Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. Is, 1878. .


It is not unlikely that the people Of this
country could save thirty or forty millions
Of dollars by the judicious expenditure Of
few hundreds of thousands. II is plain
that those millions could be saYed by cut
ting down government expenses, without
interference with the harmonious and safe
working Of the machinery. But this re-
trenchment involves the cutting down Of
salaries as well as other expenses, and there
we touch the Congressman in tender spot
If some decent way could be found to ex-
cept him from the general reduction am
satisfied that he would at once lessen the
pay of every officer Of the government, and
force the utmost economy in every expendi-
ture. But with what face can he say that
his neighbor shall suffer while his own pay
remains untouched? We must devise
scheme for making up to him what he will
lose by reductions which the condition Of
the country renders imperative1y necessary.
Who will start subscription


Even as moths fly around the fire that Is
yet to destroy them 80 do Hayes andshermn
and the rest of the administration hover
around the New Orleans troubles. Rather,
perhaps, they feel the horrible fascination
that makes criminals revisit the scenes o
their crimes. "Visiting Statesmen should
be appointed to advise Messrs. Hayes and
Sherman to keep clear of an affair which
can only be business of theirs If they are as
guilty ss Anderson and Wells. The whole
country is watching them. Hayes Is in the
White House and Sherman in the Treasury
only because Bradley and the rest said the
Federal Government could not interfere
with the Returning Board of sovereign
State, no matter how great the fraud of
that Board might be. Hayes and Sherman
should remember this and keep their hands
off, and tongues still.


Representative Glover, of Mo-, whose
IDEAS of republican government are perhaps
as sound and clear as those of any other
man In Congress, recently presented bill
to prescribe the means by which attorneys
practicing before the departments should be
"cut of" or debarred from such practice.
Heretofore a large business of that kind
built up after great labor and expenditure
and perhaps by years Of both, could be
destroyed in moment by the petty head of
an Insignificant bureau, who would, quite
likely, be himself merely bird of passage,
hold bis place for month and then being
turned out to make room for some one else.
Representative Glover proposes that shesr-
ing shall be given bv the Attorney
General Of the United States, before the
attorney shall be disbarred; and this, OF
some other check upon men havisg "a little
brief authority" seems to me eminently
proper.


What the Silver Bill Senate debates may
seem to our descendants to amount to we
cannot tell, but those of us who have lis
tened attentvely to them fail to find In
struction or new ideas 10 any except
Voorhees,, Bayard and Blaine. The Others
have been dull enough, and have had few
listeners. What Jones will say, who has


in his employment a regular staff of mer


who do nothing but read on the subject Of


silver, 80 that they may supply him with


points. What Conkling may say, If he
lspeaks on the subject, may be well worth