The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-25
What the Negro is TO COst.-rh'
Frcedmnn's Bureau Mon

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A bill is now being discussed in the u.
$. Senate "to enlarge the powers of the
Freedman's Bureau II was made sub
jcct of debate on Tuesday, the 23d. What
its nature is, may be inferred from the re-
marks of Senator SALISBURY, of Delaware.
We copy from the regular report:
Mr. Salisbury said he had not intended
when he came to the Senate this session, to
participate in the debates relating to sla-
very, but the Senator from Illinois [Trum-
bull had said. the other day, that there
was necessity III Delaware for the opera
tions of this bureau. Although the Freed
mems Bureau, rs originally established
was only intended, according TO its proyi-
sions, to extend to the States In revolt yet
we eau not shut our eyes to the fact of
what an extensive bureau it is to become,
One thing we know, and 1t Is, that hun
drcds of thousands of the negro race have
been supported out of the Treasury of the
United States, and the whites of this cOun-
try are taxed to pay that expense.
'For the first time in the history of the
country has such thing occurred that the
great mass of the people have been taxed
To support in idlencss class of people too
lazy and too worthless to support them
selves. Look around at these galleries, at
any time OF the day, and you will see the
benehciaries of this bureau crowding them
and listening to the debates of this body.
How many of the honest bard-working
whites of this country, are there who cab
afford to come tO the city of Washington
and sit day after day, week after week, and
month after month, listening to your de-
libcratiOnsI They can not afford to do il,
but under the protective care of this but
rean your galleries can be crowded every
day with negroes, doing nothing To support
themselves, and being supported out Of the
taxes levied upon the white people of this
country.
''The hill under consideration proposed to
enlarge the powers Of the Frecdmen's Bu-
rcau. IL does enlarge them wonderfully,
think. | can demonstrate mathcmatically
that this bill gives TO the President of the
United States and those connected with the
discharge of the duties of the bureau the
power of spending at least $250,0OO,0O0,"
Mr.. Salisbury then reviewed the different
sections of the bill, allcdging that 1t gave
patronage 10 "A dangerous extent to the
President, as well as bringing an immense
expense upon the country. II provided for
an agent of the Bureau In every county.
There were l,G7S counties in the United
States. In every one of these an agent at
$1,000 n year, would come to S2,5l4,C00.
Seventy-twO clerks, or Assistant Commls-
sioners at 1000 year, would cost SS6,400,
aud 3,2I2 clerks for agents, In addition to
all these, making u total, tor officers alone,
of S7,3lI,2DO.
There ills In nutshell, what the negro
worshippers intend to iniict upon the white
taxpayers of the country; for 1t may be
taken rs undeniable that this money, for
the support ola deprayed and iudolent
black race, who will not produce for them
selves, must come from the labor of the
white population. For u horde of officers
alonc-ofllcers never known in the coun-
try, and never dreamed Of till Black Re-
publicanism obtained possession OF the
of the United States must, ii this bill be-
comes a law, be taxed no less than near
Two MILLIONS Six HUNDRED AND EIGnI
THOUSAND DOLLARS And when to this Is
added the subsistence OF the "Frccdmen'
which MIR. SALISBURY places at Two Hun
DREb AND FIFry MILLIoNsl white Ameri-
can producers may well stand aghast
Montrous as have been, during the war, the
many mountain burdens piled upon the
labor and industry of the country, we can
call To mind no one, or dozen, 40 over
whelmlpg as II Is now seriously proposed
by Black Republican Congress to make
this one L-.lLI... Llli-
"a Tho New York Herald ventures the pre-
diction that II the Senate shall pass the bill
that has passed the House comforting suf-
frage on the hegroesih the District Of CO.
nmbia without q two-thirds majority, tho
President will veto e.; but ii itshau pass
that body by two-thirds majority be will
return II without his signature, and thus
throw the whole responsibility upon Con-
gress.