Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-29
MICHIGAN'S LIVELY CON
GRESHAM.

Congress from Michigan, made a
FIVE minutes speech in the House
last Saturday on the Legislative
Appropriation bill, which attracted
attention. The Associated Press
dispatches give the following report
of it;
Mr.. Stevenson, having maGe five
minute speech on the Democratic side
Of the question, Mr.. Horn, of Michi>
gan, made his Congressional debut IL
| \ speech which kept the RI OUse in
continuous ripple of laughter. He
took his position in the area in front
OF the Speakers chair, and kept NOV.
ing, with earnest gesticulations, now
toward the ueighboThOod of tbs
Greenback Representatives, and now
| toward the Democratic side of tie
House, according as his remarks were
addressed to one or the other. He
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 SYMPTOMS, he said WOrc bowels
of compassion for the poor, yet he
never knew one of them TO give poor
man a cent or do a days work.
| TLaughter.1 He ridicuIed the bill Of
Mr.. DE La Matyr for the issue Of
billion of greenbacks.
"Mr. De La MatyT--I simply pre-
scented that bill at the request of
another man. 1t is not my own bill
at all, and L do not endorse it.
"Mr. HoTr-I am glad of it. The bill
would make horse laugh if he had
any sense of the ludicrOus. What the
country needs is rest and quiet. The
business interest demand it. We
should pass the Appropriation bills
and 90 home about our business. Why
do we not? The Greenbackers are
uniting with the Democrats so they
may strew the country with mass of
trash. How long moving up towards
the Greenbackers and addressing the
question to theml do you suppose it
would take the Treasury to print the
money these fellows want? L figured
it up. 1t would require ten steam
presses, working day and night, for
the next six months. Some fellow has
figured up the statistics about the
flood, and has discovered that it must
have rained 500 feet of solid rain every
day. Now, in order to meet the re-
quirementS of these gentlemen, they
would have to get their clergyman
(meaDing Mr.. De La NJ atyr) TO ask
Our Father above to open again the
doors and windows of Heaven and
have it rain greenbacks, instead of
water, for forty day. Loud laughter
The eloquent and elegant gentle |
man from Iowa Mr.. Weaver had the
temerity, the other day, TO intimate |
that God was able TO raise up a new
David for President in 1880, meaning, |
L suppose, he was able to advance the |
interests of the gentleman on the |
other side of the hall (alluding TO Mr.. |
Wright, of Pennsylvania, who has |
always written after his name, hide |
pendent L am not here to contend |
that God, Almighty can not do that, |
for have too much confidence in His |
power to dispute it, but l do ask the |
gentleman from Iowa whether he is |
not asking too much Of Providence? |
+ Laughtee Who are these indie |
pendent menu AS a rule, they are |
good for nothing. Always on both
sides of every question and on neither
side of any. Renewed laughter. |
They are half fish and half woman,
political meTmaids-too much woman
to be good for anything as fish, and
too much fish to be good for anything |
as woman. TShOuts of laughter. 1t
is surprising to me that men of Dusi-
ness; men who have material interests
at stake, should conceive the idea that
money can be made by legal enact
ment.
"Then moving over to the Demo-
cratic side, and addressing the South-
ern members, Mr.. Horr said: What
the country needs, and what the South
needs, is not more greenbacGs. l am
not a sectional man, but a good-feeling
man, and / say what you need down
there is to go to work. Laughter
You want to raise more corn and cot
ton and less "cussedness." Laugh
ter. You want more hogs and less
humbug. You must raise horses and
hogs more, and hell less. Laughter
On both sides of The Housed Mr.. Horr
then changed his manner and subject
and spoke OF 1.-The bloody shirt" as the
sort that was worn, not by the gentle |
men of the North, who with blanched
cheek and relaxed muscles started for !
CunadsIwhereithey could not prevent c
he draft, but as the sort OF shirt worn :
1y "boys in blue" and he said
he Southern members should not find 2
ault with the Republicans for putting
Onward that emblem. This is ques-
ion about which the people of the
North are in earnest. What they ask
Is to do is to pass these appropriation
ills like business men and go home