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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsn1NGToS. D. c.. February 10TH.
MIR. EDIroR:-Another billion dollar
Congress. Although the exact figures
cannot be given until the last appropria-
ton bill has been passed, it is already
known, and admitted by the republican
Chairman of the Committees on Appro
priation of both House and Senate, that
the total appropriations will not only ex-
coed one billion dollars, but that they will
go enough beyond that amount to break
| the high water record made by the pre-
vous billion dollar republican Congress
by an advance of thirty or forty million
dollars This, too, in the face of the gen
eral republican howl about the insufficient
cy of revenue provided by the present tar
if bill. There is little doubt that the re-
publican leaders have allowed the appro-
priations to pile up, although apparently
fighting for economy by shutting out bills
even for the smallest public building, in
| order to make the deficit big enough to en-
cocting They have made Il success of the
big appropriations, but when the people
get wlack at them in the next Congress
ional election, they will find how their ex-
| cuse has been accepted. Representative
Savers, of Texas, who was Chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations in the
last House, made Il rafting good speech.
| attacking the extravaganza of this Con-
gress, while the sundry civil bill was be-
fore the House.
Notwithstanding the amendments made
to propitiate the opposition, Senator Sher-
man, who was in charge of the arbitration
treaty, was compelled to bow to the inevi
| table and agree to postpone further con-
sideration of the treaty until the next SEES
| sion.
In a speech made by Pension Commits
sioner Murphy. in answer to resolutions
commencing his administration of the
Pension Bureau, presented bya Committee
from two Pennsylvania G. A. r Posts,
Mr. Murphy told for the first time in pub
lie, the instructions given him by Prcsi-
dent Cleveland when he appointed him
Commissioner of Pensions. Whatever
| may be ones opinion of many of his other
policies, it is difficult to see how any man
could have outlined in a few words more
just and patriotic pension policy than
President Cleveland did when he said to
Commissioner Murphy: Mr. Murphy, l
| 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 a reasonable doubt. In set
Ting the claims of the widows and Or
phans, you will act in the same manner,
but waste 70 sympathy on the unworthy"
1t should be placed to the credit of Mr..
Car non, Chairman of the House Commit
tee on Appropriations, that he reported
adv ersely the resolution appropriating
$500 for the erection of stand for the
use of Senators and Representatives and
their families on Inauguration day, on the
ground that Senators and Representatives
should pay for seats, just as other people
do, if they wish to sit down to view the
inaugural parade.
When democrat, or a populist, uses
such language as Representative Calder
head, a good Kansas republican, did be-
fore the House Banking and Currency
Committee, of which he is member, GER
tain republican editors invariably call it
"anarchistic raving." The text of Mr..
Calderhead's remarks was the bill naming
thirteen American millionaires, among
them Andy Carnegie and Phil Armour, as
incorporates of the international Amer
lean Bank" with authority to establish
eight branch banks in other countries.
This bill or a similar one has been before
this Committee in several Congresses, and
it was only when an attempt was made to
push it through the Committee when Mr..
Calderhead spoke against it, in part as fol- |
lows: THE whole United States is in a
condition of unrest. The underhalf of
the country believes that it is injured, and
injured largely by the power of aggrega |
ted wealth. They actually believe it.
They believe it to such an extent that |
large areas of the country need nothing |
but leader of ability to give us an insur
rection That is the truth, and that is the !
political storm that will follow any at
tempt, direct or indirect to incorporate
the men named here into a private bank |
with Il capital of millions of dollars, and |
the plea that it is done for the benefit of |
international commerce will not answer |
that mob-for it is a mob-whch only |
needs a commanding general to lead it
If the leader should happen to have the