Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-10-18

towns and the wheat and the corn and tho
bacon, and the mules and horses, the rail
roads. bridges, culverts and the thonssna
and one nameless sources of loss, are ali
payable today, it you can get majority
OF congress to vote the money. There Is
nothing in the world to prevent it. Hou
DO you know that any OF them are going
to be paid? They have very nearly o0S
bills now piled up. have seen If sto soy
at 14O, but it is very near 200, and of every
imaginable thing.
For the number of these bills YOU bav.
the testimony of the Hon. William Law
renee, careful, painstaking, industrious
man. He is moderate in his statements
and has carefully examined, and from,
his experience, for he is more competen,
than any other nah in the Hous,, he said
that those already filed would involve tho
payment of from $500, 100000 to 300
600, 900 from the National Treasury I,
the event of a majority of the House yot.
ing them.
Well, the War Claims Committee Of
the House sat, and, as l said, Judge Law.
renee, of Bellefontaine, was Chairman
and they had it as a rule that a man mnst
first establish his loyalty before establish.
ing his claims. The first thing that com.
mittee did when the Democrats got control
of it was to strike out that Requirement
and let any man put in his claim for
losses, without regard to the question of
loyalty at all. And then another rule
which certainly the lawyers, if there be
any doing me the honor to listen to me
now, Will look upon Is remarkable, that
any person putting in a claim for dam.
ages should have his own evidence, should
sustain that claim by his own affidavit
and that of some other person knowing
the facts. Here comes John Smith. Of
Alabama, who has lost SEC, 1850 by the
Union army, and then John Jones swears
that is SO. This would bankrupt the
Rothschilds. And these are the men that
made Mr.. Tilden back out from the doc.
trine OF specie payments in 1879 and
there is not Southern rebel with a
claim to-day that does not know instinct.
| lively and absolutely that when this coun.
try comes down to the hard pan-to the
gold and silver dollar--you are never 90.
ing to pay the taxes with portion of the
claims, for you cannot keep the currency
open at both ends, the paper money at
one end and the Rebel claims at the other.
No, we will never pay taxes to pay South.
crn claims. They cannot create South
ern revulsion, but by quietly working
what is known as the initiation sentiment
they hope to pay for the vast number of
Southern claims through the manipula-
ton OF some form of paper money Take
one single claim. When we were taxing
everything during the war, from the soil.
tary hair that was left on the bald mans
pate to his shoe, we taxed cotton, and un-
der the cotton tax collected $40, 900 900.
Now they come forward and ask that the
taxes be paid back, not to the men who
paid the taxes, but that this $40, ZOO, 900
shall be paid to the cotton producing
States in the proportion Of their bales of
cotton There are fifteen bills now pend
ing tor the payment of that one claim.
And now, gentlemen, more startling
than anything else, on Tuesday of last
week there was decision rendered in the
city of Portland, State of Maine, in the
United States Circuit Court, Judge Nathan
Clifford presiding, with Daniel Clark,
District Judge of New Hampshire, sitting
with him-and want the attention of the
lawyers again-confirming the judgment
obtained against Neal Dow, of the Thir-
teenth Maine Regiment, in Louisiana,
giving judgment to the rebel against Dow
personally, for the sugar seized on his
plantation by foraging party from his
regiment. They were out foraging and
seized some sugar, and the man sued for
it, and Dow said, eff you are loyal
man we will give you receipt, and you
will easily get your pay for it," Now the
sugar was used, and large part of it sent to
the hospitals. Dow says, off you will
show me your loyalty, will give you a
receipt" and he declined to do it, and got
judgment in a Louisiana court The
United States Circuit Court at Portland
confirmed that judgment, and ordered ex-
ecution TO issue for f1.750. That being
SO, | say, gentlemen, will it not enable the
man that owned the field at Appomattox
to collect ground rent from Grant for the
occupancy of il and destruction of the
fences and crops? There has never been
so menacing a cloud as this hanging over
free people. More than that, this de-
cision was warmly dssented from by
Judge Clark, of New Hampshire. He
was brought up in the true faith, but the
supreme Court overruled him in the per
son of Clifford. Clifford is an ingram,
hungry Democrat, double-dyed and twist
ed, dyed in wool and coarse wool at that.
Much laughter And, in my judgment,
he has carried that case for eight years,
and never offered that decision until he,
in his ignorance, believed in Democratic
triumph, If there should be Democratic
dreamer here, will not that gentleman tell
me why any solitary battalion or division
of the army in the South cannot be sued
for every article of trespass? lLaughterI
"a Various victories for the solid
South are recorded in our New Orleans