The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-03-20
BENNY'S BACKBONE.
ECHOES FROM TIE CONGRESS-
THAT Is DEAD.
Just Think .4f It-0ne Billion Six
Million Appropriated.
Special HERALD Correspondent.

WAsHiNGTON, ID. c., March lG.-Mr.
Harrison has never boon credited with
having an eyer supply of backbone, but
he has just given indisputaDle evidence
that he can be stubborn when he de-
sires to be. Sometime before Congress
adjourned he nominated James II.
Beatty to be United States District
Judge for Idaho, but owing to the ac-
tive opposition of the two Idaho Sena-
t )rs and other republicans the Senate
adjOurned without acting on the nOmi-
nation. Now Mr.. Harrison has APP
pointed Mr.. Beatty to be judge, and ne
will sit on the bench until the Senate
meets again, even If his nomination
should then be rejected. Another eXhi
| bitiOn of the obstinacy OF Mr.. Harrison
vas his going oil to-day oa a weeks
hInting grip inEtead OF settling the
! question of who shall he the nine
/ judges of the Uhited States Circuit
Court, pr pvideG for under the new law,
| which he was urged to do by many
| members OF his party, who do not wish
| To leave here until this matter is set
| tied. II is thought Jhat il was to get
| away1rom this gang that Mr.. Harrison
| went On this hunting trip, but II will do
him no good, for these fellows viii
never l, ave here until these PRICES are
| distributed.
Believing that 1t would he but Justice
| to have the dc nOcrILic party repre-
scented In these ppo.ntments, num-
! Der of prominent democrats have de-
Clit6u 10 pres tllL JIlt name Oh IEtpitStli-
tative CulberSOn, of Texas, 20 AR. Har
risOn. Mr.. CulbeFsOn IS recognized as
one OF the ableSt Law. YGrs in Congress
aud he MAS re-eleci ed to the f'ift &c
Ond Congress, but his friends say that
ne would resign il appointed to the
bench, the Judicial duties would be
mo. g cong mi /. 1t is not proal lie, how
ever, that Mr.. Harrison Will give the
democrats even one out Of the nine
new iud ges.
Raprest ntativa Savers, of Te> a =,
who has to a large extent taken the i'm
pOrtant place so long and Sc ably allied
by the late Representative Samuel .,
Randall i'll the House Committee on
Appropriations, has made a statement
showing the amount appropriated 10y
, the Fifty-tirst Congress to he in excess
of one billion and sin million dollars
stop a moment ami think of that inn
mense amount of money. He has also
sugges teA.a practical way to reform the
eXpen dNafeg Of the government that l.
. worthy OF careful consideration by the
new democratic House. He thinks that
there should be one committee OF not
, less than fifteen members upon the eN-
penditures of the Government instead
, of separate committee for each de-
! partment as It IS now.
: Mr.. SaYers says in advocacy OF this
change: cit is fact which cannot be
= disputed that no single one OF the sew
eral commit. eeS upon the expenditures
in the departm entS has within the last
. UlTG6 NODRGtSS6S ever investigated the
! expenditure of any department and re-
! ported e result OF their investigation
to the House. In truth, these COEimit-
Z tees have FaFely eyar held even a single
Sitting during any Congress, and the
consequence has been that nothing has
! resulted to the House from their or
ganization. IT a general committee OF
fifteen were organized, possessing the
same dignity and enjoying the same
D., powers and priVile Ees as the commit
, lee on Ways and Means and the com
. mittee on Appropriations, it cannot bt
doubted that such a committee would
be able 20 furnish the House with such
information and advice as would lead
: to a very great reduction of eXpendI
lures and Il borough reform in tie al
: ADMINISTRATION of the pub ic service
. What do tie House and the country
/ know of the expenditures under the
= several laws max ng- Indefinite appro
, priatiOns? The Expenditures and
, nethC DIS of administration under these
, perman, mt app 3priatinn gcta are prac
! tically unknown 20 CONGRESS-, What dc
l Congress and the country know about
the internal administration Ofthe Pen
= sion Office, the Patent Office, and Blu.
j reau of Internal Revenue and the sew
( eral bureaus of the War and Navy De
Mr.. Sayets has another good idea toe
al shOu 4 not be Overlooked. lie
: thii KS the House shoI Id elect a perlna
. nent chairman of the committee Of tn,
whole on the state OF the Union II
speaking of this he said: at has been
, a noticeable fact that these Ghairmen
have been appc ilteG hv the Spec; ker
fFOm time 10 time, at the insta nee Of the
gentlemen who Sc bills We're to be con
sidered, and very often it has been the
case that the rulings OF EgoL chairman
have not only been at var ance, bu;
, have led to the suspicion that there was
an undue leaning towards the opinion
expressed by the gentlemen in charge
of the particular bill under cOnSidera-
tton when a question of order has been
rails ID. This would be obviated by
electing one man to the position, max
, Tug him Independent of the SprakeI. -
Mr.. Sayers thinks these two changes
would result n. reducing tha curtenl
expenditures at least 30 per cent.
Secretary Proctor, who has spent less
time in Washington than any ~ .mbCr
of the Cabinet, has gone on = Southern
jaunt that Will last a month.