Doubtful Stewardship

We see that he Library Committee of Congress have recommended the appropriation of $10,000 to purchase a marble bust of the late Chief Justice Taney. We do not know what members compose this committee, but in their action they represent the whole people and not merely their constituents, and while the country is struggling in debt to carry on an expensive war, while districts are striving to provide funds to raise men, and soldiers fighting the battles of the country are unpaid, we deem it but little better than robbery on the National Treasury to be purchasing a bust of Roger B. Taney. Will some one publish the names of the members doing this, no matter what their politics are, that they may be known.-Meadville Republican:

The Library Committee on the part of the Senate are Messrs. Collamer, – and Johnson; on the part of the House, Messrs. Frank, E. B. Washburne and Wadsworth. We agree with the Republican in thinking that the national funds can be better expended than in paying honor to the infamous memory of Roger B. Taney.