The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-15
SPEECH OF HON. SAMUEL q. COX
OF NEW YORK.
Tn Hartford Conn. April !. 1875.
(Concluded.)


congress passed two more tariffs or tax bills. /
Tine last one was intended to raise forty !
millions. What for? Why did the radi- !
cal congress add additional burdens. when !
the old ones should have been lightened?
Was there need in the treasury? Oh! 1t
was said it was needed for the sinking fund
and good faith required it. But Mr.. Bur
chard 10 the house and Senator Sherman
in the senate told them that the sinking
fund had long since been neglected, and
that their true relief should have been in
retrenchment. What said Senator Sher-
man:
"sr it will not do for to talk about dlsn3m nd
ing the government by wasting tne t,n,in5 TO il
over and over again. until was ashamed 10
on the subject; and yet you were apP;rv,g bi1
,nijJons mon millions on every approprlatloh Dili
that came here. and when you knew that tnSse ap,
nropriation bills could only be PAID OUT Oh .ne
pu Ply; fUnd which YOU now talk so much ABOUT,
Sinks hnnnrabIe senators will look at this thing
fairly"
This useless tax bill was intended TO re-
v;ve Industry, was it? Then why did 1t
not tax for revenue and not for classes out
side of the treasury?
Besides, in taxing spirits, tobacco and
sugar they laid burdens on the farmers,
while thev took care of the whisky lobby.
They left the whiskey on hand untaxed.
Why did they not do the same with tobac-
co-your product? Cheers. But they
went further. They added to the con-
structive revision of the tariff, IN the new
ssatutes-two millions more; and then
raised the whole tariff ten per cent, 30
that you have added burdens on all you
wear, all your shelter and rent, all you use
and employ. Are these the men to ask
the confidence Of the people? Are these
tho men to talk to the frugal mind Of Con-
necticut? .tt
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
But they have made it all right by the
Civil Rights bill. Have they? Gen.
Hawley defends his vote for that bill, on
the ground that he is not ashamed to sleep
in tavern, or go to theatre, or be bur
led in grave yard. with his colored broth
er. All right Uaughter.) That is not
the question. 1t is as to the function oil
the federal government. The Civil Rights
bill is defended on the ground that the
new amendments of the constitution re-
guire such legislation, This is not adjudi.
Gated finally, but such decisions as we
have had-as in the slaughter house cases
declare that the amendments are prohl-
billions on the states and not grants OF
power to the federal government and
therefore that such domestic matters as
hotels are not to be regulated by fedora
law, 1t would be an absurdity to declare
by congressional action, what kind OF tooC
or drink or rules should obtain in tav
ern; or whether our theatres should pla!
farce or tragedy, Shakespeare or Boqci
cault-"Raising the wind" or the 'Bi!
Bonanza" daughter
What else has this congress done? |
admitted rotten stated with only 5000
people, to offset your state with half mil
lion, in the senate. What for except
do by us, as they did in Louisiana-foro
exceptional taxation and military polcie:
with view to 1876.
But the climax of this desperate bus
ness, is IN the Force Bill. 1t was passe
in the house 1876 to ia A few veal
kneed Republicans voted rather reluctan
" against it. What was this bill
pretended to punish conspiracies and 81
pervise elections; but it was intended
perpetuate usurpation and dethrone sta
rule, 1t failed but it is no credit to Il
Radical senate that it failed. Its failul
was due to Democratic pluck. CHEERS
1t seemed as if Louisiana was not bouu
fast enough that Arkansas needed mo-
attention. Speakers like Mr.. Frye
Maine, undertook here to defend the e
ecuitve and his allies in Louisiana. l
did not defend his Arkansas message
though | think he voted for its monstro
proposition 10 oyerturn that establish,
and peaceful state, need not answer
length his Louisiana defense 1t is q
swered by the senate report in 1872
the majority report of the house comm
tee, 1t was answered by Senator Carpe
ter, who declared the whole kellogg m
ter rotten with fraud, (Cheersl Pine
backs defeat or postponement in the hot
and senate answered it. The house Sc
ed Laurence and acknowledgements
who we're elected on the ticket opposed
kellogg; and the whole business was
tainted with force and fraud that
Force bill alone would enable the pre-
dent to keep down the Indignation Of t
honest electors, and keep up the mockt
of Kellogg rule.
But the force bill had in it clause 9
more infamous than that with referer
TO elections and conspiracies. 1t suspend
hdbeds corpus True, that suspension v
limited by amendment to u few states.
was like he old woman's measels. III
had not force enough to go around. L
they tried to make the suspension genel
The writ which Macaulay said was the III
stringent curb that ever legislation imp
ed upon tryanny-was to be placed at
mercy of this military executive. The
curity and happiness OF every man in
United States were to be placed at
pleasure of this military president.
fiat could imprison-call into being
provost and the military commission.
spite of law and in defiance of the peol
cur Magma Chdrt0 was to be suspended
enable Gen. Grant to run the south
chaos and rise into third term upon
the ruins OF public liberty lChee
No wonder such men as Gen. Hawley "
squeamish on this bill; yet what rea
he gives 1t is that Gen. Grant is alre
clothed with such powersl 1t is
enough that the south is impoverish
that her debts have grown mOnstro
under bad rule, that since the war l
bama has added six times to hers; Arl
sas FIVE times; North Carolina
times South Carolina eight times;
sissppi, Virginia and Tennessee dou
To these burdens aud bankruptcy, +
and police from federal spies and sold
are called in, that radical ascendeney
prevail.
Against this lawless and ruinous pc
the Democracy and their Liberal allies
tend.t We oppose to this fraud and I
honesty and Cancellation. We believ
the gentle forces of persuasion.
would restore trade by restoring con
We cannot repair the losses in cereals
bacco, cotton crops, stock and farm
which amounted in 1870, as compared