The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-02
FORTY FOURTH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
A New Financial Bill introduced
by Senator Sherman.
Bill Passed by the House for Preservation Of
Bu6alOeS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 1875.
THE SENATE.

Mr., Logan presented the petition Of
disabled soldiers asking that the provis
ions of the act of June 18th, 1874, he ex'
tended so as to include all who lost an
arm below the elbow or leg below the
knee, and that they be allowed a pen
sion of twenty-four dollars per month
Referred
Mr.. Morton presented apetition signed
by fifteen thousand women of Indiana,
and nearly fourteen thousand voters OF
that State, on the subject of temperance,
asking Congress to appoint commission
and investigate, and to report as to the
effect of alcoholic liquor traffic; secondly,
to prohibit the impor tation Of alcoholic
LIQUORS from foreign countries; thirdly to
prohibit the manufacture and sale Of al
coholic liquors in the District of Colum-
bia and Territories of the United States;
fourthly, to require total abstinence from
alcoholic liquors of all civil, military and
naval officers of the United States.
Mr. Morton said, as his petition was
signed by the voters, mothers and wives
of Indiana, lie would ask to have it read
and printed in the Record, and referred
to the Committee on Finance, So order
ed.
He also presented the etition of Rob
ert Small, Of Charleston, asking compen-
sation for the capture of the steamer
Planter, at Charleston, in May, 1864. Re-
lerred.
Mr.. Morton, in presenting the petition,
said Samuel Small captured the steamer
in Charleston HarbOr, and delivered her
to the officer commanding the United
States SQUADRON outside the harbor 1t
was gallant achievement, and had he
been an officer of the navy he would
have received large amount of prize
money. AS it was he received but very
small sum. He hoped the Committee on
Naval affairs would give the petition at
tentiOn.
Mr. Morton also presented the petition
of two thousand citizens of Indiana and
Kentucky in favor of aid to the Texas
Pacific railroad company. Referred to the
Committee on Railroads.
Mr.. Sherman, from the Committee on
Finance, reported a bill amendatory of
the acts of July A. 1870, and January
20. 1871, authorizing the refunding of the
national debt Placed on the calendar
The hill is as follows: That the acts to
authorize the refunding of the national
debt, approved July IA, 1870, and Janu-
airy 20, 1871, be so amended that the
amount of bonds bearing A per cent. in
terest authorized to be issued be inCreas-
ed to $50O,000, and that they be payable
at the pleasure of the United States after
thirty years from the date Of their issue
instead of after fifteen years,
. Second This act shall mot be construed
to authorize any increase of the total
amount of bonds provided for by thea acts
to which this act is an amendment, nor
authorize any increase whatever Of the
bonds of the United States, and all pro-
visions of acts to hiCh this act is amend
atory, not inconsistent with the provis-
lens of this act, and hereby cOntinuediu
force and effect.
Mr. Wadleigh moved to reconsider the
vote by which the report of the confer.
ence committee on the joint resolution to
pay interest on the 3-65 bonds was agreed
to on Monday last. He said he made the
motion for the purpose of stating the
reasons which prompted him to give that
notice on Monday. If the means could |
be devised to ascertain which bonds had |
been issued for fraudulent claims, it |
should be done; but, after careful eXami- |
nation of the subject, he had me to the |
conclusion that they could not be sepa-
rated, and must all be paid. If these
bonds issued for fraudulent claims we're
now in the hands of thieves, to whom |
they were issued, they could be put off |
on innocent persons before any investi- |
CATION could be made to ascertain which |
had been issued for fraudulent claims. |
He spoke of frauds committed in the
District, and said they had almost made
the name of the District Infamous among
the honest people of the country. Bonds
had been issued to pay counsel employed
to defend the Board of Public Works,
and they had been issued to carry out
that diabolical safe burglary conspiracy,
cOncocted to injure an innocent man, and
also to pay for all fraudulent claims un-
der the monstrous system of extending
contracts, but it was impossible to have
them separated from the bonds issued
for honest claims, and all must be paid.
Mr.. Merrimon asked if the Senator
said 65 bonds were issued to pay coun-
sci employed by the Board Of Public
Works.
Mr.. Wadleigh said he understood that
he gentlemen who conducted their de-
ense carried their claim before the Board
If Audit and were allowed $4,000. For
he reasons above stated, that it would
,e impossible to separate fraudulently
ssued bonds from those honestly issued,
le withdrew the motion to reconsider.
Mr.. Ingall said the motion to recon-
ider could not be withdrawn, and he
ubmitted that, if the allegation made by