The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-01

hat the law allows him and no more. Cur
railroads get just what the freight comes to.
When you get from them their weighing you
can tell how much they are going toget
When the year begins You cannot tell hat
che sum will am unit To. The law fixes what
they shall get per pound, and if VIC do no.
appropriate enough we have TO PIT enough
in Tho deficiency bill TO make IL up and
square the books. That is all here is of it.
Now, IL YOU will take this list and rvn
il through you will find that the general ap-
preparations made by the last congress have
not been cent more than what is necessary,
when YOU take into account the increase In
the necessities of the people. Why should
You keep comparing one year with another.
The only question to ask is, Did you spenC
any more money than you ought tof Did
you appropriate for the govern
ment larger amount OF mon-
ey than il needs to run it in a decent
way; for nobody wants our government to
go higgling along. II you attempt to COM
pare one year with another look at the diff
fculty 1t will get you into. In 1861 tbs gov
crnment only spent about S62, OOO.O0O, i'll lS62
it jumped up TO $3.50, 600, 600, in 1868 it rose
to $685. 000, o., in 1864 to $S11 900, 900, and in
1865 to 81 ,2lS, 100000 Was that chargeable
to lie extravagance of these TO n congresses
have an ideaxtbat there is not Democrat
here who does not know what increased the
appropriations in those years. We were
compelled to expend that money. in
order to desray the expenses of q
not bring on the country: Laughter and APP
plause. We aid carry it ca though " III
considerable vigor. [Applause.]
APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
But we are told that there is terrible ex-
travagance i'll public buildings. Now want
to say to you that they did vote for Sc, O. al
public buildings that voted against, be-
cause l did not believe in building them,
except where good business principles war
ranted them. We passed in the last con-
gress SO bills for public buildings in the
United States. Twenty-three If these were
for 500, 900 and upwards. Brooklyn, N. Y,
got 100000. Detroit got the next largest
sum, S600.000 Louisville, KY, received
$500,000; Columbus, O., $780, Roches-
ter, N y; Y, $500 600 and Denver Col,
appropriations were all right, because they
weI. voted for large cities where the gov
eminent needs the buildings. But what they
complain of is these other ten. Five of them
got $4,000 each and five of them $4,000
each. I will say for the benefit of
small buildings-I did not vote for
them--that in no one of them that I re-
collect was there building voted for except
where there was an United States court
And they claim that wherever there is
court, revenue Office and postoffice all
combined, without regard to the size of the
place. there should be public building
Ny idea is that we should put buildings in
place when it gets large enough
so that the governments needs it in order to
control its business, and can save rents
enough so as to make it a fair business
transaction as it does in these large cities.
1t does not IN some of these small ones, but
ryo rxx,in hat oprio
tions are not open to the charge that
has been talked about, for there
is no job in public building. 1t
must all be bid for and let to the
lowest bidder, constructed according to the
strictest economy and care, as rule. You
cannot get dollar out of the appropriation
except by competitive propositions. l have
my doubts about the advisability of putting
up building at Marquette, and / voted
against that bill, although it was in my
own state. Marquette has court,
collection office and postoffice but it has
it was large enough TO deserve a public
building. The majority of congress SAID it
would be, and 800. ZOO was voted for it,
Now, the money is not thrown away. You
have your building. 1t may be in a town
where it ought not to be, that is,
where the town is too small for it:
but there is no job in it. Here we have
this same trouble that's often met with of
the big swallowing up the little | met it
when ] attempted to get the free delivery
system introduced in this city and Bay City.
Free delivery is allowed to every city that
has population of 10000 and upwards
But for years past the Democrats had re:
fused to give an appropriation so that we
could get the free delivery in a single
one of these smaller cities. They appro-
priated money enough, but every dollar of
it would be absorbed in voting for increased
facilities in New York City, Chicago and
these other large cities which are always
ready to take everything they can get.
have no doubt they need it. They do not
take anything that they do not think thew
need tLaughter.] Finally we put an
amendment on to that bill where
by we compelled them to appropriate
$4,000 or 100000 to establish a free de-
livery in the smaller places where they were
entitled to it. But what / say is there is a
tendency in this country for the large cities
to swallow up the small, for the large com
mercial centers to forget the interests of the
smaller parts of the country and not do them
perfect justice.
was amused, and perhaps all of you saw
the same thing, at Ben Butterworth's state
ment as to the river and harbor bill. He said
the river and harbor bill in this country had
come to be great mich COW which for the
last 90 years had been standing with her
fore feet over on the west side Of the Ale
ghany mountains, and that we fellows i'm
the we3tnnd south had been feeding the COW
for go years, while those in the east had
been milking her. Laughter and applause. !
He said all they proposed to do was to turn
her around for awhile and let the other fel
lows do the feeding her while we did the
milking. Laughter and applause Now it
has been SO with all these public buildings
and these improvements in this country.
We want simply fair justice between all
parts of the country, and the time is soon
to come when we will be able to get it. The
reason for this Is that the center Of popula-
ton and wealth is moving westwar all the
while.
Why, they. say that we ar put ing UP
these public buildings simply in order to get
all the money out of the treasury. They
say the Republican congress have taken ali
they can and that now they are simply
waiting for the treasury to fiji
up again. 1t is true that we did take into
consider alton the fact that the coun-
try was prosperous. Do not business men
do that generallyl Is it not right that they
should do i'll Can we not improve our
streams better when we have plenty of
money to do il than when w have nona2