The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-01-27
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| the IODDY mas Deen DO8y III auu auodb
congress and society has been busy
in hundreds Of drawing rooms. Com
gress has forty-onc working days yet
remaining, and it has about four
months work on hand, mostly in the
shape Of business that should hava
been closed out during the last session.
A pension bill appropriating $S5, 200,
600 for the army, and $l,000, 900 for
the navy, has been passed BY ihe
house also bill appropriating $780,
600 for Notifications. The Ways and
Means committee Of the house has
completed its revision Of the tariff
bill without making any important
changes. The bill will be presented
to the house at the earliest oppor
tunity, and this subject viii come up
in the senate as unfinished business
to-day. It is the opinion, however, of
well informed prognosticators that no
tariff bill will be passed this session.
The honse committee on education
and labor will ask to-days on the call
Of committees, for consideration of
its bill as reported BY Mr. Sherman,
granting national aid to the common
schools of the states and territories on
the basis Of illiteracy. This bin has
the unanimous support Of each msln-
Der of the committee, and proposes to
aid to the amount of Sl0,000,000 per
annun for five years II is patriotic,
nou-partisan measure Of the most vital
Importance to the whole country. No
other bill before congress touches IN
terests so broad, 50 vital, Of imme-
diately needing attention 81 this
1t is said that the naval bill. which
will be reported this week, contains
some very important clauses striking
at the top-heaviness Of the naval per-
sonel. 1t is well known that there is,
in the United States navy, a great dis
proportion Of highly paid officers to
poorly paid seamen, and that, while
the naval academy at Annapolis is
turning out myriads of ornate lisulen-
ants to navigate the ball rooms Of the
world, common, sea-soaked sailors are
obsolete or obsolescent, Admirals,
commodores, captains, commanders,
licutenants, and midshipmen we have
always with us in battalions, but
where, OIL whore, is Jack Tar, once
so dauntless in love and ia war. He
has been killed by eleven dollars
month, and the tyranny Of the afore-
said official battalions whose overbear-
ing cruelty is incomprehensiblo to
any one unused to the sea on an
| United States Government vessel. At
the last session, it will be remembered.
there was contest over the PROPOSE
tion to abolish the grade Of commo-
dure, and it was finally defeated, The
same clause is in the present bill, and
it will very likely 60 through, This
means that most Of the officers now
holding the rank Of captain in the
navy will never get above it. Il is
also proposed that no officer in time
of peace shall be promoted to the
grade of lieutenant until after be has
served four years at sea no lieuten-
ant to lieutenant commander until
after six years sea service as lieuteu.
ant; no lieutenant commander TO eoal7
mander until after four years sea
service; no commander to captain until
after three years sea servlee' Mento-
rious service and marked ability ara
to be taken INTO account IN regulating
promotions. fhese are very Important
propositions, ana VIII, y adopted alter
the lives and fortunes Of all hnt the
older oihcers who nave reached the
This wear there IS a cuttina down of
thc personcl IN order to make it castor
to secure appropriations for new
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