The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-09-25
The s.soutllern Claims.

The, Republican papers are nov
making great to do about VIVA!
lthey call Southern Claims It's
| the purpose Of tie Republican party
to seek 10 regain its lost power III The
North by re.nrousing The passions
land hatreds that were engendGredby
Tho war, and to this there is o
Systematic and persistent attempsby
gross misrepresentation of facts, 70
show that ii 10 the purpose Of the
South to get control Of this Govern
ment and then bankrupt and destroy
it by "raids upon the Treasury with
Southern claims" These papers get
their material among other sources
from q speech delivered by a Mr.
Hanna, Of Indiana gentleman
who does not lack the ability to let
truth severely alone when speaking
on the subject. 1t is claimed !hal
there are nine hundred and eigh!t:
bills now "before Congress, which y
passed will take from the United
States Treasury the sum Of over
SSO0,O00,000 under cover of public
and private claims of citizens Of tho
South, for property destroyed during
the war and for public improve.
mcnts." Now the whole number o.
bills to which reference is made $50
little over four hundred, and they
amount TO So, $40, 1923. And they
Idseluotall"re claims" with when
the Democratic party intends y
@raid upon the Treasury" Ten Of
the bills are for loyal churches IN
loyal States; one for u loyal temper
ance society in a loyal State; two 70,
loyal academies in loyal States; anu
many others for loyal institutions III
loyal States. The first on Mr. Han
mas list of Claims is from the 10y
al State Of Connecticut for $500
first introduced into the Republican
Forty.tliird Congress by Mr.. kellogg.
Ia Republican; and next on the lis.
is a claim for 5000 from the state o.
New Jersey. The next comes irol..
Tennessee; there is not q claiman,;
from that State who is not q loy@
man. Then there isaiclaim from
pennsylvania; then comes New foTAi
and then Maryland with twenty-five
claims, they are all tho claims o. ny
al mon. Then comes Virginia
Then comes North Carolina win
little claim Then Ohio comes lo'
ono.fourth of n steamboat. Ihc9
comes Pennsylvania for So, OGG anu
then the loyal State Of Kentuch!
with a long array Of these claim.s;.rr
Then comes Indiana; and then l'r
nois with a claim Of $4,000. I,'.
comes d long list from Missouri; tL,a
Tennessee again; then Ohio for so N,ii
al thousand dollars; then follows INV
nois; then Michigan for SUI, 4SV iolSJ
steamboat, and then again Ono an l.
Massachusetts, Illinois, PcnnsylT.S%
MIA, etc., etc. In this list OF sour
ern Claims" aro also several bills y,
tho erolief' of Government ollicll!an
10 meet embellishments Of suborealm,
atcs, and during the last three or lC gu.
CongrCssesthero has boon more m0a
oy appropriated for this purpose"
make good Radical thioying-thanJi
has been allowed tho whole stat, ~, "
North Carolina. Thoeo aro mo ~ W
monso "Southcrn Claimsp which, Ss
frightcn tho Republicansl oi Wv w
whole amount of claims.rolerres66 co, "
the Committee of Claims, S5.WS, p,J
%, s4 00g,527 aro from the Norm n iS
only s1,30l,2ol.23 arolron the I sour our
orn States, Tho southern GlalMn'
bugaboo Is too Odd rotten thin