Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-10-14

and the entire vote of that party was A.
Now if that is clear ,corkiag majority in
a house that contains 81 votes, | do not
know in what q majority consists.
There were 40 democrats in that house,
of these some four or five were elected from
republican districts, as Union Men, but
they voted every time as the great moguls
of the democratic party dictated, and new
er once with the republicans. They were
ali present except Hamilton, . and oppo-
scd the passage OF that bill, by every far
and unfair maneuvre and trick through
all its stages, up to the final vote. When
the ayes and noes were called on the pass
age Of the bill, only 80 noes were recorded'
and of these, two were Union men,
'Where; oh where frere the I otiter den-
ocrats? "Skedaddled' out Of the Hall,
because, tho anxious to defeat the bill,
they didn't dare put themselves on the
record for fear of the Soldiers vote.
Now as to the facts with regard to the
action of the two parties on the bills 'to
eAtctltt the state ana W foiuHtcSIo uIUeI
the late calls" ana to provide fund to pay
the consequent demands on the Volunteer
Aid Fund
That part Of the Governors message
referring TO these matters, was referred
to a special committee, of which ex speak
er Beardsley was chairman That com
mittee reported back two bills one was
to extend the state aid to Ill volunteers,
(Which was amended by the house so as
to include ''drqfted men" as we'll, and
another bill to raise a special 'direct tar'
Of 1915 600, to replenish the volunteer aid
fund These bills passed the house and
were concurred on by the Senate.
1t was known at this time, that the extra
demands on the fund entailed by the first
of these two bills, would exhaust the fund
already provided by about the first of No
vember
Every one, who knows anything of
these matters, knew that the monies to be
raised by the direct tar would not come
into the Treasury until about the end Of
February next; consequently there would
be period between the first of November
and about the first of March, during which
there would be no money to meet the de-
mands on the fund. To obtain this, and
to ensure the regular payment to the fam
lies of the volunteers of the state aid, du-
ring the Indictment season of the year, in
which it would be most needed, Senator
Bean introduced into the senate, a bill to
authorize the issue of $275, 700 Of State
Bonds This bill passed the senate, with
4 proviso attacl ed, that, the bonds should
not be sold for less than their par value.
The vote on 1t in the senate was ayes l9,
noes 7; the "ayes" all republicans, the
noes" all democrats. 1t came before the
house for action on the 9th of September.
On the day or rather night before this,
the house after nearly week of hardest
fighting, had passed the "4Tmy suffrage
Bill Several members Of the republi-
can side of the house, (some of whom
lived in the Indian region, and had left
their families without protection,) not
that there would be any oppo-
sition to a bill so manilestly just as this,
had left for home and consequently the
Democrats had clear majority over both
and Union men combined,
and they used this powe- to kill the bill.
This was done by a strict party cote, only
one democrat Uatham) voting for it, and
he was elected from republican district.
This they did though they knew that there
was no possible rag to replenish that fund
except by borrowing the money. No "di
rect tag of any amount could reach the
exigcncy of the case. Consequently when
the HateHiqeBcer says, that, the only OBJ
lection the democrats had to the bill, was
because 1t proposed to borro,c the money
instead of raising it by "direct tax" it
utters "B0SH," as no direct tax could
raise the money in time.
We VIII now see how honest they were in
their profession OF willingness to raise a fur
ther g direct tle" for this purpose.
The two houses had passed a Joint resolu-
ton 20 adjourn at II O'clock on Tuesday NOR
ming. About 10 o'clock on that day, Acting
Governor Lewis sent in message, calling the
attention Of the House 10 this Fund showing
that the money on hand would last only to
the FIRST Of November; that no benefit co,ad
accrue from the Tax until near the first of
March, and that consequently there would be
period of three or four ,ej3,tcr months, when
relief from this fund would be most needed by
th4 families Of the Volunteers, during which
theae would be nomoney TO meet the demands
CA The fund. He adverted to the njsestiee of
holding out hopes TO those families, which
could hot be realized, and begging the House
to devise some way to replenish the fund be-
fore it adjourned. On the motion of Mr. San
born, tdeu1.) this message was referred to
joint select committee of five. This com
uaittee WAS composed of two Republicans. two
Democrats and one Union Democrat They
made two reports, the Republicans and the
Union man reporting a compromise bill, to
raise si5o,Goo on bonds, to meet the immedi-
ate pressing emergency, and Sl50,oo0 to be
added to the State Tax 10 carr, the Fund