, 1869-01-23
OOMM1SS10EER WELLS RE.
PORT.

0OMMlSS10NEh WELLS he.
PORT.
D<bsH tn tho House on .ns ResoIu1Iop
..l to srt"s 10000 Copies.
~ HocAE VI hEPHssAArATIyEs}
VA. H1s0rox, J4a. 10, 1867.
Mr. Ella, rom the CoIa mittee on Printing,
reported d resolution lot lie prtutiur III
2D, COO copies or the report ot ihe special
Commissioner Of the Revenue. and 10o,00J
bom copies Tor The Treasury Department.
sitiou 10 tLe teeo1utfon. He did nut thuk
tha- that report shnnld rrcetTe such IN En-.
ao1ten.e ent. He did not sec how the Amert.
can rcngreks cor!0 stnd such a report
broadcast over the couutsy. It was a
report full Of figures, and 50 iogenl ,usrf
pose that 1t had heen prepared specially to
show the prstilent character Of that most
1xlee and dangerous II al she aphorisrus
atd follies 10 the English language, namely,
that figures do rot lie. They we're 30 mar.
k1Aled IN 1he report rs to lead to CONCLUSIONS
is'se, delus.ye and damaeing TO The c'un,rJ.
and ttmaelpg especially 10 that Congress
which had ca1rie~ the country through the
great struggle through which 1t had lust
Etne- He usd not neac 10 eny that the he-
ures emb0dted In it were In themselves false,
but he lid mean to say that shcy were 50 de-
tached from their co'rtlatIyes as u lead
70 eonelnstons utterly ut variance With
facts familiar to al. Tic gentleman
Who hxd furnished the figures md
made The cslcula' ions had cQubrless done his
duty fairly. brt the Commissioner who had
selected bis materials and marshal1ed hem
Lad cone SO not with view ct leading Con-
gIess and The country to establish an opin1ou
from The facts, but to stvncate fsyo.1te
theory ofhfs o~u. which |. q: VARIANCE with
the true interests Of the county. 1.-THE con-
ctusioDs OF the report were true, then good
con eiencc required the American Congres. to
notify tie lsbor1ug people OF the world rhat
they could Improve their condition hy coming
10 tlis country. II lbs report we're true Ia
deductions, then 1t was Q fraud aud
wrong on humanity to invite the eorkius
people to lave their homes and come
70 the CLitGd States. Its thesis was
that Co1erss hau 30 leeislated that
while Fealih was aecumulai1ne more rapld-
y than 10 apy Other land or age. ths poar
wefe steadily growing poorer and The rich
tieher that there Ma vide yawning sult
eetween po7e1ty and wealth, shich was ever
~id:.amg aud that The labotin. mag puu bis
family could no. lire so We'll Oh hi, carninps'
nov n they could in lSCo- II tlat were %,
then thu country was on an eve OF arIs:ocra.
CT, and Of tocl4l coDd,tit suc', as the
81 ocsl commissioners deductions, Mr. Esl-
!eT retired to the stut5s.ics VI baild,ps in
Wa>thgt.r and PhiIad lph.a n 1s1I and
lsbs-tte number Of urw houses buil, In Phil
adelphia having teen l,673 in 1851,
md 4,7B in 1scs- Also, to the in
ereste s q savings bank. deposit. IN
sschusetts and Connecticut. Tue increase IN
Massachusetts being from forty. FIVE million,
u istsA TO tnty s.veu millions III 1865; u
Rhode Island tsDm eight millions ia iS;lO 10
seventeen millions in 1s6t, and III Coapsc.icut
!tum eighteen millions 70 thirty one nli},lons.
ue would thertte1c say TO crcry cookbook
oiheT side that, 1t they want 10 come to q
county tn which thcy may prosper, the
harniDg Of lie Slp cial C.. umisxioner OF tho
Revenue Ii fslse And :raudulent, apd .hst
thry na} safely come to county IN when
TIE nnral, Of The working prupie are good,
bccausa their condition Is prosperous.
