Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-18

1aFpttdhtl hitu III SnltdkO
bune: The debate in the senate of
July 26 shows, moreover, that even
the 100000 900 appropriated has not
reached the needs of the country.
Mr.. Allen, of Washington, shows
that a lighthouse has been thrown
out which should have been built, on
a spot which has already cost the
lives of many men, and Mr.. Allison
shows that m item at least of large
amount has been lessened on the
demand of the house by the simple
expedient ofcutting off one-half, with
the understanding that it shall go on
the next years deficiency bill. or
n item Senator Isham G.. Harris. a
democratic senator, in fact, the real
democratic leader of the senate, puts
tersely his opinion, and that opinion
will illuminate many other items not
discussed. l want TO call your read
ers' attention to this simple fact,
even at the expense of reiteration and
OF being tiresome. We expended
1852, 000, 600 the first session of the
F~ifty-first congress. We were abused
most roundly therefor. The lowest
figures any democrat can now make
for his congress il $3.50, coo, GOO. These
figures are undisputed. The moral is
indisputable.
1t does sometimes seem a great
pity that we haven't, we republicans,
the power of yituperation. We seem
to nave no energy of Characterization.
Abusing, as the democrats have in
the widest language, the appropria-
ton of 1852, 900, 900, and then appro-
priating $50, 000, 200 themselves.
means two things. 1t means that in
the last campaign the democracy
were inaccurate, and that in the pres
ent house they have been detected.
If we were in their place and they in
ours | fear their language would be
more ADEQUATE
But if the democracy have adopted
what n of their own men calls a
pop gun" system of tariff reform
their committee on war claims have
started a Calling gun system of war
claims. 1t is true that the house
itself has so far acted on but few of
them, but these few show how the
many will finally be treated. A
house which has voted to lift the
incubus OF the statute of limitations
from Sibley'S case, so as to allow the
heirs of an officer who left the United
States army TO join the confederates
to collect a rOyaltyo on tents used i'm the
very wal he helped to wage, has
shown itself capable of infinite power
of sapping the treasury. The COM
mittee on war claims has reported i'm
favor of more than so, 600, OO0 worth
of claims for damages caused by the
devastation of the war. If there is
anything settled in law it is that no
nation ever undertakes to repair the
damages Of war. Where the accident
of destruction falls, there it rests.
But there is a grave danger at this
very moment that we shall atthis late
day be cajOled into vast payments in
that behalf. These claims come to
us under the sanction of religious
societies, to pay for rent of churches,
to pay for damages to schools and col
leges. Each is for a small amount.
but the aggregate will apall the coun-
try. In the FOrty-fifth congress,
after a pitched battle over William
and Mary college, such claims were
sent to the rear. Today, in addition
to the so, 900, 900 already reported by
the committee on war claims, $780, |
100000 and perhaps 5000, 600, 900 of
such claims have been referred to the
court Of claims.
If Mr.. Holman and his band of
economists had given half as much
attention to this proposed drain on
the treasury as they have to the
refusing of what they knew they must
consent to, we should today have a
safer surplus in the treasury, even if
we had less campaign talk.