The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-09-27
q. 4. How much money have you vo-
ted for the benefit of the poor white SOL
diers, their widows and orphansp


ted for the benefit of the poor white SOL
diers, their widows and orphansP
A. l, voted to give the white soldier
eight and one-third dollars per month eK-
ira bounty for every months service rem
dered his country, and never assented to
any less sum; and If Secretary MeColloch
and the Executive influence had not an
warrantably been thrust upon Congress
to break down the Bounty bill 1t would
have become a law, and every soldier Of
three years service would have had his
three hundred dollars bounty, as the I'm
ion members Of the House unanimously vo-
ted they should have, voted that the
widows and Orphans OF soldiers should
have, In addition to the pension allowed,
the further sum Of twenty four donarsa
year for each child Of such widow under
sixteen years Of age; and am glad to tell
you that Is the law to-day. I voted to
give the soldier who has lost leg or an
arm an artificial one at public expense, and
to give him free transportation 10 the
nearest city where the same can be OBJ
tanned. voted to increase the pension 70
wounded soldiers who were. 50 disabled 70
to be incapable of lobor, so that their pay
should be equal to their disability. Ivoted
TO take off the restraint upon pensioners
who, by former laws were deprived oftheir
pension II they took Office under tho Gov
enment; now soldier may be village
postmaster or clerk Mt Washington, and
receive his honest earnings as others do.
and still receive his pension. In fact, l
and the Union members Of Congress With
whom / acted, stood by the soldier his
widow and orphans, and by all ways and
means in our power advanced their interest;
and If the laws passed for their benefit are
not so favorable as desired, 1t Is not the
fault of the Union members Of the House
of Representatives, for we stood by thesol-
dier in everything, and the record Of Con-
gress will prove every word l say q
O. 6. How much land have you and
your party voted to the negroes, iflany,
and how much to the white man-explain
fullyp ..- .,.E..4 80 r-..
A. To enable the negro to make his Nv
ing he must have land to work upon
There were fifty millions Of acres Of un-
cultivated lands in the States Of Alabama,
Mississippi Arkansas, Louisiana, and Flor
ida, that have been In market for q score Of
years of these lands the negro Is permitted
to select eighty acres and make home
steads thereof. BY law OF 1861 passed
by the Union members of Congress, the
white mau is permitted to select q 100 acres
of land and make a homestead thereof
and IN this selection he can 60 all over
the United States and Territories, and
wherever he finds quarter section Of un-
appropriated lond of the Government that
pleases him, that is his by putting himself
upon it. But the negro can only range
over the five States have mentioned, thus
relieving the free States from the influx Of
negro population and confning them to
those States where were born and where
they and the whites better understand
each other r .... u.. 1t
@. 6. AS you profess to be great
friend OF the soldier, will you explain VIII y
your services are so much more valuable
than theirs that you must have $4,000 per
year, and they only about S9OO9 Would it
not have been more patriotic inyou 70 have
taken the 5000 you and your party voted
the boys, and give them tho two thousand
dollars
A. did not vote 10 give The soldier one
hundred, | voted to give him three hundred
bounty. did not vote 10 raise the salay
of members to $4,000, was in Batavia
when that vote was taken. and IL you viii
examine tile record, you will find the Demo
Gratis in Congress the active engineers ia
reducing the bounty and raising the sslar.e.
It was first introduced in the Senate by Nj
Riddle, Democratic Senator from Delaware.
and the vote upon it in that body stood a.
: follows:
Union ayes, Ia; Dem. syes. a. Total sa.
Union nays, IL, Dem. nsys,2. Total 10.
81 niue out OF the eleven Democrats
!; end Conservatives voted for the salsrS and
but lone two ogainst II. while fourteen Tn.
ion voted for it and eleven against it, Ia
the House the vote stood:
Union ayes, 35. Democrat ayes 10. To-
tai, 81. Union nayS 4S, Democrat nays
z, Total, 30. .r. .....r. -.-o"'
A msiority Of Union men yotsd sgains.
the salary, but large majority ofihe DEM
ocrats voted foi il, But while do not ap-
prove the measure and should have voted
against it il my health had permitted me to
, have remained at Washington, it'd not With.
out some good, it cuts offcons,ructive mile
age, whereby hundreds Of thousands Of dol.
lars are unjustly drawn from the Treasury,
requiring travel to be charged upon direct
routs, and the mileage itself reduced from
forty to twenty cents per mile. The ptac.
,ical effect Of this measure is to adjust The