The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-18

shane or form affect the health or proper
maintenance of the academy; why IS 1t
that they allowed this vast appropriation
to be enacted into law and now refuse to
appropriate what the board of visitors,
the SUPERINTENDENT of the academy and
the secretary of wal have twice said IN
communications is absolutely necessary
to give proper light TO the cadets 10 Oh
tain the purposes for which they were
sent TO the academy. / invite every
member of this house 10 read the record.
| am an advocate of economy, but am
an advocate of consistent economy.
The five cent" VS.. the bIilion-dollar
congress was the subject Dir. Pendieton
of West Virginia took for his i've mlia-
utes' talk
Mr.. Loud of California made a pretty
good answer TO this kind of cheap talk
when he said: Il had become fairly con-
WINGED, sir, before l came to this house
that the principal issue in the last cam
paign was the Mckinley tariff bill, and
the czarism exercised by the late speaker
of this house; but / have discovered since
coming here that the only issue before
the American people at the last election
! was the 'billion-dollar congress- That
is really the only issue have heard dis
cussed before this house since l have
| been here
THE first measure that came before
| this body was the APPROPRIATION of $780,
| 600 for the relief of the starving poor
in Russia. That was trampled upon
! by the Democratic party. The next
measure that came before this body,
sir was a measure from the COM
mittee on printing, which proposed to
| retrench to The tune of $500 600. But
| the leaders of the house upon the Demo
cratic side Immediately sounded their
voices of alarm that this was an en-
croachment upon the vested consttu-
tional rights of the members; that 1t
would perhaps cut off from their list one
| agricultural report, or one book upon the
| diseases of the horse. And they very
naturally killed that measure: and the
/ chairman of the committee, after was
| killed. reminded me of farm hand who
had been through threshing machine,
and ever since that event the chairman
| of that committee, when he has risen
before this house. has done so meekiy
and with due humility, fearing, no
doubt, that he might possibly have to
encroach upon the rights of some mem
bers of his party.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, in all sincerity,
we are dealing with question of great
magnitude to the people Of this country.
The committee on military affairs have
duly investigated this subject, and l be-
lieve we should abide by their report.
am perfectly willing that when a
measure. if it ever does come before this
congress, appriating the sum of $1,000
900 or IS, 600, 900 for the improvement of
the harbor of Savannah, say am per-
fectly willing that my friend from
Georgia shall rise in his majesty as a
representative of the people of that state
ana condemn the measure, for | am
satisfied it is question on which he Is
more thoroughly advised than | am, and
| shall be entirely satisfied.
II shall also join with the gentle
man from Missouri if a proposition
comes before congress, as l believe ii
will, looking to the improvement
of the Missouri or the Mississippi
river, if ne will endeavor to cut of
thousand upon thousands of dollars from
that appropriation, for it is a matter with
which he is far more familiar than |,
and l shall heartily join with him. But
we are acting upon different PROPOSE
ton now, and we should look at it as
patriots, as men; and ask you to con-
slider this measure in the light in which
| it should be considered. not III the light
of an attempt to play before the gal
| leriee.' but we should remember that
there are people-the intelligent Ameri-
can people-who are sitting upon the
main floor and who must pass Judge
ment upon our actions.