Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-07
Considerable damage from the rms

sections of the city. The great god,
however, which We experience, is full
compensation for the reported injury 5
property.
The action of the Democratic mai0i- |
ty in the House of Representatives. n |
the contested election case of Platt IS.
GoOde, of the Second Virginia District,
is an outrage upon all that is just and
right. The majority report declared the
contestant, Platt, entitled to the seat
The report was creditable to the major
ity for its ignored partisanship and gave
true decision according to the evidence.
Platt, The Republican candidate at
the election was, beyond all doubt, chos-
eu, and so said majority of the COM
mittee. Notwithstanding this, the ez-
Confederates in the House, proceeding
upon the principle that might makes
right" adopted the report of the minor
ity, and seated Goode for the remainder
of the term. This is Democratic JUS
tice
The Senate has taken firm and
proper stand upon the Consular and Di-
plOmatlc Appropriation Bill. The bill
has been in three conference committees,
all of which have disagreed. The stand
taken by the conferees on the part of the
Senate is, that they will not submit to
repeating existing laws in, or migrating
new legislation upon Appropriation
Bills.
The salaries of our Representatives
abroad, are fixed by law. and while the
House would so reduce them as to make
it an impossibility to live respectfully up
on them, the Senate is determined to
adhere to the original proposition, name
ly, to acquiesce in reductions in cases il
which such reductions do not interfere
with existing laws, but to stand by the
law until repealed agreeably to Parlia-
mentary usages. In this, the Senate
will be sustained by the country.
1t is undiniable that the war of the
rebellion was inaugurated by the Demo-
cratic party then in power, and that
all the shedding of blood, and expendi-
ture of treasure, with which the nation
was afflicted, were the direct results Of
that rebellion. After the close of the
war the Republican party, to which the
people had committed the task of re-
storing prosperity to the country, and
paying off the immense indebtedness;
which had been imposed upon the ma
ton, entered upon the work with the de.
termination to accomplish the object with
as little distress to the people as posi-
bic. What has it accomplished?
The Republican party has decreased
the amount of the public debt nearly
one fourth of what it was at the close o.
the war, reducing. of course, the anua
interest in the same proportion. 1t ha
reduced taxation $3.50, 100000 a year
The public expenditures have been de
creased, as compared with 1873, to tn,
aggregate yearly amount of$26, 100000
The public credit has been improved
and the public faith maintained untarr
ished. All this has been realized i
the face of Democratic opposition.
A class of Democratic campaignel
who are either very ignorant or els
willing to lie for the sake of catehin
votes, are asserting that Hayes, while i
q Congress, advocated and voted for I'll
universally condemned salary grab
n or back-pay enactment. The acoustic
q is utterly false and unfounded. 1t
q only made by the more reckless and u
. conscientious class of Democratic pape
and speakers, who either know it to
false, or else do not care whether it
10 false or true, provided it can be used
= injure the Republican ticket Hay
70 did neither advocate or vote for the bae
! pay measure. He was not even a mel
Der of the Congress in which that mea
If ure was discussed and passed He wa
o. however, member of an earlier Go
,e gress, in which it was proposed to raj
of the pay of the Members of Congress a
is of many of the employees in the CT
he service of the government at Washir
es ton. That proposition had no retro
IS. tive operation. 1t had reference to I
re future, not to the past. 1t was net
of act popularity known as the "back-p
al steal, and it had no reference at all
a back-pay. 1t was very generally
I'd proved by the leading men of both
IS litical parties. 1t was not criticised
Ar opposed by the press, nor was there al
i'll thing extravagant or unreasonable
ry. measure. Governor Hayes voted for
bill. So did Gov. Hendricks. So
a large majority of the Democrats
Congress.
We can easily imagine why Democr
ic stump-speakers, and campaign
Ids pers, are trying to mix this act, up "
Ids the baek-pay business William
err Wheeler was in the Congress that ado
the ed the back-pay bill, and opposed
ev- stongly. He voted six times agains