The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-24
Congressional RetFenchment- y 0W
the Democratic Members Voted -
More OF NIblack's Record. m 49,

Our readers will remember that
when the House of Representatives,
last week. passed the joint resolution
increasing the pay of the Government
! employees in Washington City. we
very promptly den0uneersitS as gan-
warranted by the, financial condition
of the Government aud iin violation
of the pledge given By the Republican
partyin its National platform infsYgJ
of retrenchment and reform, On the
next day after the passage of the reso-
luton, on motion, Of Mr., BINGHAM, of
Ohio, the matter was reconsidered in
the House, and finally voted down.
The clerks and treasury leeches who
swarm about the Capitals by persist
ent lobbying and personal appeals to
! individual Members, secured its pas
sage, without having much attention
attracted to it; but before the House
adjourned, the large leak in the
treasury. which it opened, was 'ap-
parent, aand it was very 0promptly
closed up.e7 W., have waited for the
appearance Of the Congress- nal Globe
with much Interest, in order to ex-
anime the list Of yeas and nays, in
order to determine who are the men
most Jealous in guarding the National
treasury. We hear much from the
Democracy about retrenchme and
economy, and the need there is for
reduction of taxation One would
naturally think that their Representa-
tives in Congress would be the most
forward to prevent ar increase of the
burdens now resting upon the people.
In examining the oficial vote as pub
lished in the Congressional Globe of
June 10Th, we find that upon the
question to lay the joint resolution
upon the table, which would result in
its defeat, the following are the yeas
and nays:
YEAS - Messrs.8 Allis0n.f Bailey,
Baker, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin,
Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Boutwell,,
Broomall, auckland, Butler, Church
i'll, Reader w. Clarke, Sidney Clarke,
Goburng GoOkgvCorneH9 Covode,
Dawes, Delano, Eggiestof. Ella. Ferry.
Fields, Getz, Haight HalseY, Hard
ing, Hawkins, Hil1s sHuburd, Jadd |
Kelsey, Ketcham, Koontz. Lough- |
ridge, Marvin, Maynard. Mccarthy, |
McClurg. Mercur, Mullins, Newcomb, [
Peters, Pike, Poisley, Price. Robert- [
son, Sawyer, Schofeld, Shanks, Aaron l
F. Stevens, Taylor, Trowbridge,a Up |
son, Van Aernam. Van Wyek, Ward I
Cadwalader G. Wash burn, Elihu 3. /
Wash burne, William B. ashburn, /
Welker, Thomas Williams, William
Williams, James n Wilson, and John /
Il. Wilson-6S. r-t r9s... ......
NAYs-Messrs. Anderson, Archer,
Delos r. Ashley james. NJ. Ashley,
Beck, Blair, Cake, Cary. Cobb, Dix
on, Donnelly, Drugs, Eckley, Ell
bridge, Eliot, FarnsEorth, Glossbren-
ner, Golladay. - Gravely, Grover,
Highly, Hotchkiss. Jenek esg Johnson, +
KERR, Kitchen, Knott. Loan, hogan, 4
Mallory, Mccormick, MCCULLOUGH, Il
Moore, MOoFehead, Morrell, Mungen,
Myers . ,NIBIsASaz, Nicholson, 4
ONeillss Paine PLANTS, Pomeroy,
PruEh, Randall, Robinson, Schenck, (
Shella barger, SpaIdiHgs Stark weather,
Thaddeus Stevens. Stewart. Stokes, 4
Stone, Taber, Taffe, Thomas, John (
Trinlb le,S q Ilawfenee So Trimble, 4
Twirh eli, SRobertT Van born, Van
Trump, Henry D. WashbuFn and
Woodward-64 a 4Aaas5 Z -Es1Se
zWOf course the Democrats ought all
torbs found EotiAg in the affirmative
onEthis question ,hnBdHin the whole
list of lsixty-e ght yeasawe hayeaonly
been able to find t,cos Deaaocrats.
Among. the nays how many of these
Democratic friends Of 'retrenchment
and low taxes7 eighteen, prominent
among whom is the Honorable Mr..
NIBLACK, our Representative. 1t is
noticeable that of the three Demo
cratic Congressmen from Indiana,
two, KERR and ,NIBLAcK, voted
against, and thee third, HOLMAN,
lodged the question by not vot-
ing. Ofthe Republican Oongressmen
from Indiana only one voted against
the resolution, and he is not candi-
date for reelection Suchlis anillus-
tration of what the Democrats mean
by retrenchmedta and low taxes. Upon
a question of adding two millions of
dollars to the pay of the gentlemanly
Government employees at Washing
ton, who work from four to six hours
per day, Messrs. NIBLACK, KERR, and