Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-15

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Gov. KELLOGG then enters into history
OF the funding act passed by .he last
Legislature mainly through the strenuous
eXertions Of the Governor, whereby the
outstanding bonded State debt is to be
exchanged for new consolidated bonds
at the rate of sixty cents on the dollar as
being the most the State is able to pay.
He calls attention 20 the constitutional
amendment recommended by him and
adopted by the Legislature, fixing the
limit of the debt at $15,0O0000 and the
rate of taxation at twelve mills on the
dollar, excluding the tax for schools;
also the amendment restricting the rev.
| enues of each year to the expenditures
of the same year, the absence of these
! restrictions being prolific source of
! financial abuse heretofore. The Gov
ernor sums up in these words:
We ave in two years paid of over 100000
of the old floating Indebtedness with the old
assets Of the Stale We have reduced the
debt by the Funding bill from $25,O00OOO to
SIS, 600, 900, not TO be increased until after the
year 1924; we have reduced the State taxes
from 81 u mills to 14l5 mills, not to be in
creased until after the same year; we have
provided that parish taxation shall not exceed
State taxation, so that the greatest amount y
taxation any one parish can be called upon to
pay in any one year is % mills; we have
enabled the city of New Orleans to reduce the
taxation ) mills; we have largely reduced
State expenditures, and confined them strict
" within the limit of our revenue, and we
have paid up over $S,000,000 of contingent
liabilities. All this has been effected by us,
without aid from those who arrogantly claim
to represent all the virtue and intelligence of
the State, and while contending against vlo-
lence within the State borders, and organized
utilization abroad, and while the very exist
ence of he Government was being threatened
This is lpe financial record of the Administra-
ton, which our opponents assert has been so
corrupt and so oppressive as TO drive the
State into bankruptcy and the people into
riots.
After stating that the financial reforms
proposed by constitutional amendment
are opposed by the white mems party,
and that the legislative records will
show educated Democrats to have been
equally implicated with colored Republi-
cans in jobs, the address proceeds:
The second charge brought against me by
my opponents il that was not elected to the
office hold Mr.. Marrs committee in their
recent address attempt to fcrtify that assertion
by extracts from the census of 1870, showing
a small excess of white over colored males
over the age of twenty-one. The whole force
of the argument Is destroyed at once by the
fact which Mr. Mari designedly or accidentally
fails to mention, that the same census shows
that there are nearly 1900 alien males over
the age Of twenty-one in this State who are, OF
course, disqualified frcm voting. Deduct
these 1900 aliens from the total of white cit
liens claimed for the Democracy; deduct also
the 5000 or 10000 known Republicans, and
add that number to the coored male adults,
all made citizens by the war, and the census
argument establishes larger excess OF Re
publicans over Democratic voters in this State
than even the Republican party claim.
There are two other points that may be
mentioned in this connection. First that
there are large number of colorcd men in
this State SO nearly White as to pass for white,
and who are doubtless SO cassed 10y the cen
sus enumerators; and, secondly, that there has
been for years past, and still continues, u
steady Immigration of colored people to the
fertile alluval lands of lhe State from other
Southern States.
The Governor scouts the idea that the
Republican party was divided during the
last campaign, and asserts that Warmoth
and McNIillen carried no votes over to
the Fusion camp but their own, and that
the only reason Warmoth was wanted by
the Fusionists was the belief that he
could so manipulate the registration and
election that it would appear that the
Fusionists were elected, He says:
Notwithstanding that the whole strength of
the opposition was thrown into the fight
against me, even the Fusion returns show
that ran far ahead of my ticket in this State.
When was nominated for Governor the Con-
servative papers, IN many instances, spoke
approyiugly Of my nomination, and warmly
| commended the course Il had pursued in the
| Senate in advancing the material Interests of
a., l,l..a adj
torially said that the nomination of senator
| Kellogg was u source of qualification to ali
| good citizens.
The question as to whether Mr.. McEnery or
! myself was elected Governor of this State is
| one that have several times proposed to sub
nit TO arbitration, When the suit brought in
| the United States Court was still pending,
| offered, through my counsel, Mr.. William II
| Hunt, Southern man and one of the fore.
most LAWYERS at the bar of this State, that the
returns should be submitted to prominent and
dsiuterested citizens, two 10 be chosen 10y
each side, and the tifth by the four, ana | pro
posed to abide by the result of their de
csion; but this proposition was declined
IL ann prepared 10 show before any
competent tribunal that a portion OF
the returns upon which Mr.. McEuery bases
his claims are iorgerles, manufactured in
this city, / am able now to produce the ia.
dicial officer before whom a portion OF the
! blank tauN lists and returns were sworn, To bt
| subsequently filled up here in this city and
paincd OIL ON the public as the genuine re.
turns of an election held in strong Repuhli-
can parishes far distant from this city. Even
Senator Carpenter, in his speech in the sen,
ate ON the tth of March, said; IL do not think
McEnery was In fact elected, though the re
turns show he was" ! hold myself nov
ready to impeach the returns relied upon 10y
the fusion Boards as altered, defacod, and il
| ms I ghp
moreover that the returns from lberyille, 81
IAmes. Ierrehnnne. ST. MMrtm and other he