Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
SENT TO THE REAR.
HOlman's Political Friends
One by One DESERVING Him
on the Issue of
SAVING IN EXPENDITURES.
Even Senator Hill Finds 1t Necessary
TO Declare His Position
AGAINST THE OBJECTOR'S STAND.
The Political Significance Attached to
Germans Speech.
BARBOUR AND PLUMB C0NTRASTED
SAVING IN EXPENDITURES.
AGAINST THE DIRECTORS STAND.
BARBOUR AND PLUMB CONTRAsTED
ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHIc LETTER.
BUREAU OF THE DISPATCH.
WASHINGToN, ID. c., May a.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. May a.
The week in Congress ends with the naval
appropriation bill in the air. The Demo.
cratic Senators, one by one, are acknowl.
edging that their colleagues in the House
have put their party into very deep hole,
not only on the general issue of so-called
economy, but upon a number OF separate
questions involved in the clauses of the ap-
prorriation bills OF all these no one is
more important, both patriotically and
politically, than the question as to the de-
velcpment of the new navy in the direction
OF coast defense.
Under the guidance of Mr.. Holman, the
Democratic majority of the House has been
foolish enough to send the Senate a naval
appropriation bill which is utterly made
Quate TO continue the present scheme of en-
larCinC our torcr of commerce destroyers
and Of battleshipS. The bill as it passed
the House provides for one sea-going battle
shin The bill as it is before the Senate
provides for two fast sea-going battleships,
and also for two coast-defemse monitors, as
well as eight light t-draught gunboats and
several torpedo boats.
Merely sample of tho Issnes.
This Is but a single example of the issue
which has arisen between the House and
Senate unon the expenditure of public
money. Nicgardlv parsimoniousness of the
House. coupled with its excessive liberality
in the river and harbor appropriations for
Democratic districts, has dsgusted the
party managers, who have Just begun to see
that ex-Spraker Reed scored a great point
the other lay when he excoriated Mr. Hol-
man for his hypocrisy in opposing all ap-
= al
political advantage to hiuself
So far has this feeling gone against Mr.
Holman's narrow and bgoted policy that
even Mr.. Hill has found it necessary to re-
treat hv denial from his announced inten-
ti0n to exploit economy as the chief
issue in the coming Presidential campaign,
while Senator German, the most astute and
tar-seeing leader of the Democratic side of
the Senate, has been careful to declare in
favor OF increased, instead of lessened ap-
preparations Tor the conduct of the Govern
ncnt departments and for the new navy.
Gnrman'S Speech of Political Weight.
4 great deal of political significance is at
-ached To the speech which Senator German
delivered Yesterday in direct anraconism to
the Democratic policy of the House, and
the MARYLAND leader has been asked manv
questions about his purpose. To these
publication, hut it is well understood from
what he saws TO his friends that he regards
il a. poor policy to make any issue in the
coming campaign upon the comparative
amount Of expenditure of public money by
The last Republican Congress and by this
Congress.
Il is Mr. Germans opinion that the
phrase "billion-dollar Congress" will not
answer as a campaign cry. Mr.. Gorman
thinks that the American people are not
economical by instinct or habit, and that
they want their public service to procure
for them whatever is needed without
question as to cost. The only
question that the average voter
ever considers in a party light, according
40 Nr Gorman'S view, would be the honesty
ot the expenditure, and not its amount, as
Nj German clearly shows, the necessities
oi the Governmental administration of this
country increase not only with the growth
Of is population, rapid as thS is, but null
tiplv with its industrial and commercial de-
vtIopmeut.
Riil A.so Denies the Ease Economy.
This utterance by Mr. German can
scarcely he oyerestimated in its political
significance. 1t is coupled with a hurried
denial by Senator Hill of any intention to
ra.~e the issue OF economy in the campaign
ruis wear. In short, Mr.. Holman has been
absolutely sent to the rear of his party,
which may continue to pretend to
C-t down the appropriations of the social ed
'hlliun-dolla- Congress, " but which is far
morr likely to exceed them. The simple
1acr Is that the final determination of these
sums viii he lett to conference clmmittees
which VIII transact the greater part of their
business dugin" June, when many of the
real lea ierS OF both tine Senate and House
viii be aosent al the National Conventions
There is distinct hope in the minds of
most oi these leaders that these differences
between the two branches of Congress may
boz 50 adjusted as to bring about an adjourn
mrur by the middle of July.
The death OF Senator Barbour, of Vir-
guIa, early this morning came as a great
sl.ncE. not only to his friends, but to all of
the Congress. Senator Barbour's death was
dramatic in a political sense, because MS
las utteTance was one well calculated to
divide still further the factions of the Demo-
crane party, among whose leaders Mr. Bar
bour held high rank.
senator Barbour's Last Warning,
senator Barbour's last published utter
anca, addressed to the Richmond Dispatch
contains this sentence OF peculiar significance
coming from a Southern Senator of the old
Bourbon school:
it i~ exceedingly doubtful whether the
Democratic party can elect any candidate
Who .nay lc nominated at its National Con-
Neaf.an for The Presidency.
M Barbour's letter also declared that he
was opposed to the nomination of Cleveland
becaE-e he lid not think that he could be
elected. lie took care to add that he was
Lot committed to the personal fortunes of
any candidate, and that he would not serve
sIG 4 del 'lH I" !. hn nf
any Presidential aspirant."
These declarations OF Senator Barbour,
coming just before his death, it is admitted
VIII east "a Sinister shadow over the move
ment Tor the nomination of Cleveland.
The death oI Senator Barbour has thrown
over everything so deep gloom that no one
las the heart to talk of politics, to make |
PresIdenial speculations, or, in fact, to saw |
or do anything al all, either in legislation |
or IN aught else
One ofthe Last of His Kind.
The Senator was one of the most genial |
and communicable OF men. HIS face was |
impressed with that dignity and simplicity |
which characterized the old school which /
lived and loved Tor social enjoyment and |
not for commercial exploitation and profit |
lie ~ ongad to type that is fast diving |
out. Few ot them are left in public life, 1
and even IN the social life of the South,
apart from political preterment, few of his |
class remain. They will soon become ex-
linct.
Senator Barbour served in Congress for /
years before he was elected to the Senate
to succeed the brilliant but erratic Riddle
berger In his social and political associa-
tiOns no man was ever more beloved than
he. His personal magnetism was of so rare
R strength as to be marked even by the least
discriminating. His figure was that of the
Apollo Belvidere even in his old age, and