The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-28
The ForlOrn Hope of General
Nathaniel Banks.
THE D0INGs OF MIR. DUBOIS.
some startling Stateme nts In Regard
to Government Indebtedness
to Individuals.

f lately marshal of the United States I
l the district of Massachusetts, MAJ
sent to Congress next year. Shou
/ General Banks come back to that bod
yver which he once presided, it is like
that he viii make vigorous effort
secure one piece of legislation whie
has been neglected for twenty-f,
years. twenty-five years ago Gener
Banks needed a volunteer company
carry forlorn hope to victory. Il
promised his volunteers that SUI
VlVors should be rewarded by q suitabl
medal from Congress. The forlor
hope was successful, and Banks sur
Vivors have been waiting twenty-five
years for their promised reward.
Time after time bills have been intro
duced into both branches of Congress
but nothing has come of them
This year Mr.. Henry Cabo
Lodge tried to secure the nee.
essary legislative action to insur,
those gallant soldiers the reward which
had been promised them. A bill was
introduced and referred to the appro
priation committee in each house, and
nothing has been heard of it. The COM
mittee will not act.
The return of General Banks will, il
IS thought, give more weight to thi
measure than it could otherwise have
and he will, doubtless, make an eIo-
quent appeal in behalf of the soldiers
who served him and their country 50
well upon the occasion of such dire
peril. The trouble seems to be that
there is fear that one set of medals
might lead to another, and that other
gallant fellows who fought for $l3 a
month and rations, and who partic,.
larry distinguished themselves upon &C.
casions of more than extraordinary
danger, may come to the front and ask
that they, too, may be rewarded a. token
which can be handed down with pride
to succeeding generations.
OUR FLOATING INDEBTEDNESS.
A gentleman who has been interest
Ing himself for some time in trying to
secure Congressional action upon a
long outstanding obligation of the gov
srnment, has taken the trouble to
make a cursory investigation of the
1oating Indebtedness of the United
states which remains unpaid. and
which is likely to do so for some time
living to the ironclad rules which
prevail in the departments, it is i'm
possible to give satisfactory detailed |
lgures of the liabilities of this country
utsice OF the bonded indebtedness |
here are, however, the files of the com.
nittee On claims in Congress as a sort
official guide to knowlede as to a part
1.-THE vast sum owed by the United
,ates to its citizens.
This gentleman's investig ations have
one tar enough to convince MIN tbst
all honest debts due from the United
iates could be paid in full, there would
OF De one dollar of surplus in the
reasury, but instead there would be
'rge oenclt Tor some years TO come.
nousands upon thousaL DIS, ave mil
OBS OF dollars have been paid into the {
oVernment enormously, or errone
asly collected from time to time. to 6
hlch the United States has not one
article OF right, and yet the real own E
IS are prevented from collecting their t
aes or even from gathering the slight 4
t information relating to them. be-
.use 1t is official death to the employee II
no would dare to divulge any of the t
eIets of the Treasury archives. Y
Inc private claimant stands very ;,
tie chance of consideration if he goes "
Congress, and none at all if he pre- s
nts himself to the department. The IL
atute or limitations, which cannot be 81
lsed against debt due to the United q
etes, is always raised as bar to the u
'lmant against the government if he O
las out, after years of ignorance, that II
mas inherited a musty old claim O.
llcn any honest business man would ~
We taken steps to pay years ago. In 81
ler words, while the United States u
kes every means available to enforce "a
nesty upon the part of its servants, !!ee
never acknowledges that old say u
that honesty is the best policyu ga
piled to itself, and the stranpsst tn
IT of 1t is, that the men who are SO
wllng loudest about the dangers of Of
surplus, are the very ones who win w
We no stone unturned to prevent the is
Iuctlon OF that surplus in the only 10
1orable manner which ought TO an
'ern It's reduction-that is, the ply- co
ut of the just debts of the United SUI
ties to its citizens m!
VIC
DoINGs OF DUBOIS. VIZ
he other day the Hon. Fred T. Dr. III
8. delegate in Congress from the ha a
1itory of Idaho, introduced a reso no
on calling upon the Attorney-Gen- ag
TO furnish TO the House of Repre- Ia
fatives list of pardons granted bv an
President of the United States to Sol
sons convicted of the "crime of nm
fui Capitalization" in Utah Territor, art
Idaho Territory since March get
J. giving the name, date of sentence rec
tn OF sentence, and date of pardon pla
ach case. ele'
r. Dubois only reason in introduce OF
the above was TO show that Presi tloi
t Cleveland had been unnecessariix plo
ent in dealing with persons convicted dep
ioIations of the Edmunds law anc LOCI
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