Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-29

ira pay, but why should these self
styled watch-dogs of the Treasury, cut
and slash at the little bonuses OF those
around them, and reserve all good
things for themselves. They have re-
recently voted to reduce the mileage
of army officers from eight to four cts.
a mile, which is well enough, for that
is considerably more than it costs
them TO travel. But the mileage rate
of Senators and Representatives re-
mains at 90 cents a mile. And then
again if the Holmans, Reagans and
Randalls of the House of Representa-
tives would exhibit the same Roman
virtue in regard to appropriations
which affect their own districts and
their friends, they would be more en-
TITLED to the respect of observaut peo-
pie. The same men who vote against
everything which is not going to bene-
fit their own constituents or their own
pockets, have just voted to put in a
deficiency BIZ on appropriations for
the payment of Texas war claim.
1t is said that many virtuous Con-
gressmen, who draw mileage, travel on
free passes, and some who pass as
economists get all their stationary
from the committee-rooms, and then
draw in cash the 1925 allowed each
member for stationary during the SEES
sion.
No one knows when Congress will
now thinks it will be before the mid
die of August. 1t is the same old sto-
ry with regard to appropriation bills.
They must be disposed of, and they
were held back and then rushed
through the Senate and House to be
acted upon finally by conferences.
Legislation by conference committee
has become part of our constitution
al system.
1t is thought that the presidents We
to messages will excite prolonged
discussion before adjournme and
there are a number of other ques-
tons that will consume time. The
Morrison Surplus Revenue Resolution
will take up several days, Oleomargar-
inc, and Land Grants forfeitures will
vv-prreseu TOT aurenuron, wife some
thing will be done TO reach the Next
sion bills, as we'll as that for the in-
crease of the Naval establishment.
Incensed claimants and their agents
who have been hanging around the
halls of Congress doing all in their
power TO have their private schemes
pushed through, ore disappointed and
indignant now. The Senate, they say,
has treated them fairly, but the House
has entirely neglected them. Having
failed in an attempt TO have little of
the remaining time of the session al
lotted to private bills, they decided to
hold an Indignation meeting at the
National Hotel on Sunday morning, to
be repeated until Congress will heed
their cry. All the disappointed claim
ants in Washington were invited to at
tend the meeting, and it was worth GO
ing to see whether one had claim
or not. One very indignant claimant
said; 1--WE want to teach Congress-
men that they are the servants and not
the masters of the people" Let
them indignate," was Speaker Car
isles comment when lie heard of the
meeting
White House annals are dull now,
and but little news need be looked fol-
from it until after the summer vaca.
ton now impending. The old Man.
sion is undergoing its annual over.
hauling. The carpets and curtains on
the under floor have all been removed,
cleaned, aud stored away in the state
dining room, the carpets at q cost of
four cents a yard, while the work on
the windows was done for fifty cents a
window. White mating has been
placed on the parlor floors, but the
windows will remain without drapery
during the summer. The carpets have
not yet been taken up in the officia
part of the house.
When the President and Mrs. Cleve
land go away in September for Their
vacation, it is intended to give the ex
terror of the White House thorough
repainting, which has not been done
for some time. Most of the interior
of the honse looks decidedly dingy in
the daylight, and needs to be literally
fresbened mp. Nothing new has beer
bought for it since Mr.. Arthur left II
in complete and beautiful order. The
wear and tear upon the carpets during
u season is very heavy. Congress ap
propriates $1,000 year for keeping
the White House in order.
The way to kill a town is TO under
rate every present and prospective en-.
terprise; enlarge the vices of the peo-