New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-11
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE

A correspondent at Delphi Indiana, states that
Mr.. Hendricks, <the Democratic candidate for
Governor of that State, recently made a speech
there, in which he challenged any nearer to name
one good act which the Republican party in Con-
gress had either done or attempted; and that his
auditOrs-probsbly struck dumb with amazement
at his impudence-made no response whatever.
How is it possible-if there were even one Republi
can present who is not tongue-tied-that he
should have failed to thunder out "THE HOME
STEAD BILL"
Let US give a more circumstantial, yet con-
densed, reply to Mr.. Hendricks challenges:
I. The Republicans in Consroos have originated
and carried through both Houses bill providing,
by liberal grants of Public Lands to the several
States, for MANUAL LABOR Summaries in every
State-that is, for seminaries in which the teach
ing of the Natural and Physical Sciences, with the
application of their fruitful truths to Agriculture,
Manufactures, and the Mechanic arts, shall be sys-
tematically taught. This measure fairly carried
into effect, would have been worth more to the
country than all that the Democratic party ever
devised or dreamed of. twas temporarily crushed
by the veto of Democratic President.
II. They have originated matured and carried
through the House. bill providing for DAILY
OVERLAND MAIL TO CALIFORNIA; measure
which would reduce by at least ~ days the
average time consumed in the transportation of
letters from the Western States to the Pacific
Coast, render emigration and travel across the
Plains secure and comparatively easy, accelerate
the settlement and cutivat on of the Far West,
and bring the Rocky Mountain aid Carson Valley
gold regions within half their present practical
distance from the Mississippi Valley, reducing the
cost of subsistence therein by at least third and
of pc stall theresith BY three fourths.
This great measure of bedefcence and National
propress-the necessary forerunner of the Pacific
Railroad having triumphantly passed the House,
was stiftd in The Senate by willy, treacherous
Democratic intrigue, whereof the great Mail
Steamer monopoly enjoys the benefit and probably
paid the cost.
Ill. The Republicans in the present House origi-
mated and passed a MILEAGE REFORM BILL,
whereby the present exOrbtant and elastic allow
ance of forty cents for every mile traversed, or
alleged 10 have been traversed, by each Member in
proceeding "by the usually Travelled route" from
his home to Washington at the beginning OF each
session, and returning thence to said home at its
close, is reduced to ten cents per mile, calculated
by bee line from his home to Washington. By
this reform, the Members from California, Oregon
and Washington, who now receive about Sl7, 900
each for their attendance on the sittngs OF each
Congress, would be cut down to between 81, 900
and Sc, 1000, which would still be liberal recon-
pense. When the bill passed increasing the an
nual compensation of Members from So per day to
$4,000 per aDnum, we we're assured that this re-
duction and equalization of Mileage would be one
of it's inevitable consequences yet four years have
since elapsed without any redemption of that
promise, and at length the bill to redeem it orgi-
mated in Republican Committee of Ways and
Means, and passed by predomnantly Republican
House. is throttled and killed in Democratic Sen
ate. This measure would not merely diminish the
annual expenses of the Government by heavy
amount; it would replace inequality and wrong BY
Justice and equity. Republicanism devised and
carried it through one House; Democracy stran'
eled it in the other.
~. The present Republican House framed and
psssed--only two Republicans dissenting-a PRO
TEcTIyE TARIFF BILL, which, had it not been
likewise stiflsd by the Democratic majority in the
Senate, would have stopped the mourning OF
Mercantile Debt in Europe for Fabrics that we
might and should produce at home-stopped tho
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