The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-22
aolitital sfairs.
How Northern Members of Congress are
Raiding the Treasury.

ST 1863. IL, O35 Asked for by the Northern
states-Democratic Economy aud Repub
lican Extravagance.
Those Republicans who announce them
selves as ready to go into the next cam
paign on the sole issue of opposition to the
payment of Southern claims, viii, perhaps.
not be so enthusiastic in support of such q
platform when they examine the speech Of
II. D. Money, Of Mississippi, delivered in
the House, Wednesday, April Gath, from
which valuable document we have prepar-
ed the following resume. Mr.. Money said:
@The sttempt is industriously made to
alarm the caution and economy of the
Northern people with the scarecrOw of
Southern claims. Pains-taking newspaper
correspondents, with great hope and little
scrupIe, searching for sensation, have pa
raded before the public long list of de-
mands upon the treasury in behalf Of
Southern people and Southern enterprises.
They have been circumstantially minute
in detailand exaggeratedly incorrect in the
aggregate exhibit. To swell the amount
to startling total they have not failed to
add together the amount asked in all the
bills for the same object, and present their
duplicated amounts most unblushingly as
q fair and honest statement. The Repub-
lican stump orators in Congress have per-
haps simulated an alarm they did not feel,
and sUlemnly and patheticalIy warned the
North that the Southern people would de-
mand pay for every house that was burned,
every mule that was famed, every slave
that was freed, and every bale of cotton
that was captured in the late civil war.
The evident design, however, Of their de-
clamatiou upon this subject is to create an
impression that Democratic representa-
ton from the South is a standing menace
to the integrity of the treasury. Above
all they teach the doctrine, clear and sharp,
that Republican domination is the national
safety, insuring administrative economya and
official honesty The idea that these gen.
tleEaen teach, that the rule Of the majority
is dangerous to the welfare Of the country,
is heresy not to be tolerated in a free
republic. To properly inform the house
and the country of the real danger to the
treasury We viii present an exhibit Of
claims made by Northern Representatives
for Northern communities upon the IA
tons purse
Dir. Money here presented table show
ing that, so far, 155 such bills have been
introduced in the 45th Congress by North
ern members, which if passed, would take
from the treasury the enormous sum of
81 SOS, 122 ,O35. Ofthis number Is come
from Michigan alone. Hubbell, one of
the worst Southern claim ranters in or out
OF Congress, being father to IL, apprOpri-
ating $500 900. Massachusetts, comes in
for the modest sum Of $50 900 900; Penn
sylvania being content with something over
s1,700,O00. Maine asks for 81 ,664, 1874;
New Hampshire, s4,sG4, 954; Vermont,
s63e,471; Rhode Island only SO, 163, 157;
Connecticut, 81 ,49O, 345, and so on, till
the aggregate makes the enormous sum
above named. Mr.. Money gives each
claim Ia detail. He then said:
aThis is SO stupendous that it bewilders
the comprehension. The mind cannot en-
terrain at one time the idea Of even a
thousand different objects, but when we
reach hundreds Of thousands, millions,
hundreds Of millions, billions, the impress
sion is of vague vastness simply. How
contemptibly insignificant appears the sum
asked for by the South, compared with
that demanded by the North. Even the
reckless inexactness of the n Y. Tribune,
with its duplication Of bills, brings the az
gregate amount asked for by the South to
only s150,OO0,0O0. Millions, indeed
1t appears ridiculous to speak of millions,
and am ashamed of the wretched poverty
of the Southerridea of appropriations when
Iview the magnificent and Titanic schemes
ofour large-natured neighbors ofthe North
In making this statement of Northern
claims do not, as do the gentlemen u
the Republican party, take account of the
bills for pensions. 4 shall not sectionalize
the soldier for party benefit. l will not
drag the man who offered his life for his
country into the arena of politics, and l
resent the depraved demagoguery that
would thus utilize him. If nothing else
can escape their touch / ask gentlemen to
at least keep hands off these monuments
of republics gratitude"
Mr. Money then contrasted the number
and amount of claims allowed by Republi-
eau congresses with those of a similar ma
ture passed when the Democrats were in
power, and eonclusively showing that in
the forty second congress the Republicans
allowed claims to the amount of s1,133,-
$50; in the forty-third congress to the
amount of sl,393,421. In 1876 the
Democrats held the House by the over
whelming majority of 70; a great part of
the majority were ex-eOnfederates. The
Southern States had at last sent their own