The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-08-24

many who have proved incompetent,
dishonest or unfit, WHO Will the re.
suit Of placing at tho disposal of tho
entire civil service of tie United Statesj
So with the rest. OF the thirty or
more Investigations, the net result is
ton ali thg fest il ts aaeis S $afiSE ii
disappointed and bai1ed part mat:
ice: The rDemocr4tic:C Confederate
House;I representing q, partyothat. has
been bowling for ten; years. over, the
evils of excessive taxation and hard
times, spent nine months in continuous
session, and never redoced or proposed
to reduce taxation to the amount Of a
a penny. Under the Constitution, the
House was exclusively authorized to
originate bills to reduce taxation.
Armed with this absolute, and exc1u.
sive authoity, the party which has been
weeping so many years about the
weight of taxation under which the
people are groaning promised much,
but what has the party done! -
Mr.. Morrison proposed bill, pre-.
pared outside of House, to modify
some portions of the taxation by the
tariff, Bnd the House for eight months
refused to consider it, refused to take
it up, refused even to have it read or
debated, No other bill holding out
even afaint promise for. the reduction
of taxes was ever proposed: OF ;hinted
at. 49, Under the Republican reforms in
stituteds and executed by Secretary
Bristow, tie collection of the revenue
had SO improved as to promise a large
increase, but the Democratic Confed-
crate House interposed,, and> has SO
weakened the machinery of collection
as to threaten a loss of revenue.:
Nor has the Democratic: Confederate
House been any more successful in
dealing with the CURRENCY Or provid.
ing a remedy for hard times. During
the nine months of session the energy
Of the body has been devoted to pre-.
venting vote being taken on any
proposition concerning the currency
Even on the motion to repeal the re.
sumption act, nearly half the Demo.
cratic members ran away > lodged the
vote. and refused go on the record
either for or against the repeal. On
the subject of the silver coinage, the
same cowardice and imbecility ruled
supreme. The bill authorizing that
coinage was never permitted to come
to a te,-was choked off these men
aspiring to rule the nation: dared not
vote in favor Of restoring; the honest
coin dollar. which had been surrep'
titiously repealed. liz
What, then, has the Democr atic Con.
federate House done duriag it's nine
months continuous session! 1t has
passed the appropriation bills, but, to
it's disgrace be it said, failed to pass
one of them until after the fiscal year
had begun, leaving the Government
without money, and compelling a re-
sort to temporary bills every few days
No such disgraceful incompetency was
ever shown by any previous House in
the history of the Government.
This is the full and complete record
of the Democratic. Confederate House
which, with its 80 to 100 majority
failed to enact one measure of reform
to even propose the reduction of ont
penny of taxation = which left the cur
rency, banking, and silver questions
untouched, and which has. closed it!
labors with the mere passage of thu
appropriation bills, which might have
been done in three months.