The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-11
Ereedmen's Bureau--More Prodigality and
Profiigacy.

Let every reader who thinks that the mon
ey which is Wrung from the sweat and toll OF
the labor of this country, and paid over into
the public treasury, should be spent with
some small show Of decency, read the report
of the debate in congress on the bill Rppro-
priating some twelve or fifteen millions of dol
lars to the support of the freedmen's bureau.
That report exposes the utter recklessness
with which the radicals squander the PEG
Plies money.
One of the items in this bill was three mll-
lions for purchasing sites for school houses
aud a.y lums. A member showed that, at 50
acre, this would buy sites enough tor five
hundred thousand such houses. Then Ste
vens came to the rescue by adding TO sites
buildings" then moved to strike of one-third
of the amount. But he failed to explain how
it happened, if three millions were required
for sites alone, two millions would suthce for
| both sites and buildings. But more marvel
lous than all, Stevens finally reduced it 10
$500, 900. In all this we have the evidence
to show that the larger amount first demand
ed was a mere gouge, which even radical
house can't stand.
Look again at another item, that for trans
| portasion, nearly tUo millions. Mr.. Dodge
said that less than this sum would transport
! $50 900 persons 500 miles. Mr. Eliot, W no de-
| Tended the item, said that about $4,000 had
to be transported. The sum of both is only
| &c, 900. Mr. Elliot further explained that
some four OF. five thousand then in the District
| of Columbia could have homes provided for
! them by the government and which will cost
nothing to the government, when they have
| got to these homes. Mr.Elliot means by this
that these negroes who have been entlced TO
come to the District of Columbi from which
| they are now too poor to get away without
assistance, will, when they are moved, find
employment at the places where they moved
TO. IF that be 80, why need the government
do any thing more than to say to the persons
who stand ready to employ these negroes, you
advance them means of transportation and
we will see that the negroes repay the adj
vance by deductions from their wages With
such guarantee, the negroes can find means
| of transportation, without their peculiar
friends putting their hands into the public
| treasury to pay for this transportation. At
least, If the government 10 going psy their
passage to the places where they are employ
ed this bill should have been refunded out OF
the negroes' savings, after they had found
employment. But nothing of that kind was
in this bill; and no radical thought Of having
| it put IN. So this enormous sum, OF near two
millions of dollars is to be spent IN a case in
which it might have been saved. How Is it
| with poor white lab0rer-AmerIcan Irish
| or German, who may want to 60 into the coun-
| try for work, without being well able to pay
his travelling fsrr. In his case his employer
pays it, and deducts it from his wages. The
government does not erect bureau to pay
his travelling expenses.
Then look at the comparatively small-but
still really large-appropriation for salaries.
| Even such radical as Mr.. Schenck limited
| that the duties were to be performed by men
who were paid for doing them in salaries al
ready provided.
This report shows that only few items in
this enormous sum appropriated by this bill,
were ventilated. We may imagine what ex-
posures would have been made if the bill had
been more thoroughly ransacked.
Well may our states fnauciers rack their
brains to invent new modes OF taxation and
applying its screws. Such of our tax payers,
as day after day just now are waiting on the
U. s. assessor to know their doom, may from
this report, form FAINT idea of what becomes
of their taxes, and how reeklessly ia squan
dered the money which is exacted from their
| pockets, and which, perhaps, some of them
| End 1t hard to raises Louis Republican.
| PATENT MEDICINES faith would cure
| disease, our physicians occupation would be
gone; the afflicted need only read the adver-
sisements in the papers to be "made whole ;"
but the nostrums prepared by these pseudo
doctors do not often ''back up" thes6aith
inspired by their advertisements We do not
| mean to condemn all so-called patent medi.
| cines, for some have been found to be very
valuable. In this class would inolude
| Goes cough balsam, for coughs, Group .hoarse-
mass etc. and Goes dyspepsia cure. tor indi-
eestion, dyspepsia. and Gil troubles Of the
| stor,acb or bowels-they have been tested IN
thousands of cases. Our dealers all sell
them