Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-08-13
FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 10. 1885.
FOR CONGRESS
FOR THE TENTH DISTRICT,
JAMES BUMGARDNER, jr.
OF AUGUSTA.
FOE CONGRESS

JAMES BUMGARDNER, jr.
OF AUGUSTA.
THE WORK OF THE LAST HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIV
The record of the House of Representa-
lives which has just adjourned-the first
assembled under Democratic Admins
ration for many years-has been one
which contains more excellent legislation
IF general character than any that has
preceded it. It's work bears the imprint
of having been on the side of the many,
and not in behalf of the few. We take
some of the most notable work it has done
for the people.
At the head of the list, as showing that
the engine has been reversed, and legisla
tion can no longer be controlled by the
great corporations, we place the law for
feiting so, 482 ,240 acres of land held by the
railroad corporations, andtreturning it to
the possession of the people of the coun-
try. It also passed bills FORGETTING thirty
eight millions additional acres held by the
railroad corporations, but these bills
failed in the Senate.
1t passed the Reagan Interstate Com
merce bill, which prohibits the railroad
corporations charging more for short
laul than they do for long one-a bill in
which the farmers of Virginia who are
growing wheat against the competition of
She West, are deeply interested; but it
JAILED in the Senate where the railroad in
luence seems to be invincible. This is the
third time that the House has passed this
sill and the Senate has put its foot on it.
1t passed resolution to invest the sur
plus in the Treasury, in buying In the
bonds and stopping interest. This was also
oassed in the Senate but the President
permitted it 30 fail Cor want Of his sigma
tsre.
It passed 8 bill in the interest of the far
gsers, and especially of the farmers Of this
alley who are just tuning their atten-
On to creameries, taxing fraudulent but
t9r, better known as Oleomargarine, S
csnts a pound, and requiring it to be label
Il with its proper title. The Senate re-
s aced the tax to 2 cents per pound and the
5ill became law.
It passed bill securing the public lands
Ut the Nation to the people of the Nation,
and preventing the absorption of them by
3althy aliens.
It passed every law petitioned for by the
g)rkingmen of the country, including one
leializing national trades-unions, and an
oil her appointing a committee to inspect
sd report on convict labor.
It rejected every bill before it In favor
o. present or contemplated monopolies.
It refused to contract the currency by
aspending silver coinage, and passed a
III directing the issue of 81 and So silver
ee -ti6cates.
It commenced the building of new
II avy by ordering the building Of two
2 ,nored vessels and fast cruiser, and Or
de ed the completion of the four double
Gglreted monitors now being constructed.
2 ships to be of American material and
III hing used on them to be bought abroad
G'i 4 can lsrsobsained at home.
passed bill directing Ghe Secretary
q ,he Treasury to deliver to the proper
INFANTS or owners, the silverware, jewel
~, &c.. captured by the United States
10y during the late war, and to sell al
pu bic auction all such articles not claim
I'd within one year.
It has passed a bill providing that to-
6Rico in alliits forms may be exported free
al duty.
is financial work we find clearly stated
Ia speech of Hon. Samuel J. Randall, in
the Congressional Record" of last Fri
5a7. 1t gives an elaborate history Of the
segular appropriation bills for 1867, and
aads in conclusion that deducting the IN
leased amount given for pensions over
VIII at was appropriated for 1886 (namely,
$50 ,200) and the amount of the River
and Harbor bill ($14 ,473, 9O0)-making in
Gig $50, $40, 100-from the aggregate regular
temptations for 1887, and the remaining
saal is $206, 400, 58344. or Sc, 1856. 1854 less
Slfsn was appropriated for the regular ex-
lenses of the Government for the fiscal
yaar 1885.
Str. Randall also shows that the exrendi-
es of the Government during the first
seal year under the present Democratic
a ministration were $4,000. 900 less than
bfs expenditures in the last fiscal year of
AEahur's Administration; also that the
axyenditures for pensions in 1886 were
S65 .403. 1854, as against only $3.50. 10a.267 in
1885, being an increase of $7,3O2 500 for
se5 over 1885, which difference, if deduct
&c from the general expenditures as stated
sieve for 1885, would make the reduction
q expenditures for 1885 less by 1924, $50 ,229
than the expenditures shown for 1885,
Here is the platform adopted by the
Denocracy of the 9th Virginia district. It
il q platform looking to the protection of
Virginia's interests. Is there Democrat
In 5he State who earns his bread by his
muscle, or who owns an acre of land that
he hopes to be enhanced by the general
r.~rur,at.if,u WIN will COW uord q ooincr ~