The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-04-11
Beck Bites . File.

the ablest and nOisiest Democrats in
the House. He, in common withW hit
thorne, of Tennessee, and other chaps,
hailing, from the party and the States
which deluged the land with blood and
debt, now regard il as their special mis-
sion to talk about loyalty and taxes.
The following extract from the debate
in the House the other day will show
how Mr.. Beck knawed a file on that
occasion. and how other GROWERS came
to grief:
Mr.. Beck made several speeches
charging that enormous sums had been
used as corruption fund, and alleged
that the War Department and Navy
Department had covered up the figures
and evaded giving ineligible accounts
of what had become of the money.
Mr.. Dawes defended the Depart
ment and reminded the House that the
account of the War Department which
MFR. Beck wanted furnished amounted
to a pile
ONE MILE Lone AND TEN FEET DEEP.
(Laughter)
Mr.. Butler remarked that there We're
Ten or twelve committees OF investiga-
ton in session.-(a voice-fo,rteen--
and no one had yet been able to show
that a single dollar had been spent
against the provisions of law.
Mr.. Slocum--Did not A. T. Stewart
testify before the Senate Committee on
the New York Custom House that
George Leet. President Grants staff
officer, charged
DOUBLE RATES FOR STORING GOODS. \
in New York.
Mr.. Butler-Did that come out of
the Treasury? l am talking about the
Treasury.
Mr.. Slocnm-No one alleges that
they steal directly, but they steal indi-
rectly.
Mr.. Morgan, (dcm.) of Ohio--What
became of the $4OO, 600 stolen by Hodge
and gambled away on Wall street;
Mr.. Butler-Oh, yes! When ask
for anything spent in violation of law
thew tell about defanlter-a defaulter
who came down to us from a former
administration, and who carried on his
career OF crime until
K REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS CAUGHT
.ssp. HIM.
(Exnltaiit laughter on the Republican
side.) That is all.
Mr.. Myers, (rep.) of Pa, said a re-
publican administration punished him.
Mr.. Beck repeated he did not know
know what il had taken to keep the
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr.
Butler) loyal. He knew thai in 1861,
when he and Mr.. Butler were Demo-
Gratis together. it took more trouble to
keep the gentleman from Massachu-
sets loyal than il did himself; and if
il was ascertained what the gentleman
was worth now and what he had been
worth then. the question might be an
swered. All that he knew was that
this money had gone In ways that Con-
gress knew not Of
ISLANDER FOR WANT OF BETTER.
Mr.. Butler called the House to wit
ness that he had endcavOred TO keep
within the proprieties Of debate and
10 deal with general principles. He
asked Mr.. Beck whether it was becom-
ing man who occupied the place
which Henry Clay had once occupied
TO fling vile slanderat All opponent
for want OF better argument. He told
the anecdotc OF the cOnntrynian listen
ing to an argument carried on by
learned doctors in Latin, who said he
knew which side was getting the
worst OF the argument when he saw
who got mad first.
He had served with Mr.. Beck on the
Committee ON Appropriations for one
Congress, and he called upon him to
say whether in all his official actions
he had not endeavored to protect the
Treasury as well as he CHR. Beck) did
He would tell the gentleman what it
cost to make him (Mr. Butler) loyal
| the
| FIRST GrN FIRED ON THE AMERICAN FLAG
at Fort Sumter. Then, without count
| ing the cost, he had come into the
field. He wished he had met the gem
tleman from Kentucky there, side by
side with him, and he should have been
equally well pleased if he had met lin
on the other side. daughter and APP
plause on the Republican side.)
The Hamburg Times and Council
Blufs Nonbariel speak in compliment
tary terms of Judge j. w. McDill in
connection with the candidacy fol
Congress in the prospective Congress
sional District in the southwestern
slope.
McDill is an able, upright and con
scientious man, and would credits
bly, represent the slopers in Congress
srest ears in saS Francisco are "
Be lighted with gas.