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

adopted, and also moves to lay that resolu-
ton on the table This latter motion was
agreed to, and it was clinched II never
came to my attention no more than it did TO
yours WELL say these diligent gentle
men, you might have been there" The
Clerk says there were not more than twenty
members there. and that afternoon, in COM
miEGee of the whole. there was scarcely a
quorum, and they adjourned shortly for
want of quorum, and the Senate was not
IN session. Well now, my friends ought
not some credit, some belief, be accorded to
me here. think so. [Applause.1 1t never
came to ElY attention, say. any more than
It did TO yoar own Now want TO call up
again that stupid boy Blaine daughter
He said in o public speech that when
he was Speaker OF the House,
in putting an ordinary motion himself
for the passage of unanimously recon-
mended Dill. or the like he often didn't
know it had gone through at all; the whole
thing was so perfunctory. And so it was
regarding this, and I didn't find it out that
the bill passed until the next July, and am
that much ahead Of you IApDlause.l In
the last days OF July from this COMMITTEES
there came q report which included the
physicians bills as the amount for the serv-
ices at the burial of the President most
dlsgraceful discussion, you may remember,
ensued. My seat was IN the very rear, back
of those great circular seats where there Is
cussion, and seeing that it was becoming
national disgrace, Amos Townsend, of Oieve-
land, and Judge Taylor, President Garfelds
successor. being terribly distressed on ac-
count of Mrs. Garfield and the children and
friends, started don't speak Of this TO
emphasize myself, but am entitled to it,
STARTED UPON IMPULSE
from the rear seat and came down the CEN
ter aisle; wondered all the time theydidn't
say something about the liquor bill, of which
we had heard so much, and as I passed
Judge Humphreys seat, Isuopped and asked
him, one of the most attentive men in the
House and seated right in front and hear
ing everything, Where is the liquor acGY'
He made some reply that satisfied
me that it was not up at that time l pro-
ceeded up in center aisle, near to where The
vacant seat Of the President was-I didn't
go there for any effect, but happened
TO go there and there, as some
of you may have read, as
it was published at home, I appealed in
memory of our dead President, respect for
his family and friends, and the honor of our
Nation that that disgraceful wrangle cease
then and there and | speak of it not to
boast, but my remarks were applauded from
both sides Of the Chamber, ard that wrangle
did cease then and there [AppIause.l Now.
then, remembering that / wrote to Judge
Humphrey, and Oct 5 he replies:
Yours of the Sd inst. is just received
and hasten to reply as to the bill reported
on the expenses attending the funeral of
The late President. my RECOLLECTION is that
you came GO me and asked me where it was.
| told you that | understood it was in the
hands OF Judge Taylor to report, that he
mad undertaken TO get it up.
THIS SHOWS THAT JUDGE HUMPHREY
knew no more about 1t than did. My un-
derst.. aiding Of it was that the day had been
fixea for It's consideration, but that other
matter having precedence prevented
You and l. the LATTER continued, dds
cQssed it at different times You will recoI-
1ect that Colonel Davis, OF Chicago, yourself,
aud / also discussed it | know your own
views so well, and you avowed them so
strongly, 1 am fully satisfied you never
voted for it,"
There / leave it, ladies and gentlemen,
Hounded by the day, week, and month
through this district and State, submit, on
the river and harbor BILL the Yorktown
liquor bill, and the Garfield funeral expense
and liquor bill submit on account of my
stewardship to my constituents of BeIoit to-
night, and, say, Judge ye and let me be
responsible.
In conclusion I would like to speak
moment as to who pays the taxes for the
support OF the National government / have
no time tonight Rdicule may wag it's
silly tongue; yes, shallow ridicule has had
it's say; nevertheless did stand at Winni-
peg, In the Queens dominions, the other
dry, city built OF brick, stone,
1856; a city of 10000 inhabitants.
Four hundred miles westward the Comedian
Pacific was already completed. Five years,
beyond doubt, and that splendid line shall
extend from Montreal through those snowy
wastes of Canada to the Pacific Ocean. 1t is
800 miles from New York to Chicago 1t is
500 miles from Chicago TO Winnipeg. Yet
there was given wheat of the finest quality
raised on the Peace River, 1, 200 miles north
west of Winnipeg,
AN EMPIRE STRETCHES THITHEI,
the finest wheat-producing section of the
globe. Coming south to Great Fork, and
going westward again, the St Paul Mime
apoiIs and Manitoba Road extends it's line
2UO miles, ana Its managers said: "Thls is
our Pacific Road" Coming yet south to
Fargo, we saw our electric light elevated 154
feet in the air. our horse railroads, our sys-
tenn OF waterworks nearly completed. And
thither stretches westward our own Northern
Pacific, which the days of next September
shall see joined by the silver spike, and the
electric currents of commerce thunder
along the plain through the mountains to the
sea [Applause.l Coming yet southwark
you strike the system of ST Paul Roads
Chicago and St Paul-forging westward,
and Mr. Carey told me to-day at Clinton
their object was to push onward to the Pa
CHIC Yet little further south, and there
radiate the Northwestern system. pushing to
Deadwood, and still onward to the sea.
What does this mean? I said to myself
Within One-haIt the lives of living
men to-day. instead of one Northern
Pacific you shall see four II
n OF five transcontinenGal lines pushing west
ward through this Northwest belt, onward
to the Pacific coast What does this mean
to us? Every furrow turned, every field
broken, every mine opened every spoonful
OF grain produced Is gathered by the steel
fingers of these iron arms stretching west
ward, and brought thither across Wisconsin,
lying in the worlds great highway and
within fifteen Years-probably ten years
YOUR OWN CHICAGO
shall be the Wealthiest, the most powerful
interior city on the globe. AS Damascus
stood on the plain, as Palmyra ruled the
queen Jewel of the East, SO your imperial
Chicago shall be the center of commerce and
the distributing point of all the boundless
Northwest Poor, broken, discouraged, OBJ
pressed, or simply adventurous millions of
immigrants swell continually the sum of
thrift and prosperity. Somebody said the
great object OF representative government
was that it furnished paradise for dema-
gOgues, and Carlyle, in one OF his dyspepLic
moods, is said to have remarked that Amer
lea was peopled by 45 100000 human be-
lngs, the most of them fools Laughter I
The cyn1c drew his figure, at least too mild
Gladstone, the leading statesman of Europe.
it was who years ago declared that in 1850
the United States should be the richest ma
tion on the globe We overpassed his predic-
ton long before the time was reached. Now
look at your own Wisconsin, surrounded on
three sides by noble States, drained nv
sweeping rivers Look at your towns! look
at Jefferson, Fort Atkinson GAINESVILLE Be-
lott See the new roofs this year see the
new factories. God has decreed that the
Rock River Valley stretching 27(l uilas fro,,,