Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-05-19

any man In influenced by improper
motives in these matters, but | do want
to call the attention of the house to
the fact that every once In awhile,
whenever we come TO discuss these mat
tiers, my distinguished friend from
Maine Mr.. Dingleyl, whom l am proud
to call my friend, has paraded before us
q phantom camel and has represented
the animal as about to go to the treas
ury of the United States and put In his
nose, and my friend has manifested
great fear that the camel, il he got his
head in, might get his whole body in
also.
"That, I say, was a phantom camel,
but q few days ago I saw the real arti-
Gle approach the treasury Of the United
States, and upon his head was marked
in plain letters the word Maine lap
plause. That camel was under the guild
ance Of my distinguished friend from
Minnesota [Mr. Tawneyl, but / thought
that | saw near by the features of the
distinguished gentleman from Maine
himself ready to help, and when the
Grant cIaim-for that is the claim to
which I allude-was provided for, when
the camel had poked his nose into the
treasury and had been supplied with
$7S, 600, although the claim In that
case had been rejected by the court OF
claims and that rejection had been ap-
proved by the supreme court of the
TT.s&1l Ckakoa TorDizrca1 ora tho on5
NAL turned to take his flight, I thought
I saw my distinguished friend from
Pennsylvania [Mr. Dalzell] standing
near by laughter and possibly winking
the other eye at the distinguished chair
man.
"He seemed to me to say, Mr.. Chair
man, now that that is over, watch me,
and under the operation of those rules
that I have helped to make or not to
make for this house, as the case may be
[laughterl watch me keep these south
ern Republicans from loating the treas
ury.' 1t would not do, you see, to let
the southern Republicans loot the
treasury, In the language of the gentle
man, although the Grant claim was the
least defensible ever passed since I have
been here, and I am glad I voted against
it.
"The Grant claim was rejected by
the courts and was paid. These claims
were sustained by the courts, but are
met by the sturdy opposition OF those
who put through the Grant claim"
And much more In the same humor-
GUS and caustic strain did Brother
Evans utter. Now, q man Of his good
sense, with his habitat, has no business
in the Republican party, for it is al
ways sectional, unjust, selfish and gen.
orally unpatriotio. He and all like unto
him should leave 1t at moe.
Edward Robb OF Missouri.
To demonstrate oonolusively that
Brother Evans was within the shadow
of O great truth when he charged favor
itism in the passage of private claim
bills It is only necessary to state that
on Tuesday, April s, q bill granting
nearly one-third Of O million dollars to
the heirs Of John Roach of Pennsylvania
passed the house, and, wonderful to
tell, the very men who hamstrung Br'er
Evans stood unswervingly by John
Roach. Clearly they are close students
Of geography. But to the homer Of hu-
man nature be 1t said that the John
Roach job did not go through without
a stubborn fight, which was led by Ed
ward Robb, a new member from Mis-
souri,, In which he demonstrated that
though modest and one of the youngest
men on the floor be is a logician and
debater Of great promise. His closing
remarks are full Of truth and sense, but
they fell on what Bailey aptly terms
"the leaden ears and hardened con-
sciences of the majority" Here they
are:
sit is an easy matter for this house
to appropriate money, but the house
should hesitate a long time before 1t np-
propriates money upon any such evil
dence as that upon which we are now
called to act. The power to appropriate
the money Of the people is n to which
should attach the highest sense Of in
dividual responsibility. 1t is a power
for which each and every one. whenever
and wherever exercising it, should be
held TO the striotest accountability. It
is a power which no n should assume
to exercise except for public purposes
and in discharge Of legitimate, we'll
founded and we'll established claims
against the government.
"P~atriotioally, promptly and without
complaint the people respond to every
draft upon their resources that the ma
tional honor may be maintained and
that the institutions founded by the IA
fboro IF tho rop1bIio NAV apdp~a Gov
ever. Willingly-aye, oheerfully-they
give for the maintenance Of government
economically administered. It is not Of
this they complain. It is against the
reckless extravaganza and unblushing
profigacy by which their substance is
dissipated that they of right protest
and in justice should be heard. There
is no one who has had the honor Of q
seat in this house for any time, how
ever long or however short, who should
not, in giving or withholding his sup
port to measures appropriating public
money, be governed by the rigid rules
of economy.
"Will you economize in public ex-
penditures? I address myself to the Re-
publican side Of the chamber. If SO, be-
gin nov How long halt ye between
two opinionsf' Those of US on this side
of the house have heard falling softly
and sweetly from some gentlemen ON
the other side the word economy Il
has a pleasing sound to us. Will you
join us in praoticing it when handling
the public purse? If So begin now. But
I fear that those Of you who have an
honest desire in that direction are in
Iae unfortunate condition Of the old
Ady as expressed in the following lines:
Once said an old woman of Lynn.
I'd Gke to be good
II / could, I
But I don't know where to begin."
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