The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-11-22

Texas frontier, character of the troops
employed there, the military ma 1agemt mt
of the frontier and what additional force
is necessary to protect the people of Texas
from Mexican raiders.
Mr.. Banning offered as a substitute
resolution directing the Military Commit
tee to inquire into The strength of the ar
my on the LIST of July, 1st of September
and the lst of November, 1877, and into
the expediency of reducing and Consoli-
dating the army, and giving the commit
tee power to send for persons and papers.
The Speaker ruled out the substitute,
and Mr.. Mills resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Singleton reported the deficiency
bill, which he will call up tomorrow.
The bill appropriates the following items:
For the payment of the judgements of
the Court of Claims, $7,S25; the Library
of Congress, 500, 800; Treasury Department
(variyus ltems) $l25,000: PostofiCe De-
partment, (salaries) 1851 ,6Sl; other items,
Sl25O0; Executive Office (contingencies),
300; House of Representatives (vari-
GUS items) ,$ll, 1865; Supreme Court (print.
ing), $4,000; expenses of payment of
bounty money, &c, $40, ,000-total appro.
priated, 81, ,56O629, The postofiCe item
is reappropriated'
Consideration of the bill relating to re-
sumption being resumed, the House was
addressed by Mr.. Hart, who opposed its
passage.
Mr., Garfield appealed from the ebb and
flow of public opinion of to-day to the
general Judgment Of mankind on the
question of currency. He referred to 1860
as year of universal general prosperity
in the United States, and said that ifany-
thing was then settled in public oninion
it was that the only safe, trustworthy
standard of value was coin OF an ascer-
tanned weight and fneness,o or paper cur.
rency convertible into coin at the will OF
the holder. That was then, and had been
for long 1.-The unanimous opinion of
the American people, Here and there
there had been dreamers who looked up
on paper money as the fetch of their
idolatrv. but these dreamers were then
40 few in number that they made no rip
pie in the current of public thought, and
formed no part of public opinion. All
who voted for the greenback law in the
House and Senate had done so under pro-
test and with the declaration that at the
earliest possible moment the country
should be brought back to the old safe
established doctrine of the fathers. de
affirmed that vast majority Of the cred.
itors of the country were poor men, and
that vast majority Of the debtors be-
longed to the rich classes. In the first
place the poor man had to borrow money,
and in the second place it was the labor
ing man who placed his surplus in saw
ings banks, and it was the rich man who
borrowed from the savings banks. Thus
did the poor man lend to the rich. In
the name of the laboring man, therefore,
he denounced the attempt to repeal the
RESUMPTION law. If it were repealed the
country would be plunged into the neces-
sity of sailing over the same tempestuous
ocean, with uncertain result. II it we're
to be repealed, and no substitute made
for it, the day would not be far distant
when Coniress would look back from the
depths aud horrors of the evils which
would surround the country to the pres
ent time, and would earnestly regret the
day when the resumption act was repeal
ed.
Mr.. Wright favored the repeating bill.
1t was more question Of bread than cur
rency. Should it be said that Wall street
was to establish public rule with regard
to currency and agricultural and manu-.
featuring pursuits were to count for
nauVht. By the living God, Wall street
should not be his leader. He would stand
on the side of the masses.
Mr.. Cannon was in favor Of resumption
in 1879 provided the double standard syss-
tenn were adopted. Hesent to the Clerks
desk and had read paragraph from the
New York Herald, which referred TO the
Western Representatives as fanatical ana
lunatic set. He was sorry that portlonl
of the metropolitan press was controlled
by Wall street. He had been told that II
he referred to the matter in the House
the Herald, being a mighty paper, would
unmake him, but he was not AFRAID OF It,
God Almighty made him, and the new
York Herald could not unmake him
[laughter.]