Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-15
THE APPROPRIATION BILL.


Remarks OF Hon. A. Z Carrots, OF
Tennessee, i'm the House OF Repre-
sentafiyes, March 6, Is72.
Mr.. Garrett said: Mr.. Chairman, as
have but five minutes time allotted 10 me,
shall proceed at once to the discussion OF
the pending amendment. It seems TO me,
sir, that we are asked by the honorable
chairman Of the committee to. appropriate
quite large sum of the peoples money for
the purpose of covering the balance OF the
expenses incurred in carrying out that little
electiOneering scheme gotten up here last
last spring by the Republican party and its
miliar President; and before l can give
my support 10 the pending bill must have
some assurance on the part Of the gentle
men on the other side of the House that
we shall not be again called upon by them
for further appropriations of the public
moneys to pay the expenses Of furthering
their political schemes of Capitalization.
Mr.. Garfield, Of OhiO-How does the
gentleman understand this appropriation to
carry on the courts to be an electioneering
scheme?
Mr.. GARRETT understand that an ap-
preparation was passed in the Forty-hrst
Congress.
Mr.. Dickey-For the purpose Of punish
ing Democrats.
AIr. Garrett--For the purpose Of making
capital for the Republican party In the cleo
ton Of 1872.
Mr.. Chairman, this party through its
President has suspended the writ Of habeas
corpus in time of peace in portions Of two
of the States of this American Union. The
President, sir, under the provisions of the
Ku-Klux law, to carry out which this
100000 of the peoples money is asked
to be appropriated, has swept away at
one stroke of his pen the liberties Of
thousands of free American citizens.
Suppose, sir, that a President Of the
United States ten or fifteen years ago, in
the purer and better days Of this Republic,
had, by the assistance of Congress, over
| leaped the barriers OF Tie Constitution, and
suspended the writ Of habeas corpus in time
Of peace in a single one of the counties in
any State of this Union, the American peO-
| pie, sir, would have risen up as one man
/ and demanded of their Representatives that
| he be impeached at once and turned out Of
his high office. Free citizens, sir, have been
arrested by the hundred without warrant
and hurried away to other States to be tried
for offenses alleged TO have been committed
| even before the passage OF the law, and
/ they have been tried and committed by
partisan courts, selected il many instances
for their known hostility to the Southern
| people.
l might 90 on, if 1 had time, with the
enumeration of crime, fraud and violence,
/ committed by this party Of great moral
/ ideas until the whole country would turn
sick at beholding it. What do we see here
under the very eyes Of Congress? We be-
| hold every department Of the Government
reeking with corruption from centre to cir
conference. We see men occasionally in
! dicted in the courts, it is true. But, SIR,
we also see them turned loose IN every IN
s. ance by a partisan court, who simply re-
quire criminals to pay back tve or ten per
cent of the money they stole from the
people. We see the Republican party here
voting away in ten short years millions
upon millions of acres Of the public lands
| to railroads and other corporations, while
we behold with shame thousands upon
thousands of wounded and crippled soldiers
al over this broad land, with large and
helpless families to care for, and IN deStl-
tute circumstances, without homestead 70
live upon; yea, sir, not possessing the title
to the six foot of earth necessary to lay
their bodies in when dead; and these are
the men covered with wounds while IN de-
Tense of the best Government the world
ever saw.
We see these poor soldiers tax-ridden to
death, Gas everybody else in the country,
while we are here, sir, voting away tseir
money as well as their lands TO carry out
the schemes Of this glorious old Republican
party, with its little military President, TO
subvert republican government and estao
lsh powerful centralized despotlsm In us
stead
And while all this is going on here the
poor labOring men of the country are oelne
bounded day and night with your secrei
spies, reporters and tax gatherers. These
people, Mr.. Chairman, after they have dOn'
so much for the best government the Worl'
ever saw, and have returned from their day
of toll to their humble cottages and nav
partaken Of their scanty meals, quietly sea
themselves by their fresides, ire made
coal taxed fifty Per cent, they take cut thel
pipas taxed fifty per cent, NIL them VIII
t1Uaceo taxed two hundred per cent.
and when their scantY meals are PIE
pared they sip their coffee taxed forty Pc
cent. out of a cup taxed one hundred pc
cent; and finally, Mr.. Chairman, when the
| are QeaQ tne IaLnDy wrap tuCn OONAOo =
sheets taxed two hundred per cent; yet To
gentleman from Massachusetts (Ml
Dawes) said yesterday on this floor that tn
. people would rather tlust the Repubhea
party than to trust the Democratic partl
But will say to the gentleman, that
: have trusted that party until It has violate
: every pledge it made TO the people duTin
the war and since, and the country ia
| 100 Il Ill PT1f al Won have UOQe q
: and on Until you have finally aroused tb
| sleeping lion, and you are certainly goiD
. To be devoured very soon. You have sowe
the whirlwind, and in November next 20
will reap the storm.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, after adding insu
to insult, and insult to injury, this Repul
lican party comes back to this House, asl
inc us on this side to give them more nor