Review of reviews and world's work . mocrats must abandon their war-cry against theBillion D(jllar Congress, for they are appropriatinga larger sum of money than the Republican Con-gress appropriated in its first session two years Republican leaders, Mr. Reed and Mr. Bur-rows, have done what they could to foment theDemocrat disagreement over appropriations and tomake Mr. Holmans path of retrenchment a thornyone. Mr. Burrows, it may be said in passing, ismentioned as the very probable Chairman of theMinneapolis Convention, while Mr. Reed has enjoyeda slight boom as a presidential candid
Review of reviews and world's work . mocrats must abandon their war-cry against theBillion D(jllar Congress, for they are appropriatinga larger sum of money than the Republican Con-gress appropriated in its first session two years Republican leaders, Mr. Reed and Mr. Bur-rows, have done what they could to foment theDemocrat disagreement over appropriations and tomake Mr. Holmans path of retrenchment a thornyone. Mr. Burrows, it may be said in passing, ismentioned as the very probable Chairman of theMinneapolis Convention, while Mr. Reed has enjoyeda slight boom as a presidential candidate. The Riuer There are imdoubtedly a large numberand of items in this great River and Harbor ^ ° bill which are not defensible upon anygrounds of propriety, and which were permitted tostand simply for the sake of catching here and therea vote that was thoxight needfiil for the success ofthe main features of the bill. Apart from theseminor items, which would not aggregate a very start-ling amount of money, there may be much honest. HON. J. C. BURROWS. OF MICHIGAN, WHO WILL PER-HAPS PRESIDE AT MINNEAPOLIS. 522 THE RE^/EIV OF REVIEIVS. difference of opinion as to the propriety and advan-tage of the great bulk of the outlay. In our opinion,however, so long as there is no ground for disaiJi^rovalof the engineering plans adopted in the improvementof the navigation of the Mississippi river, and nosuspicion in any quarter that the money appropriatedfor that pui-pose is not honestly and intelligently paidout to secure the desired end, there is sufficient reasonfor regarding the investment as a profitable and ad-vantageous one. In like manner, any sum necessaryto remove obstructions or to deepen channels so thatthere may be a passage for large ships from the far?western ports of our great lake system to the impor-tant ports at the eastward end of the system, ismoney so well exjjended that it will repay the coun-try many fold. As an illustration of the kind ofgreat pviblic inijirovemen
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