The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-08
RIGHTED AT LAST.
THE SENATE EXONERATES FITZ
JOHN PORTER.
Shadows Budget of the Weeks News
at the National Capital--What Our
Members are Doing.
Special Correspondence of the Sent

OF the OIL 10 give T1IL SOHH oiLeI
rights which, every schoolboy had
learned, he deserved, is one Of the
prettiest features of the 49th Congress.
Such steps towards justice are, howev-
er, not always characteristic OF Re
publican Senate. Grover Cleveland
has based his vetoes on the broad
grounds of justice, prudence, and con-
stitutionality. The Republicans in the
Senate know this; they know he has
refused to sign bills from a high sense
OF duty, not from any partisan motives.
Grover Cleveland vetoed the Des
Moines bill accordingly. It's passage
over his head was nothing but the
work of very small politicians who
claim craftsmanship. It is not quite
so pretty as the Fitz John Porter ca
per- But this is not all. The same
politicians have sworn to treat every
veto Grover Cleveland makes, like
wise 1t is here the full ugliness
dawns.
THE SENATE
passed bills removing political disabil-
ities Of VIM. A. F. Lee and John
. K. Mitchell, Of Virginia. Also, reso-
luton to inquire into cost of public
printing, binding, engraving, etc. The
bill to quiet land titles at Des Moines,
was passed over the Presidents veto
by vote of "a to Is, Senators Ran
som and Vance sustaining the Presi-
dent. A bill was introduced investing
power Of appointing third-class Post
masters in Post Master General. The
legislature appropriation bill awaken
ed as much pointless debate as 1t had
in another body" A petition was
presented from the w. c. [. o., ask
ing that alleged traffic in young girls
be investigated.
THE HOUSE
passed pension appropriation bill. A
bill was introduced to investigate Civ
il Service. Randall's tariff bill re-
moves Internal Revenue from tobacco
and fruit, Erandies and wines, changes
trifing customs duties, adds wood of
all kinds in the rough to free list, and
establishes rate on wool Of first and
second class at 10 cents per pound
and on carpet wool at .03 cents. Re
duction, thirty-odd millions. Proba-
bilities of adoption, none. Represen-
tative King asked 100000 for recent
sufferers in Louisiana The general
deficiency appropriation bill provides
S6,0662, ,845. Features Of the week:
Both sides locking horns over appro-
priations, and Winking Reed and
Mysterious Weaver funny and start
ling as ever.
THE PANAMA CANAL
is set down for investigation It is
rather late 70 protest against the iden-
tifcation of the French government,
but Uncle Sam may learn what fool
he has been. Aside from this, it is
almost ridiculous to object to the only
assistance M. de Lesseps finds availa-
BILE. The French government, by
means of a lottery, can furnish M. de
Lesseps with six hundred millions of
francs. The French government is
bad .enough-any government that
drives its own flesh and blood away is
bad-but. it betrays longer head
than Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam hasn't
head enough to furnish his own canal
engineers. with money, much less NJ.
de Lesseps.
THE MD. & DEL. SHIP CANAL
is as important to Uncle Sam as the
Panama Canal is to the whole world.
Uncle Sam may not wait until for
eigner begins the Maryland & Della
ware, but he will wait long enough to
lose all real credit of the undertaking.
: But if somebody else's head should
prove longer than Uncle Sans, what
could Uncle Sam say, except that he
didn't know the value of his own pos
sessions ? These and kindred ques-
tions are weighed by very few men in
Congress. There is little chance ito
make political capital True, employ
ment would be furnished idle men,
but it would be confined to few com.
pared with the many left unemployed
And yet there still floats
AN OLD DEAD THEORY
that it IS economy to give projects like
these as little money as possible. The
same theory retards internal improve
ments. 1t is Just here Uncle Sam
ought to invest his money; its safe
Investment ); every dollar "goes 8
great ways. And in this, as in pub
lie building, Uncle Sam would al
ways have something to show for ths
expenditure. On the recognized basi
of ten percent, Uncle Sam purchase
every building he rents in ten years
Many poor devils have done the sam,
thing twowpr three times, i: is true
but Uncle Sam ought eknow better
Ship canals, public buildings, interha
improvements, every thing that vii
save time, labor, and expense, are il