Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-03-04
NEW SERIES--VOL. Is, NO. 10
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and in the autumn
That is just before the elections,
[laughter]-
they leave oil eating. mako fast their habitations
and remain at rest and seemingly torpid through
the winter.
That is until committees of invcsti-
cation get to work. (Laughtcr.)
Early in the spring they change to chrysalids
within their cases. and in about twenty days af-
terward they are transformed to winged months,
and come forth and fy about in the evening
These are the defaul.ers who go off
without being called to account by
the Administration
they come forth and fly about in the evening ill
they have paired and are ready TO lay their eggs.
Mr.. Field-I insist upon my point
of order. (Roars Of laugbter.)
Mr., Cox--I will submit Just one
question. If ] had the shorthand
faculty Of my friend from New York
(Mr. Mellish) l would put 1t into good
shape. think it should be some
thing like this: whether the moths
we are called upon to appropriate
against-and whose incursions upon
our army clothes are SO wasteful-are
the moths of the more numerous
branch of the Lepidoptera, or do they
belong to the Phalena family Of Lip
mus? Laughter.)
Mr.. Wheelcr-To that question /
answer in the affirmative. Laugh-
ter
Mr.. Cox-And have they robust
throax, and if we apply snuff TO them,
instead of the expensive petroleum
solution, will they not sneeze out the
predatory thorax, 80 that We can
thereby save $50, 900 u yeary (Laugh.
ter.)
But, sir, to be serious for q mo-
ment, and in conclusion. No man
has suffered moro than myself from
the extraordinary essays on Satur-
day and other days, in senate and
house, at homo and abroad, in pam
pblet and press, from the currency
question. / believed | had mastered
some of its abstruseness. / was sure
at one time that imitation would car
ry. saw the light OF victory in the
eye of my friend from Pennsylvania,
(Mr. Kelley) Then | recalled the
vicissitudes Of politics. 1 read, re-
read, dreamed of bonds, notes, gold
and silver, exchanges and convertible
tiles, until was in despair. But to-
day, sir, IL is all clear The solution
of the financial problem is the moth.
1t is the Lepidoptera. feel it,
Whether produced by the war or by
bad administration, the causes are at
once solved by considering the habits
and results of the moth. Therefore,
sir, | PROFOUND this interrogatory, as
the final relief of financial debates
and worries. Any gentleman of the
ability of my friend from Pennsylva-
MIA, (Mr. Kelley or my colleague
(Mr. Mcllish) can answer:
Suppose that, in the event OF the
success Of the bill of the honorable
gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr.
Kelley)there was at once established an
interconvertibility between the three
sixty-fves which be proposes and the
national bank and greenback curren-
cy, (grcat laughterD and in the pro-
cesses Of contraction the five-twenties
would fall to par and the grcenback
retire for the national bank notes, in
consequence Of the extraordinary re-
sumption of our irredeemable debt
last September by the treasury at five
dollars apiece in silver quarters and
the imports should at once fall off sew
eral millions, while thus reciprocally
affecting the export of peanuts from
North Carolina, the hog trade of In
diana, the hoop-pole trade Of Ohio,
and, indirectly, the clam trade Of Cape
Cod and to such an appreciable ex-
tent that the German bankers, being
in correspondence with the bulls Of
New York, should, by sudden pan
ic, create demand for the Saginaw
copper dollar notes of Ishpeming,
Michigan, quoted the other day by
the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
and thence would ensue a rush of
bears who bad possessed themselves
of their own currency and invested 1t
in the three sixty-fves; and the cur
rency would then swell, and then
shrink, and thus produce an elasticity
that would move tho crops, and in
duco such speculation that in one of
the swells we should burst and In one
of its shrinks we should collapse,
would It so affect the Ashantee war
and the exposes of Great Britain as
to demoralize the Saginaw mining
company, destroy the destructive in.
fuences of the Lepidoptera moth and
thus stop an appropriation for the cen
tennial of American Independence.
(Great laughter.)
All these things should be consid-
cred. We expect that when a man
like my colleague Mr. Whecler) ad-
dresses an intelligent house like this
be should know all about these things.
He is eminent, and exposed to the re-
proachcs of politics.
He should be able especially to tell
us where all these uniforms aud clothes
are, aud why II takes so much money
10 take care Of them. He should run
for Governor Of New York on the
moth issue.
Mr.. Wheeler--Here they are (hold-
ing out pamphIst.) The gentleman
can take this home with him, and
have bis measure taken for one.-
(Laughter.)
Mr.. Cox-If my friend will only
print II in ire Record IL will satisfy
the people. Say what and laugh as
we will, it is the truth, that there is
clothing enough ON hand now to save
one:third ofall the reserve that has been
illegally issued from the treasury;
and we appropriate hundreds Of thou.
sands TO save IL from moths God
help the government from moths!
Mr.. Wheeler--I can takc my friend
IN ten minutes TO shop where he can
get the best suit in the lot (Laugh-