The weekly clarion., 1876-10-11
The ..c.aIn-~ Erssboo,

The speeches OF Northern orators con
sist Of two TOPICS. Southern Outrage
and Southern claims." Nothing could
be more disreputAble than the attempt
of Northern Radical partisans to.make
capital out of this "claims" business.
They themselves passed the law for the
payment Of ''claims" held by Southern
''loyalisis," invited their presentation
and held out the offer of payment. They
are now trying TO fasten the whole re-
sponsibility upon the Southern people
and to manufacture eleetioneering cap
ital out of it in the interest Of the Radical
candidates who are known 10 favor policy
OF political prescription towards them,
to show further the hypocrisy of these
deInagogues it Is only necessary to show
that they themselves are sponsors for a
large portion of the " claims that are
carrying such terror to their souls and
the Radical and Carpet-bag Representa-
lives from the South are more responsi
bic for their presentation than anybody
else. Look at the following showing:
Among the bills introduced in the last
session are the following:
! BY Ar. Frye, OF Name, for the relief OF
/ tue owners Of the ship JOAN Garner. de-
stroyed by the Coniederates, $4,000.
b. Mr.. Pendec, OF Vermont, TO REIN burse
Il the First National bank OF 81. Adams. for
bonds taken by the rebel raid from Canada.
SIS, $50.
BY Mr.. SinnCckson, OF New York, for the
| relief OF James A. Tuomls IN. for supple.
| taken by the Union army, 50, ,295
BY Mr.. Danford, OF Ohio, TOR the relief oil
John Fordryce, for supplies, $4,000.
BY Mr.. Thornburg, OF Tennessee. for the
relief of y different persons, aggregatins
10000.
by Mr., Hurlbut, of Illinois. for the relic
of j. w. Burbridge and Robert Montgom
cry, for cotton tax, $4,000
by MIR. Wells, of Mississippi, for the re
lief Of the Barnweil property, destroyed b.
the United States troops, sos 600.
BY Mr.. Ll nch, of Mississippi, sundry bill
tor the relief of 81 persons, aggregatin;
$l20.000.
BY Mr.. O'Neal, of Pennsylvania, for tn
relief of James Mullinger, for propert,
used in Tennessee by the United State
troops $4,000.
By. the same, sundry bills aggregatin.
$4,000.
BY Mr.. Rainey, of South Carolina, 25 bill
involving $ls00O0.
By Mr.. Darrell, of Louisiana, 80 bills ag
gregating $4,000, most of which case
were rejected by the Commissioner o
Claims
B, Mr.. Harris, of Massachusetts. a bill
for sugar taken by the United States troop;
S24 6S5.
by Mr.. Farwell, of Illinois, asking for 20
bales of cotton destroyed by the Unite
States troops, belonging to Lorenzl Potter
Bv Mr. Hoge, of South Carolina, bill 10
: $l5,575
Bills were also presented by Messrs. Nc
Crary. of Iowa; Hoge, of South Carolina
Stowell, of Virginia; Moxey. of Louisiana
, DAn:ord. of Ohia; Walls, OF Florida W ellis
of Mississippi, Hyman, of North Carolina
5 Smails, o: South Carolina, ano others, 10
various amounts, besides other bills askin,
Tor the re-opening of claims rejected by IN
/ southern Claims Commission. This lis
only includes bills introduced by Republi
caEs. and does not give the petitions. @
which 300 were introduced b. Republican,
THE COTTON TAX.
, In a speech before US, Mr.. Blain
makes much ado about the apprehende
: refunding of this tax, and says tha
3 fifteen bills for this purpose have bee
introduced. But he forgets to say tha
most of them were introduced by Reput
licans, among the rest, one by Hon. G
Z. Mckee, Republican ex-member fror
Mississippi. Why, then, attemp:
make capital out of it for the benefit {
one party, and. the detriment of til
otherS Is there any truth, sense or iui