Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-23

Der from Illinois saw nothing bat wrong, fraud,
misleasance, and malteaSance, in everybody else.
(Laughter.)
Mr.. Farnsworth said he had not stated that
that house or the member from Massachusetts
had been graCed with mirrors belonging TO the
treasury, but as il seemed that the coat fitted
that member, he would now say that II had been
proved before the committee of the house, and
was susceptible Of proof again, that members of
the house had been graced with mirrors belong
ing to the United States government, and some
OF these mirrors had been lost in their transmits
sion to and from the treasury. He held in his
hand document which would prove to any I'M
preiudced jury that the mcmber'fram Massa-
chuSetts was interested in stone quarry from
which the granite was taken for the Boston post
Office, and il was as well understO TODD in the city
OF Boston rs any other fact that the quarry was
called Buffers quarry. The testimony showed
that a man named French q diStiller, former
officer on the staff of the member from Massa-
chusctts but who could not get commission
from Gov Andrew, on account of his VIGOROUSLY
bad character, had been taken down into the
members district and used there in connection
with the quarry; that man had come on TO
| Washington because his distillery had been
| seized for violation of the revenue laws, and
| went to consult the member from Massachusetts
| who was usually consulted in such cases He
had happened to mention that he had some spare
| money, and asked how he should invest it, and
| the member from Massachusetts had advised
| him to buy the stone quarry, and it had hap
| pened that that was about the very day when
the first appropriation of 100000 was made by
congress for the Boston post office. This distil.
| Ter had never owned a stone quarry, and knew
| nothing about the business, but he went and
| purchased the old abandoned stone quarry, and
Immediately afterwards, under advice and asSs-
lance of the member from Massachusetts, he
| procured Il contract, although he was the high
est bidder, for granite for the entire building
Of the Boston post office, although there
was statute which made it high misdemean-
or for any officer Of the government to make a
contract beyond the appropriation already made.
He had not to be told, under these circum-
| stances, that the member from Massachusetts
| was not interested in that contract.
| The item for the contingent expenses of the
| house being under consideration, Mr.. Dawes ex-
planned that the princip Il cause of the exhaust
| ion ofthe contingent fund, was the payment OF
contestants for seats in the house, who had re-
| ceivcd during the present congress $4,000, be-
sides S2S,000 paid for expenses in connection
with those cases following.
| The appropriation for the army deficiencies
| was opposed by Mr.. Brooks, who objected again
| TO the use OF federal troops in the New York
| election and in the execution of revenue laws in
| Brooklyn.
Mr.. Dickey reminded Mr.. Brooks that the pre-
cedent for putting down whiSkey riot in Brook
| Ign had been set by Washington himself, in
| putting down he whiskey instruction in Penn
| sylvana. So president was occasionally com
| PEELED to send a small army to the whiSkey
| drinking neighborhood of New York. to enforce
| the revenue laws.
| Mr.. Schumaker-"And we always had rioi
whenever he did it,"
MIR. Dickey-"lt would always create riot in
New York to stop the supply of whiskey.
| Uaughter) No where else than in that neigh.
| borhOod has the love Of whskey so developed
| itself"
| Mr.. Eldrdge-" Except in the house of repre-
| sentatives," (Laughter.)
| Mr. Logan expressed the opinion that the
| president had no right to send the army or navy
| into a state, except on request of the governor
or the legislature, but he did not believe that the
| president had violated the law in that respect
| He intimated, however, that a greater outrage
was committed by the house and one of its com
mittees, in not taking such action as would
give to the great northwest the representation in
the house to which its population entitled it.
