The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-02-03

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of its construction says that the
granite to be used in building ii will
cost 81. SOC, 900. No man can tell what
the post Office in Boston will cost
Are we going on with such expendi-
lures at that? Are We going to ex-
pend upon League Island 50 100000 of
value i'm the old navy yard, together
with $500, 900 of new appropriation,
when that work can just as well as not
wait FIVE years? / see no reason for
these vast outlays at the present tim
in that direction, unless it be the reas-
on kindly stated to me and hinted to
members of this House in paragraph
in Philadelphia paper, paragraph
intilnatiug that the republican party
will make mistake in treating Phil
adelphia SO badly as 10 refuse the pas
sage of this measure. ] understand
what that means. Perhaps that was
the reason why my amiable friend on
the other side of the House from the
first district of Philadelphia Mr.. Ran
dial, chimed in for once in the grand
quartette of the Philadelphia members
while their colleague from the Erie
district Mr.. ScofieId1 led the music
and kept time behind them. The
gentleman from the First district of
Pennsylvania understands what spend
ing s.. .000. 600 for the benefit of any
party means, and suppose that is the
reason he came to the aid of his col
leagues of the Second, the Third, and
the Fourth districts in the grand music
with which we were entertained the
other day in support Of this prepafa-
tory bill laughter which my friend
from the Committee on Naval Affairs
offered. Two things, Mr.. Speaker,
seem to be desired by this administra
tion. At the other end Of the avenue
theg are bent upon paying the public
debt i'm this House we are constantly
crying out for relief of the people
from taxation and the burdens of that
debt. l apprehend that neither of
these objects can be accomplished
without that other thing, which seems
! to have been overlooked on both sides
a reduction of expenditures. How
do they propose at the other end ef
the avenue to pay the public debt un-
/ less they reduce these expenditures
How dc we propose to relieve the pe0-
/ pie and the industries, the enterprise,
/ the capital of this land from the bur-
/ den of taxation under which they are
/ groaning except it be by reducing the
public expenditures
4 l tell my friend from Maine Mr.
/ Peters,, who has emaucipated him
/ self from care about the pennies and
! has gone in a vain search for a dollar
without any cents in it upon which he
proposes to ec0nOmiZe, that the pen
/ nies taken in the form of taxation
from the spikes, the cor1age, the sails
+ and the rigging of the shipping Of
Maine are what make the commerce
Of the country decline. / tell my
friend Of the Committee of Ways and
Means that the industries Of the land,
which are fiocking to their door,
groaning under the burdens of taxa.
4 ton, complain that the expenditures
/ Of this nation are unjustifable and
without proper regard to economy, or
I to the necessities of the case. / call
upon the members of this House TO
stand by the Committee on Appro-
priations in the pledge which is given
this day to the country that they will
! cut down these estimates Of the depart
ments below the figure at which they
were fixed by Andrew Johnson's adj
( miuistration, which the people, for
that among other reasons. deprived of
political power. In order TO do this
members must foergo any private in
terests, any imaginary political gains
by the expenditure Of public money
in particular localities. They must
rise above such considerations, and
look to the general result upon the
public welfare. Under such a policy
the thousand busy fingers of industry
will wake with new life, enterprise
will take courage and burst the iron
bands by which it IS now bound, and
this country viii advance in prosPeri-
ty and development. Public works
will 60 on of themselves; private en-
terpriSe will push them forward. The
nation in years that are to come will
build navy yards at League Island and
at New London, and if that should
appear to be wise policy viii amplify
others, at Boston, at Portsmouth and
all over the country. But to day the
policy is reduction Of expenditures,
that thereby at this end of the avenue
the people may be relieved from the
burdens of taxation and that at The
other end of the avenue the public
debt may be paid. Sir, it is from thi:
view of the case, believing this to bt
a test question, that | shall be com
PEELED to move TO lay this bill upor
the table, and to call the yeas ant
nays, 50 that the people may know
who will stand up in this House anC
oppose this attempt TO eurtail tn,
expenditures ofthe government.
do not, however, propose to do i
until my friend shall have al
opportunity to debate his bill a
fully as he desires; bat then, sir, witt
the declaration that this is but to pre-
mare the way for an appropriation, al
ready estimated for, of $500. 900 TO be
gin public work which the necessi
tets Of the service do not require,
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