Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-05-02

In the House, on Saturday, Mr.. Ewing. OF
Ohio, took up the cudgel for the Confcder-
ate brigadiers. lie asked why there were
Confederate soldiers in Congress. 1t was
because in the whole South all the sweep OF
manhood from the cradle to the grave had
had to enter the Confederate service in
order to meet the numbers Of the North, and
the Southern people had no other men OF
experience to choose from. Since the Con
federate Erigadlers had been in the House
there had been no more great jobs passed
through Congress, and no Congress had ever
been purer or ever guided by more patriotic
purpose.
Mr.. Garfield repealed an assertion of
Mr.. Ewing that there was an at
tempt to arouse sectional feeling in
the North against the patriotic peo-
pie of the South. lie had taken great
risk when he said what he did about starv-
ing the Government. lie had put it in the
power of any gentleman on the other side to
prove him to be traducer, and to ruin him
in the estimation of fair minded men by the
uttering of this one sentence : I'VE do not
propose to refuse to vote supplies to the
Government But forty FIVE Democratic
mem bers had spoken and that sentence had
not been spoken by one Of them. By their
silence, a. well as by their affirmation, his ac
cusation had been made Overwhelmingly
true
Mr. IIorr, new member from Michigan,
made his debut by speech which kept the
House in continuous laughter. lie paid his
attention first to the Greenbackers, treating
their peculiar views as a malady OF the symp-
toms OF which he drew an amusing sketch.
lie drew from Mr.. De La Matyr the state
ment al simply presented that bill the
billion greenbacks bill at the request of
another man it is not my own bill at all
and do not indorse it." Mr.. Horr said he
was glad of it, as the bill would make a
horse laugh. 1t would take to print
the money that these fellows wanted ten
steam presses working day and night for the
next six months. Some fellow had figured
that it must have rained during the flood
500 feet of solid rain every day, These
gentlemen would have to get their clergy
man, (Mr De La Matyr) to ask our Father
above to open again the doors and win
dows of heaven and have it rain
greenbacks instead of water for forty days.
The eloquent and elegant gentleman from
Iowa (Mr. Weaver had the temerity to in
innate that God was able to raise up new
David for President in 1880, meaning that
he was able 10 advance the interests of
gentleman on the ether side (Mr. Wright.
The speaker was not here to contend that
God Almighty could not do that, but he
asked the gentleman whether he was not
asking too much Of Providence. Mr.. lIorr
asked, "Who are these Independent men ?
As rule they are good for nothing, al
ways on both sides OF every question, and on
neither side of any. They are half fish and
half woman--pOlitical mermaids-too much
woman 10 be good Tor anything as fish, and
too much fish to lie good for anything a. wo
man" What the country needed and what
the South needed WAS not more green5acks.
What they wanted down South vas to 90 to
work.
What Mississippi needs is more corn and
cotton and less cussedness more mills, more
manliness less murders. less moonshiners.
W hat would improve South Carolina is Eiorc
hams and lever Ilamburgs. She should
lalse hogs and horses more and hell less.
The people OF the North asked the members
Of the House to pass these appropriation
bills like business men and 60 home about
their work. The Deity never had a better
opportunity u aid this county than
to-day by turning the yellow fever into this
House. The speaker would want hun,
however, to Use great discrimination in max
ing his selections.