Show MALIGNED AND ridiculed as HOLMAN of Indiana is TUB HERALD thinks him worthy of nothing but commendation for his efforts ef-forts in Congress to repress tho spirit of prodigality concerning expenditures for ships of war More than half the seamen In our navy are foreigners and from all I accounts they aro a rum let at best I which is said toe owing to a system that discourages native enlistments This ought to be remedied before another dollar dol-lar is appropriated for naval construction But aside from that it behooves Congress to go a little slow in ordering new ships for the purpose of furnishing contracts to the Washington and coast rings who have already put 400000000 of the public money to sleep in this sort of socalled patriotic work |