Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-01

immense, and there is perhaps little won
Ter that great feeling was exhibited ana
great establishment expressed. But II u
now plainly visible TO all men that this
sum, large as it was, was but the ade-
lnate expression of the honest expendi-
lures of a great government, which has
grown every year beyond even the wild
est hopes of its people. In the present
session of congress Mr.. Holman has had
ID stand up against no unusual pressure,
tuch as Mr.. Cannon encountered. No
one has failed to learn that the surplus
has been paid out and the revenue re-
luced, so as TO be only sufficient for the
purposes Of government honestly and
economically administered.
Mr.. Holman and his friends even went
further. They strove with some success
to brighten the American people with
the declaration, often repeated by the
mouths Of his lieutenants, Governor
Sayers and Mr. Dockery. that the in
come was unequal to the needed ex-
penditures. With a house elected on
platform of economy, with over l40 ma
joritv, majority larger than the whole
opposition, we naturally expected some
reduction of what Democratic orators
call the pu ic burdens. confess that
was myself astonished TO find that not
only were the appropriations of the first
session of this congress to exceed the APP
preparations Of the first session of the
last congress, but they We're TO exceed
them by the enormous sum of $4,000
900. Ny surprise was very much height
ened by the fact that day after day !
had seen appropriations manifestly in
adequate carried through the house
against all argument and fact by sheer
force Of numbers. The present condi-
ton Of things is an overpowering testi
mony, not only to the growth OF the
country, but to the integrity and econ
omy of the committee on appropria-
tons, of which Mr.. Cannon was the
head. The debate in the senate of July
20 shows moreover that the $JlO,0O0,-
600 appropriated have not reached the
needs of the country. Mr.. Allen, Of
Washington, shows that lighthouse
has been thrown ont which should have
been built, on IA spot which has already
cost the country the lives of many men,
and Mr.. Allison shows that one item at
least of large amount has been lessened
on the demand Of the house by the sim
pie expedient of cutting off one-half,
with the understanding that it shall go
on the next years deficiency bill. OF
one item Senator Isham q. Harris,
Democratic senator, in fact the real
Democratic leader Of the senate, puts
tersely his opinion, and that opinion win
illuminate many other items not dis
cussed. | want to call your readers at
tention to this simple fact, even at the
expense of reiteration and of being tire
some. We expended $462, 10000 the
iSst session of the Fifty-first congress.
We We're abused most roundly therefor.
The lowest figures any Democrat can
now make for his congress is S5l0,000,-
000. These figures are undisputed. The
moral is indisputable.
II does sometimes seem a great pity
that we haven't, we Republicans. the
power of vituperation. We seem t.
have no energy of characterization.
Abusing, as the Democrats have, in the !
widest language, the appropriation of |
1852 100000. and then appropriating |
sjl0,000,00O themselves, means two |
things. 1t means that in the last cam
paign the Democracy was inaccurate. |
and that in the present house they have |
been detected. II we We're in their place |
and they in ours l fear their language |
would be more adequate.
But if the Democracy have adopted /
what one of their own men calls ''pop- /
gun" system of tariff reform, their com
mittee on war claims have started a
Calling gun system of war claims. II /
is true that the house itself has so far |
acted on but few Of them; but these few
show the many will finally be treated.
A house which has voted to lift the in
cubus of the statute Of limitations from
Siblev's case. so as to allow the heirs of
an officer who left the United State.
army TO join the Confederates to collect
a royalty on tents used in the very war he
helped to wage. has shown itself capa-
BILE OF infinite power of sapping the
treasury. The committee ON war claims
has reported in favor of more than
so. 600, 900 worth of claims for damages
caused by the devastation of the war
If there is anything settled ia law it is
that no nation ever undertakes to repair
the damages of war. Where the acct
lent Of destruction falls, there it rests.
But there is grave danger at this very
moment that we shall at this late DAY be
cajoled into vast payments in that be-
lalf. These claims come to MS under
the sanction of religious societies. to pay
Tor rent of churches, to pay for damages
% schools aud colleges. Each is for a
mail amount. but the aggregate will
ippall the country. In the Forty-ffth
congress, after pitched battle over
William and Mary college, such claims
we're sent to the rear. Today, in addi-
ion to the $7O.000.00O already reported
~ the committee on war claims, $780,
Mo- 600 and ferhans Se00 600 0On of |