The Richfield recorder., 1916-11-03


said on later occasion: Il desire to
say to this side OF the House that we
are placing burdens upon the people
for the next quarter of century,
which will come back to plague you.
Another speaker who seems to have a
conscience about this says I'VE are
writing ourselves down in the history
of the country as being the most out
rageously and most criminally extra
VACANT Congress that ever sat on the
American continent. ! must apologize
to you Republicans for having ever
used the words 'criminally extrava-
CANT In criticising the appropriations
that you made, for If that expression
'criminally extravagant' was proper to
apply to you, my God the English lam
guage has never found an adjective
strong enough to apply to Democratic
extravaganza" (Applause.)
HOW CAUCUS DOES 1T.
Now I want to go back a moment to
show you how this can be done under
the caucus system, and it is the only
way In the world 1t can be done. /
am going to read to you just one page,
concerning the appropriations made in
the Rivers and Harbors Bill. l am in
favor of reasonable appropriations for
rivers and harbors, but 1 always felt
that before an appropriation should be
made that there should first be q river.
l read from this page: This is North
Carolina. I never knew when I studied
geography in my boyhood that Caro-
lint was such a river-ridden state, but
North Carolina 1t seems to be such that
you can not step out of doors without
falling into the creek. Improving
Scuppernong River, North Carolina,
for maintenance, $4,000. Completing
Improvement in accordance with the
report submitted in House document
No. 1896, s31,S00.00. Improving Fish
Creek, North Carolina, for mainte-
nance $1,000; improving Pamlico and
Tar Rivers, North Carolina: Complet-
ing Improvement up to Greenville, and
for maintenance of improvement above
Greenville, $18,500. Improving Bay
River, North Carolina, for maintenance
1900. Improving Contentia Creek,
North Carolina. for maintenance, $2,-
900. Improving Smiths Creek, North
Carolina, for maintenance, $4,000. I'm
proving Neuse and Trent Rivers, North
Carolina, continuing improvement and
for maintenance, $1,000. Improving
Swift Creek North Carolina, for main
tenance, $500"
Col. Roosevelt went into South Am
erica. imperiled his life to discover a
new river. in order to add to his al
ready great fame, but If he had gone
down in North Carolina and discovered
some of the rivers for which we have
been making appropriations to i'm
prove. he would have made the CO.
lumbus look like thirty cents. CAP
plause.)
We had got down to Swift Creek.
$4,000. Improving waterway from
Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet,
North Carolina. for maintenance, s4.
900. Improving New River and water
ways to Beaufort, N. c.: Continuing
Improvement and for maintenance of
New River and all inland Waterways
between Beaufort Harbor and New Ri
ver and between New River and
Swansboro. $2S,500. Improving North
east. Black and Cape Fear Rivers,
North Carolina. For maintenance of
Improvement of Northeast and Black
Rivers, and of Cape Fear River above
Wilmington. N. c., $4,000. Complet
ing improvement of Northeast River in
with the report submitted
under House document No. 1856, and
subject to the conditions set forth in
said document. s25.375." That is one
page from that bill.
ALWAYS FOR THE SOUTH ONLY.
Now we will take one page from the
ricultural Bill: Special investigation
OF cotton growing, $4,000 Special
of diseases of cotton.
s46, 600. Further investigation of dis
eases of cotton. $4,000. Special in
of baling cotton, $1SO,000.
5R0Clai lnNtSllBdllOii VI ilduulltS COt- {
ton, $4,000. Investigation of boil
weevil. $62s,O00. Investigation of in ,,
sects affecting cotton, $4,000. In :
of other insects affecting
Gaughter.)
Now the reports do not show what
become of the insects, but 1 have an
dea by the time the Investigations get
through that they likely died of ner-
yous prostration. l want to call atten
ion Of the horse raisers and hog rails
srs of this state to something that you
nave been overlooking. For instruc-
ions as to how to raise horses and
1ogs, 800, 900" Now, my friends, that
,ouId not happen, l say again, If 1t
wasn't for the caucus system, that
,ould not be done.
While there are legitimate improve
nents for legitimate rivers. these ap-
,ropriations are crowded, stuffed and
padded You might say that l should
,ave said something about 1t in the
senate. I did. and voted against the
yhsle bill. Let's see where this comes
rom. / have taken eleven southern
tates to find out the amount of taxa
ion which they paid. and 1t is 81,
37.56e Their appropriations were
$500, 900. Five times the amount of
he taxes which they paid. I have
AIKEN ten northern states, the amount
f taxes paid, $19.393,000; the amount
f appropriation, $6,0O0,0 900. Now they
yill say that it is a sectional question.
If course. it is. We didn't make 1t.
We didn't make that record, but, re-
ardless of what section of the country
comes from, or who is responsible
or it, that system is a menace to the
,stitutions under which we live. There
nothing which is calculated to super
iduce more misery and more suffering
ian extravaganza. There is nothing
{ more concern, as your distinguished
resident stated four years ago, to the
N erican people than that this extra
agance be put an end to.
WILL BE FRANK WITH ~
YOU AND SAY TO YOU THAT ~
THERE ARE SOME MEN WHO -,
MIGHT HAVE BEEN NOMI- ~
MATED FOR PRESIDENT UP
ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. ~
WHOM 1 WOULD NOT REGARD fa
AS SAFE AND SOUND UPON an
THIN QUESTION OF ExTRAVA- 10
GANCE, BUT / BELIEVE IF Ga
THERE is A MAN IN THE vo
UNITED STATES WHO, FROM 9,v
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