The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

read but single extract from his letter
| which penciled down JUST as / was taking
the train He says: THE printed
OF your record IN Congress. compiled
from the Congressional. Record in relation to
| bills introduced by you and action thereon
! Is inaccurate IN about every particular
ana grossly unfair and unjust to you. The
assertion That 9S of your bills were killed in
committee and never reported is so abso-
| lutely ridiculous that it cannot impose on
| anyone" and then he goes on and gives the
figures.
But this arithmetieal statesmanship-T
| don't want to call names-the genius Of
which spoke TO you the other night and
| made merry over his impact of wit on my
| poor sell! l feel my humihationl
never do get into Congress [laughterL
and am afraid that Brother Fethers
llaughterl and Heiser and Billy Smith are
| going to have hard sailing to get their at all
ILaughteEl Why, look at what a dolt Blaine
was, as gagged by this test; SO many bills
| introduced, and SO many failed take up
the record of the three sessions of the Forty
| fifth Congress, and what do lind? There
| were elghty-hve general laws, that is, bills
| passed into laws Divide that between 292
| members, and there can't be one-fourth of s
! law for each. Laughter But the Senators
| have got to have their share and YOU add
their numbers and divide again, and it gives
| one-siXth OF law a session. Well, have been
| there nine sessions, six of them at the
| tail end of the Democratic committees as
| all of us poor Republicans have been Three
| OF Them have been Republican, and those
| sessions / have been where l could have
/ something to say about legislation through
| your courtesy and by favor of the powers
there Well, if have been there nine ses-
| Slons, nine times one-slXth would be a law
and half [aughterl and they say i got
| eight got
MORE THAN NY SHARE
| [Applause.l
| am glad that Fethers never heard of that
| stupid man Blame. Look at his record in
the Forty fourth Congress. He introduced
| two bills. One was for the relief of mau
| in Baltimore and it was referred to q sub
| committee, and the other was to regulate
| steamboats, Those were the only bills he
| introduced in ten months. The bill for re-
| lief was reported adversely and killed in
| the House. The bill on steamboats, was
not reported at all Now THAI is a pretty
| man to send to Congress [Iaughterl Well,
take William D. Kelley In the last session
! he introduced fifteen bills. He has been
| twenty years in Congress, he is the father OF
| the House, he is the Chairman of the Com
| mittee on Ways ana Means, he is known in
| Europe as leading American statesman.
He introduced fifteen bills One of them was
| killed in the Senate. another was killed In ,
| the House, one became a law and according to
| this you see twelve were ''smotheredin COM
mlttee." Why you want to yank Kelley right
| straight out of there and send for Fethers
i [great laughterl and If Fethers can't
go let Heiser 60 [LaughterI If he can't go
send Joe Doe-John Doe-DodO, don't care
which. [Great laughterl So much for that
Now we come right down TO our
| YoRKvILLE LIQUOR BILL.
In June, $780, the Democratic House
| passed bill authorizing an invitation to the
descendants of Lafayette and representa-
| tives of the French people. and the descend
ants of Baron Steuben and representatives of
| Germany to attend the celebration of the
centennial at Yorktown There was ap-
preparation for their Observation-Disclosures
| were several apprOpriatlons-tc be expended
| under the supervision OF the Democratic
| Sergeant-at-armsiand Mr.. Johnston, the lead
| ing Democratic Senator of Virginia The
| particulars are in the original appropriation
/ bill OF june and in the deficiency bill.
What is that? It is a bill which covers So
1 000 600 for different items. In that bill
| there was an item of $32 900 Il speak in
round numbers) to complete the payment Of
these Yorktown expenses. General McCook,
| of New York, said he had no desire
| to make a cheap reputation for econ
| omy, but made a motion in COM
| mitbee of the whole to strike out that
lGem Mr.. Merritt and others will tell you
that in committee of the whole any mem
Der can offer an amendment and speak i've
| minutes to it. The function of the COM
| mittee of the whole House is to give opportu-
nifty for amendment and discussion. You
| may make pro forma amendment, as to
! strike out the last word of clause and
speak five minutes and no more Now, then,
| General McCook moved to strike out the item,
| and then withdrew his amendment. How
ever, on Mr. Cobb of Indiana, moving an
amendment, he renewed the amendment,
and in his time Of five min
ntes read a bill Of items which
he had clipped from a newspaper. There
was no schedule of details of TINS item in
the bill ever before Congress. He read the
items about one-half through, of cham
pagnes, wines, and various liquors that
| would fairly make the
| MOUTHS OF OUR DEMOCRATIC OPPONENTS wATER.
Laughter But before he had got one-balf
| through his time had expired, aud the rest
was ordered to be printed IN the Record, and
that is where these wise gentlemen got the
| bill of items that they read before you night
| after night-a newspaper clipping. MIR. Cobb
said that perhaps these liquors had been
paid for out of the former appropriation.
| There had been already one or TWO
| appropriations for 800, 900 Then Governor
| Dingley, of Maine, the leading prohibitiOnIst
in the United STATES, offered All amendment,
| and spoke five minutes. and in their indie
pendent sheet they quote what he said, and
his invectives are well known, DuU they don't
tell you what he did. | will tell you. After
his denuciations he would press an amend
| ment, wouldn't he? No, he withdrew his
| amendment There was no call for a
| division. There was not a dissenting voice
| after the discussion had closed. IL was the
| Judgment of all that we had incurred
this expense by authority of law that IL
had probably already been paid for, and like
| y
might feel it was wrong the quickest way
to stop the scandal was TO pay the bill And
if it had not been paid already, that item
| would come in term after term, renewing
this National scandal, and therefore it was
the JOINT Judgment of
GOVERNOR DINGLEY AND EVERYBODY ELSE
that it ought to be allowed to stand in the
deficiency bill, with the presumption that
1t had already been paid for out of the for
mer appropriation.
Now. what? That deficiency bill covered
| SO, 600, 600 This was in June. It ran on
| until the latter part of July.
| Then the deficiency Dill was com
pleted What was it? Why, it was
to carry on all the operations Of the gov
eminent; your postofhces, your army, your
| navy your whole civil service would have
been stopped, except for the regular def
| cheney bill. The rule of the House Is that
| there shall be pro lorna call of yeas and
nays on general appropriation bills. at the
end Of July or III the first of August that
| roll call was had and to defeat any item
you must defeat the IS, 900, 000 My name
| stands recorded among the yeas and nays
on the deficiency bill. and those fair-minded
| gentlemen therefore tell you. and crack
their cheeks to scatter it everywhere, that
| Ivoted for the Yorktown liquor bill But they
| never tell you-they print the other ia large
| capitals with exclamation points-but they
never tell you, and never Will, that right In
that same line of yeas stands the names of
General McCook, Of New YORK, and ex-Gov-