The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-06-03
tFrom the opposItloul
Gov. Harris arid the Thirty-Tourth
Conrreea.


In the Union and Americans report OF
Gov. Harris speech in this place, we find
the following paragraph:
"He [Gov. Harris charged, further
more, that the thirty-fourth Congress,
composed of large Opposition majority,
calling themselves Black Republican.
Know-nothings, and Know-nothing Black
Republicans, was the most wasteful and
profligate Congress in the history of the
government, having appropriated, over
and above the amount estimated as neces-
sary by the Departments, Sll 1887 90
This he challenged his competitor to de-
n.y."
We most respectfully take issue with
the Governor as to the accuracy of his
statement, that the Aiiay-fourth Con.
gress was composed of a large Opposition
majority. Congress consists of tpo Houses
the Senate and the House of Repre-,
sentatives. The Democrats never, during
the 34th Congress, had less majority in
the Senate than .towteen-which is a very
large majority in body consisting, as the
Senate did at that time, of G2 members
In the House of Representatives they
were in q minority during the two scs-
sions of the 34th Congress. To say that
that Congress, thus composed, was "con-
posed of large Opposition majority" is
to say that which is not true in point OF
fact.
In, ohopustu fI,ot {laf
the most wasteful and proaigate" Con.
gress in the history of the government,
Governor Harris charges that the over.
whelmingly Democratic Senate, which
constituted a coordinate branch of that
Congress, was "the most wasteful and
profigate" Senate in the history of the
Government!
As proof conclusive that the 34th Con.
gress was ''the most wasteful and profit
gate" Congress known in our history,
Gov. Harris cites the fact of its having
appropriated over and above the amount
estimated as necessary by the depart
ments, S1l, ,4Ss,777.
Say you so, Governor? What, then,
have you to say of the 32nd Congress,
which did the same thing, and in which
the Democrats had majority of fourteen
in the Senate, and .ftty-one in the House
of Representatives? In the Treasury Re-
port submitted to Congress at the session
of 1928 it is stated that the estimated
expenditures for the fiscal year ending
June Both, 1853, which + submitted to
Congress in Decemks6 /, were $42,-
S72, ,299, and thu sactually ap-
propriated and authdi5 the expendi-
ture of s53, ,3G0,579. TIN did Congress,
with large Democratic majorities in both
Houses, exceed the Wing estimates of the
Wing heads of Departments of Wing adj.
ministration for a single year, upwards OF
ten millions Of doRars!
In exceeding the estimates, therefore,
the Black Republicans of the House OF
Representatives of the 34th Congress, but
followed in the footsteps of their illustri.
GUS Democratic predecessors of the 32nd
Congress.
But deep into the Treasury as the Black
Republican House of Representatives OF
the 34th Congress might have been dis
posed to go by its appropriations, the
Democratic Senate went still deeper and
carried the Black Republican House along
with it. In speech made in the House
of Representatives on the 18th of June,
1858, the Hon. j. Letcher, now the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Vir-
ginia, said:
"Atthe lastsession ofthe Thirty-Fourth
Congress, the Senate returned to this
House the sundry civil bill with one
hundred and three amendments, cover
ing appropriations to the amount of S3,-
77l,Sl6. 1t came to this House on the
last night of the session, when we had no
opportunity ercn To read tie amendments IL,
The House. On the recommendation of the
Committee of Ways and Means a major
ity of whom were Black Republicans and
Know-Nothings the House Black Re.
publican, as it was rejected all tie amend
me,ts, and the bill and amendments thus
rejected, went to committee of confer.
ence, who reported the next morning
that the Senate should recede from amend.
ments covering Sl73,25G, and that the
House should recede from its disagree.
ment to the residue"
The report of the committee of confer
ence was accordingly concurred in by
both Houses, and the Democratic Senate
succeeded on the last night of the session
in forcing upon reluctant Black Repub
lican House of Representatives amend
ments appropriating S3,O5s,5G0 of the
public money!
Why is it, that Governor Harris has no
directed at least portion of his fire upor
the Democratic Senate of the 34th Con
gress? Does he think to hold the Oppo
sition party of Tennessee responsible fo
the action of the Republican House o
Representatives of the 34th Congress, ane
at the same time to absolve the Demo
cratic party from the responsibility Of tn,
action of the Democratic Senate durin,
that Congress? If he does, he must hav,
most aristocratic contempt for the pub
lie intelligence.
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