Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-12-31

fund topetner with the other Gums for other mater4
Now, where raise this money III we had tle
money in the Treasury, would agree that 1t would be
better for the nation at large pay these bountes IT,
the other hand pursue the policy that has been
heretofore adopted, of paying but small bounties oca
es, couates towns aud States will raise these bounties
La every community they doing It, They have done
IN the past When this commenced We ra'sed amor
Ieves you may say without any bounes at all Even
the 500 bounty promised them not to be paid unti
the end Of the say, therefore, have arrived ut
that condition when must appeal 10 toe phys,chl re-
Of the country by means Of draft; and brese
this will end until the people nf the unItcd
States willing To enforced fair conscrpon law,
or an enrolment law, or milta law do not care
what you call it.
1t seems to me that the War Department In the execu-
on law passed by Congress Mt the last session de-
syed and procrastiuated it, snd excited the'very oppos
ton which they complained Of against that law lt took
them thros months to appoint the agents to execute that
law If rem-mbar correctly, we're hurried In The
passage of that law by the honorable chairman Of the Com
mttee Military Afairs because it was necessary TO put
into ia-aea.is operation. We passed II before the
close Of the session. and it nearly three months before
they had the agents appointed tn execute the law 1t
to they might have selected the provost
shas and the various agents to execute th- law IN thirty
days because they had here the Of Information ss
to the best persons execute the law but il delay
ed nearly three mouths and then locality taken.
Insead Of having the draft universal all the country
at the time they first took the city Of New York.
believe that the first place takenho place where
the draft the most severe where twas the most un
popular where the political sentiments of portion OF the
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law aud then, when it resisted 10 New York, they
delayed and hestated. Why sir, in the State Of Ohio,
while we were engaged IN an animated canvass the peo
pie every where asked, Why do they enforce the
draft" Nobody complained Of it. 1t might have been
enforced in Oho-my colleague will agree with in this
remark-to the last without resistance That is my
deliberate Judgment; but ii delayed and delayed until
October last they promised there large bountes II
have the money am willing to pay them. am viii
ing pay the last dollar and give the last to carry
the war; but the question whether have the abb
to Wh Wa ouoht to s9su
know have the money. We have the power by en-
forcing the conscr ption law to raise We have not
the power to borrow money faster than the people VIII
lend it 10 us.
Mr.. NESMITH Mr. President, it seems to me that
the embsrrsssments under which labor grow out Of
the effort to pursue mixed system for the raising OF
troops During the last session of Congress- favored
what called the conscripon BILL or rather the enroll
ment bl because believed that the most equitable
and just mode of raising troops. The Administration IN
stead Of applying the law proposed by Congress, for
rising troops set off to mix up with another system Of
paying bounties hence the difficulty which is
presented to Congress to reconcile the two systems
believed at the commencement of the war, do,
that if il necessary 10 raise for the defence of
the country all aud all portions of the country should
contribute equally and have been opposed TO this sys
tenn Of subsidy in paying enormous bounties do not
believe that the question has been relation the
believe it has been purely money question: and
thick to-day that the of the prosecution Of This
war depends upon ability to carry the country
through the financial csis than does upon the questions
Of raisirg
have been opposed to mixing up VIC two .yatems
When this matter before the Military Commit
voted for the third ion OF the bill yesterday under
sideraton which approprates $50 900 for the pay
ment Of the bounty aud the premium to the 9th day
been made by the Government to the who had enlist
ed There authority the part of the executive
Sernment to pay men s4oo bopnty without any rec,sn
ton Of law for such act yet, inasmuch they had
proper TO adopt it, TO prevent difficulty and
plants in the army went the extent of voting the
An ampn uyas ado erda
tending the time to the Cd of February and if the result
s 10 BE- what Senators this Dor claim for the volunteer
system, by the I'd Of Febuzry three hundred thousand
will have been raised They say that we should re-
sort TO and depend upon vnun eeriDg entirely notwith
standing that have upon cur statute book the l.
ment act, and all the cumber and expensive ms
chr cry for its execution all the country; aud al
though to keep that n operation, to turn
round aud pay from $500 t. $500 bounty One system
the other should be abolished the other should
be relied upon and stated before, have been 10
favor Of the system which conscrpts certain number
from the community who owe service 10 the Govern
ment
Now it, q, s proposed aud i the principle which |. ia
taed by Senators here is true the army be filed up
under system OF bounes, the question which
swhat amount 10 10 be required to carry that system out
have made cacuaOn-to be sure, not upon any very
correct data, but upon what suppose will be something
correct result. Suppose that by the I'd Of Febu
ary these Senators ca, the army viii be 6ed under
the volunteer sysem which has been adopted by the De-
parmenti suppose that hundred thousand veterans
reenst at a bounty If $400 each You have there
$40 600 600 10 with. Suppose that you enlist
buadred thousand Others at $500 each you have there
$50 900 600 additional Then, under the clause which
was ths bill under consideration yesterday and which
has not been stricken cut Of the resolution coming t.
from the other House. you have premium of 6fteea dol
lars for veterans which amounts to 500 600 more and
you have premium Of ten dollars for other recruits
amounting to s. 900 900 more. Thus in the aggregate
the which necessary to be appropriated and which
must be incorporated in this b this system relied
Upon, is SlQ3500 900.
have voted steadily against thesc propositions aod
disposed to vote against them to-day. defer very
much TO the Judgment and experience OF older and much
ubler Senators here's but do not believe that the two
systems be successfully mixed zap, neither do be-
while we lave provision upon our sis ute book with
cumbersome and expensive machinery for raising troops
The effect Of bringing the two Systems 10 conflict will be
damaging and do not believe that the resources and the
Of the country at this tune will the dis
bursemen OF so large amount $103 500 600 shall
vote against all such financial ques tons
and shall vote for, and continue to support the enforce
men of the enrolment act believing that that s the
fair, just, and equitable way Of raising men, and at the
came time relieving the Treasury
Mr. HOWE / want to cooperate with the Senator
r Maine and the Senator from Ohio in the purpose they
to be driving att and when the proper b comes up
want to submit 10 the Senate amendments which think
will enable the Governmsnt to pay bounlies and relieve
the burden which they throw upon the soldier and not
put any burden upon the Treasury stated yesterday
how designed to have this done and the amendment ne
it Is proposed by the Senator, conflicts with that
There s now no law for paying these bounter and the
Government will be disgraced and dshonored IL we do not
appropriate this amount; and after have ntmated
the Government that IL is purpose after the 9Th Of
January that no bounes shall be paid and certainly not
IL. - a.