Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-07-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.


lfrom Oufhogulhr correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 10, 1884.
The closing hours OF the First Session Of
the 4Sth Congress. were not materially un-
like those that have characterized all Of
its predecessors. As usual, the most i'm
portant legislation was left TO the hurly
burly moments of approaching dissolution'
rushed through only after most unreason-
ably brief consideration by conference COM
mittees. Nevertheless the session has given
us some few benefcent measures, and none
that are positively vicious. The unanim'
ous vote of thnrks TO The presiding officers
OF both houses, and particularly to Speak
er Carlisle, were never more deserved
Mr.. Carlisle leaves his chair with record
for in,parliality and fnitlfGlness TO duty
that has not been exceled In the long line
Of Speakerships.
The sixty millions Of people in this
country who have for so many years been
worried out OF sweet repuse lest some
Fourth rate iriga,e from some fiith.ra,e
country should come In the night and lay
waste the cities on our eastern and western
coasts, can lull themselves into complete
security. Half million of dollars has
been appropriated by Congress to be ex-
pended in providing ordnance for the s,eel
cruisers that are now being constructed by
the Government, and these guns are to be
of sufficient size, calibre and power to
knock into smithereens nything thst is
reckless enough to get within range. To
be sure our naval constructors and our en-
eign, have all pronounced these cruisers ms
conspicuous failures as they are protigi-
ons frauds, but what does nll that amount
TO beside the opinions OF Secretary Billy
Chandler and his superior officer John
Roach 1t will not be until some of these
cruisers blow themselves under water in
an attempt to blow something else out o
water, that the Government will zee fit Ia
initiate the example which even the Chill
ian government has set.
Il IL perhaps better late than never, bu
who that has seen the plan of the monu-
ment to be erected to the memory OF th,
mother OF Washington, would rather "a,
never? Why Congress should submit ih'
devising of this kind of architecture to tht
taste of a board of engineers, who have NJ
more conception oil such work than thu
merest laymen, il beyond comprehension
Here is an appropriation of S25,O0O, II
addition to what has already been expend
J, ed, to complete this masterpiece of archi-
r tectural folly. There is nothing sppropri
ate about it from base to apex, and is al
together about as incongruous a piece o
work Ms could possibly be devised. TO cal
e the climax of the absurdities surrounding
i. this particular appropriation, there ia
neat little steal of $4,000, in requital fo
the trespassing upon somebody's land il
order 10 reach the spot where the monu
o ment is situated However, the whol
n business is only on par with the Nj
u Vernon monopoly, by which the America
people are kindly permitted to give ven
y to their lamentations at the tomb OF tI
r Father of his Country. after depositing j
the Golfers Of the captain of one-hors
u steamboat the small price of 81 per !;
's ment.
e. One by one the cases OF grand larceny
r which tile Government is always the vic
tenn, nre being unearthed, not by any sy'
Tim tnRt Inc SOVeTnmeut HldInNuiuS II
rs the detection of crime, bu, from the lac
as Of confidence that the thieves have in eac
other. Here are bills made out again
the Government amounting up into thou
re ands of dollars, sustained by vouchers al
n. approved by Government officials, Il
III which the Government had never recei
90 ed the consideration of a single penn
One fellow of the name of Dempsey, wi
NJ keeps stationary store on Pennsylvan
e. avenue has been furnishing imaginary ts
nd escopes, kaleidoscopes and numerous 9th
es. scopes, for which he has received some
W 600 or $4,000. without even having de1ivt
rd ed an articel The law officers have go
IL into the business of indicting these thiev
n hut nobody supposes that any OF them W
s-e be convicted, from the fact that Washir
M. ton jurymen as rule are in the same bo
nd The sudden absence of Congress with
ch lobby has left Washington in n state
oil lonesomeness. The Riggs, the Arlingtt
ers the Ebbitt and Willards suffer the m,
be by these Congressional exoduses, becal
he the houses mnst be kept up during
ew summer at a necessarily heavy e1pen
ng However the landlords manage someh
OF or other to make both ends meet Mt
he close of the fiscal year, and have son
RS. thing left over for boom at the openi
be- in December. Dom PEDRO
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