The New York herald., 1870-01-23

washington it would be necessary to remedy these
detects But there were qnarres west OF the noun
could be lett Maryland Tor capital and thus COM
pensate her for the loss Of the presence OF Congress
sSa q s ns Of IN
ment, had no wish to lnJure the clnzens
ol the District; but u demurred d emp @emphatlcaliy @
the boarding house keepers OF washington should
lose their boarders. or the real estate owners lose
their tenantry He contended that IN every point OF
view there was necessity for more central seat OF
government. It would be In accordance With the
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iare OF the people, and the wealth and tnnuence or
the different sections would be made 10 counterDal
ance each other The West asked to have the seat
OF governments because the centre OF population fell
within the limits Of tine West; because the great
found there and because the great vital OF
nation would ultimately be found there lie quoted
statistics in support Of his assertion.
sPEECH or MR. BECK, ON FINANCE.
Mr.. BECK, ldem.) OF KY, member OF the Com
mittee on Appropriations, undertook to state the
laws which Congress ought pass in order TO secure
the greatest good to the greatest number Congress
would fail to meet the just expectations OF the
country II did not op on the enormous and waste
full expenditure whereby the annual expenses OF the
government had been increased frOm $50 600 900 in
1850 70 not less than $3.50. 600 600 nowan increase
OF over 450 per cent, with an increase Of population
not exceeding twenty-one per cent; especially II 1t
failed to remove the burdens crushing down all
the great agricultural aud producing interests OF the
country for the purpose OF giving an artificial value
TO the products or the manufacturing and mining
monopolies or New England and Pennsyl anita; ana
more especially II II failed to take from the bank
ing ana b0ndhOldlng arlst0cracy the exclusive
and unwarrantable privileges 1t now enjoyed.
All these things could be done II Congress saw nj to
exercise It's undOubted power. Why should the or
binary expenses OF the government, excluding the
interest on the pubic debt more than Quadrupe
those OF ten years agoY The army was largely
say 1t was conceded fact, that seventy.nve per
cent Of all the millions annually appropriated Tor the
Indians was stolen, ana thousands Of dollars were
annually squandered ut tue Patent once. 1t took
two millions more TO pay the officers OF the navy
than TO pay all the sailors under their command
Time would fail HIM II ne should attempt to state .
1.-THE Of the frauds aud extoritons daily perpctrated
1t was not an exaggeratiOn to state that in one form
or another fifty millions were thus stolen and squan-
dered annually on supernumeraries and retain
ers OF the dominant party. NO wonder tina,
the estimates the next year had increased nearly
fifty millions, even over all past extravaganza.
question OF the currency and finances ana 10 expose
and attack the privileges enjoyed by the national
banks. He contended that the present banking
swtnde should cease ana that the United States
legal tender notes should De substituted l0r the ma.
tonal bank notes
OPPOSITION TO THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL.
Mr.. WAsHBURN, (rep) or Wis., spoke against the
removal OF the capital. He entirely aissented from
all such propositions The abandonment Of the
Gapta would be as beginning Of d
washington was pleasant It's climate mid
from the shores Of the Pacific with more ease and
almost as soon as IL could be from New York at the
time the capital was established here. Its removal
now meant the taking from the people, by taxation,
Of one hundred thousand million dollars for the erec.
ton OF new buildings and the destruction or private
property In this city to the extent OF five hundred
thousand millions. Believing that hts constituents
were satisfied that the capital should remain where
1t If, and as their judgment accorded with hts own,
ne should oppose all scnemes for It's disturbance or
removal
The committee rose, and the House, at haIfpast
four O'Clock, adjourned.