The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-29
VOLUME Is.
THAT BACK PAY sTEAL-A NEW
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coulu not nave passed without th
aid of majority of the Demo
Gratis in Congress. Now, TO m
mind that does not acquit the RI
, publicans, unless You are able t
! show that the Democrats, wlthou
any aid from the Republicans, az
tually passed the bill; which, &C
cording to your own showing the.
could not have done, being in tn
minority.
Again, you would seem to fai
Of acquital unless you show con
clhsively that the Democrats hal
a two-thirds vote in Congress, be
cause If the bill was wrong a Re
publican President should hav,
vetoed it, and should have alloWet
it to become a Law only when 1
two-third vote compelled him Il
submit to it. But to my mind yoU
seem to lose sight of the MAR
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feature in your effort to save the
Republican party. If a minority
only of the Republicans with 6
majority of the Democrats die
pass the bill, and a President, who
would seem to have been corrupt
ed for the sake of an increase in
his own salary, approved the same
without an effort on his part to
defeat it, then to save the Repub-
licans from the disgrace of the
bill let them at once refuse to
touch any part of it except for re-
turning it to the United States
treasury.
Now, had the Republicans pur-
sued that course they could have
exclaimed, 1--WE wash our hands"
of this thing; but how stands the
matter? If figure correctly there
were in the Senate 40 Republicans
who drew the salary under said
grab, and 10 of them returned it,
making in the Senate 80 Republi-
can grabbers, who stand by the
law; and in the House there were
then ia Republicans who drew
the money, and 26 who returned
it, lenving 1OS Republican grab
bers in the House, being in the
House and Senate LAT grabbers
out of 1S3 Republicans who drew
it. In the Senate were II Demo
Gratis who drew the money and
three returned it to the United
States treasury, leaving IA Demo
cratic grabbers in the Senate; and
in the House there were 80 Demo
Gratis drew it and s returned it,
leaving 81 Democratic grabbers in
the House; being in the House
and Senate los grabbers out of 116
Democrats who drew it. In the
Senate there wene 6 Liberal Re-
publicans who drew it and 3 re-
turned it, leaving 3 Liberal Re
publican grabbers in the Senate,
and in the House there were A
Liberal Republicans drew it and
all retained it; making in the
House and Senate Z out of 10 Lib
eral Republican grabbers; so that
as the matter now stands there
are 147 Republicans, los Demo
Gratis and 7 Liberal Republicans
who are equally guilty as any man
who voted for that steal, for there
is certaiAly no man more guilty of
a crime than the man who profits
by it.
These figures show that in Con-
gress, if this bill is dishonest
which L think few will dispute,
that there was out of 800 men who
drew that money $50 who were dis
honest, and as but 126 of these
were Democrats and Liberal Re
publicans, there must of necessity
have been more dishonest Repub-
licans than of both the other par
tics put together.
Now there is another matter.
Our Republican President, who
was elected as q retrenchment and
reform candidate, carries hands
black with this thing. Evidently
he could have defeated this bill,
but by so doing he would have de-
feated $685. increase per year to
himself, and he knew that in or
der to get his own increase of sal
airy 1t must be passed before the
term commenced, and as it was the
last night it was then or never, so
that it seems to me that the $25, 900
per year to him made the necessity
tor his approving that Infamous
bill. Is he honest, and is the Re-
publican party acquitted? There
is another thing 1 want looked at
and 1 am done. Kansas is q Re-
publican State, with about 10000
Republican majority, and was rep
resented there by three Republi-
licans, two in the Senate and one
in the House;-how stands the
vote and the draw? Caldwell, in
the Senate, voted three times for
the measure and one time against
it, and one time lodged, but drew
the money and kept it. Pomeroy,
in the Senate, lodged the vote zach
time, but drew the money and
kept it. Lowe, in the House, who
has been paraded through the
Kansas papers as having voted
against the bill, and being so very
honest, voted for the bill one time
five times against it and lodged il
twice. He, too, like a brave anC
noble Spartan, drew the money
and kept it. Now does that lool
as though the Republicans of Kan
sas are acquitted?
Very truly yours,
F. G. Hunt.
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