The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-17
OH 9ailr Atgns,
ROCK ISLAND, F..
lCont!nued from second nace1

treasury agents or military authorities
SOLD. and the proceeds covered into the
United States Treasury where there is
now over $2O,o00000 belonging to some-
Dody-eertalny not to the Government,
Tor use and occupation of Universities,
Colleges, Churches, School Buildings, &c
and tor DAMAGE to or destruction of the
said buildings. Of this number, over one
third, viz: So, have been fayorably. re-
ported by Republican Committees of two
Houses of Congress during the past ten
years, the greater portion of these being
reported favorably 10 tie Senate. which has
gone farther in the allowance and payment
OF war claims than the House. Gen. Hen
derson ought to know these things, and if
he does know them he is not dealing hon
estiy with the people not to relate them.
he ought to know that among the claims
large portion of them we're introduced by
such northern Republicans as Frye, OF
Maine (Blalne's mouth. piecel, Hendee, Ct
Vermont, Danford, of Ohio; Hurlbut, Of
Illinois; O'Neill, of Pennsylvania; Harris,
OF Massachusetts,; FarweIi of Illinois;
tale, OF Maine Chambers son in law and
scores of other leading Republicans, and
that eve'y Republican, nse,,aJer Of congress
from the south alaoays uoted for these claims.
n careful examination has been made of
the docket or calendar of the House Com
mittee on War Claims of the present
l44th) Congress, and il shows that there
were ,2S7 cases referred to it during the
last session involving nearly $40, 1000. 900,
Including, as one case, the 1S6 claims re-
ported as dissallowed by the Commissioners
OF Claims in their fifth annual report, in
voivlng the sum of So, 3O3,73
vi this number l,03l were old claims
presented in the last (43d), or some pre-
cedlng Congress; 1863. were for rehearing
before the Commissioners of Claims 10
cases reported adversely. and 81 were new
claims.
Ut the 1901 old claims, ST. were on the
calendar of the Committee on War Claims
nj the last Republican House of Repre-
sentatlv~s, the remainder appearing in
previous Congresses.
1t this does not fully settle the brazen
lie that the files of the Democratic House
and its Committees were loaded down with
ae'C war claims, then nothing will. while
careful inquiry of every Southern Demo
cratic member shows tia: at the close of
The last session OF the present Congress
not one had war claim for future presen
| tation.
FIFTY two cases were reported fayorabl.
by Democratic Committee of which,
number t0rty-four were cases which had
been previously reported favoraby by the
Republican Committee on War Claims OF
the proceeding Congress, and of this
number but seventeen cases passed the
House, one being Senate bin for S2s. $50
The amount involved in the fifty.two
cases reported favorabiy is S2l5. 36I, and
the amount involved in the seventeen,
House cases passed is $74 453, or, includ
ing the Senate bill is SlO3.l03.
| Hundreds of claims identical with thes e
claims DOW pending before Congress. and
which are characterized as rebel claims. :"
have been paid by acts Of Republican
Congresses approved BY Pres. dent Grant
and they could be cited from the statues
page after rage, if it we're necessary. MOI,
nnIy has President Grant approved scores
If bills paying for property used, damaged
or destroyed by United States troons. but
he has, in ohe notable case, that of the
East Tennessee University, approved the
Dill which he bad previously vetoed the
bill finally app owed appropriatine the
same amount, and being the identical
claim vetoed by him in the AID CONGRESS-
| the only change being merely of phraseol.
gy. The Kentucky University was also
damaged by the occupation of United
states troops, and yet President Grant
approved bill appropriating S25. 600 far
the use and benefit of said University He
has also approved bills paying for property
| destroyed by the rebels, aud Republican
committees Of both Houses of Congress
have favorably reported scores of such
| hills.
The cutlery now made about the paw
tnent Of war claims is mere humbug and
false pretence; it is a hypocritieal ard
Wing device to alarm the people of the
North, and arouse and deepen sectional
feeling against the South, and it is the
work of Republican placement who care
more about keeping their own positions
than they do of the best interests of a
whole and united country.
THE COTTON TAX.
ln relation to the refund of the cotton
tax we suppose Gen. Henderson knows
that the tax on cotton was repealed by the
Act of February Sd. 1868. enacted in the
second session of the Fortieth Congress.
No steps were taken in either House of
the Fnrty-frst Congress looking toward its
| refund, and "a bill to refund the tax col
lected in the years l865-6-7-s on raw cot
ton made its first appearance in the
second session of the Forty second Cong
ress. and was introduced by Mr.. Mckee, a
Republican menajer from the State of
M'sslssippi The bill was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means, where it
| quietly slept until the next session-after