The New York herald., 1874-10-31

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on the docket OF the court at singe term, and,
as rule, they are more complex than the earlier
case were; We hear how wen Congress used TO
It's members used to be. DID you ever think how
the labors and business OF Congress
the last twenty years In the Thirty second
Congress. which occurred twenty-one years
ago. there were introduced into the senate during
the two years $40 bills number much larger than
1t had been before. In the House the number OF
bills was 1888. The number OF bills ana resolutions
finally acted on and approved was 800. In the
last Congress, the Forty-second, OF Senate bills
passed % twenty years 1' sec the ps Of
session were 1,0l5-now they are 5.125.
Twenty iae, years oo ago the laws passed AZ. as
data and extend them to all the work one IN
Congress and in the other departments OF govern
intellectual performance Of men overborne in the
whirl OF the present with the leisurely and pains
Is No TR
AND II DOES RETRoGKADE If IT IT. ELECTS Lee to TOTS IT'S
AS water rises as high rs the fountaln-head, so
eve wsh tnei CO and you canno
prove that Congress after Congress, and President
na vana, m wItbont nrovng A. tne n,e
time the decadence and disgrace OF the American
people. You may doubt anything TO death; and
suspicion has been bred TIL men dare the most
shameless wrong. and succeed In II, TOO, relying
on the din and roar against the authorities and
the uneasy distrust which carps and slghs for
cnange. Look at the elections In ohio and lndi-
ana carried under cocer or the rant and ain haze
described, and see what they nave DONE Speak
ing before the world these two great States nave
been made to declare not only for watering and
Ss ns ana
the nations pghted faith Cheating the
public creditors out and out. has gone over Europe
purpose Of great body OF the American people,
And this. too, at a time when we are borrowers
In the markets OF the word, seeking to negotiate
our obligatlons at lower interest SO as to refund
our debit SUCH Is @ THE BASE BASE AND BRAzEN
SEND GREETING TO THE EASE What does the
democracy OF New York say y !oit9 Cannon tnan.
been fired Tor this ingorlous achievement
wherever democrats ,S could get 10 trusted lor the
CREASED RATE or INTEREST FOR THESE
VICTORIES AS WE HAVE PAID HERETOFORE
rIhREb cI u in pkMoRAo GosvENoS Ba Ba
now let the great State OIL New York vote with
Indiana and ONO, and how mucn Will IT cost herr
The question touches not only our pride but our
pocket such scandal tarnlshes the American
name but 1t Is tile forerunner OF cost in money
aud IN trade and commerce aso and the loss viii
fall on State SO heavily as here. With out one-
eleventh u the nations population, New York
the rate OF interest paid by the United
States may be OF little moment In dollars and
cents to some States, but II Is serious sport for
New York. Freed IRON all suspicion OF meaning
ever to repuIiatc our bondS we can borrow
money as cheap as any lender IN Chrlsrendom can
raised the cry OF reputation in their National
Convention OF 1868 we have regularly paid not only
ance against the risk OF our own rascaty. In the
great election OF 1868 the people trampled out tho
there It stands to this day as their latest
national declaration OF sentiment; and now 1t
every western State and the democracy Q! the
East goes into delrium tremens OF JOY and ex-
uaton But Governor seymo1r who in 1885,
other evening to the people OF Brooklyn tnat the
success OF the Tammany ticket IN this State would
that be so? CAN YOU VOTE DOWN GOVERNOR
PIX WITHOUT DIsApPEoyNG ~ Pr HIS aARD
You vote down the republican ticket with
o. out seeming to disapprovs s the Presidents
SsV the eminent BUSINESS men 81 Brooklyn VINO visited
the President last winter, or urged him by letter
to veto the Expansion bill and TO Stand like
rock against the swamping tide OF infiation-I call
on these distinguished citizens TO- interpret the
verdict OF New York Il she Joins OHIO and Indiana.
the thin Ice whereOn he trod. He ls reported as
saying :-"rne question now a certain class OF our
since. 1t did not divide parties, but 1t
made difference OF % opinion among mem @
appeal from the Governor 70 the record. Tne
question whether our bonds were to he paid or
thing out depreciated nonin te rest.bearing paper
promises, did divide parties as soon as the ques.
ton arose. Governor Seymours party declared
| against paying tue bonds In money and for taxing
the bonds though the law creating them SAID they
should never be taxed. and the constitution itself,
and the Supreme Court said too. This
declaration OF double liquidation was written
in the democratic platform OF 1868. The
republican party, IN It's platform the same
year, said the bonds should be paid sacredy in
money. President Grant, standing on the steps OF
the Capitol with his oath OF Office on his lips, said
that every larthing OF the puohc debt should be
paid in coin, the money o. the world; Al tnls was
ton divide partesY The position Of the repuda-
tors was bad enough them but not hall so bad as
tributes OF the bonds stood on. the acts
Of Congress under which the bonds were were
the people decided the question by the great fiat
0I 1868, and then what did Congress dor In March,
by President Grant-an act adopted BY over whem-
! Ing maJorlties In the two houses, expressly
settled the whole question BY & that act solemn n
bond that 1t should be paid 10 COIN. On the faith
OF that act. the bonds have been bought
tnas act shall be repealed and repudiated,
shall be swept away and the nation shall be
launched on q sea OF paper money, the volume OF
ponticaI majorlties. the question did divide par
ties 1t does divide parties, 1t VIII divide parties
be buried out Sao Of sgt the
faded lowers OF rhetoric wherewith ne was won't,
In 1868 and before. to strew the grave OF the
read by Governor Sc yniour show ar. TiIden always
beabored the financial measures OF Mr.. Llncoln's
and OF General GRANTS ADMINISTRATORS, as ne
belabored all the measures for the overthrow OF
the rebellion. They all did that, and Mr.. 11lden
was never hindmoSt; but they ali TOOK part IN in-
venting the doctrine just proclaimed In the West,
and at heart iour-ffths OF the party mean 1t nOw
So stands the issue the record before the
world; so stand the parties. and SO VIII stand the
verdict as plain as the sun In the heavens.
At this point OF Mr.. Conkhng's address voice
called out very audiby, Third term; how about
tnat, Senators" but the speaker made no alusion
whatever to that subject, and went on with his
speech as follows:-
The financial question Is an Issue OF truth and
falsehood-an issue in which right and wrong hold
grappe for the mastery. Right may be trampled
down to-day on the prairies OF the West or the
savannas OF the South. Right may be bruised to.
day BY the heel OF Tammany Han. Brooklyn, In
her opulence, her wealth, her intelligence and
her power, may see the nations nonor prostrate In