Cutting Off The Sinecures

Washington, Feb. 1. - The House Comcuittee ou Appropriations has strengthenod itself amazingly by the fearless manncr in whioh it has pruned down the expenditures on the House side. For years the expenses of running the legislativo branch of the Government have been steadily growig until now they are outrageously high. Clerkships have been multiplied, and messengers and other employees inoreased by the score. On the Senate side espocially, the clerkshipa have been increased by every possible inethod, to give every Senator a private seoretary. Ccmmittees that never meet are provided with high-priced clerks and others that assemble once a mouth have both clerks and messengers. The political bummers who held these sinecures were not satisfied. Year after year they were intriguing to got their pay for doing nothing increased. Of course every one of these fellows who is struck raises a howl and rallies his influence to prevent his soft thiug being taken away. The poople who seek place never think that ecoaomy should be made practical when it begins with thom. It is well enouch to howl about the travagancjes of the party in power, but when the ins are turned out and the outs let in the tune always changes. "What is the use of supportiog a party that don't reward its supporters?" say the fellows who are about to be slaughtred ; but the Detnocrats and members of the Committee on Appropriations turn neither to the right or lett in their work of reform. They have slashed away regardless of their fellows who are clamoring to be spared, and they mean to go to the House with their bill and fight it out on the line they have marked down if it takes theni all summer. They are in no dilemma at all, as ácimo Republican organs gleefully claim, they are beginning at home, and are doing their work there just as thoroughly as they propose to do elsewhere.