The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-11
For Inn mediate Attention.

When the sundry civil bill was pocketed
| by President Cleveland most of the i'm
portant Government appropriations in Hi
| nois for the next fiscal year fell to the
| ground, and if Congress should fail to
pass new bill before the LIST of July some
| people now in the employ of the Govern
ment will have to go out of business or
take their compensation on tick.
This big appropriation bill is the catch
all for things not regularly included under
| the departments, and it provides the
money for an infinite variety of things
which have no apparent relation TO each
other. Presiden: Mckinley himself would
he personally affected. for one of the
| items vetoed by his predecessor is that
| which provides for heating and lighting
| the executive mansion and its grounds,
and it is to be presumed the family of the
new President will not care to go TO bed
| III the dark after the LIST of July. Col. Bill
| Morrison of the Interstate Commerce.
| Commission would find himself without q
salary. and the Government would he un-
| able to print any more greenbackS If IL
| new law Were not enacted. (,
| The appropriation in which Chicago ~
most interest is that of S113.0OO for the
| Improvement of the river. More impOr-
i
is the paragraph which was inserted in
| the Senate. and only accepted by the
House after a hard fight, constituting the
| item in the river and harbor bill so that
| the money to be expended OH the Chicago
| river can be paid for other work than
dredging, us is now held to be the law
All of the river and harbOr items fail,
and among the number are ST 900 900 for
Al 6. +b.
prOvement of the Mississippi from the
| mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the
| Missouri. and $S26 66G from the Missouri
to st. Paul in both of which Illinois is
deeply Interested Rock Island would
suffer severely because items of $12,5OO
for the bridge and $500 for the arsenal
| are involved.
The Chicago public building is not af-
fected. because. under the original appro-
priatiOn contracts may be entered into.
and there is money enough to- keep up
the construction until the regular session.
Unless new law is enacted there will
be no money to pay the keepers of the.
lighthouses or the life-saving stations III
Chicago and Evanston or elsewhere on the
lakes. The appropriation of 500. 900 for
the completion of the two new revenue
cutters has also gone by the board. There
is now no provision for paying the rental
OF the Government offices in the Rand
McNaily building after July l. although
the annual rental is S19.345. Wash Hes
ing would find things uncomfortable at
the postOffice if Congress did not step i'm
to help him. because the appropriation for
fuel. lights and water for public buildings
concerns the temporary structure on the
lake front, and it has failed with the.
other items. The Federal Court in Chi
cago will be without money after JuIy Il
and the marshal district attorney com
mIsslOners. clerks and their suborIipates
Will become the creditors of the Govern
ment unless Uncle Joe Cannon starts the.
pail rolling once more and pushes through
another appropriation bill sufficiently free.
from Jobs TO secure the approval of the.
President
Inc new soldiers home at Danville. for
Whlch S2OOOOO was Appropriated i'm tho
House and the amount cut down 10 &1jO
Ooo III the Senate, also went by the. boudr
One of the important items which failed
to be enacted into law was the auDrouri,
ton OF S15O.OOO for making the prelini-
nary surveys looking toward the creation
OF deep waterway from Chicago and
Duluth to the Atlantic seaboard. rs recoru-
mehded by the commission of which En-
Slheef Cooley was the expert member
ne work of improving the channels of tho
great lakes from Chicago to Brffalo is
now III progress. and 10 continue this the
sum or Sl.No.oOD was provided by the.
Dill which failed to become a law.
Such of these items as are deservin,,
VIII. OF course. be included in the new an
preparation bill. and there is not much
70, h.. IL.
ployes will not get their money.
There is. however. much more press
ing urgency in regard To the appropria
uohs carried by the deficiency bill. This
measure was hung up in conference Presi-
ueht cleveland did not veto this measure
put undoubtedly would have done so if il
mad been presented to him. It carries
among other things Il lump approDriatiop
Sl.2oo.OOo. which is deficiency in tho
amount previously provided for colectip.,
the customs revenues. If Immediate ac
ton is not taken every emplove of the
custom house III Chicago will find his soI-
AIRY withheld after April until .JuIv
Tor the treasury has no money to pav orIi
nary customs expenses after thar fine
mere IS no doubt that speedy action will
be taken to re-enact all the approximation
bllls which failed to become laws. For
instance. the agricultural bill. which Pres
Ident Cleveland pocketed because Of it's
seed appropriations which he has always
refused 10 approve of. carries with it the
salary of the secretary of the department.
and. of course. ''Tama Jim Wilson of
Iowa would hardly care to keep up his
end in Washington social life without his
expected stipend of 5000 per annum.
President Mckinley is particularly anx-
lous that the passage Of the belated an
preparation bills shall not interfere with
the tariff measure which he hopes to have
enacted into law at an early date.
Latest reports from Winona. Mimi.
state that the authorities are. certain that
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