The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-17
SHALL THE MONEY BE PAID !?
A Question for the People to Answer
in November.
How More Than One Billion Dollars
VIII BE Legally stolen by the
Ex-RebeIs if Hancock
IsEIectcd.
The -Contrived Plans Of Southern
Democrats-A Startling Exhibit
Ns8 for Northern Voters.

PCOplS VI Oll6 NOIbu6Iu ObdOco Will We
brought face to face before the end Of
this Presidential campaign. They will
be asked if they will place every branch
of the Government in the hands Of men
who have shown desire and an inten-
ton to compel them to pay the war
losses Of the South. 1t is useless to as
sent that this desire and intention have
not been shown the proofs are given
below. The recent. session.of Congress
was a session of mastery inactivity on
the part of the Confederate Brigadiers
and their subsequent Northern allies.
A Presidential electionwas approaching,
and it was necessary to be as wise as
serpents and as harmless as doves, to
lull the suspicious, fast growing in the
North, that those Who led the armies of
the Confederacy were striving to do by
political strength what they failed to do
by the sword Having obliterated, in
many Of the Southern States, local self
government, and having secured control
of Southern elections by fraud
at the polls, they sat in Con-
gress, biding their time. At Gin
eiIdiati they sprang to the front with
the sure promise of asolid South at their
back The soldiers Of the Confederacy
joyfully accepted q Union soldier as
their nominee, knowing that they could
have secured no better mask. They re-
turned to- their States and assured
their followers that in support
ing the Democratic nominees they would
be supporting and advancing the princi-
pies forwhich Lee and Jackson fought.
Success in the election, therefore, would
mean the success of those principles.
The majority of the Northern, Demo
Gratis are ignorant of the real 3views of
those who vote the same ticket in the
South. The. average Southern Demo-
crat to-day hopes for Democratic success
as vindication Of the rebellion; as the
means by which he can completely dis
franchise the despised negro as the
opening of o door to. the treasury Of the
United States, through which he may go
in and grasp the money which shall pay
him for all that he lost from 1861 to 1865.
Samuel j, sTilden, an able financier
felt compelled to announce to the coun-,
try that he was not in favor of the pay
ment Of rebel war claims by that act
he gained the undying enmity of many
Southern Democrat. Winfield S. Han
cock has not followed his example.
Some years have passed since Mr.. Til
den made that announc cement. That it
was not in accord with Southern desire
and intention has since been. sLown In
Congress. Many bills, introduced by
men who served in the Confederate
army, now lie on the tables of the COM
mittees of the House Of Representatives,
awaiting that resurrection to baneful
activity which cannot fail to follow
the hoped-for election Of Democratic
President Some. of them were intro
duced at the extra session, but the wis
dom Of the Serpent caused their consid-
Grafton to be postponed. But there
they are-seed which will bear fruit if
the Executive Department of the Gov
eminent goes into those hands from
which it was taken by the people in 1860.
House resolution No. 8, 843, introduced
Jan. 26, 1880, by the Hon. Van H. Man
ming, Of Mississippi, formerly Colonel
In the Confederate army, is entitled ga
bill to reorganize the Supreme Court of
the United States" 1t provides fer the
appointment of twelve additional Asso-
ciate Justices, thereby increasing the
number of Justices to twenty-one. To
Supreme Court thus reinvigorated by
new material drawn from the Democratic
party, and in great part, doubtless, from
the Southern wing of that party, the
solid South could safely appeal for the
ultimate settlement of all questions aris-
ing from the late rebellion and.under the
constitutional amendments. This bill is
before the Committee on the Judiciary.
After the election of q Democratic Pres
ident it would be easy to pass it by force
of a majority in Congress-, and the APP
! pointment of the new Justices by the
Democratic President and Senate would
carry the scheme to q successful termi-
nation.
House resolution No. 3,847, intro
duced Jan. 26, 1880, by the Hon. A. J.
Warner, Democrat, is entitled, "a bill
to relieve the Supreme Court, to estab-
lish the Superior Court of the United
States, and abolish the Court of Claims. !"
1t provides for abolishing the Court of
Claims and transferring its jurisdiction
and records, books, papers, etc., to a
Superior Court thereby established, to
consist of five Judges tone Of whom shall
be designated the Chief Justice), to be
appointed by the President, By and with
the advice and consent Of the Senate.
This COURTS to have an appellate iuris-
diction with the Supreme Court of cases
from inferior United States courts, in
Which the amount in controversy does
not exceed $40, 600 Thepassage of this
bill, which was referred to the Commit
tee on the Judiciary, could be safely
postponed until after the approaching
election. III Democratic President
should be elected, Its passage would tear
down another bulwark set up for the de-
Tense of the Government against unjust
demands, and substitute for it new
tribunal, whose Judges, appointed by o
Democratic President and confirmed by
asDemocratie Senate, would be drawn
from the Democratic party. Southern
claims would receive distinguished con-
sideration In such a forum.
House resolution No. 9, 1853, introduced
Jan. -. 1880, by the Hon. j. Proctor
Knott Democrat. Of Kentucky, is en-
titled +" A bill to repeal an act entitled
An act to restrict the jurisdiction of
the Court of Claims. "y This bill de-
serves especial attention, because it was
introduced by the Chairman Of the Com
mi'tee on the Judiciary, aud, therefore,
may be regarded as in accordance with
Z the views Of the majority of the COM
mittee, The majority OF that committee
consists, of course, of Democrats, and
four OF these Democrats served during
the war in the Confederate army. An
other occupied legal position under the
Confederacy. This bill vests in the Dis
trict Courts of the United States which
have jurisdiction over the territory
where such claims originated, the author
ity to adiudicate all claim of "loyal
citizens in States not in rebellion" for
stores and supplies taken by or furnished
for the use Of the armies Of the United
States, and for use and occupation Of real
estate, use on. loss of vessels, engines.
animals, or other personal property, etc.
All claims now on file in Washington for
such losses are to be at once transferred.
with all accOmDanviny nal,a1.s N Tho