The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-28
Last Nights Dispatches.
XLvI CONGRESS.
scenes before ana during the vote on the
Legislative ppropriation Bill.
I0TrSE

Degan by holding up to ridicule the
Greenback Representatives, and caused
great amusement by the assertion that if
all the greenback money demanded by bills.
already introduced were to be supplied, the
Greenbackers would have to get an other |
clergyman (DeLaMatyr) to ask theDeity
to vary the miracle of the deluge and to |
open again the doors and windows of heaven
and rain Greenbacks for forty davs |
he then told the Southern Democrats, that |
what their section wanted was more corn |
ana cotton and less cusse6ness, and wound |
up by suggesting that one of the best
things that could happen to the country
would be the turning on of yellow fever in
congress- onlykhe would want the divinity
70 use greats discrimination in making his
both sides.
MIR, Horr (Mich) made his Congress
slonal debut In speech which kent the
House IN continuous ripple of laughter
| de paid his attention first to the Green
hackers, treating their peculiar views as a
malady,of the symptoms of which he drew
an amusing sketch. Among these symp-
toms were, he said, bowels Of compassion
for the poor, and yet, said he, | never
| knew one of them to give a poor man a
lSOubf VI a oluRlC Jay . HUIh. H.
lie ridiculed the bill of Mr.. De LaMatyr
for the issue of billion of greenbacks.
Mr. De LsMatyr-l simply presented
that bill at the request OF another man. 1t
is not my own bill at all, and | do not en-
dorse it.
Mr.. Horr-I am glad of it. The bill
would make horse laugh if he had any
sense of the ridiculous. What the coun-
Fr7 Dc /
interests demands we should pass the ap.
preparation bills and go home about our
business. Why do we not? The Green
back party is uniting with the Democrats
so they may flood the country with mass
of trash. How long (moving towards the
) Grcenbackers and addressing the question
to theml do you suppose it would take to
print the money these fellows want? |
figured it up. It would require ten steam
presses working day and night for the
ed up statistics about the food, and
has discovered it must have rained 800
. feet Of solid rain every day Now, in
: order to meet the requirements of these
gentlemen they would have to get their
clergyman (meaning De LaMatyr) to ask
our Father above to open again the doors
Rreenbacks instead of water for forty days
:, Loud laughter. The eloquent and ee-
CANT gentleman from Iowa Weaver had
. the temerity the other day to intimate that
: God was able to raise up new David for
: President 10 1880. Meaning, | ssupposa,
Il He was able to advance thesinterests of the
. gentleman on the other side Of the hall (al
y luding to Wright, Of Pennsy lvania, who
= has always written after his name the
. word independently | am not here to con-
! tend that God almighty. cannot do that;
y for | have too much confidence in His
= power to dispute it; but do ask the gen.
- tleman from Iowa whether he is not asking
= too much of providence? Laughter
Who are these Independents? As ruiz
" they are good for nothing. Always OF
- both sides OF every question and on neftheI
~ side Of any renewed laughter they arr
half fish and hait-wOma political mer-
-, maids; too much woman to be good t0l
anything as a fish; and too much fsi
~ to be good for anything as al woman
G (shouts of laughter 1t is surprising tina
= men of business, who have material inter
u ests at stake. should conceive an idea tha
money can be made by legal enactment
(then moving to the Democratic side ant
~ addressing the Southern members) b
=. said. What the country needs and Wha
ss'1 the South needs is not more greenbacks.
~ am not q sectional man, but good teelin
~ man, and | say that what you want dow
there is to 90 to work (Laughter.) Yo
want to raise 10 Mississippi more corn an
cotton and less cussedness. daughter
You want more hogs and less bumbu
You must raise horses and hogs more an
la hell less. daughter on both sides of tt
vas House.l Mr.. Horr then changed his MAJ
to ner and his subject, and spoke Of tt
bloody shirt as q sort that was worn, u
re- by the gentlemen of the North who VII
Ivii blanohed check and relaxed musc
.ss- started for Canada when they could n
* prevent the draft, but as a sort of q shi
on worn by the boys in blue, and, be said tt
.ity Southern members should not find faU
ar, with the Republicans for putting forwal
the that emblem. This is a question, he co
tinued, about which the people of Il
the North are in earnest. What they ask
art US to do, is to pass these appropriate
le bills like business men. and go home abo
our work. There used to be an id
preached by old theologians, that 6
sometimes brought about good actiQ
lers among mortals by pestilenoe and faml
mia, and other terrible expedients. 1t has {
CURED to me that the Deity never had
lers better opportunity to aid this country th
of to-day, and that it would be by turning I
this yellow fever into this House. | wol
the want him, however, to use great disc
give ton in making his selection. (Shouts
With laughter all around the House and E
ugh lerles.
The Messrs Poeier, Chalmers and others c.
: at tinued the debate. Mr.. Atkins answer
sue some structures of Mr.. Shalenberger u!
,h a the loyalty of Tennessee, said if the loya
cred of the Southern members had been prov
heir By their conduct the past eight years, tt
they he could add nothing to the general ju
ment.
Mr.W bite said every Union man in b
Tennessee would confirm Mr.. Shallenb
r OF gers statement, which was that tro
Is in in 1861 had been used to buldOze the ST
past out of the Union. Andrew johnson
same said as much Mr. White appealed to
itors Tayl lor, Union man from East Tennes
osits whether it was not SO.
Mr.. Taylor was prevented from reply
by the expiration of the time for debate
=, The committee then voted on the anne
D. meuts.
DTS Mir. Weaver moved to strike out all
ias' posed legislation except that regarding
'hl' test oath. Lost.
MIR. Garfield offered an amendm
striking out all the proposed leglslat
o,,so Defeated-l23 to l30.
and; rnnn5 nne =. ooai am In .ho omendmen The
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