The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

UolueSJ anu HOSG Dare-IaCeu attempt
to loot the treasury for the benefit of
eX- confederates which this democratic
Congress has yet undertaken is out
lined in a bill reported By the judici-
ary committee of the House reviving
the captured and abandoned property
act of 1868, and removing the bar of
disloyalty, under which its benefits
were confined to the loyal people of
ihe South.
The bill not only revives that act,
but provides specially that evidence
of dlsloyalty shall not be any bar to
favorable action upon claims brought
before the Court of Claims under
this bill.
TO say that this proposition is re-
ceived with astonishment by those
who are cognizant of the fact that it
has been reported, puts it but mildly.
70 merely reopen the court for claims
of this character now would be to in
| vite enormous frauds and enormous
drafts upon the treasury, but to add
to it clause removing the bar of dis
loyalty, and specifically provided that
disloyalty shall not be considered in
the examination of those claims,
throws down every bar and opens to
those who were in rebellion wide
door to the treasury of the United
States.
Should this monstrous proposition
become law 1t is estimated that the
amount which might be recovered
would be not only hundreds of mill
lions, but billions of dollars, for while
the act provides that it shall only APP
ply to the money now In the treasury
from the sale of the captured and
abandoned property, it is quite ap-
parent that if the bar of dsloyalty is
once removed, the further task of APP
propriatiug from the treasury for
claims of this kind would be easy for
a Congress which could pass an act
of this kind.
No bill which has been favorably
acted upon by any committee of Con-
gress since the democratic party as
sumed control of the government has
created such undisguised astonish-
ment on all hands as this.
The proposition of the judiciary
committee of the House to absolutely
remove the question of loyalty from
the consideration of claims from the
South would open wide the door for
claims aggregating billions of dollars,
SO that if they were paid as Congress
man Cogswell of Massachusetts, said
to the correspondent of the Morning
Advertiser, "We shall have to pay
the entire cost of the war over again. !"
4 Representative Blair says of the
| bill "That means about 5000, 0,000,-
!. 900. 1t seems to me that our demo-
cratic friends ought to take that into
consideration in their revision of the
tariff and the revenue system"
| Few contend that the present scale of
wages can be maintained under so radi-
cal a change of policy as the "Wilson
Bill" proposes The tariff reformer, rad
ical or moderate, admits that wages
must come down. There can be no con-
tention as to the fact that wages must be
adjusted to lower levels if the wooden
mauufacture. is - coH3et I'd sa!nSt the
foreign manufac,arer lder the condi-
tions proposed. TIis a@justmc, is go
| ing on, and it is being forcod by the
! threatening at:tuj,o C the "Wilson
bilP Undet these coalitions, which are
/ real the woolen manufactures Goes moi
5 need to manufacture sentiment-it
e forces itself out of actual condition.
, American Wool Reporter.
A single order for II standard rail.
way locomotives was placed with an
eastern engine-buil,ling firm by west
; ern railroad company last week.
Forty-two are to be built Immediately,
the remainder by early next year. II
5 is one of The largest single orders on
record.