Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-06
HOUSE
Another Sweat for the Franking Bill.

Another Sweat for the Frankfng Bill.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 5.-Mr.
Shanks called up his motion to reconsider
the vote rejecting the bill for the free dis
tribution of public documents.
Mr.. Cotton moved TO lay the motion to
reconsider on the table. Rejected, yeas
102, nays 124.
Mr.. ShankS moved the previous question.
1t was seconded, and the main question was
ordered by yeas 123, nays 103. The ques-
ton was then taken on reconsidering the
vote rejecting the bill, and it was reconsid-
cred by yeas III, nays log.
Mr.. Sherman then moved to recOmmit
the bill to the PostOffice Committee, with
instructions to report back a bill substan-
TALLY similar to the bill introduced last
Monday by Butler, of Massachusetts. The
motion was rejected, years -, nays Is.
The Vote.
The question then required on the pass
age of the bill as originally reported, and
the bill was rejected by yeas Ill, nays 40.
The TenneSseeans among the ayes are
MeSsrs. Bright Crutchfield, Harrison, Lew
is, and Thornburg-5. Nays-Atkins and
Whitthorne-2. The names Of Random
Butler, Maynard, and Num- do not APP
pear.
Resolutions were reported from the Com
mittee on Elections in the Virginia contest
ed election case that Davis, the sitting
member, is not entitled to the seat and
that Thomas, the contestant, is. The resO-
buttons were adopted without debate and
| Thomas sworn in.
Garfield Finds q Mares Nest in Dawes
Famous Speech.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the Legislative Appropria-
ton bill, Mr.. WOOdford in the chair, and
was addressed by Mr.. Garfield, the Chair
man of the Committee on Appropriations
| He said they had been at the opening OF
this session confronted with an alarm that
the surplus was gone, and they had been
| told that when such a situation occurred
whenever a government was forced to the
| necessity of laying new taxes in a time OF
peace. il was because the dry rot had struck
| into the very frame work of the government
| or of the party which held its power. Three
| questions, he said, presented themselves:
first, if there was a deficit in the near fu-
| ture, what was the cause of il? Second
was there a danger of such deficit? Third
| what was the duty of Congress? On the
| first point he explained that one cause OF
| the deficit was the reduction of taxes every
| year since the war. In 1868 and 1875
| taxes had been reduced to an amount in
! the aggregate of S319,500,00O, and vet al
the close of the last fiscal year there was a
surplus Of 81, 100000 receipts above eX-
| penditures. In other words, they had been
running a race between two forces, one Of
which was expenditures and the othe'
which was to cut down tn" ,,..
nues. 1t was evident tho
If done it was likely TO occnr soon The Nc,
had happened to make it oecnr sinca m.
close OF the tScal year. Referring to tn,
reduction OF taxes particularly on tea anC
like
Lady GOdIva
who took away the tax and built herself n
everlasting name. But it NIGH be also, il
doing so that the public credit of the UNITED
States would go out despoiled, and like tn,
Lady GOdiva ride naked throughthe street!
of the world. He simply arayed agains
| all theory of the cause of the supposed de
felt, the naked fact that the revenues haC
been cut down S146,OO0.OnQ zince July
1870, and if that cut was not sufficient /,
take away $4,000, 900 of surplus he did no
TCAd inc addition and subtraction table.
Alright. He sent to the clerks desk anC
had read an extract from Dawes speech Il
show that the question whether in his state
ment of expenditures the current value o
the sinking fund was or was not, and sale
he referred to that part OF the speech be
cause of the fact that Dawes had frankly ant
| manfIlly acknowledged the sinking funl
is included in his statement of tn,
years expenditures, and not included
in the statement of the previous YEAR
expenditures. The House had been yer,
much startled at least for moment, AM
the country mad been startled for DAYS, b,
the statement that for the current wear TIKI
fiscal appropriation had swollen from
S290.OOd,O00, the figure of last year, t,
S3l9, 100000; in other words, that the ex
travagance of Congress had swollen the ex
penditures S29,0O0,0O0 in a single year
That was most startling statement; bu
when the S29, 900 was absolutely takey