New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-20
XLIIID CONGRESS-1sT SESSION.
REGULAR REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS.
CONTINUATION or TIE DEBATE ON THE GENERAL
APPROPRIATION BILI,-A POLITICAL DISCUSSION
BETWEEN MEssRs CIYMER AND KELLEY.
A,,rtiIa

Mr.. AyERILL Rep., Mimi, from the COM
mittee on Indian Affairs reported Dill giving tne as
sent Of Congress to the Improvement OF inc Won 'er
across the Menomonee Indian Reservation IN Wisconsin,
Passed. --.
Mr.. AvERILL also reported a resolution increasing
the scope of investigation previously ordered into In
dian contracts for 1873 and 1874 aud directing thor
ough Investigation OF all the frauds or lrreglartes
with administration oil ihdian anas ior
Mr. HYNEs Rep, Ark offered as question OF priy
sss resolution Of t tSe House. now in Little
Rock Ark. for the purpose OF s1open anns Wis
hSS ,nwapted and interfered with by the seizure
of the telegraph office. and nsruetng the JUDICIARY
Committee TO report what measures should he taken 10
nroect the right OF House 10 free communication
,nled tbat n was not question OF privilege III the ser
eeapt-at-Arns felt himself obstructed Ia the execution
OF his duty, 1t his business TO communicate 'a' a''
to the HoIse through the Speaker. ,,,,
Mr. COX DEM N. " introduced the Following reso-
lrtion winch was thereupOn, with letter from MI.
ThurIow Weed referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs: ~. -, pa,-.,s,t.t,ve, IN Congress
d That the Of Congress enen due and are hereby
rendered Lambtoa Lorriine CoDmasls o. ,O n'1 s s
o ope1 oi % y Of hs survivors vDius expedition The
A 5 ,%oS. go, rsSHfas which E1 aao
and long n. e S G, sd SI Be- ene os' ''''
Mr. COBB Rep., Kanl. from the Pos,-Oihee Com
IN @tkSa With W hDi the PacC Mail contract
Mr. RANDALL Dem. Pennl another member OF
The Committee had reached conclusion and so had the
Senate Committee, In declaring the SonLaet nu aI
void and that the Company was not entitled 10 doar
Mr. FAIRFIELD (Rep, OhiO) from tho Appropriation
Committee, reported the Deficiency OlI', Whcn Wa
made the special order for next wednesday, Inc y
s52575S The principal items are for the
War Department some sjO0)D oeing fequrea ny tns
Quartermaster General; s5Co1 LOT tne St" b o' i
some $4,000 for miscellaneous matter, win aoou' l
lion and a quarter for the Indian Bureau
THE LEGISLATIVE. EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL APP
PRECIPITATION BILL"
The House then. at o'clock went into Committee OF
tho Whole Mr. Scofeld rep. PENN IN the Chair ON the
Legislative Executive. aud Judicial Appropriation BILL
and the discussion OF yestordan regard to the clerical
force of the Treasury Department, was resumed
The discussion, which was participated III Nv Messrs
Holman Dem, Ind), Kellogg (Hep., conn, Dawes
p Mass KyssCa Rp ICT 9eb BeGk e% ETA ky
ODem MIDI and Garfield (Rep., OhlO) took "A political
turn, and Mr.. CLYMER Dem, PENN made an arralgn'
,ncni of the Republican party for corruption and
travagance, and replied 10 by Mr.. KELLEY (Rep'
PENN, who declared that there never had been IN
imbecy, and corruption as during the Two Idst DemO-
cratic administrations Of Pierce and Buchanan. o..
