Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-02-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
WAsHINGroN, February 2j.
SENATE.
4. III. BU TCuER,
SCrsiIry.
Internal Revenue.

Internal Revenue.
Mr.. Bayard, from the conference COM
mittee ON the bill To amend the internal
revenue laws, submitted a report which
Was agreed To, and the bill passed.
Deficiency Appropriation Bill.
The hill makiug the appropriation to
pay claims allowed by the Southern
Claims Commission was discussed until
the expiration OF the morning hour,
when il Was laid aside without action,
and consideration resumed of the def
cheney appropriation hill. A long dis
russiun Cusucd upon the amendment ap-
priatiug S25O,OOO To supply the diff
rlcuci,s OF the Department OF Justice
Tor the payment oi deputy marshals.
Mr.. Beck said that this appropriation
was to pay men illegally appointed to
conduct the elections iur the worst ut
party purposes.
Mr. Allison sent tu the clerks desk
/ and hId read letter from the Attorney
General tu the effect that the deficiency
in his department would have been but
| SlO. 100. but Tor the two clauses In the
election law under which $4,000 WAS
required tor the deputy marShals to at
trud the elections, and Sl25,OOO for the
prosecution ot persons charged with
| crime. \ great part ut the expense un-
| der the hate clause was incurred IN the
States oi Louisiana, Alabama aud South
Carolina.
4 MIR. Thurman asked what new cir
i rum,aurr had arisen that the Depart
I mcut ui Justice had expended quarter
! ui million dollars ut the people :
money without the authority of law 2
/ The department which should above all
I others obey the law, dIsuhcycd u. I'M,
money Was L. pay a set at men cmpioyed
/ ,sicu>IMtty To- preserve the purity at
elections. but really IA rOIruptlng vlcC-
tons supervisors aud deputy mar
shalS we're a, plentiful as hlaCkbcTTlCS
last year, and mon corrupt than any
H hUiliulrrs that ever put tput
uu this land. Where Vas
tue money spent Ii hal
I levu hCTaliCj that money WaS needed
/ % protect the poor negro al the south,
+ bat It h1d been spent IN New York ami
/ elsewhere. Of tue Two millions dollars
/ heretofore Appropriated Tor the AttOr-
! upy-Gtncral : uticr one hundred aui
/ ten thousand at 70 hai been spent m
I New York. forty thousand in Pennsyi.
wanna. eight thousand ia New Jersey
I aui Eve or sax thousand IA a single
county oi ohio. IN each one ut which
fourteen uT fifteen membcrsui the House
/ II Representatives were elected. ~ Ia
view ut the rCigH Vi terror instituted IA
/ New Work hv Davenport. there was no
hhyuljy IA showing With this machinery
how elections were carried. over ~
deputy marShals were appointed Ia the
rIty ui IT. lours alone. and the Demo
cratic majority IN three districts Was
Z overcome by these means. TRe money
ri the people 1t the United States
Was being expended by the hundreds
ut thousands ut dollars t1cOrTupt yoterS-
Come what might, he hoped the sec
tions under which these deputy mar
shalS were appointed would he stricken
nom the statute hooks. HE tOr one Was
Willing % stay here until this time next
year "a repeal these sections
Nr. Allison arguel that the Attorney
General had merely discharged his duty
under the aw. lie was prosecuting
frauds, and all he asked Was money To
ard him in doing ~. should the senate
refuse 10 give him money, he could siili
pay expenses, a. all the funds OF hia ds-