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Show U ASII1XUTOX. Tln I'n-sirtvnt Klgns (ho lvll (Service Kill, II in in not Sulif llfd The Currency Hill lliu-h Tho lrcNldeu(. will Vindicate lliinsell. Washington, St. The president will Hen 1 a xpet'ial rnptwage to the lion-n today in regard to the mndry uivil appropriation bill, which he says ho reluctantly ni;ns. He calls attention atten-tion of the housu to some of the main features of the bilwhich are injurious lo the public service in several important im-portant particulars. T'ie appropriations appropria-tions made in the bill are inadequate in that they do not appropriate according to the existing laws, and secondly, they full to provide for some branches of thu service at all. The1 bill is inadequate in that it seriously cripples several branches of Ihe service, ser-vice, no'ably the signal service corps. Attention is called to the .'act that no appropriation ia made fjr the District of Culumhia. which is a great injustice injus-tice to its citizens, who have no government gov-ernment of their own, but are dependent depend-ent on congreris. Comment is made as to Die action ol congress in failing to provide for the payment of judgments judg-ments against the government allowed by the Btiprcme court aud the court of claims, amounting to about two million mil-lion dollars. Special attention is directed to this omiBsion in thg bill, and the president dwolls upon the fact thatth tribunals which allowed these claims wero established by congress, one of them for the Bpecial purpose, and that the claimants, alter having been to great expense to get judgment judg-ment against the government, are now met with the refusal of congress to pay them. - 'i he committee on banking and currency this morning failed lo come t a vote. Goode was absent, which left the hard money men in a majority. ma-jority. Tne proposition is under consideration con-sideration to appoint a sub-committee to sit during the recess and refer to it the entire subject, including inflation, infla-tion, resumption, curreocy, and the silver question, with instructions to make a thorougn examination of the whole subject. The senate committee on appropriations appro-priations has completed the river and harbor appropriation bill, the aggregate aggre-gate of which they limit to five million mil-lion dollars. A personal friend of the president's is the authority lor the statement that Grant has said he does not intend in-tend to rely upon the efforts of his friends to defend him against Bluford Wilson's history, but will himself prepare pre-pare a statement to be submitted to the committee, iu which he claims he will be able to controvert all that h.is Vcen brought out to his disfavor. |