Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-27
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Work for Them.
It is reported that Messrs. Cox and
sprins sr purpose declining their appoint
ments to the chairmanships, respectively,
az the naval committee and expenditures
In the department of justice Mr.. Cox
because he believes that his twenty-five
wears service In Congress entitled him to
the workmanship Of foreign relations, and
Mr.. Springer because he and his constit-
usnts have been wronged by the failure
30 put him on an important committee,
he too, being an old and prominent mem-
Der. Messrs. Cox and Springer have our
sympathy, for we incline to think they
have some cause for complaint; but they
need not be moved to resign by reason
of the lack of important work they
may find to do in the committees to
whose charge they have been assigned.
It Is true that Congress is not likely to
give the navy department much money
to spend while Mr., Chandler is secretary,
as there is no confidence felt by the
Democratic majority, and very little by
the Republican minority even, that 1t
will be honestly expended. Mr.. Chandler
isnot in very good repute at home, as was
shown when he undertook lately to be a
candidate for senator. He has managed
to achieve fame as dexterous polit.
ical manager, wholly uuscrupulous
as to his devices. The money that Is
voted to his department will be carefully
expended for his own profit and incl
dentaly for that Of his party. That be
will get none to so spend from this Con.
gress may be assumed, but the chairman
of the naval committee need not want a
better subject to operate upon for the
benefit of his own fame and for the
good of the country. The naval admin
istration may be very prodtably looked
into. The many millions expended upon
II, and the absence of navy to show
for it, furnish something to be explained
for the country's edilcation. Everyone
will admit that the United States
should have strong naval force.
The money has been provided that
should have secured this result. Why
has It not been obtained and how may il
be? Let Mr.. Cox answer these queS-
tions and he will have plenty of work
as chairman of the naval committee and
plenty of glory if he does it well.
Perhaps and quite probably he has
not the particular talents needed for
the exposition ; in which event it will
be we'll for him to resign and let his col
league, ex-senator Eaton, be put in his
place he will let in the light on the
darkness of the naval misappropriations.
And Mr.. Springer, though he has not
athief to look after in the attorney gen.
eral, has very extravagant and wild
expender of the public moneys to hold
up to condemnation. The amount of
money spent by the great and shirt
frilled Brewster is beyond all precedent
and defence. Mr.. Brewster's particular
talent is in spending other peoples
money; he has been employing multi.
tude Of men to do very ineffective
business. His administration has been
remarkable for great trials, with long
arrays of special government counsel al
great salaries, who have accomplished
nothing, The attorney general himsel
has been too busy to do any Of hi
business, so far as the public can see
He has had assistants from all over tn
country in all parts of it, and the evi
dence has yet to be furnished that the
have convicted any body or reformed any
thing. The lavish expenditure of Brew
ster seems to have no other incentiv
than the satisfaction Of his legal friend
and tho legal friends of his friends. II
has never been appealed to in vain an
1t is only because Of the failure of th
lawyers of the country to ask, or to Gn
friends to ask, that they be made assist
ant United States attorney general {
special United States attorney, that the
were not all thus adorned and compel
sated. Mr.. Springer has an elegal
subject in Mr.. Brewster
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