The National tribune., 1892-05-12

| relieve the scarcity of money among farmers
| to reduce the rate of interest, and to enable
| them to obtain money upon the security Of
their lands and crops and, second, to establish
some depository, sub treasury or banking sys
should be kept within the reach of every com
munity IN sums sufficient for their needs, to BIZ
loaned to them at low rates OF interest; and
| third, to devise some system by which the per
retual flow of money to the center of commerce
could be limited and restrained, SO as to enable
sufficient sum Of money for the needs of the
people of all sections of the country to be kept
In their respective communities"
So
For some time past "experts," or as some o
the waggish Senators call them, "the smelling
committee" have been trying to ascertain
whether the Senate Chamber and connecting
corridors are filed with pure or impure air
Some time ago an appropriation was made to
investigate this matter, and a preliminary ex-
penditire was made in analyzing the air in the
| basement corridors and the new committee
rooms in the terrace and comparing it with the
air outside the building. Several experts came
from abroad to the Capitol, and after con-
siderable trouble secured number of glass
jars full of air from within and without the
| corridors, and another set of experts went about
the Chamber filling jars with the air from the
various corners of the big room. These last
samples of air have not yet been analysed, but
that of the corridors has, and Senators who are
not experts could not be made to believe that
the air inside the corridors which had been
described by some Of them as filled with foul
ness and impurity in open debate, was better
than the air outside, as they were told by the
experts, and consequently they asked for an
| explanation. The experts then reported that
| on the morning the air from the outside was
collected there was fire in a building some IL
squares away and that the ashes blown by a
stiff breeze must have carried the impurities
| detected. The bottles Of air which have been
collected in the Senate Chamber have been
taken to Philadelphia, where experts will be
employed in Analysing it and reports made on
its character. 1t is pretty hard to make some
of the wise Senators believe that these experts
| know anything more about the matter than
| they do themselves
The Criers and Baifffs Of the Supreme Court
of the District Of Columbia last week addressed
a letter to Attorney General Miller, calling his
| attention to the fact they have received no
pay for the months Of April, May, and June,
1881. The appropriation for 1891 becoming
exhausted, the Marshal furnished them with
certificates of Indebtedness for the months
named, which the court officers were COM
| PEELED to put on the market as collateral for
loans at very heavy discount. The letter
| also states that the Bailifrs fund for the pres
ent fiscal year is again getting quite short, and
fearsar entertained that they will again have
to wait for their pay for the same months of
1892. In aletter to Speaker Crisp Attorney GEN.
eral Miller says that among all the matters re-
iating to the affairs of his Department he knows
of none which seems to him to more urgently
demand immediate attention by Congress than
this appropriation. The men, he says. are
poor, dependent upon their daily wages for the
support of themselves and families, and keep
ing them out of their pay for two or three
months at the end of each fiscal year is un-
worthy of this great Government. He asks
that an urgency deficiency appropriation be
made covering the subject. The same neces.
sity exists in all the courts of the United
States, as this appropriation is entirely ex-
hausted.
The House Committee investigating the
Pension Bureau ran up against big snag last
week. Dir. Enloe, one of the prosecutors, called
| upon Secretary Noble, of the Interior Depart
ment, for papers in the cases of several en-
n pf ha ,bo H.,
dismissed from Office, and was fatty refused
upon the ground tit he was not responsible
to Congress for his action in Diminishing EN-.
ployes of his Department. Mr.. Wheeler, Chair
man Of the Investigating Committee, took the
opposite view Of the matter, and will introduce
resolution in the House asking for instruc-
tons as to the course for the committee to pur-
sue. There is considerable talk of passing
resolution OF censure against both Secretary
Noble and Commissioner Ranm, and one will
| likely follow the resolution asking for instruc-
tions. If this is done, there will be an inn
mense amount of talk in the House on the sub
jcct of the investigation, as the Republicans
claim that the whole matter is for the making
Of political capital to help the Democracy in
the coming Presidential contest.
-.
Representative Holman, of Indiana, "the
Great Director" had . rough time in the
House last week, aud his feelings, if he has
any, must have been terribly punished The
occasion was the debate On the River and Har-
Dor appropriation bill. which Mr. Holman un-
dertook to prevent from being considered, and
in which he was unsuccessful, having only 20
members who thought it best to pass the River
| and Harhor bill by. and work on other appro-
priation bills, as he did. This crushing defeat
did not deter Mr.. Holman from assailin9 the
pet measure of the Democratic members who
live along the Mississippi River and the At
lantic and Gulf Coasts, where large majority
of. the appropriation will be expended, and
who are warm advocates of liberal expenditures
| for the improvement Of the rivers and harbors
of their sections of the country, and who can.
not consistently oppose appropriations for other
parts of the country while advocating their
own, as some Of them accuse Mr. Holman of
doing Mr.. Holman. when he found he could
not prevent the consideration of the measure
made savage attack on the bill, denouncinp
1T as wflfuiIy .extravagant measure He had
hat lao II: