Show The Pittsburg Dispatch says some of I Its contemporaries are inclined to jeer I at Congressman Shafroths plan for I reducing expenses when they reach a I certain limit but that the jeers are I I misplaced Mr Shafroth is an ordinary I ordi-nary congressman himself and he I knows what a member of that class will do when the question of cutting I off 1000 a year from his salary is concerned con-cerned says the Dispatch While congressmen may do what the administration I admin-istration rules as to tariff and submit themselves blindly to the speaker on other points they would in that contingency I con-tingency inform their leaders that one thing must not happen and that strictly forbidden thing would be an I excess of the expenditures of the revenue reve-nue Inasmuch as the biggest half of the late troubles was due to the propensity pro-pensity of congressmen to go ahead and vote appropriations with sublime disregard of what the revenue was a plan that would bind congressmen backed by the noble army of officeholders office-holders to the platform that there shall I be no deficiencies would fill the long felt want But how is Mr Shafroth I going to get congress which ha been I the chief offender to bind itself to that i selfreformation Of Mr Shafroths I plan it may be said that the motive is commendable but the method of carrying I carry-ing it out is weak |