The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-06-21
A Nice Lot of schemes Exposed.

Nice HLOt vi hAAPVFN~'e
Mr.. SHERMAN, of the Senate, from ohio'
after being engaged, for some time, in IN
cubating a bill to consolidate the bonds
aud debt of the Government, finally sue
ceedcd In Matching out. IL was pet with
him, and, for the purpose, was well gotten
up. But for the sharpness and acumen OF
senator FHssENDEN, JoHS might have sue
ceedcd in passing his bill; FRssENDEN, how
ever. took a ft of stubbornness the other
dav. and showed that the bill was so cum
ningly worded that 1t contained one OF the
biggest Jobs ever offered 10 Congress. The
attack on it brought ont its monstrous in-
tention, and Mr. SHERMAN, for the present
at least, has taken back seat.
Il now turns out, the bill and the design
of it were the joint concoction of JAY
COOKE and the national bank interest, and
il was so worded that it gave them two per
cent commission as agents in carrying out
the funding business. II tho bill should be-
come n law, il would secure TO JAY COOKE
& Co.. in the neighborhood Of forty mil
lions of dollars. At least this much would
be absorbed by the national bank interests,
Mt the expense of the Government. The
exposure of this fact has killed the bill ;and
all are now watching to see what measure
will he presented next to enable the ma
tlonal banks to raise the wind.
Another Just such sinister scheme has
been introduced into the House by Mr..
LAwRENcE--a bill creating National BIZ
reau Of Insurance. 1t provides that the
head of the bureau shall be appointed by
the President shall hold Office for five
years, Mt = salary of five thousand dollars
per annum, and that he shall give bonds in
the sum Of fifty thousand dollars.
This is another attempt Mt complete cen
traliaation of power. According to the
Radical idea. the Government, instead OF
being restricted to the duties assigned it by
the Constitution, is to be made the operator
of all the functions of the State and the
people.
Among the items slipped into the appro-
priation bill by the Senate in one days
tinkering, we note an increase of salary u
the Treasurer of the United States and IL
the Commissioner of Public Buildings; al
appropriation of about $4,000 year fol
private secretary, shorthand reporter ant
clerks, for the President; a new Assistan
Solicitor TO the Treasury at $4,000 per an
mum; new clerks for the Attorney General
&c, &c. In addition to all which, the Sen
ate confirmed its gift of Sl60,000 to MI
MCCuLLoCH, to be distributed at discretion
among his employees.
The 100000 item to Assistant Secretar
Fox, to go on sailing frolic TO st. Peters
burg with letter to the Gar; the now
proposed loan of $50,O0O,OO0 to the paupe
Anarchy, Mexico, which THAD STEVEN
first opposed, but TO the advocacy of whic
he has just been brought around; th
Sll,JO0,OOO to the negro boarding houses
and the innumerable other projects, of lik
character and design, to plunder from tl
Treasury what the groanlng Taxpayer
are daily and hourly forced, by hordes of
verriest leeches and cormoTants known I
civil society, to fill in-an average Of full
ONE MILLION PER DAY land all such, "
may truthfully add, for no public necessf
or utihty-a pauper-fund for the gratiflci
tion and subsistence of aupers-constitu
pile of dollars which, were we not such
aoedlthy country, having so much loo
change 10 spare that we don't know how
get rid OF 1t, our people would stand al
palled at Its contemplation and wonder
amazement, for what possible objects CT
this mountain of cash be needed and |
whose bones and sinews Il is to be earned