The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-09-21


ry year by Congress, and each house of
Congress has several of them"
That is true; but it is only part OF the
truth Senator Sherman cannot but know
that the cabinet officers keep carriages and
| horses which are paid for by the peoples
money, and without the authority of law.
| He cannot but know, for every morning
he received the Globe containing full pro-
| ceedings of Congress he cannot but
know, l say, that resolutions We're offered
/ in the House, calling upon the cabinet Of
| ticers to state by what authority they
used horses, coachmen and footmen, pur
chased and paid for out of the taxes paid
by the people, and that the resolutions
were voted down. Had not the charge
been true, a vindication would have been
made simple and clear, by denial But
the charge has never been officially denied
and the abuse had its origin within ten in
stead of twenty years. Senator Sherman
wants
MORE STYLE
My opinion is that these officers ara in
adequately paid. Their salary was fixed
long before the war, their tenure of Office
is very uncertain, they are compelled by
public opinion and the people themselves
to receive a great many visitors. True
economy would be consulted by giving
them salary amply sufficient to o-support
a family in liberal style, and to hire or
buy a suitable carriage and horses, with
out resorting to the Government carry all
TAKING MONEY FROM THE TREASURY WITH
OUT THE AUTHORITY OF LAW
Senator Sherman denies that money has
been drawn from the Treasury without the
authority of law. He says Now this
is simply impossible The Comptroller
Auditors, and the old watch dog Spinner
would not allow a dollar to be taken ex-
cept by authority of law"
Mr., Broadhead says:
"l have the honor to state that from the
lst of June, 1866, an addition was made
to the pay of navy officers in conformity
with the following order from the Secre-
On this subject, Senator Sherman thus
speaks:
"The next point made by Gen. Morgan
l must respectfully turn over to Mr.. Hub
bell. 1t was order No. rs, which it seems
the venerable and veritable Gideon Welles
as Secretary of the Navy under President
johnson, issued in May, 1S66-and by
which, as Morgan alleges, he unlawfully
and unconstitutionally raised the pay of
the navy Now if this is as stated, it is
an impeachable Gfense of the highest
grade, and the fault was, that brother
| Hubbell, then our Representative, did not
have Johnson and Wells impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors. Upon
Morgan's showing 1t Is a clear ease, and /
call upon Hubbell to either defend his
chief, whose banner he followed from our
ranks, or to explain his neglect Of duty.
think | could help him little by very
1 L,
rels by sharing them. Certain it Is, that
the Republican party at the last session
| corrected the matter by defining and redu-
cling the pay of the navy"
| l agree that the offense" is an i'm
| peachable one. 1t had It's origin under
Johnson, but was contiE ued under Grant,
and Comptroller Broadhead states that in
1869 the sum of 1898, ,793 was drawn from
the Treasury under that order! When the
matter was under discussion in Congress,
Mr.. Secretary Robson, appointed Secre-
tary of the Navy by Gen. Grant, wrote
letter which was reported in the Globe, in
which he justified the right of the Secre-
tary of the Navy to issue order No. IS,
which Senator Sherman says is an i'm
| peachable ofense So that if President
Johnson and Secretary Welles were i'm
| peachable, so are President Grant and
Secretary Robson for drawing money un-
| der that order.
Senator Sherman commits another seri-
Gus error. He says 1.-The Republican par
ty at its last session corrected the matter
| by defining and reducing the pay of the
navy" This is not the fact. The last
session of Congress did not reduce the sal
aries of the naval officers, but increased
them. And no matter how "laEily he
felt, there is no excuse for his not being
| better informed.
The Naval Register states the salary of
the Admiral to be $4,000, the Vice Ad-
miral when at sea at $1,000, but this law
increased it to SO 9,000 The Rear Admiral
at sea at 5000, which this law increased
to $4,000
What then did Senator Sherman mean,
when he told the people in his Delaware
speech that the Republican party in Con-
gress had reduced the pay of the navy p
Here is the Naval Register, and here is
the law for which he voted, and both dis
prove what he stated to be fact. AS
have the honor TO address Republicans as
well as Democrats, would have them ex-
anime both the law and the Naval Regis
ter, for this matter concerns the whole
people.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
In my Delaware speech l said and
in this connection let me ask, why have
not tine National Banks been required to
pay for the paper. engraving and printing
of their own notes, instead of you being
taxed for that purpose?'
To this question Senator Sherman re-
plies THE truth is, that we make them
pay, not as a part Of their internal taxes,
but for the very purpose Of making them
pay their expense, one per cent annually
on the amount of their circulation, or
three millions of dollars per year"
If he had said the law requires them to
pay one per cent on their circulation he
would have been right, but when he says
1--WE make them pay one per cent on their
circulation" he IS wrong; for though the
paid, it is not done.
THE CREED OF MASSACHUSETTS
Ny friends, in referring to the robbery
of the treasury by act of law, shortly be-
fore the adjournment of Congress, where
by about $670 900 were wrongfully taken
from the treasury on the pretext of paying
Massachusetts, interest on her expendi-
lures during the war of 1872, the Senator
says: Gen. Morgan is now rather late
in coming to the rescue. 1t passed the
| house several IlIneS. 1Hey ulu not near
from him there Why did he not there
bring ont the opposition of Gen Strong
to the war of 1872" l am beginning to
suspect, INV friends, that the Senator was
in Rip Van Wrinkle sleep during the late
session of Congress. If he be really awake
now, and will shake off the fit which eau
ses him to feel so "lazily,"-T will refer
him to the Globe which contains the de-
bate in the House on the 22d of June last,
on the Massachusetts plunder bill, which
passed the House, under the gag, by a
vote of 100 against 60, only two Demo-
Gratis voting for the bill.
The Senator gravely asks me why l did
not refer to Gen Strong's opposition to
the war If he will only rouse himself
sufficiently to read the debate, he Will
there find that 1 did more than refer to
Gen Strong's opposition, that I proved
from history that the Governor, Legisla-
ture and Judiciary of the State all oppo-
sed the war, and notwithstanding that op-
position, Massachusetts, has drawn from