Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-05

met any taing; has he proved any thing; has he
di-proVed any thingI Is speech OF that kind
10 De CONSIDERED a. al answer % any fact argu
mentF stand here arguing this bill before the
COMMITTEE stand here making assertions and
proving Facts which the gentleman dare not deny.
ana does ne suppose viii accept spread-eagle
affair oil i've minutes long "a an answer to the
remarks have made upon the material interests
OF the people rerresentl
why. sir. such an argument such an attempt
at argument such speech does not raise high
enough to reach an honest mars contempt
Now | call these gentlemen back TO the point.
They DO not answer; they do DENY: they rant
They say the Union will be restored | think,
too. il will be- but IL will be after such men as
the gentleman from Illinois aud those who act
with him have been consigned To oblivion. and
when the honest sentiment of the people who love
this Union with all It's laws shall have gained the
ascendency in the country IL they suppose TOR
one moment that the Democratic members, and
the conservative members upon the floor are to
be intimidated from discussion by loud talk and
high sounding sentences they have got to learn
US over again Meet argument with argument
We viii! strip your position of this fustian, ana
leave il naked to the country.
Attack New England Who has attacked
New England? | have not. have not asked
that she should be kept out in the cold. Indeed,
she shall not 20 out, she takes notion 20
once in n while. But when party in power, be
il New England. New York, or any body else
puts its one hand upon threats and the other
in our pockets ami asks to keep still while the
robbery goes Oh, shall be not we allowed the poor
privilege of crying out in our agony
The gentleman says his constituents are not
suffering Let him speak for them. think,
however. in that he is mistaken if he represents
agricultural district He SAYS. too, his dis
trict Is loyal. should scorn myself il replied
to such remark. | suppose il is loyal ! do
not attack it, and antil an attack upon my dis
triet comes in some other shape than by puerile
insinuation, | shall not defend it upon this
floor.
"A word more The gentleman says | OPP
posed great measure for the benefit of the
Northwest. last Congress-alluding to the cele
brated canal scheme, in which the gentleman was
SO much wrapped up. The distinguished chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means Mr.
Stevens. from Pennsylvania did the same For
once our dslOyal heads upon this side shell
tered bv the broad egis of the gentleman from
Pennsylvania.
"Mr Washburne, of Illinois-He was not from
the Northwest however.
Mr. Norhees-Iha hat Is true; but / suppose he
is loyal As TO the Northwest, | have never
been able to appreciate the tangible benefits it
would derive from that gigantic scheme OF what
have always conceived to be simply "A scheme
of public plumber. | looked upon it rs great
system TO feed IA loathsome swarm of harpies
upon the National Treasury. No such measure
had and never shall have my sanction
stand here to defend my course upon that subj ect
whenever it is assailel
''But this is aside from the point Come back
to the issue; come back to the high tariff; come
back To the matter of taxation. You shall not
escape from it before the country. The sOdel
of loyal patriotic heart, the soldier upon the
field. who pays fifty or sixty cents yard for
muslin to wrap his wasted oodv in. shall know to
whom he makes that payment. The minufac-
turer robs him. His interest is identical with tht
farmer.
'Mr j c. Allen-I wish to answer the re-
marks of the gentleman from Iowa Mr.. Wilson,
who first spoke on this question | think he i.
mistaken about the price of farm produce in the
West. 1t is true that pork Is quoted at twenty
two dollars in Chicago; but the enhancement in
price has taken place since the article has gone
into the hands of spectators. / know that farm
ers and small grazers of Illinois have only 81
and So % for their pork. Besides, the gentle
man forgets that the price does not represen,
what it formerly represented. inasmuch as pay
ment is made in deprecated currency.
Mr.. Wilson-DOes not that argument applY
to The manufacturers of New England as well a:
to the farrners of the West2
"Mr j c Alen-It is known to the gentle
tural products of The West, that wheat which 4
few years ago brought s % bushel in all tn,
markets OF the Mississippi Valley is not worth
more than that in deprecated currency
1t is true that the article of corn bears exOr
btant price, but that is the result OF partla
failure of the crop. Cattle not worth n.
much they were then by least thirty pei
cent. Beef does no. communal as much AS it did
for years past; and yet told that farmer:
receiving compensation equal to what they
received heretofore. 1t is not so, because man,
articles of Manufactured goods that they pay tOI
cost three hundred per cent. more than they cos
before the commencement of this war. On every
AK that the woOdsman uses he paws premium o
thirty or forty cents; on every pound OF coffee
that his family uses, he pays three hundred pei
cent. more than he used to pay So it i,
with cotton and WOODEN fabrics Three dol
lars TO day is not worth more than dollar
was then; and yet, in the face of these facts
the gentleman from Iowa. representing, a:
he says, an agricultural interest. has the
boldness to stand up and tell thai
the farmers were receiving compensation equa
to what they received before. No, sir. neon
sequence of the depreciation of the currency: il
consequence of the increased price of manutac
tured goods; in consequence OF the increased
price of transportation and increase in the price
OF labor, they not receiving as much as the,
received before. Are We TO lie told, then, tina
the farmers of the West are not suffering, anC
are TO be denounced when we ask that th'
spectators of New England or of anywhere els,
shall be compelled to pay their proportional
share OF the burdens OF the people? Is tIer'
any justice or equity in exempting them from
the payment of this two cents per pound on cot
toni | think not. | make these remarks in be
half OF the community which | represent, an,
presume il will not be charged with lislO, atty
Why, my loyal friend from Galena district j
ia constituent oi mine the, Presidento OF the Unite
States il a constituent oi mine, well as Gen
Grant, the hero of the present
Il hope that | may not be charged with dis
loyalty in making the foregoing remarks.
made them because l believe that the burdens o
the tax Till of tris Congress bore too heavy upoI
the West and that unless guard our " ESTER
/ interests, the burden of taxation under this bill
Will tail upon our agricultural people
s.,uene, Tlene. Tekei, UPharsin!''
He who will. may see the "hlniwritng on tn
wall - read and interpret it The circular of Mr.
McCulloch, ''Controilor Of the currency i al
extraordinary andintefesting paper. Ii should 81
read again and again. until each word he re