The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-02-19
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
communicated
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1897.

though the exact figures cannot be
given until the last appropriation bill
has been passed, it is already known,
and admitted by the Republican
Chairman of the Committees on APP
preparations 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 10y the previous billion dollar
Republican Congress by an advance
of thirty or forty million dollars
TEis, too, in the face of the general
Republican howl about the insuffic-
iency Of revenue provided by the pres
ent tariff bill. There is little doubt
that the Republican leaders have al
lowed the appropriations to pile up, al
though apparently fighting for econ
omy by shutting out bills even for the
smallest public building, in order to
make the deficit large enough to ex-
cuse the tariff bill they are now en-
gagged in concocting. They have made
a success Of the big appropriations,
but when the people get a whack at
them in the next Congressional cleo
ton, they will find how their excuse
has been accepted. representative
Savers, of Texas, who was Chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations
in the last House, made a rafting
good speech, attacking the extrava-
gance of this Congress, while the sun
dry civil bill was before the House.
Notwithstanding the amendments
made to propitiate the opposition, Sem
ator Sherman, who was in charge of
the arbitration treaty, was compelled
to bow to the inevitable and agree to
postpone further consideration of the
treaty until the next session.
In speech made by Pension Com
missioner Murphy, in answer to reso.
utions commencing his administra-
ton of the Pension Bureau, presented
by committee from two Pennsyl-
yania 6. A. r. posts, Mr.. Murphy told
for the first tine, in public, the in
structions given him 10y President
Cleveland when he appointed him
Commissioner of Pensions. What
ever may be ones opinions of many
of his other policies, it is difficult to
see how any mau could have outlined
in a few words IA more just and patri-
otto pension policy than President
Cleveland did when lie said to COM
missioner Murphy: "Mr. Murphy, l
think you know my ideas of the PEN
sion Bureau and the Pension system.
They are lust these: Sin claims COM
ing up for the action of the bureau,
where you f1nd the case of worthy
soldier who served his county faith
fully IA her hour of danger, YOU will
be lenlent aud give him the benefit of
a reasonable doubt. In settling the
claims of the widows aud orphans.
you Will act in the same manner, but
waste no sympathy on the unworthy"
1t should be placed to the credit of
Mr. Cannon, Chairman of the House
Committee on Appropriations, that he
reported adversely the resolution APP
propriating $500 for the erection of
stand for the use of Senators and Rep
resentatives and their families on Iu-
auguration day, on the ground that
Senators aud Representative. should
pay for seats, just as other people do,
If they wish TO sit down to view the
inaugural parade.
Senator Quay is reported to have
letter written by Mr.. Hanna before
Mchlnley's nomination, demanding
| that the Pittsburg Iron and Steel Man
uiacturers put up large sum of money
to be used in McKinley's behalf, and
to have threatened TO make it public if
the Mckinley crowd attempt TO get too
gay with him. Quay is now in Penu-
sylvania, where he went to help his
son "Dick" out, in the libel suit, which
has been thrown on his shoulders b,
the publisher of Pittsburg paper.
When Democrat, or a Populist,
uses such language as Representative
! Calderhead, a good Kansas Republic
can, did before the House Banking and
! Currency Committee, of which he is a
! member, certain Republican editors
/ invariably call it ''auarchistic raying"
/ The text of Mr.. Calderhead's remarks
was the bill naming thirteen Ameri-
can millionaires, among them Andy
/ Carnegie and Phil Armour, as incor-
| poTators of the international Amer
lean Bank" with authority to estab-
/ lish eight branch banks in other cUun-
/ tries. This bill or 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 follows:
THE whole United States is in con-
dition of unrest. The underhalf of the
country believes that it is injured, and
Injured largely by the power of aggre-
gated wealth. They actually believe it.
They believe it TO such an extent that
large areas of the country need moth
ing but leader of ability to give us an
Instruction. That is the truth, and
that is the political storm that will fol-
low any attempt, direct or indirect, to
incorporate the men named here into
private bank with Il capital of millions
OF dollars, and the plea that it is done
for the benefit of International COM
merce will not answer that mob for
it is mob-whieh only needs COM
handing general to lead it. Ii the
leader should happen to have the mill
tary instinct, it would mean civil war;
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