Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1876-08-24

will perhaps amount to not far from S25
! O00,O TO do this the consular systeu
has been put in peril, the Navy and III
Army have been put upon short ratious
! laborers upon Government works hav
been cut of, and >mal, salaries have beei
reduced. In few days almost a thousans
helpless men and women in Washington
WI be turned upon the streets.
Now the Committee on Appropriation
and the chairman of that committee MIR
RANDALL will claim that have admitted
that the democratic party in this Hous,
has reduced the peoples burdens by III,
the amount of So, ,0O0. 900. Sir. | do n,
such thing. start with this as my car
dinal proposition; no man can tell wha
credit should be given to this House o
Representatives until the closing Law of it.
term on the 4th day of March, 1877. IL il
no new thing that the good which has beer
done in the first session of a Congress ha.
ocen undone IN its second session.
q, me american people will wait before
Of s25, 900, 600 in expenditures unfit 7" "iteS
the waning, dying days of this Congress
so first, as entering into this discussion o
the actual amount of appropriations, are
all ;he subjects of appropriation that have
been postponed. There have been somt
ductions, which | am glad that have
helped to make But when IL is found hov
much OF this SO 900 900 is simply post
ponement OF needed aud necessary expen.
ditures, then some correct rule can b,
adopted in awarding credit TO this House
But there Is another matter that will
have To be considered. not in this session
but in the next, in order 10 determine the
question OF what this House shall have
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are i"d~ed III the colnlnittee-rooms OF thl'
House, As my friend from ONO Mr. GAR
FIELD said the other day, TO be launch he'd
upon this House after the elections.
NV friend from Nissi-sinni rur S1xcr T.
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qus upon this Moor. what was Intended up
on thlt side of The House. 1t conqered The
southern Pacific Railroad ana the levce.
al fh.. Ni.I.sit.,i. .,,,d Ie n,Iv f,u,bt sb,
Oh monilion from wiser members Of hi.
parry. when taxed hin, with rnu,nIicffy ir
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Mf. speaker, nave here carefully Compil
cd ut vi southern aims now suspended in III,
imaginable VARIETY OF subjects from a claim tul
the pri,, Of i Single niue up 10 the destruction
Of iron manufactures that wcrr engaged in fur
nl~hlng InatrriIi~ of war for :hc rebel armc-
They come from every southern state aud al
most every county Of every southern State
There /, ~ member ffum the south, 20 far IL
Know, Who Iit, not Introduced such clam,
here; and the important point i that all ihcs.
hlll- are iulr rlduc,d because the memb. .r intro
dutns them, whether he believe, them rlgh
or wrong. j. pushed and driven by hi, cun,ii
tuents.
Mr.. EDEN-l would like 10 ask the gentle
man "a, ,tiou on thI, subject
Mr.. HALE-l must decline tn Yield. Mr.
Speaker. when the dsv comes that it will b,
>af' 10 vote tor these bills the same inhucnc,
that ha- driven these members will drive then
tn vntr for their passage. II is an inevitable
ltw which viii dominate that side Of the iuust.
aud aft, a little whilr when the public min,
shan have become gradually fImjIiaIiz-d win
thr concession, a IN the old times II did Will
certain cNactIun, Of tie south, tAr uorthrru ~
m"crncy will become acquie,crut aud, providct
thr party gain, power. viii consent 10 the pas
saSc OF these htIl>. They aggregate about slGU.
0oo ooo "f those that are already here. Doe
ANYBODY believe that the South ha. not an In
trr,,t in these claim, being paid, Does any
body believe that if it has control Of the GOV
erninent through the Democratic party it wi.
allow its members To rest day or night on thi,
Nr. LAWRESCE-And many OF these are
simply test claims, which if allowed will be fol
lowed BY Others 10 a vast amount.
MIR. HALE-Of course, "A, nv friend from
Ohio suggests many Of these are simply repre-.
sentative claims and il one passes, it involves
the payment OF twenty or tilty times as much
more, which will be covered Dy the same prin
ciplc. These are only the courier, the advance
guard. tn, feelcr. the skirmishcr that is sem
out to feed the line sud md whether il can bc
brokcn Five hundred millions of dollars. Mr.
speaker, will not meet all these claim, when
We begin 10 pay them.
Mr.. LAWRtNCE-Five hundred million
dollar. would not cover the total amount o
these clums. without reference TO the claim.
for rman mated slave,
MIR. HALE-Mr Speaker, he who live, long
enuugh-proyIdrl ALWAYS that the Democratic
pariv get, control of all the branches of The
what here predict com,
To- pass. II anybody doubts. let him wait ana
sec for himself
cannot give a full list of their claims. be.
cause il would occupy whole pages of tn, Rec.
ord Here, are some of them
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