Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-05-06

THE cOxEY BILLS.
Employ the Unemployed and get Money
Into Circulation.


Have you read the Coxey bills?
If not, read them.
The National Reform Press Associa.
ton passed resolution at its last
meeting recommending the discussion
of these measures as an. object lesson in
getting money into circulation by en-
ploying the unemployed in making pub
lie improvements. and abolishing
usury
Acting upon the suggestion of the
association, we print these bills, and
shall in future discuss them more
fully.
1t would be good idea for you to
clip out these bills and preserve them
THE NON-INTEREsT BOND BILL
A bill to provide for public i'm
provements and employment of the
citizens of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembleG, That whenever any state
territory. county, township, munich
pality, or Incorporated town or village
deem it necessary to make any public
improvements they shall deposit with
the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States a non-interest-bearin
twenty-five year bond, not to exceed
one-half of the assessed valuation oil
the property in said state, territory
county, township, municipality, or in
ccrporated town or village, and said
bond to be retired at the rate of -four
per centum per annum.
Sec. 2. That whenever the foregoine
section of this act has been complied
with it shall be mandatory upon the
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States to have engraved and printed
Treasury notes in the denomination o1
one. two. five and ten dollars each
which shall be full legal tender for al
debts, public and private, to the face
value of said bond and deliver to said
state, territory, county, township
municipality, or incorporated town Oh
village, ninetynine per centum OF
said notes, and retain one per centun
for expense of engraving and printing
same
Sec. 8. That after the passage o1
this act it shall be compulsory upon
every incorporated town or village
municipality, township, county. state
or territory to give employment te
any idle man applying for work, anG
that the rate be not less than one dolla,
and fifty cents per day for common
labor and three dollars and fifty cents
per day for team and labor, and thai
eight hours per day shail constitute Z
days labor under the provisions oi
this act.
THE GOOD ROADS BILL.
A bill to provide for the improve
ment of public roads, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States is here
by authorized and instructed to have
engraved and printed, Immediately
after the passage of this bill, five hun
dred millions of dollars of Treasury
notes, legal tender for all debts, pub.
lie and private, said notes to be in
denominations of one, two, five and ten
dollars, and to be placed in a fund tc
be known as the general country
road fund system of the United States, y
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pose.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty oi
the Secretary of War to take charge oil
the construction of the said general
country road system of the United
States, and said construction to COM
mence as soon as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall inform the Secretary OF
War that the said fund is available
which shall not be later than sixty DAYS
from and after the passage of this bill
when it shall be the duty of the Secre.
tary OF War to inaugurate the work
and expend the sum of twenty MIL
lions of dollars per month pro rata
with the number of miles of road in
each State and Territory in the United
States.
Sec. 8. That all labor other than
that of the Secretary of War, whose
compensations are already fixed by
law" shall be paid by the day, and tha,
the rate be not less than one dollar and
fifty cents per day for common labor
and three dollars and fifty cents ~
team and labor. and that eight hours
'hall constitutNa days labor under the
provisions of this bill, and that all
citizens of the United States making
application to labor shall be. employed.
Overproduction.