Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-25


for the Improvement of the Mississippi river
and it's tributaries. Is that to be denounced
as a steal? As a matter of economy, it is
WISE for out of the public treasury this very
year we appropriated $40O 600 to save the
lives of men, women and children whose
farms were swept away by the floods of the
Mississippi
Another item of increase is 800 900 for
filling up the Potomac flats. Right under
the shadow of the White House lay these
flats, exposed to the sun twice in twenty
four hours by the operation of the tides, and
SO offensive have thev become that the doors
and windows of the White House are COM
PEELED to be closed, and it is necessary to re-
move your dying Pres dent that his life
might be prolonged, If not saved Who OBJ
jects to the appropriation of 800, 900 for fill
ing up these flats and making the dwelling
place of the President of this great republic
inhabitable? Then we have appropriated
$247, $50 for future survey which three items
aggregate more than pc, 100000, leaving but
81, 100000 to be accounted for, which was
appropriated for objects of national char
acter.
One word about this bill, and leave it.
How was it framed? Fifteen of as good
honest men as I see before me tonight sat
In committee, not one day or one week or
one month, but six long months, examining
every item of appropriation. And let me
state three facts: First, there is not an Item
in this River and Harbor bill that was not
recommended by Government engineers;
secondly, there is no item Of appropriation
in that bill in excess of what wa. declared to
be necessary for the work; and thirdly, the
sum total of the bill is not one-half the
amount recommended by Government en-
e .neers as necessary to carry on the work
during the present year.
Michigan, of all States, should be the last
to comp ain of a River and HarbOr bill; Mich
igan has taken out of the public treasury for
&ErN1v -
$6,00O,0U0 of money. These appropriations
are necessary. France expended in oneyear
$19,000,000 for the same purpose, and En-
gland, with but 800 miles of coast line, less
by 800 than the ate Of Michigan, alone eX-
pended in 1874 So, 900, COO The good people
of this State, without distinction OF party,
should support policy which has cor its OBJ
ject the opening of our great national high
ways, which give the people the cheapest
means for transporting the surplus to the
seabOard
This is the only reason have heard as
signed why the Republican party should 90
out of power May be pardoned Tor assign
ing some reasons why the FOrty-eighth Con-
gress should be Republican and the Repub-
hcan par Y remain in power? 1t should be
continued in power, first, for the purpose OF
settling the question of polygamy in this
country. The Democratic party and the Re-
publicaa party cannot agree upon that ques-
the war this great crime was suffered to take
root in Utah, and has grown and flourished
until it has not only cursed the soil of it's
territory, but is spreading its baleful in
huence ove~ the adjacent country. The
FOrtv-fOurth Congress, the Forty-fi fifth and
the Forty-siXth were under the control of the
Democracy. During those years but one
measure was introduced upon the question
of pOiygamy, and that in the House of
Representatives. 1t was Immediately re-
TOO
slept the sleen IF death. During
all this time George Q. Cannon, a confessed
pOlygamist, trampling upon the laws OF the
United States, insulting the intelligence and
the civilization of this people, held a seat in
the high councils of this nation. When the
Republican party resumed control of the
lower house this same representative Of this
enormous crime demanded his seat, backed
by Is 100 majority of the people of Utah.
The Republican party put to him the quest
ion whether he was guilty of that crime, and
he answered over his own signature that he
was the husband OF four women with whom
he lived as his wives, and denied that we
had the right to inquire into b religious
principles under the constitution. Our Dem
ocratc friends agreed with him that under
the constitution man had a right to wor-
ship God according to his own Judgment,
and if that was a method of worship it was
for him to decide The Republican party,
striking a blow at this crime, said to this
T preventative OF this abOmination, you
shall t cross over the threshold of
the House of Representatives, and disgrace
the American Poop by your presence
there The Edmunds bill passed the Senate.
1t came to the House To ay it upon the
table or to refer it to committee was to kill
it. To take it rom the table and pass it was
to make it a law We move d, as Republicans,
to take the bill from the Speaker table and
put it on it's passage, and instantly Mr.. Con-
yer e, of Ohio a Democrat, moved to refer it
to the Comm ttee on the Judiciary, where 1T
would die, and every S ngle Democrat IN the
House OF Representative but one voted to
So refer it, [ favor, therefore, the continual
ton of the Republican party in power, and
assure you that it will not sleep until this
abominabe blotch upon the face of our Ter
T tor es is wiped out forever.
There is another reason why we should
continue in power, and that is with refer
ence to the question Of taxation
d During the war you viii remember, the
Republican party taxed every thing They
taxed a mans income and his Outgo; what
he had and what he had not. You could not
make note without stamping it. You could
not sell piece of ground without stamping
the deed nor mortgage a piece without
stamping the mortgage The lawyer was
taxed upon his practice, and so we taxed
everything to raise money to save the ma
ton, and nobody complained But, when
the war was over, we began relieving the
by one these burdens were lifted until at the
opening of the present session OF Congress
the only taxes remaining were the tax upon
banks, the tax upon checks, tax upon
matches and proprietary medicines, tax upon
whisky and tax upon tobacco. The Rerub-
Gcan party declared that they would lift a
port on of these taxes from the people, and
so we introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and passed, bill relieving the
people from SIC 600 to $20,000,0O0 of
taxation; but we passed it in opposit on to
our friends upon the other side. Because
10y the rules of our House we may bring
members to a vote upon the question. 1t
w mt to the Senate. 1t did not become a
law These additional burdens are still
upon the people, and they are there because
our friends resisted the passage OF the b IL
They entered in a proceeding in the Senate
which is faniliarly known as talking bi |
to dea h, for Senator has the glorious
privilege of talking if he desires for six
ars the length of his term. SO they en-
tered upon a process of talking bill to
death, and talked us into the middle of Au-
gust, and 1T emnted in that bill to interf re
with the tariff For the purpose of doing it,
an by SO doing, they did d feat action upon
it, and left an unjust burden upon this p o.
pie of from $16,6O0,000 to $20,000,0 00 1t is
4. cessary to continua the Republican party
that tn s measure OF justice may be enacted