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, expressed his salts
faction at having elected a rebuEe oil the prcsi
| dent, for the use of the military at elections
| from the gentleman from Illinois, Mr.. Logan
| who was the presidents superior in civil life
and his equal in military life.
| Mr.. Wood moved to strike out one of the
| items for the fTeedmen's bureau, and charged
| that bureau with having plundered the public
treasury, and Mr.. McNeely made remarks in
| the same direction.
| Mr.. HOar characterized the two speeches as
llltNtidl Vi lilt Hdll8ndliG udITtC
| which the democratic party entertained toward
| all the poor ana oppressed and downtrodden
| Teople of the land. The proposition was 10 re-
| ject the item of $4,000 for the support of the
| freedmen's hospital and asylum, and turn out
| the sick and blind and aged and feeble inmates
| to starve and perish in the streets, as Il mouu.
ment of the results of democratic rule and dem
ocratic policy. He declared that, after an inves-
| tigation nneXampled for patience and fairness
not scintilla of evidence had been produced
| before the committee which investigated the
| charges against the freedmen's bureau to sub
| stantiate those charges. The only persons
whom the investigation condemned were the men
| who made the charges, MIR. Wood and two
| members of the committee who put their names
to tie minority report, Rogers and 'McNeely.
| Mr.. Cox replied to Mr.. Hoar. He asked why
| did not Mr.. HOar take care of his own poor in
| Massachusetts, A member on the republican
side of the house had once said there were more
poor people starving to death in the poor houses
in Massachusetts than were killed in the Grim
| can war. Why did not Massachusetts take care
of her insane? Why did not her people mind
| their own business? The insane asylums of
Massachusetts were a shame and disgrace.
| The people Of Massachusetts sold their paupers
| and starved their criminals. They had the
worst governed state in the Union, (laughter)
and yet they read lectures to other people and
| put on their garments and made broad their
| phvlacteries Iaughter.)
Mr. Dawes rose TO make a remark, but Mr..
| Cox declined to yield, remarking that he, Mr.
| Dawes, was the strongest man Massachusetts
had; but, although Troy had her Hector, Troy
fell. Massachusetts, was oOzy, and the gentle
man. Mr.. Dawes seemed to know it. He would
ask that gentleman, why was there this de-
| ficiency of over ten millions?
Mr. Dawes-"I will tell you in minute, if
| you will allow me-"
Mr. Cox-"I do not believe you could tell me
| in an hour"
| Mr. Hoar said every man who was about to do
| or who had done, in his life, something sneak
| ing, always accompanied the act with cursing
| Massachusetts. When the democrats were whip
| ping women and selling the fruits of their
| own loins, down in the southern states,
| they always undertook TO cover themselves from
| public attention by cursing Massachusetts.
| When the democratic friends of the gentleman
| from New York rose against the government,
| and undertook to establish one of their own on
| the cornerstone of slavery, all their papers and
all their orators cursed Massachusetts,; and
| now, as, masked by night, they sought the hut
| of the poor negro, and took him from his bed to
be whipped and murdered, because he was loyal
| and black, their friends on this floor sought to
| cover uD and distract attention from those out
RACES by always cursing Massachusetts The
| gentleman, Mr.. Cox, bad said, that, like Troy,
| Massachusetts was not defended here BY her
| strongest man; but he would say to that gen.
tleman that Troy did NOT need to put forward
| Hector against an attack that was led by
Thcrsits. daughter and encouraging express
| Sions)
Mr. Dawes explained that much of the def
cheney bill was caused by the necessities in
| herited, not created, by this administration.
Mr.. Rogers replied to Mr.. Hoar, and charged
| him with casting fire brands around, 10 inaame
two sections of the country, instead Of cultivat-
| ing feeling of common brotherhood.
| The debate was further continued by Messrs.
Dawes, Hoar, Shanks, Cox, Mungen, McNeeley,
| Wood and TOWNSEND.
| In the course of his remarks, Mr. Wood stated,
| on his honor as representative and as a man,
that he had proved fourteen cut of the fifteen
| allegations which he made against General How
! ard.
Mr.. Townsend, member Of the committee on
education, which had the investigation Of the
matter, stated, on his honor, that the investiga-
ton showed that the charges made by Mr.. Wood
against General Howard were untrue from be-
ginning to end. He referred to Mr.. Wood as
having, when mayer Of New York, grayely pro-
posed to break up the Union by taking that
great city ont oft.
Mr. Wood-"Thati is. false, and the gentleman
knows that it is false"
Mr.. Townsend proceeded to read message
sent by Mr.. Wood, as mayor OF New York, TO
the common council Of that city, in which he
spoke of the dissolution of the Union as newt
able; of the people of the slave states as their
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