Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-23
the Republican side. The motion to refer was
defeated, Eyeas 80, nays 1l5. The resolution

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expenditures in the state department, submit
ted report which he stated set forth ten arti-
cles of impeachment against O. B. Bradford
late vice consul general at Shanghai, China,
and concluded with resolution that he be i'm
peached at the bar of the Senate. Inasmuch
as two members of the committee, Dunnell and
Bundy, had grave doubts as to whether Brad
ford was an Improbable officer, the committee
recommended that the whole subject be referred
to the committee ON judiciary. So ordered.
The following are the principal articles of
impeachment:
First-That Bradford became interested in
and promoted officially, a railway from Woo
Sung to Shanghai, in violation of treaty obi
cations and the acts of Congress.
Second-That he conspired for pecunlary
gain to deceive the Chinese authorities by pre-
curing consent to build a carriage road and
afterwards constructed railway from Woo
Sung to Shanghai
Third-That he was guilty of injustice, ty-
ranny and extortion as judge Of the consular
court. There five specifications under this
article.
Fourth and fifth-That as postal agent of the
United States he distracted letters from the
mails and opened them for the purpose of pry-
ing into the business and secrets Of persons
writing letters.
Sixth-That he took voucher in one in
stance for $50 and paid in person only $50,
retaining 800.
seventh-That as postal agent at Shanghai
he received Mexican dollars which were pre-
MUM over gold and currency; that he paid
expenses in like coin, but charged premium
as if he had purchased such coin, thereby de-
frauding the government out Of large sums.
Eighth-That he embezzled fees due the gov
ernmenth.
Ninth-That he embezzled So 600 of govern
ment funds.
The House then went into committee of the
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appropriation BILL all general debate to close
in one hour.
While endeavoring to have the latter order
made, Mr.. Hewitt made answer to questions
that he was in favor'of adjourning June 10th.
Mr.. Schleicher opposed the bill because
he did not think it provided sufficient force for
protection of the Texas frontier. 1t had been
said that the Mexicans promised to keep the
peace upon the border, but every one who had
any experience with the neighbors the
Rio Grande knew their promises went for
nothing. He cited outrages, some of them
quite recent, and said that frontier residents of
Texas were being murdered, robbed, impover-
ished and ignored without even the poor boon
of pity from their countrymen who were
making laws for the whole country. He had
been accused of being a illibusterer. On the
contrary he would say God forbid this country
should be any larger. 1t is far too large now
for the minds and hearts of its legislators.
Laughter and applause on the Republican
side. He opposed on principle cutting down
puzzled to understand the arithmetical problem
laid down by the gentleman from New York,
that there could be more men brought into the
field with an army of 10000 than with an army
of rs, 0OO He had tried to understand that
problem, but unsuccessfully. He gave it up.
Laughter.
Mr. Howe remarked that if the gentleman
failed to understand the proposition it was not
his, Hewitt's, fault.
Mr.. Schleicher-No; it is my weakness.
never was able to learn the game of thimble-
ring. Laughter.
Mr.. Hewitt intimated that the figuring was
not his, but had been done in the adjutant gen
erals office.
Mr.. Schleicher-But figuring does not protect
our people. Laughter. All the arithmetic
which he could bring to bear on the question
was contained in a simple question by the rule
of three. as twenty-five thousand men is to the
actual number in the field, so is twenty thou.
sand to the actual number in the field, and the
result was certainly reduction. He pleaded
for the exposed people Of that frontier against
the jeers of the gentleman from Wisconsin,
Bragg, and the fratricidal economy Of the gen.
tlcman from New York, Hewitt.
MIR. Banning stated under the new organiza-
ton every infantry company must have seven
ty-three men, while at present there was not
men. The bill increased the force of infantry
and cavalry complies and left the artillery alone,
and under it's provisions there would be more
muskets on the Texas frontier than there were
at present. The gentleman from Ohio, Gar
field, had been alarmed by the letter of an
English lord. If the revolutionary fathers
had been alarmed in that way there never
would have been government here, and the
gentleman from Texas, Schleicher, wanted the
army kept strong because there had been row
in Texas about the ownership of certain salt
we'll. Those were the only arguments made
against the bill, which he hoped the House
would fairly consider and pass.
This closed the general debate, and the COM
mittee considered it under the five minute rule.
MIR. Throckmorton moved to amend by max
ing the limitation of the army q, 900 instead Of
10000 men.
Mr.. Foster, a member of the committee on
appropriations, favored the amendment and in
dulged in a little sarcasm at the expense OF his
own committee, saying it was perfectly appar-
emit that if any reform was to creep into legis-
lation it must come from that committee. be-
cause every other committee was utterly worth
less in that respect. He confessed that the
problem as stated by the gentleman from Texas
was as incomprchensible to him as it was to that
gentleman. As to the suggestion of Mr..
Hewitt, that the expense of the army ought tc
be made proportionate to its expense in 1860,
he asked why that gentleman and the COM
mittee on appropriations did noS apply that
rule to the House of Representatives, which
cost to-day twice as much as in 1860, leaving
out the cost of printing. He denied the claim
of the Democratic side of the House as to the
large saving of expenditures.
Mr.. Hewitt insisted that the claim was fully
borne out by the figures. and he said that as to
the arithmetical problem which appeared sc
difficult to the gentlemen from Texas and
Ohio, Schleicher and Foster, the American peo
pie who had the advantage of a common schoo
training would understand and appreciate the
reduction of taxes by nearly four million dol
lars.
Mr.. Bridges favored reduction of the army
The Mexican government ought to be notified
that it would be held responsible for injuries
Perpetrated by its citizens on citizens of tn
United States, and the Indians ought to b,
treated kindly and fairly.
Mr.. Dunnell protested against the reporting
of appropriation bills as being less in amour
than for previous years. The appropriation
bills ought to be reported, not on the grount
of being reduction, but on the ground of tn
| wants Of the public service. As to the Demo
cratic claim Of a reduction Of taxation, he de
| MED that a mill of reduction had been effected
The people had to pay just the same taxation
az in the worst days of Republicanism.
Mr.. Mills regretted that an army bill shout,
be made to depend upon party politics. Hi
constituents asked Congress to give them sc
curity against people who spat upon the Amer
! lean flag and defied American authorities,
Mr. Durham conceded with the views of MI
Bridges and claimed army of 10000 wa
quite sufficient. The largest city of his ow
State Louisville, had the experience last sum
mer of dangerous riots, but their own citizen
had put it down, aud if Pittsburgh had acte
in the same way, there would be no necessit
for calling on the government. He did nc
impute these riots to the laboring classes, t
the bone and sinew of the country, but to th
commune.
Mr.. Southland favored reduction of tt
army, and quoted kilograms, &c., to show thu
last year the army had been employed IN ru,
ming elections in the Southern States. Rath,
than have the army employed for such pu
nose II would be better NOT to have n s;nn