The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-07
SOME MORE FACTS.
Mr.. Editor:

l desire to be heard again through
the columns of your valued paper.
Men who have made for them
selves reputation and especially
apoliticalone-havem made enemies.
There are always people ready to
criticise the action of any political
party or public man. | find it to
be thus in the present race for Con-
gress between Hon. B. A. Enloe
and General j. d. G. Atkins.
We have men in this county who
would have you believe, and they
actually argue that Mr.. Enloe has
never done anything since he has
been in the legislative halls of our
country. Now, l desire to call the
attention of the voters of Benton
County to few of the things that
Mr.. Enloe HAS done since he was
first elected to Congress.
Mr. Enloe began his career in
the Fiftieth Congress, and distin-
guished himself by breaking the
deadlock in that Congress over the
direct tax bill. In that Congress
he secured the passage Of several
local bills for his constituents, and
one general bill to punish dealers
in counterfeit money for using the
United States mails. Under this
law some Of themostnotorious swim
oilers have been convicted and sent
to the penitentiary.
He secured the passage of a bill
authorizing the Tennessee Midland
Railroad to bridge the Tennessee
River. When he entered Congress
the mail service on the Tennessee
River had been discontinued. Mr..
Enloe had that restored.
Inthe Fifty-frst CongressSpeak-
er Reed changed his committee SER
vice, and Mr.. Enloe was put on War
Claims. He took up nearly three
hundred claims of Southern people
involving $560,O00, which had moi
been paid out because the money
would 60 South. He put all these
claims into one bill, and after a re.
markable fight against the Repub.
lican majority, which lasted severa
months, he secured the passage o.
this bill into a law. One hundred
and fifty thousand of this amour
came to Tennessee, the Eighth Con
gressional District getting a gooC
portion Of it.
In the Fifty-second Congress h,
introduced a bill to repeal the Nc
Kinley bill, which should have pass
ed the House. The late tariff bill
passed by the Senate and House
covered a number of bills introduc
ed by Mr.. Enloe on the same sub
ject.
He introduced the first anti-op
ton bill in the Fiftieth Congress
and has followed it upwith speeche
and advocacy ever since.
He introduced in the Fifty-frs
and Fifty-second Congresses a con
stitutional amendment, providing
for the election of United State
Senators by the people, and tn
same amendment has passed tn
House and is before the Senate tc
day. He introduced a bill to repea
the ocean subsidy, which provide
for an expenditure of $35,000,00(
He had Mr.. Raum, Commissions
Of Pensions, put out as soon as tn
Democrats came into power. M
EnIoe's plan and policy, as advc
Gated in Congress upon the pensio
question, has been followed up b
Mr.. Lochran, the present Commits
sioner, and his report for the fsct
year ending June 80, 1894, shows
saving of over $29,000,000 of til
peoples money. Yet some peopl
would have you believe that NJ
Enloe had nothing to do with
If any one doubts this, [ refer thel
to the report of the Commissions
Of Pensions.
In the present Congress he il
troduced bill to repeal the civ
service act. Mr.. Enloe believ,
that when the Democrats are
power they should have all the of
ecs within the Government, al
vice versa. | am one who hearti
endorses the bill. Were it not {,
civilservice hundreds of Democra
would be holding Offices that are
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