Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-04-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Republican Candidate for Vice
President.
The Responsibility for Increased Ap.
preparations.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April s, '92.

pIocucNllle, leuu., Oanlu -. owens
Hendricks Greek, Tenn; J. w. Gam
bill, Bakers Gap, Tenn; James C
Donnelly, Mountain City, Tenn; Val
entine S. Britton, Derby, Tenn; Isaa,
Kits, Shelton's Ford, Tenn; Henry E
Jackson, Thorn Hill, Tenn.
OTHER WORK.
He has also received and answered
1888 letters and called up 81 pension
claim.
The Senate has for long time beer
the body held responsible for large in
creases in the appropriations, and it has
come to be regarded as play in politics
for the House to cut appropriations,
sometimes below absolute necessities
trusting to the Senate to insist upon
the necessary increases and take the
responsibility for them. Some of the
Republicans think now that they can
hardly take this responsibility and that
while they will make increases in the
Senate, pointing out in their speeches
the necessity for them, and attempting
to show the country that the economi-
cal policy of the House is really sham
and pretense they will not go SO far as
to absolutely block agreement in con-
ferences and greatly protract the ses-
sion unless some serious question of
principle is involved. The mere shaw
ing down of expenses, as is witnessed
in the District of Columbia bill, the
sundry civil bill, the army, the con-
sular and diplomatic and naval bills,
some of the managers insist, should not
be made the cause of a stubborn fight.
They urge that it may be good politics
for the Senate to yield to the House and
trust to the experience in the executive
departments to demonstrate that the
economy was forced and unwise. A
number of propositions for river and
harbor expenditures involving many
million dollars, have been inaugurated
in the Senate and may be added to the
river, and harbor bill, thereby causing
considerable friction between. tie two
houses, but unless in some of the other
bills that come over from the House
there is some more serious question
involved than that of the amount
of money carried, it is regarded now as
probable that the Senate VIII not make
very hard fight to maintain its policy
of liberalty.
The bill to place the revenue marine
service in the navy and provide for the
grades of the officers SO transferred is
one that has commended itself to the
practical mind of the Secretary of the
Navy. 1t has also been reported IA
vorably more than once in the Senate
and passed the last and has likewise
been received with favor in the present
House. While the head of the NAVY
Department supports the plan il has
been opposed by the officers of the navy,
who do not relish additions to their
number coming from any other quar-
ter than the Naval Academy and pro-
motions from any other quarter than
the regular line. But the younger Of
ficers have recently withdrawn their
organized opposition and there is rea-
son to believe that none will hereafter
be made from naval officers. But the
Treasury Department 10, under its pres
ent head, hostile to the measure. The
bill has it's faults, doubtless, but they
can be sifted out and the transfer ac-
complished without jar or injury to
either arm and indeed with positive
benefit, it is believed, to both arms of
the service.
The stringent rules lately promul-
gated for the regulation of the official
conduct of clerks in the departmental
service mark the enormous difference
between the number of employees now
deemed necessary for the proper per-
formance of the public business and
the number required in the various de-.
departments in the early days of the
Government, and suggests also the rea-
son for the application of the severe
discipline. When the various depart
ments were in process of growth from
their small first beginnings to their
present proportions, easy going supe-
riors were often very lenient to easy GO
ing subordinates in the matters of
punctuality, industry, and even of gen.
eral efficiency. and the service did not
apparently suffer. Now, under the
changed conditions rigidly observed
system has become essential to the sat.
sifactory conduct of the several depart
ments. But, though the lines in certain
particulars are being drawn very tightly
about the Government clerks, they still
possess may privileges not enjoyed by
the average workingman or woman.
No hard hearted authority has as yet
recommended that the clerks be de.
prived of that elastic privilege known
as sick leave or their annual vacation
with pay, or that they shall be docked