Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-24

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| would say that this is the old trick |
of throwing a tub to the whale. | would |
suspect that when the President says "Let
us have Civil Service reform" there is
mental reservation that it shall be killed in |
Congress and that when he says "Let us
have amnesty" there is a mental reservation |
that the Radicals in the Senate shall kill |
amnesty. do not charge any such hypoc- |
| risy on the President, but it does look won
derfully strange that every important rec
| ommendation by the President is ignored |
by his friends in this chamber Mr.. Thur !
man in conclusion, argued the question of
the rights of the States under the constitu- !
ton.
Mr.. Morton in reply said that Mr.. Thur
man had Just made the old speech about |
the dangers of Capitalization which also |
! had been often heard in the swamps of In |
! diana. 1t was the same old DemocI attic |
States rights speech. The Senator had just |
said he could not understand this admins |
tration. That was true. The whole |
| Democratic party were unable to |
understand this administration laugh |
| ter,] or the times in which |
\ they live. They were like man riding in |
car backwards who never sees anything |
until he is clear past it. [Laughter.l As |
| coming into power, he would ask whether |
the Democrats were not committed to pay |
| for the Rebels slaves. To show that they |
were, he sent Blair's Broadhead letter to the |
| desk to be read and said it was because of |
| the sentiments expressed in that letter that |
Blair was given the second place on the |
| Democratic Presidential ticket.
Blair.
Mr. DIa;r vyO,, bo NOT Lo,lvoJ o,,t g |
! your speech in 1865 in favor of President |
Johnson, you might have got my place.
| Laughter
Mr.. Morton explained the speech OF 1865 |
and said the Senator from Missouri (Blair) |
had once been member of the Republican |
party, and had left it.
Mr.. Blair-I left it because Of its usurpa-
tiOns. | Joined it when the whole party |
could have sat down at a dinner table. | /
left it when it was in power all over this |
country to join a party that was out Of pow
er. AS to the Senator's speech, l remem-
Der that when he delivered it he was
thought to be a very fit person for John
sons Cabinet, and if the people South were
misled by any person, it was by the Senator
himself in that speech.
Mr.. Morton The Senator attributes
more Importance to that speech than ever
l did. As to being thought fit person for
JOhnsons Cabinet know nothing about
it. l can say this, that there never was an
office in the gift Of johnson that l would
have accepted. l say this without disre-
spect to him. l have heard it said that l |
sought place in bis Cabinet. That is
false. There never was an hour in which
| would have resigned the Governorship of
Indiana for any place except seat in the
United States Senate.
Mr.. Morton said further, that this Gam
nesty) was the most important question
before Congress, far more important than
the civil service or the tariff.
Mr.. Scott followed with an argument in |
favor of the amnesty bill as it came from
the House, but said be was not prepared to
vote for universal amnesty.
Mr.. Robertson gave notice that he would
endeayOr TO press the bill to a vote to-mor-
row.
The Army of the Cum berIand.
Mr.. Wendell presented a petition signed
by Gen. Sheridan and other officers, repre-
senttng 100000 soldiers in the Army of the
Cumberland, praying that the time they j
served in the army be allowed in the five
years required by the homestead law, after
two years of actual residence.
At four O'Clock the Senate went into ex-
ecutive session and soon adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Sargent, from the Committee on
Mines, reported bill for the development |
of the mines of the country. 1t declares |
all the Government land whether surveyed
or not are free and open to exploration and
purchase, defines certain rules of the gov
ernment Of newly discovered mines, etc.
An amendment was agreed to that the bill
should not affect the rights of proprietOrs Of
the Sutro Tunnel. Bill passed.
To Centralize Schools.
Mr.. Pierce from the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, reported bill to estab- 7
lish an educational fund and apply the pro-
ceeds of the public lands to the education
of the people, and asked it to be put upon i
its passage. '
The Cost and Curse of War. G
The morning hour expired and the House S
went into Committee of the Whole on the t
legislative and executive appropriation bill, f
Wheeler in the chair.
Mr.. Garfield, chairman ofthe Committee
on Appropriations, remarked that the reve-
nues and their expenditure might be almost
sad to be the whole scope of the govern
ment of modern nations. In looking over
the statistics of England, he had discovered
the curious fact that whenever England had |
a war, expenditure Immediately and natu- Il
rally leaped up enormously, to a higher '
lever; and the war ending, expenditures were b
graded down rapidly, and at hast struck a a
level below which they did not go. That q
level was always a good deal higher than b
the level from which the country started q
when the war began. But what had struck b
him as most remarkable, was the length of )
time it took, after war, for the nation to b
get down as far as it would 60 in the reduc- a
ton of expenditures. d
1t appeared to be law In the Uniled o
States that the length of time was about fl
equal to double the length of time that the e
war lasted. 1t has taken England 20 years v
after the NapOleOniC wars to reach her G
new peace level of expenditures. He cal g
culated that the United States would reach C
it's lowest peace level in 1876, when he II
thought that the ordinary expenditures of b
the government would be about one hund- 4
red and twenty-five millions, and the inter-
est on the public debt ninety-fye millions.
He had divided the expenditures into three r.
great heads and found the proportions thus II
aggregated; referable to the late war, inclu- d
sive of interest Oh the public debt COZ per l
cent; the present army and navy establish G.
ments II per cent, and all other depart D
ments of the government 25a per cent. n
The same heads in the expenditures of the D
English government were 3Sa, 33 and 284 Il
per cent. Coming down to the bill itself Il
he said it appropriated $2,3S6,000 less than
the like bill for last year, and three millions
less than asked for in the estimates. n
Mr.. Beck remarked that he had served Il
on the appropriation committee two years, cl
and that it was the stingieSt committee he b
ever knew. 1t always came back with def [
cheney bill, and he predicted the present ft
committee would have to do the same after 6
the Presidential election. [Laughter.] b
Mr., Wood said he thought Mr.. Garfield Il
should have given portion of his time to IL
the study and explanation of the lamenta- n
BILE and extraordinary fact stated in the c;
civil service report that the cost of collect a
ing the taxes amounted to One-fourth of the u
He thought the Chairman of the
Committee Oh Appropriations should hs~
DrOnOSpd some means by which lNDB| .