Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-04-12
Sharp Tit in the House.
BUTLER AND BECK.

Kentucky, bad tilt in the House OIL
Friday.
Mr.. Beck of Kentucky, charged tina
enormous sums are used as corruption
fund, and alleged that the war and nav,
departments covered up the figures anC
evaded giving Ineligible accounts o.
what these expenses were for
| Mr.. Dawes defended the department.
and reminded the House that the &C
counts OF the war department, which
Mr.. Beck wanted furnished, amounted
to pile one mile long and ten feet deep
| (Laughter.)
Mr.. Butler said that there were ten OIL
twelve committees of investigation il
session Ga voice" fourteen, and ne
one has been able yet to show that sin
gle dollar has been spent against the
provisions of the laws.
MIR. Slocum-Di8 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 | am talking about the treas
urer.
Mr.. Slocum-No one alleges that they
steal directly but indirectly.
Mr. Morgan of O.-What became OF
the 100000 stolen by Hodge and gam
bleG away on Wall street?
Mr.. Butler-Oh, yes. When | ask
for anything spent in violation of law,
they tell me about defaulter-a de-
faulter who came down to US from for
mer administration, and who carried on
his career of crime until republican
administration caught him. (Exultant
laughter from the republican side) That
is all.
Mr.. Myers of Pa.-And a republican
administration punished him.
Mr.. Beck repeated his charges against
the war and navy departments, alleging
that S13S,000,000 has been spent by the
war department within the last five wears
without an appropriation, without the
order of Congress, without the action OF
the courts-spent largely for corruption,
and to keep men loyal. He did not
know what it had taken to keep the gen.
tleman from Massachusetts Mr.. Butler
loyal. He knew that in 1861, when he
and Butler were democrats together, il
took more trouble to keep the gentleman
from Massachusetts loyal than it did
himself, and when it was ascertained
what the gentleman was worth now, and
what he had been worth, then the ques
ton might be answered. All he knew
was that this money has gone in ways
which Congress knows not of.
Mr.. Butler called the House to witness
that he had endeavored to keep within
the proprietles of debate. He asked Mr.
Beck whether it was becoming in a man
who occupied the place which Henry
Clay once filed to fling a vile Islander al
an opponent for want IF better argu.
ment. 1t reminded him of an anecdote
OF a countryman listening to an argu.
ment carried on by learned doctors in
Latin, who said that he knew which one
had the best of The argument when he
saw which one 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 endeayor
ed to protect the treasury as we'll as he
(Beck) did. He would tell the gentle.
man what it cost to make him (Butler)
loyal-the first gun fired on the Ameri.
can flag at Fort Sumter. Then, without
counting the cost, he had come into the
field. He wished that he had met the
gentleman from Kentucky there side by
side with him, and be would have been
equally well pleased if he had met him
on the other side. daughter and APP
plause on the republican side).