The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-22
wilfally False.

wilfally False.
The Kalamazoo Gazette, Corunna
Democrat, and a few other English
democratic journals, endorse and reite-
rate the following palpable falsehood,
originally uttered by the Free Press of
this city:
=" CONGRESSIONAL EcoNoMY.-The
loan bill which passed Congress just at
the close of the session was for fifteen
millions of dollars. This was all the
administration asked.n
l. Immediately after Congress as
sembled, the Administration asked and
obtained permission to issue, and did
issue, and keep afoat, s2O,OOO,OOO of
Government shinplasters. These shin
plasters, soit1tOut any provision for their
redemption, are now daily received and
paid out by the boosted Democratic,
Specie-paying g. S. Treasury, as Bank
Bills.
III. In May following the Admins
tration again called on Congress for
more money. Instead of shinplasters,
it called this time for loan of SIS
100000. The measure was kept back,
and in the hands of the Committee of
Ways and Means-the mere instru-
ment in the hands of the Administra-
tion-in both Houses of Congress, until
just prior to the adjournment.
III. Mr.. Buchanan, affecting the
belief that Congress designed adjourn
ing without furnishing the money he
demanded, sent in special message,
pleading poverty, intimating that more
than $15,00o,Oo0 would be required,
and the threatening to call the mem
bers back to an extra session if they
dared go home before providing him
with the money.
~. The Senate then took up the
original SIS, 900, 900 loan bill, and, at
the instigation of the Administration,
increased the amount from fifteen to
TWENTY millions.
". The bill, as amended by the
Senate to twenty millions, was sent
back to the House. Mr. Howard, of
this city, who is member of the Gem
mittee on Wars and Means, and there
fore familiar with the actual necessities
of the Adm nistration, present and
prospective, when the bill was in Com
mittee of the Whole, moved to amend
il by making the amount $50, OOO,0 900,
and providing that twenty millions of
the amount be appropriated to take up
or redeem the S2O,O0O,00O of shinplas-
tiers issued in January, and that the
other S1O,00O,O0O be placed in the
Treasury to avoid the necessity of an
extra session, to provide means to meet
the debts of the Administration as they
accrued, and to avoid the dishonor of
the Governments stopping payment or
postponing just claims of citizens,
qohich the administration scW aOao be
obliged to do, until the meeting of Con-
gress In December. The motion OF
Mr.. Howard was carried in Committee,
but defeated in the House, and the bill
finally passed, as " the Administration
asked" and demanded, and as it had
passed the Senate, for twenty, instead
of fifteen millions of dollars.
These are the facts, kaaoacn to the
Free Press, the Gazette, the Democrat
and every intelligent journal in the
State, Notwithstanding their assertion
to the contrary.
Now, mark the prediction At the
meeting of Congress in December next
one of the first things it will be called
upon to do, as it was at the last session
will be to promptly provide money tc
meet the pecuniary obligations of the
Administration. The S2O,OOO,OO0 o
shinpIasters will be unredeemed, thu
500, 600, 900 loan will be used up, thu
S50,O00,OOO to s6O,0OO,OO0 of revenue
will be spent, and the Administrator
will be in debt from ten to twenty mil
lions of dollars. The Administration
is trying to avert their own eviden
doom, by forcing large amounts OF lant
into market, and other similar expedi
ents. But the falling off of S35, OO0,00'
In the revenue thus far this year, ant
the almost certain falling off of ever
more during the remainder, under tn,
Free-Trade-T Tariff and Dire CT Taxation
Policy of the present I" democratic
Party and Administration, on the on
hand, and the Enormously Increase.
and Extravigant Expenditure on tn
other. evidently foreshadows such
result. Mr.. Buchanan went into offic
with nearly SIS, 100000 of surplus; tn
probability is that he will go out {
office with National Debt Of 500
100000 or over! Mark that.-Detro
Tribune. -