The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-08


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Il Making total So. .sDI
4 by this table it will be seen the differ
ence between the two Houses is abou
l so, 100000
i Whenever the conference commit
tees have met, the Senate conference
have In every instance shown an entir
Willingness to meet the demands of tn
House conferences on all matters o
discretion more than half way. In fac
they do not even resist the demands o
the House on all matters Of discretion
but, on matters of legislation tina
could not receive the sanction of tn
Senate by the ordinary methods o
legislation, they declined.
L have shown beyond question tina
the reductions are only about ten mil
lions, instead of thirty-nine million
and that the balance is simply post
ponements of appropriations that mus
be provided for in the future. Tha
of the ten millions of reductions |
considerable portion of it is obtained
by crippliDg the Government machin
cry, entailing Inconvenience and los
to the people. have also shown tina
the pretended reductions of thirty min
millions is in reality about twenty-tiv,
millions.
Never in history have current fact
been distorted as they are in this mat
ter by our democratic friends. Neve
was deception practiced to SUCH an e1
i tent as now.
The reduction in Government eS
penses last year was more than sixteel
millions when the books closed on tn
30th of June, 1876. This is an is actua
test of the years work.
/ When the present year expires anC
the work of this House is tested by tn
actual result | shall be gratified if
makes as good a showiLs,, es last, name
ly, an actual reduction of SIC, OG3, 9@l
i Having said this much ON the ques
tion of appropriations / propose nov
to address myself to the question Q
economy and reform, the presen
watch word of the democracy.
/ REFORM
Much has been said by our demo
cratic friends on the subject of reform
Economy and reform is the burden Q
their song. The word ''reform" ar
pears eighteen times in a platform
!, adopted recently at st. Louis. TIL
fact is, reform is an ever-presen
T necessity; it has been proclaimed i
every platform of every party sine
the first one was made; until huma
nature approaches near perfectio
necessity for reform must always eXist
l do not object to reform, the republ
! can party do not object to it; and W
: congratulate the country when tt
T democratic party, in this centennis
year, shows any desire to reform. Lt
: their conversion for the future be prC
claimed. 1t certainly augurs well fc
t the country. 1t was this party whic
is now crying reform that in 1St
. plunged the nation into rebellion
e destroy it. Persons are here ON tn
4 floor CRYING economy and reform wi
j assisted in that longto be remembers
y but unsuccessful effort to destroy Il
country. A less charitable person thf
myself might say that the last dem
= cratic Congress undortook to destrC
the country by secession and rebelliC
a,I nnu- tho first HonnNaratia Hon
since the rebellion undertakes to para
we the Government by withholdir
necessary appropriations These san
gentleman now have much to 81
about the enormous expenditures
the Government. Even the gentlemi
from Virginia Mr.. Tucker is reports
to have said recently i'll STUN
speech that the cost of the Cover
ment before the war was about 81 D
capita and it is now SIS. Let Inc fir
correct his statement by substitutil
Sc for SIS.
Be a little modest, gentlemen. Loo
into the question fairly, and if there
extravaganza anywhere aid i'll reno
ing it; but when you draw such col
parsons as have alluded to, you mu
know that your rash act of secessit
and treason caused these addition
expenditures. Do not find fault if
does cost 50 per capita to maintain 4
interest and sinking fund of the pub
debt of which you were the diret
only cause Do not complain if
does cost nearly 81 per edpitd to pay t
pensions to the soldiers who saved {
glorious Republic you sought to
stroy.
Do not complain If it costs 81 p
capita more to maintain other expens
occasioned by your attempt to oblit'
ate from the Declaration of Indepen
ence the immortal words of Jefferso
: What evidence have we of reform
e the part of the Democratic party? L
: only thing that they can possibly ella
: as evidence is their attempt to redu
; and postpone expenditures. VIII
= you claim credit for this tell the lab
:. ing men that with full Treasury y
: refused to appropriate money for
:. payment of the necessary work on {
5 public buildings of the country a
, time when the completion of th'
{ buildings could b. effected with gre
: er cheapness than at any time sir
: the war, and when the labor of
-. country would be greatly benefit
\ thereby. Let them tell the laboril
: man now in distress that the gr,
: Democratic patty required that Il
; and their wives and little ones III
:. suffer for the good of the party.
81 d
: delphia, Cincinnati, Chicago. and
: Louis, that it was not because
- Government was embarrassed that {
3 was done, but they must suffer pri
( ton, hunger, and pain because
Z Democratic party wanted an oppor
: nifty to cry reform.
: Tell the commerce of the coun
: we have deprived it of facilities
which it is taxed; we have put
= lights and refused to create new o
- to aid it; oil for party capital
While you have reduced a little q
= postponed largely you have refused
: reduce taxation. You have resol'
: i'm all your conventions for years,
a Guiding the one just held at St Lot
. that the present system of taxat
\ was vicious. that it provided boun
- for the rich at the expense of the pc
9 My friend from New York Mr.. Q
: made the statement but a few d
( since that the people of this coun
( were paying 81, 900, 0O0, 600 a year
: bounty to the manufacturing intere
: Nobody believes this. but he procla
= it, and the democratic party procla
< it now as they have in the past. If
- is true, Mr.. Speaker, why has not SC
= attempt been made on the part of
9 reform House to relieve the people
= their heavy burdensl Is party Fl
< be intrusted with power that adj
3 and charges grievous evils but ms
: no effort when it mas power to reIi
& the country of theml
Yes, you talk of reform. What
you do when you gained possessio