The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-07

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ment they had run up to $lS0, ASS, ,0oC
and in 1874 to Sl94, ,11s,OOO.a It therefore
required q great deal Of audacity for thai
gentleman TO call him (Cox) to account
for voting appropriations for public
buildinPs. d.. n 7nil ai sef'. 4. ID
Mr.. Garfield ,intimated TO Cox that,hiL
Chairman Randall) would tell him that
| il was not q correct stEtement.i rais
Cox-My Chairman tells me lids cor
rect and I would rather trust 70 my
Chairman in that matter than to the ex'
Chairman Of the Committee on Appropri.
ations. Did not the gentleman say the
other day that we had saved, or could
save from SIS 700, 900 to Sl8 900, 900 and
did not some one besides him say $50, /.
0OOeO0i Yea it was the distinguished
financier from Ohio, [Boster) sitting be.
side him to prompt him, one says is and
the other says so (which is right, likely
they are both wrong, but they are. ID,
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. ''9',''j
Keep on gentlemen, and after while you
will find that stated the real truth in st.
Louis when ] said the appropriations this
session had been cut down S64, 10000
below the heestimates and nearly. 40, goo; !;
900 below the.appropriationS Of last year,
and SO il will go to the honest men .ot
Ashtabtla and Fostoria, D. | Laughter
I suppose the gentleman (Garfeld)
wanted to make the eleven Southern
States ~ II Z. -.s.l.. &. .t...
THE GOAT or THE WILDERNESS,
to carryofr the sins Of the Republican par
" in the years Of bad economy or worse
something else. But that will not answer.
It has been time Of profound peace
since the surrender at Appomatox Court
House, and all the disturbances made
since then have been caused by military
interference with local self.government;
and now you talk about the army, when
Sheridan Is in Philadelphia rollickingon
the Centennial,
'''' AND WHEN cusTARs FGLL @ =
in the wilderness, and you say you have
not yet troops enough. Where are your
25,0OO men? Three Thousand Of them
are in Missississippi, Louisiana and some
other Southern States. What are they
doing there? There Is no revolt, no rebel
lion, no election yet, and only 5000 men
are sent out 10 fight the wild Sioux l
can't understand what the gentleman
means when he says ~. 5f- ''' '
/, THE ARMY NEEDS 10 BE INCREASED.
Does he want more troops in the
South than there are noW2, Where does he
want them, and for, what purpose
Does he want still to punish the eleyen
States2 Is II the purpose 70 carry, cleo
tions in that way? Then for another
reason forty millions. Of people will un-
derstand why did not mean TO be drawn
into this debate. But the gentleman
made Il personal to me because l fixed
the responsibility for the large expendi--
ture since the war on him and his party.
According to his own idea we can
s.. SAVE 100000 ~
this year or double that according to his
colleague. Then during the last ten or
eleven years the Republicans are respon-
sible for this excess Of extravaganza.
We know that all through our civil ad-
ministration there's riot and prodigali,
ty and badness that has been unearthed
by our committees and which the people
in the name Of propriety and reform will
recognize, as trust in. God for our sal.
walton, by the election in November of
an honest man, who is this day the Gov
ernor Of New York, Samuel j. Tilden.
(Applause on the Democratic side and
contemptuous sheers on the Republican
side.)
The discussion was closed, the confer.
ence report agreed to, and a new Commit.
tee Of Conference appointed, consisting Of
Messrs. Randall, Morrison and Kasson.
A Conference Committee was ordered on
the silver bill and on the sundry civil
appropriation bill. The Senate joint
resolution for the completion Of the
Washington monument was taken from
the Speakers table and passed 'unani-
mously.
Mr.. Lawrence called up bill to require
the Pacific railroad companies to create .
sinking fund to reimburse the Govern
ment, but without action adjonrned. 49,
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THE CHINESE QUESTION.
During the morning hour, the question
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