Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-17

President Parker asked Representative Fell
lows Of New York to speak to the toast. lib
eral appropriations" Mr.. Fellows remarked
laughingly that this subject might involve him
In dlflculties with his party, and he appealed
TO the newspaper reporters not to emphasize
what he had to say, because. he remarked,
Holman still lives, and he wouid like to serve
his term out Gen Hooker. he said. had prom
ised to rise in the House and deny any charges
that might be made against him as an adyo-
cate OF extravaganza. There were appropria-
tions and appropriations. To lavish, licentious.
eXtravagant appropriations he was always OPP
posed. Butlarge expenditures do not always i'm
ply extravaganza. They sometimes measured
growth. One did not cut the garment of the
boy of today as he did last year. He had grown
beyond it. While he would husband the re-
sources of the nation and see that every
dollar was spent for some good purpose
yet never by his vote would he deny TO any de-
partment of the government adequate
fund to support the growth of the country and
OF the government While he would not be
prodigal in appropriations for the District he
yet recognized that this was a city that would
not be permitted 10 lag behind 1t had started
on a career of glory that should not be checked
Onward and upward must be the course of
the capital of this great republic, and what
was necessary to suit its growth they as honest
Representatives must cheerfully give. He had
already observed how this could be done
They had probably observed that he had
maintained a modest reticence of speech
but he had been studying. He was in perfect
harmony and sympathy with Brother Holman
he had discovered how they could make liberal
appropriations for the District by cutting down
other appropriations in which Hooker and
others were interested. He was disposed to be
niggardly il in that way they could acquire
treasures to be given to the capital. He did
not propose to tell how he was going to do it.
On this was established the foundation on
which he proposed to build his reputation as a
statesman. When atlast he went from district to
district and sought in vain for a nomination he
would come to makehis home with the people of
Washington. He could scarcely, he said, real
lze the prejudice that once existed against
have known Washington. He had always recog-
nized the fact that it was Washington. Surely
II It existed it had passed away forever. He
spoke eloquently OF the city as the Mecca
Of the nation and of the memories it and
its historic surroundings brought up.
Those who, like himself, once wore the gray
tried their best to get to Washington. Now he
exhorted them to see who could do the most
toward building it up. 1t was difficult, he said,
to realize that but q few years ago there was no
such organization as this board Of trade here;
that there was destructive dIscord; that there
was no union of sentiment. He never met such
an assemblage without feeling inclined almost
to fall down and worship. The board of trade
represented the spirit of progress that had I'M
loosed the powers that raised the world in thirty
or forty years more than it had been raised in
| a thousand years before. The represen tatives
of the nation should feel it their duty to do all
In their power to aid the board of trade in
building up in every way this grand city. He
was in favor not Of extravagant and unjust but
OF liberal appropriations for the capital of the
country he loved.