Show APOTHEOSIS OF GRAFT There are signs that thit the tho gentlemen who have hILve their hands deepest in the United States treasury t ury foresee the day soon to come when they will be oust ousted ed eel rom front their pleasing phasing pl o tation Chief among mongo these s is the dUi dill diligence genes gence with which they pursue PUTS e their vocation of loot They have the ur urgent urgent urgent gent haste hute of the burglar who hears bears he rs footsteps that bode bo e ill for his and liberty So pressing vr sing is js the emer enter emergency gency geney that they have almost forgotten politics and the theY opportunities of ot cam campaign campaign campaign effect An instance in point was the passage passagem on m Friday of a bill bm to reimburse Con Confederate Confederate federate fed erate soldiers f jr the e l horses and nd other personal effaces effe jaken in violation of Grants agreement nc em with Lee at This measure was not only passed vas by the house of rep rop representatives re but it was taken ap ip p out of O Its regular relar order In compliment to its it sponsor Mr Cox CO of Tennessee Tin Un til ti this matter mater came up Mr Mt Mr Cox had hadnot hadnot hadnot not distinguished himself in ten vears years of service to t be known kno from any other plain Iain representative So lit lt r L c f tie tle te was wa he known kown to fame fa e north norh of I the Ohio that any ay picture could ba be I picked out of the te patent medicine ad ad box labeled from Tennessee and print printed t ed without detection dete ton In spite spie of all aI al his insignificance heretofore Mr Cox should go down to t fame as a the pro Dro progenitor progenitor genitor of the graft gf of all al grafts gaft in this congress of grafts I IThe The amount appropriated ig In stricken stick out of the t bill bi as passed probably probably ably to allow of expansion when no noone io o one is looking and ad the destination of the funds Is I Ip not specified accurately ac Similar measures have been before the house hous repeatedly since the close cose of the war without consideration Probably roba lY there was wa some merit mert in the j tion when first presented but now the beneficiaries the men really entitled to the money have nearly all al passed away aw y and the lawyers lawyer and lobbyists who are ae pressing the claim will see seeto seeto seeto to it i that very ve little itte of the appropriation tion reaches rea hes the rightful ri heirs Moreover there tere is something susi clous cious about about the silence of the professional clone patriots triot who are wont to tear t 4 the bloody shirt in tatters when such an opportunity as a this offers Where is the wrath of Grosvenor of the tho wide widemouth mouth mout Where Wee W is the virtuous indig indignation indignation nation naton of all al the men who would narl have seized upon such an occa occasion occasion occasion sion to picture the horrors of war the wickedness of the te great geat rebellion the iniquity of rewarding anybody who w o was wason wason wason on the Confederate side at or elsewhere When Wen such sch a chance for campaign cama n oratory is overlooked the Apotheosis of oi of the Graft is at hand II I I |