The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-04

cotton tax another?
Mr.. Singleton-I do not propose TO dis
cuss that question now.
Mr.. Willir-The Democratic party
does not propose 10 help the South by
building a Southern Pacific railroad, We
will leave our Republican friends to
do so.
Mr.. Douglas asked Hale by what au-
thority he spoke Of the gentleman from
Mississippi lSingleton) as representa-
tion Of the Southern Democracy.
Mr.. Hale replied that his authority
was the position which that gentleman oc.
cupied as Southern man, because he
spoke distinctly for the Southern De.
mocracy, and also because he (Singleton)
had been selected as one OF the Southern
Republicans on the money committee OF
the House-the Appropriating Commit
fee.
Mr.. Holman declared the Democratic
party in the House was neither for the
Southern Pacific railroad nor for the re-
funding Of cotton tax.
Mr.. Douglass denied the right Of Hale,
or any other Republican member, to
designate the member from Mississippi, or
a member from any other State, as rep
resentatiye man Of the Southern Democ-
racy. He (Douglass) represented part
Of the Southern constituency, and he was
not prepared to inform the gentleman
from Maine what might be or might not
be the ultimate action OF the Southern
Democrats on this floor on these meas
ures. He was not member OF the South.
ern Democracy, but he was q member OF
the National Democracy which had come
here to reform some OF the abuses oil the
Government. !,
Mr.. Hale-My friend from Mississippi
is more frank than the gentleman from
Virginia, and has given US the monitor OF
what we may expect from that section. l
did not expect by simple question to
stir up so much OF hornets nest as l
seem to have done. My friend from In
diana (Holman) who opposes the South
ern Pacific Railroad, wants this discus
sion to stop, and have no wonder at it,
but he must not hold me responsible for
il; he must settle with his colleague from
Mississippi.
Mr.. Holman-I understand the gentle
man from Mississippi merely to express
his opinion in favor OF the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad. Several Democrats.)
'That is ALL" And in favor Of the reim-
bursement OF the Gotten tax. Now is
that all2
Mr.. Hale-No, sir.
Mr.. Holman-Excuse ME; and also
that the government spend the money in
improving the Mississippi levees. Does
not the gentleman from Maine know that
the gentleman from Mississippi was mere
ly expressing his own individual opinion
on the subject, and that time and again
the Democratic party in the House has
opposed all OF these measures and will
continue TO do so.
Mr.. Hale-If the gentleman wants me
to answer that question will say that l
expect lie will be out-voted by his own
party.
ating Committee, said that himself and
associates did not propose to state what
their acts would be on the measures until
they had had an opportunity Of consider
ing and discussing them. The gentleman
from Maine would find when the time
came that the South would do what was
right and proper, and that the country
would approve Of its course.
Mr.. Randall, the Chairman OF the Com
mittee on Appropriations, remarked that
ii would be time enough for the Demo-
cratic party in the House to be held re-
sponsible for its acts when it had taken
action on the measure.
Mr.. Singleton disclaimed his being a
representative OF his party. He had sim
ply expressed his own views, and nobody
else was to be held responsible for them.
Mr.. Monroe criticised tho economic
features OF the bill in the reduction ofsal.
aries and in the suppression OF missions
10 Greece, Haytian and South American
republics. He expressed his belief that one
OF the and grandest features Of Commerce
in the future would be the States Of South
America, and he thought thatthe Ameri-
| can people ought to be possessor OF that
field. He knew that the existing COM
merce there was small, but he asked
whether the United States were prepared
to accept the low and poor condition OF
It's commerce as an Interchangeable thing.
Did Congress mean to proclaim to the
civilized world that the United States did
not meanlto be great commercial power,
but meant to have its name erased from
the list Of commercial nations. He could
not believe that that was the opinion OF
this House.
Without action on the bill the Com
mittee rose.
The Speaker laid before the House
message from the President returning
without his approval an act transferring
the custody OF certain Indian trust funds
from the Secretary Of the Interior to the
treasury Of the United States. A COM
munication from the Secretary OF the In
terror, setting out that the act was not
sufficiently definite to accomplish the end
desired.
The message and accompanying docu.
menls having been read, Mr.. Randall
stated that the bill had come from the
Committee on Appropriations; that the
Secretary Of the Interior had suggested an
amendment to II that the amendment was
incorporated in the bill and that it was a
very strange thing that it should now be
objected to by the Department, at whose
instance it had been prepared.
The message was referred to the Com
mittee on Appropriations.
The HnnsA adjourned