO,OOO in excess
of last years appropriations. For the
river and harbor bill no one party is to
be blamed. The democrats We'd with
the republicans in their eagerness to
cast their votes for their notorious meas
Ire. In the house the bill was passed
over the veto by vote of l22 to 50.
There were eighteen pairs, and through
these pairs the veto was beaten. In the
senate the bill was passed over the veto
within fifteen minutes after the subject
came up. There was not one word Of
discussion. The record here showed q
much larger majority. This was pecul-
iarly appropriate, as the senate thereby
maintains it's reputation as always being
ready to 60 farther in the way Of wild
extravaganza than the house The vote
was Al ayes to Is noes. or the fifteen
negative votes only three were demo
crats-Bayard, Salisbury, and pendle-
ton; Of the pairs. Beck was the only
democrat who announced himself as op-
posed to this great extravaganza. The
two Illinois senators recorded their
votes upon the side Of the veto. Malone
was the only senator who lodged. He
left the senate chamber when the sub.
ject came up, under the pretense Of
going out for lunch. He then went
up town. The bill is now q law. Still,
the president has full authority to re-
strict the expenditures under this bill !;
and in the face Of the snub he received
to-day it is not probable that he will be
any too much inclined to assist with the
paving Of the small creeks named in the
Dill. the last important bill before this
passed over veto was the silver bill
vetoed by Hayes. Some Of the peliti-
clans here who sympathize with the veto
think that one portion of the message
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the position of the veto before congress.
This criticism refers to the part Of the
message where the president suggests
the sum to be appropriated and that the
expenditure of the same be left to his
personal judgment. Said one critic:
"Had the president vetoed the bill in
plain. clear terms, upon the simple
ground of its extravaganza, and said no
more, doubt whether congress would
have passed it over his head" This
critic, however, is altogether to charit-
able. The rage Of the friends of the bill
was aroused because, az one of them
playfully expressed it, "their park was
in danger" The incidental remarks OF
the president-his moral prattle could
have but little effect upon a party Of
political bandits, pushed back for .
moment from the sacking ofthe treasury
| vaults.