The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-03

they cut down the expenses OF the Government
t3O0Oo,0oO. when Mr.. Tilden goes TO the white
House, IA he will on the 4th Of March next, he
will ask, not t1l2 ,OO00D to clrry on the ordinary
expenses Of Government, but tlOOWOOM and
ty in the senate, they will not dare in tho
face OF public opinion, to Rainsay :, hlm'
lie contrasted the records OF Iilden and Hayes'
and asked which would be most like " " elect
90, to effect the retrenchment and reform which
both had promised. Quoting the declaration OF
Morton made on the stumD In Indiana, th IT The
President could not help being under tho iifu-
ence Of the men who aided most TO elect him:
ho showed that these men in the case Of
" ives are Morton. Chandler Cameron, and
their confreres, Hnd tn It therefore the Admin's-
tration OF Hayes can be nothing but continua.
ton OF Graniism. hut Iildens work In the
city and state Of Now York IS the best guaran.y
Of retrenchment and reform In Washington.
fifteen years that It has been out Of power. In
tnat time II had lost somo men, who were i'm
mediately adopted by the Republicans as lead
ers. They were such men as Morton ana Logan,
and Ben Butler But II had gained In the same
time rrumbull and Curtin, and Charles Francis
Adams. lie left II to tho audience to say
whether they hid lost In that exchange. Mr..
DOolittle concluded by ,ying that Morton had
charged Gov. Iilden with being cold, steel
hearted old bachelor, which, he said, Is dis
qualification that may be removed. But when
he heard Belknap's counsel tell how Mrs Bel
knnp made money out OF the post traders, aud
when he thought of other achievements by
wImsn s baS 20 tba II s"H 9 %sS be good
thing to put - cold, steel-hearted old bachelor"
The Hon Milton Sayler, Speaker ofsthe House
OF Representatives, was received with cheers.
He said that the issues 40 far made have been,
on the one side, Tilden, Hendricks, and he-
form on the other, HAYES. Wheeler, and Hum
bugRery. He replied TO some OF Mr.; Evsf,ss
Eyarts said thst the South demanded that the
debts of the war should he be borne equally all
around, and that the loss should be divided.
audience in the backwoods, but 1t won't DO
for a man. 20 say TO an. audience OF
solid men llaushterl and TO appear
| in the press OF New York next morning
| when, where, and how did the South make that
ever n ade that demands undertake to say
chat In the entire list of so-called Confederate
States there does not exist one single man who
ever dreamed Of any such thing. IL MIR. Evarts
stated that with serious thought, be stated
what he knew was not true. lie knows
under the amendments to the Constitution
Of the United States, and he knows
| who is IN power. Now, then, does the South
expect a fair division OF the expenses OF the
war; That would double the debt OF the coun,
try, as some OF the newspapers state that It win
| be by paying certain claims asked for by mem
bers Of Congress. IL has only been four years
that we were going TO repudiate the debt We
have. Mr.. sayier proceeded to show tho absurd
| ity OF the charge by quoting from report made
| by Judge Lawrence. a Republican member of
Congress from Onto, TO the eneciphat the entire
amount Of the southern ,as, claims ,ncludng ine
| laid In 1898. 1898, 1867, and 1868, and what ale
called rebel war claims" all Put tosethef
|
s3WO,o0OOoo, more or less, as charged In
ths newspapers. Nor was It the De o.
| cratic Congress that proposed to admit these
claims, or TO extend the time wtnln
which thew could be paid. II was the Forty
third Congress, which was more than two-ihirds
| Republican, that voted to refer all such claims,
| without regard TO loyaty,'to the Court OF Claims
OF the United states. Out the bill failed In the
Senate and the Democratic Congress has never
taken IL up. Senator sherman admitted At Md
| rietta that the Repubhcan Congress had p,id
| tlOOUOUO of these so-caled war claims. The
| democratic Congress "A
| 100 war claims pending IN the present Congress,
252 are old claims that originated 10 the Kepuo-
| lican Congress; IS Of them were for Il renearinp
| OF claims already adjudicated, and only IL OF
the whole mum Der were new claims, amounting
the aggregate 20 70 ,sss,ooSCo; sie OF them n,
| 10000 was paid. In the present Congress there
are l.2sI of them pending, amounting TO ST.
| 0OO,CC0. OF these ,13l are old claims that came
from Republican Congresses slxty-nine are fol
rehearing, and those for new claims are Tor q
small s%onn ony 6 ,s hay;
next took uD the case which the news
papers have been talking about. where
taken from his farm at the battle Of ston,
River. lie referred them to the records OF th'
Foftv-third Congress. where precisely asimila
| claim WAS IN ade by the owner OF tho adjoining
farm. hut the difference between the tw,
case swas that In the Fory-third Congress the bil
| passed the House unanimously, whereas In III,
| Democratic House the bill was simply put IN
| plgeon hole and not acted upon. MIR. Sale
closed after an earnest plea In behalf Of TIT
| South, suffering from the domination OF carpet
baggers and ignorant negroes, oy expressing nj
confident belief Ia the success of the party OF
| tuesday next.
The Hon. Daniel n. Lucas, fresh from the vic
| totious field Of West Virginia, and resident q
that state said that he n id travelled all over th
South, and that lie had met nowhere the eN
preston of sentiment tnat looked towar
oveftuTning the results Of the war. The South
he said, WIS not solid IN 1873, when many Of tn
a'es voted tor Grant, not Yet IN ls,2 II ha
| been made solid tince bv misrule and Ia
thanked God that the south was solid, as h
ho, ed New York would Ue for Illden aud Hen
dricKs.
The next speakers werc william J. O'Bren @
| MARYLAND and n. 4. Rogers Of tennessee. OW
ing to the frequent Interruptions by the mus
| and the cheering as tue procession passed IN
| speaking was not finished until a late hour
| In front Of the man entrance To the Acodem
Of Music, IN Irving place, was stand No. !, q
| which Menz) Defendort Ire- ded Speeche
were delivered by Df. L. j. Williams, L. q. Gai
rettson, apt. Hugh tolman. Nillam Z. Cove
| Tt.utns A Glover. and JOnu A. SeatOn.