The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-20
NEXT YEARS APPROPRIATIONS.
Tho District Bill to be Considered To
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The DistriCt Bill to be Considered To-
morrow by the Committee.
The House Committee on Appropria-
tions will meet tomorrow at the Capitol,
Representative Forney acting as chair
man in the place of Mr.. Randall, who is
not expected in Washington until after
the Christmas holidays. In the mean
time the estimates as received have been
forwarded TO Mr.. Randall. who, having
indicated his views by marginal notes,
has returned them 10 COLONEL Courts,
clerk of the committee, who, with the
assistance of ]. ID. Cremer, secretary to
Mr. Randall, has carefully collected them
preparatory to submission to the com.
mittee on Wednesday for reference to
the subcommittee. The District OF
Columbia and sundry civil bills will be
ready for the committee tomorrow.
These will be followed without delay by
the legislative, executive and judicial
bill, the salary roster of the entire civil
personnel of the government from the
President down.
The District Bill.
An effort will be made to pass the
District and sundry civil bills before the
Christmas holidays. Two years ago
this parliamentary feat was accomplished
with respect to the latter bill. The leg
islative bill, it is expected, will reach the
Senate not later than the middle of Jan
uary, which will leave but the fortifica'
ton, pensions and deficiency bills
which should not consume over two oil
three days each, to be disposed of by the
committee on appropriations. This
committee is now counting upon having
all its bills except the deficiency, which
is always held back in the Senate, by
early in February u
The fate of the rest of the general ap
preparation measures will depend upon
the degree of parliamentary stupidity ant
bungling bestowed upon them. as wa
notably illustrated during the late session
says the Philadelphia Press correspon
dent. The bills taken from the Commit
tee on Appropriations in the various cru
sades against the system of dispatch ii
vogue for some years. largely on account
of desire to whip Mr. Randall int
line, arc the navy, army and military
academy, postotfice, Indian, diplomatic
and rivers and harbors. No steps hav,
yet been taken to advance these meas
ures, so that the approximate time TO
them 10 reach the House cannot be stated
The committee charged with affair
connected with these measures will hav,
just three months to dispose of them ant
have them receive concurrent action b,
the Senate. In default of this amount o
promptness the then manifest imbecilit.
of the present system of distributed re
sponsibility will force an extra session
not as an act Of volition on the part o
the President to dispose of nomination
by the Senate and origination of reve
nue. reduction and tariff revision measure
by the House, but as in act of compulsiol
growing out of the inefficient method
adopted by Democratic House. Sine
the experience of the last session of Con
gress Speaker Carlisle and Chairman
Mills have been inclined to favor res
toration to the former method of concen
tration of all such measures under on
committee.
As the Republicans opposed the dis
tribution it is probable that they will ia
vor their restoration to the Committee Of
Appropriations when they are charge,
with the responsibility for the expendi
ture of the revenue. The tardincss ant
inefficiency of the new system is not ii
only fault. 1t has been found to en-
courage and consummate largely in
creased expenditures for public purposes