Mr. Clymers speech was intended as reply 70 a
speech OF Mr.. Kelley, some weeks since afralgning Mt
Buchanan's Admnstratlol lie MT C,ymeii uESlaivd
that during those four years purity III pIIVate me duu
integrity public life were the rule ana not the excep-
Elections were free ana nhco9VI9leu Dy nilit'5
authority and freedom OF speech anu OF tue press weiu
not ABRIDGED The right or the people 10 security IN
their persons and effects was not prohloed iInocgt
persons were not arrested and imprisoned Dy the tinh
ling of a bell and Innocent women were not
hanged. Then there was neither unDrtled taxing Oh
gifts nor Wholesale appointing of relatives to ohce no
Black FRIDAYS he inquired into; no corners IN goid or
stocks to be accounted for and no Leet q slockihg
frauds aud contracts to he investigated. Ihen, tue
presidential other salaries were not increased nor was
the Treasury depleted by the use of contingent fnnds
for the ease, luxury anu splendOr OF high
oifcials Ships OF were not used as
pleasure boats. nor were the soldiers OF the
Republic employed as men!als IN the streets ana
houses of the capital During these four years no VICE
President the United States III complication with
Infamous practices no mar questioned the integrity OF
Congress nor was Congress compelled TO purge Itself OF
those who had stepped themselves In iniamy by their
connection with fraudulent schemes such as were ex-
posed by the Credit MOber nvestgatiOn OF last session
In those days sovereign States were NOT reduced 10
a condition OF vassalage. The dregs or northern Vaga-
bondism were forced into the highest Executive
and legislative positions by fraud aud violence ana
kent there by the DEGREES OF corrupt Judiciary sus
tanned by Federal bayOnes Then, from under the very
of the Capuol came no desparng cry from Tue
people to be relieved or protected from the burdens
and actions OF task-masters set them by tue
Federal authority, whom they accused OF mafeasance
corruption, by which their property was being con
1soaied their means exhausted and their prosperity
Tn that season OF proiigacy IA it was stsmazed by
Mr. Kelley body polite not diseased TO It's core
SO that II might be touched nowhere without vile cor
ruption ana fostering rOtehhess oOhhs lOrn In thoe
DAYS spies and Diormers and moiey grabbers were not
hired and sent forth to prey upon merchants cllLens
aud corporations, so mat aVOrtes might dte on uues
belonging the Federal Treasury Then def1uter were
screened IN their population or pard0ned by accl
dent they convicted ana tAelr DOndSnen lel uhQ
Tested OF their social ana personal WIN
those in authority Then no wlid railroad Scnees "1id
fostered by the Government, Dy whIch Iay ahu
priest, widow and orphan were pundered and ruined
nv millions OIL acres OF lne pubic
were given away without consideration Tor the cnich
ment OF "inside rings, OF gamblers ana SPECTATORS
and shame aud dishOnor brought upon the national
name and credit. Then, manufactures
trade commerce, and business generally, were
not stricken as by the hand OF paralysis;
starving men and women did not march through the
streets of cities crying for work bread and receiving
neither Then honest industry received It's Just reward
and boated fortunes out OF tue necessities Oh the
people were unknown Ia that day there were no priv
icged classes of bankers aud bondhoders with Golfers
filed with immunites granted at the expense OIL the Peo
pie Them there republican simplicity IN Official life
and manners, and there was no aping OF re-
gal magnfcence In establishment intercourse,
or equipage. These some OF the things which dd
not exist during the administrators James Buchanan
that season OF prOigacy referred TO by MS colleague
1Wr Keey) but If they had occurred III this
proga OF IA dreary years duration-it was
not difficult determine the responsibility OF all these
high crimes aud msdemeanors OF all these sins OF omis
sion ana commission OF all these nyaslons OF the rights
the CONSTITUTION and the laws arraisncd party
TO which colleague belonged before the bar OF the
He INF Clyinery) had not lost faith in the people BY
sad and bitter experience they had been taught the de
Ision and folly OF abandoning tue virtues the prlnC
MES the constitutional practices amt teachings of those
who founded the Government Eyerywhere the peo-
pie marshaiDg their FORCES anu the late results
Of their detached conflicts Indicated unerringly how
we'll they understood the momentous issues When the
general and final Judgment was rendered the people
would surely end this VI prOgacy, and compel
rulers and representatives to return TO and practice
hose virtues and principles which ab0unded when the
nation was born which sustained the nation In its
struggling infancy and ennobed IL III It's
and distress, disgrace and shame, had been fastened
upon the American people.
Mr. KELLEY replied 10 his colleague, and rehearsed
all the political crimes OF the Buchanan administration
including the outrages IN Kansas tile robbery VI bonds
by the Secretary of Interior the scattering OF the ships
OF the navy and the Punishment OF the INTO the in
terror Of Texas so as to deliver the government into the
hands OF traitors. AS TO credit Mooier frauds, his
Youthful colleague r. Clymerj ought to know that the
system of corruption which eliminated in the Credit
Mobilier had been inauguTated under Democratic
auspices, IN the Illinois Central Railroad with Ito enor
grants.
Mr.. cox lDem N. YJ-That Is not true.
Mr. KELLEY-rhe system which eliminated in tie
Credit MObler was organized by the Democratic party
and think that the gentleman who proposes ~ insert
his head into the fight in Congress when was done
Mr.. COX-NO, Sir; did not vote for that bill, aud
you know it, aud the Democratic party never was re-
sponsible for 1t.
Mr. 7 aaUf hiatt no Ia