The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-19
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, February 15.-Another billion
dollar Congress! Although the exact figures
cannot be given until the last appropriation
bill has been passed. it is already known, and
admitted by the Republican Chairmen of the
Committees on Appropriations of both House
and Senate, that the total appropriations will
not only exceed one billion dollars, but that
they will go enough beyond that amount to
break the high water record made by the pre-
vious billion dollar Republican Congress by an
advance of thirty forty million dollars
This, too, in the face of the general Republican
howl about the insufficency of revenue pro-
vided by the present tariff bill. There is little
doubt that the Republican leaders have allow
ed the appropriations to pile up, although ap-
parently fighting for economy by shutting out
bills even for the smallest public building, in
order to make the deficit big enough to excuse
the tariff bill they are engaged in cuncoctlng.
They have made sue cess of the big appropria-
tons, but when the people get whack at them
in the next Congressional election, they will
find how their excuse has been accepted.
Representative Sayers, Of Texas, who WAS
Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations
i'll the last House, made a rafting good speech,
attacking the extravaganza of this Congress,
while the sundry civil bill was before the
House.
Notwithstanding the amendments made to
propitiate the opposition, Senator Sherman.
who was in charge of the arbitration treaty,
was compelled to bow to the inevitable and
agree to postpone further cons Iteration of the
treaty until the ne t session.
In a speech made by Pension Commissioner
Murphy, in answer to resolutions commencing
his administration of the Pension Bureau, pre-
sented by a committee from two Pennsylvania
G. A. Posts, Mr.. Murphy told for the first time
in public, the instructions given him by Presi-
dent Cleveland when he appointed him M
missioner of Pensions. Whatever may be ones
opinion of many of his other policies it is diff
cult TO see how any man could have outlined
in u few words u MOI just and patriotic PEN
zion policy than President Cleveland did when
he said to Commissioner Murphy: MIR. Muir
ply, think you know my ideas of the Pension
Bureau and the pension system. They are just
these: In claims coming up for the action of
the bureau, where you find the case of worthy
soldier who served his country faithfully in
her hour of danger, you will be lenient with
him and give him the benefit of Il reasonable
doubt. In settling the claims of the widows
and orphans, you will act in the same manner,
but waste no sympathy on the unworthy"
1t would be placed to the credit of Mr.. Can
non, Chairman of the House Committee on APP
preparations, that he reported adversely the
resolution appropriating $500 for the erection
of u stand for the use of Sen tors and Repre-
sentatives and their families on Inauguration
Day, on the ground that Senators and Repre-
sentatives should pay for seats, just as other
people do, if they wish to sit down to view the
inaugural parade.
written by Mr.. Hanna, before McKiney's
nomination, demanding that the Pittsburg
Iron and S.eel Manufacturers put up IL large
sum of money to be used in McKinley's behalf
and to have threatened to make it public if the
Mckinley crowd attempted TO get too gay with
him. Quay is now in Penns! lvaniA, where he
went to help his son Dick out, in the libel
suit, which has been thrown on his shoulders
by the publisher of Pittsbu PAPER.
When Democrat, or II Populist, uses such
language as Representative HsIdcrhead II good
Kansas Republican, dill befUIe the H, use
Banking and Currency Committee, of which
he is member, certain Republ:cu editors in
call it anarchist c rIving." The teAt
of Mr.. Calderhead's remarks was the bill nam
ing thirteen American million aires, amor
them Andy Carnegie and Phi | Armour, as i'll
c0rpOratOrS OF the 'InurnltlOEhl american
Bank" with authority TO establish ght branch
banks in other countries. This bill or II similar
one has been before this commit e in several
Congresses, and it was only when an attempt
was made to push it through the com nittee |
when Mr. CaIderhead spoke against it, in part
as follows: The whole United States is in |
a conditions of unrest. The underhalf of the |
elieves that it is injured, and injured
largely by the power of aggregated wealth.
They actually believe it. They b lieve it to |
such an extent that large areas of the country |
need nothing but Il leader of alb lily to give us
an instruction. That is the truth, and that is |
the political storm that follow any attempt d. |
rect or indirect, TO incorporate the men named |
here into a private bank with capital of mil |
lions of dollars and the plea that it is done for
tn benefit of international commerce will not |
answer that mob-for it is n mob-which only |
needs a commanding general to l, ad it. If the |
leader should happen to have the milit ry in
stinct it would mean civil war"