Mr. GARFIELD expressed great curprise i. the
IT iiuu taken by the gen us man from feuu-
sylva, 10, If lie was n ally seElous n5out 1t.
be proposition Itself was most damaging
ad1lis ion. Congress had appotntsd an olii-
Ger 10 erau1ibc and report facts au recon-
met datu1s, but the gentleman from Prun-
y lsauia rose In hts place aud asked that tue
TEL OFT ehnulu not be printed, admitting, how
ever, that the tacts were generally correct
nEd the inb es nccu'ate and true, but that
ttc ulNrshoilug OF them WIS dangerous
that they Ut re put together in such WY,
AID sucA iu'er<nces dfawa from thc,u, th4i
Ter were dangerous to the tnitKhteued IN asses
.: Tho Amer. cat people. md ds.Rorous TO tho
congress- That was an hu1niliatlns conEes-
einn, ii which he Mr.. Gartieldl would Lot
take rar1. Il &c. mch to him That the gen.
tlcnen Mr. K.l 81 had glscn awaY bis caso
Nben he started sut With ad'nfs,lns the gen.
tral CORRECTNESS Of The figures. Wuat vas
tie fsu1t which The gentleman found wl:u
The Comu,iee toner's rer,'ft What was the
MA ter The matte W.a contafuct IN su.
klu paragraph on pa.c titiecu. stating t1ut
1ht cost OF living, iotu, clot4lnE AID shelter
: OF familt' > in thls country WIS sereuty.clghs
Icr cent biz her than IL Aas the year be orc
the war, ~niIc the wage. OF unskl1.sd labur
had Increased only 1fy per r:nt, and II
eklI!ed 1abtr h!xty per cent. Was Con-
gEcss 10 rttusc TO print .ha, fact b..
cause tt might not Squire wish Its tlto-
stated in . sle,c ch it tie House, last May.
1hAt lhe cost OF living had goue up nnc:y
pr cett, and WAGES hsd gone up Gully sExty
Fer ecLt- Hr rcaa au extract frLm q New
lnrk psptr to the cftccl thai houses, coal.
Hour, outer. milk, eggs, &c, were M bet,nr
:hetr cost wa vastly ereatcs-so much great.
CT. !n iact. that srtts we're txtoFtlouatc, and
Tie abs lutte nccea-afi-e of life bryord tue
r'tach OF Thousands III TINT city. Taking
MIR, kelley's contrast OF 1851 nad 1StS, ".
Gar'1eld Aekcd where wert itilor strikes
oil over the country, exhibiting the unsettled
and unsatisfactory cnndt ion q. iahae. Asto
savings banks atu the Increase OF their do.
I.ostea, that tact WAs altztb3tcd 10 state uf
thlnRs very opposite from the deduction
which the gentleman from Pcnusylvaa,s
drew + ON it. l: MEANT that In re unsasls-
tacttrY etate ot the currency and Of business
generally, men dare not invest thcir little
earnings IN business, aud lhereft te placed
them In sAynSs bauka 10 await afeadic=
tlrrsH-
Mr. JrSckEs favored the adoption OF tho
rca-1ution. and aTatsctt htm.cf OF the oppor-
tuLft, of6howing the necessity of the pas
saye OF the Clyi1 Sefy1ct bf.l, b rr,o7rinx to
the nteneut u tho Special Commis.soner
o. the Rtrenuc, that, owing to the posisiye
nnmhr OF the subordinate officials IN the
government II rvicr- The government hnd lost
laat year at lcx.l $i5 ,00J, Gu IRON the internal
1eYeAue II the money dlscssed from the
Treasury hy the dishoae. y and inetI1cieucy
OF ter ''m-1ais were rtceived hy 1t, it would
pay the national Jent within the time tbat Il
Is coulrac:eu 10 be paid
Nr. tGTLEn, OF Massachusetts,, said that
Whiir fhsre were some OF III. conclusions In
thr Commandments report 10 which b: did
rot aRree. I'll the fairue.s, correctness and
rcliabilis. Of the statistics werr such as to
therefore te given to the c .nutrI, and especi-
ally 10 the House. Different Deductions
would be made IRON 1t. The value OF The
report vas not In the deductions. but from
the a2ures. He, therefore, hnped the d'ca~
ment would ee printed. Is to the Civil
pan-cea for all the evils II hlch 1t aimed to
correct. lie did 4. I know that tue t4ilure
TO collect tho revenue =ested with clerks,
tide.Naitrfs OF watchE en-, to whom the bill
w.inld APPLY, but II rested With the hlghtf
officials Who we're not touched By the terms