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

sometimes all day. Then into the House.
where it is roar and confusion ev erywhere,
! as all OF you know who have seen 1t. There
i il the turmoil and confusion until 4 or 3
O'Clock in the afternoon Then our dinner.
/ In the meantime another mail has come that
must not be neglected; after dinner still
/ another. Then our evening calls. Well
meaning people who have right to call
/ We are their servants and representatives
They have come TO Washington under ideas
of civil service to secure some place
/ they have right Go. And while
| you have this amount Of work,
| possibly report that must be made in the
| morning, they not only tell you what they
you when they We're married, when each
! child was born, how badly he had the
| measles, until you cling to your chair in
| very desperation for fear you will rise right
\ up and say, MY dear friend, for heavens
! sake are you ever going" Laughter and
| applause Then to your work. This is the
! condition of labor in all the important COM
mittees, and on the part of every member
who does his duty. These men talk of mdo-
! lence and inefficiency. feel my inefficiency
and my lnferiority. But through nine SEES
| sions have not had SO much as i've leaves
| of absence, and for ten months in your last
| session of Congress my feet did not cross the
| limits of the City of Washington. l may
not have been efficient, but claim tried to
| be faithful
Now then, if you would present this river
| and harbor bill on its merits, point out the
! Objectionable items that are so distressing
why" the other side say, ''there is
THE PEcAToNIcA
and they say in one place there is q So 900
| appropriated for the Pecatonica and In an
other place they say there is So, 000 appro-
| priated for the Pecatonlca. and in another
place, they have related, there is $40. 000
for the Pecatonia. Horrors! how can the
republic stand? daughter Well, what is
De- ri
II is stream. running out here, somewhere;
that it is sandy and shallow and rough
Well, imagine if it is chat kind of a stream
That is the place to find the poor Democratic
party after the 7th of November ERoars. !
That is my idea; you will find them stranded
on the Pecatonica Laughter Others say
there is eight miles OF navigation and a
small steamboat running there l don't
think the river amounts to much, and don't
| think they will get much money How is
it put in the bill? Mr.. Winans says he
speaks by card; [ speak by the book, and
| under the class which orders certain sur
veys. if the Secretary of War and the Chie
| of Engineers in his discretion shall deem it
advisable, the PecatonicaEmay DE surveyed,
But when the preliminary inquiry is made
the Secretary of War will certainly see in his
discretion that it is not advisable to survey
the Pecatonica, and 1.-THE cost of the Peca-
tonica" (pronobnced with fine emphasis)
will be the cost of printing it in the bill.
|
publican party and put me OUT as thief and
| bury me under the dashing waters of the
| Pecatonica Laughter.
| Now let me read you, for must hasten, a
few sentences from Senator Hoar: 1t will
| settle this matter of the river and harbor
| bill clearly and completely. He says;
WHAT is THIS
river and harbor bill which has been a sub
| ject of such criticism? 1t appropriates
| $18,738,875. But of this sum So, 368, 500
is for the special improvement of
the Mississippi River according to
! specially appointed in a former year
TO devise plan for that:purpose; $500, 600
| for the reclamation of the malarial and pes
| tilentiaI flats near the White House and
| S247, 500 are for future surveys To neither
! OF these items, so far as I can learn, is there
| objection anywhere. The provision for sur
veys has heretofore been in no appropriation
| bill, except one special sum OF you, 600 De-
| Quoting these three extraordinary items,
| each OF which might properly have been in
a separate bill, there remains $12,722. S75
| as the subject of discussion. The expendi-
! ture of last year was 81, 451 800. How
| ever, of this whole sum of $12, 100000
| there is but 81, 135, AID that Is new. All the
rest is tor public Improvements partially
completed most of which have been going on
| for years. many of them under contracts,
| and all, or nearly all, il abandoned, to cost
| the loss of all the money previously ex-
| penQ6U 1Q6S6 waterways are nOb only Oh
| vast importance in themselves but they are
important also as check upon the prices
| charged by railroads. They are free. The
only check on the power of the great rail
road lines, when in concert. over the COM
merce of the Nation is the completion OF
waterways. When the Erie Canal and the
| harbors of the lakes freeze in winter up go
| the freights. When canal, lake, and river open
ia spring down so the freights. 1 do
| not and
CANNOT ovEEsTATE THE IMPORTANCE
of these streams to the American people, and
more especially to Massachusetts. A dimi-
mutton in the price of freight on the rail-
roads of this country of one mill ton mile
| makes an annual saving to the people of
| $40 900, 900"
| Discuss it; you have a right to criticise it
| if it is subject TO criticism. Suppose we re-
| jected this bill Contracts that were let to
| the lowest bidder would have been broken,
| drifting sands would have filled the mouths
| of your harbor, dashing waves would have
| undermined and overturned your cribs and
piers, uncompleted, and sent them over the
abysses OF the waters; machinery gone to
rust and decay, houses sold laborers dis
| charged, claims for damages brought in ses-
| sion after session, which practiced judges
| declared would exceed all the questionable
! items in the bill tenfold perhaps. We stood
| with all it's faults. or shall we encounter the
censure perhaps, OF bringing far greater
| damages upon the people.
Some have insinuated that members of
! Congress- may have some pecuniary interest
in the bill Well ex-Secretary Sherman
| ought to understand how money comes into
| the Treasury, and how it goes out under
| these appropriations
1 PERMIT ME TO REMIND
you of what he said the other night:
| las for the appropriation for rivers and
| harborS, all the Democrats are making a
| groat howl, trying TO make out party issue
| Why, my dear friends, tWenty-three Demo-
cratic Senators voted for that bill, and only
| three against it. It was not party measure
| at ALL and 1t was passed by . large majority
and stand here tonight TO defend the ap-
preparations The object is meritorious as
| the money will be well and honestly spent
| Every dollar of it that is spent will go to the
purpose to which Congress intended 1t should
| be devoted. This money will be spent to
| open up our national channels of communi-
| cation. to deepen our rivers. and to open up
| the harbors along the lake front so as to
| bring into competition with the great rail-
I roads our national channels of transporta-
/ ton. AND yet, look at it. With far greater
| length of sea-coast and navigable rivers, we
| spend far less for such improvements than
| do England and France Why, there is France,
| with coast line only one-eighth
of ours III length, and Great
| Britain with only one-sixth as
| much as we have, and each of these coun-
| tries expends very mach more than 90 we
| for the internal and coast improvement of
| this country that extends its coast from
| Maine to Florida, and from Florida to Cal
! ifornia and Oregon"
They say this is a steal It is not true.
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