Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-08
NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGs.
The Present to be a Bad Session TO
Securing Appropriations.


The Present to be a Bad Session for
Securing Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. This is going to
be bad session for appropriations for the
commencement OF new public buildings.
The Supervising Architects office has not
even prepared the plans for all the public
buildings for which money has been ap-
propriated. The sites for a number of the
new buildings have not been selected, or
at least the titles thereto had not been OBJ
tained. Under these circumstances men,
bers of the Appropriations Committee say
that there is no necessity for voting money
for the erection of a number of new build
ings. AS the work would not be commenced
under any circumstances until another
year, it is just as we'll to wait until then.
1t is evident that very few, if any, new
public buildings will be ordered at this
session.
THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS
AND GROUNDS
will doubtless report bills in favor of
number of new buildings, but as the Ap-
preparations Committee handles the sub
ject where the money is concerned, that
committee practically controls all matters
relating to public buildings.
VARIOUS REPORTS HAVE BEEN PUT IN
CIRCULATION
here and elsewhere that the Democrats in
tend to starve the Civil Service Commits
sion to death. 1t will be remembered that
the old Civil Service Commission was
killed by Republican Congress by the
simple but effective method of ap-
propriatlng no money for its ex-
penses or the payment of the
salaries the Commissioners. The
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and died, for even your civil service re-
former cannot get along without money.
The Democrats intend no such death for
the present board. All reports to the con-
trarY are campaign lies and weak inven-
tions of the enemy. SO far as the present
system has gone it has been found to work
very well, and to the betterment of the
public service. The bill which origin
ated the system was prepared
and was rushed through the
House by the Democrats so quickly one
day that it took the breath out of Repub-
lican lungs. Nothing is further from the
purpose of the Democrats than to strangle
the promising bantling which they tossed
into the world. At the same time it
might as well be known that under Ger.
tain circumstances amendments to the
civil service bill may be deemed adyis-
Democrats would not hesitate to amend.
THE ATTITUDE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE
from Georgia on the subject of the tariff is
almost symmetrical. They are all for
tariff reform. Mr.. Nichols is. however.
not as much of refOrmer as the rest of
the delegation. The others are planted
very squarely upon the Carlisle platform,
and will De found earnest workers to carry
out the principles thereof. There is hardly
another delegation in the House that is as
unanimous on the tariff as that from
Georgia. By the way, it is the subject Of
a good deal of comment that the present is
the strongest delegation that Georgia has
sent to Congress in many years. Speaker
Carlisle, in arranging his committees.
certainly recognized this fact.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY EMORY sPEER
has been around the Department of
Justice a good deal lately. He is pre-
pairing a report of what he aid in South
Carolina, or rather a report of what he
failed to do. 1t is said that his report on
the recent election trials in that StaLe
win be fully as salty and breezy as have
been the comments of the South Carolina
press upon his course and actions.
THE FRIENDS OF JUDGE GOODYEAR,
of Brunswick, Republican lawyer, are
pushing him forward as a successor to
Judge Erskine.