Year: 1879

DuTluB tne uoDdC6 III Ulle NutlOuhl IL QOuS


on the Legislative Appropriation bill, Mr.


Horr, Michigander, obtained the floor ant


made his debut. The following is the pub


lished account of it, a humorous interlude


doing no good, and as little harm, but hear


tily enjoyed by the old stagers


He took his position in front of the Speak


ers chair, and kept moving, with earnest


gesticulations. now toward the neighbor-


hood of the Greenback representative


now toward the Democratic side of the


House, according as his remarks were ad


dressed to the one or the other. He paid


his attention first to the eGreenbackers, treat


ing their peculiar views as a malady, of the


symptoms of which he drew an amusing


sketch. Among these symptoms were, he


said, "bowels of compassion" for the poor,


and yet said he, never knew one of them


to give the poor man a cent or do days


work Laughter. He ridiculed the bill


of Mr.. De Ia Matyr for the issue of billion


of greenbacks.


Mr.. Della Mytyr-I simply presented that


bill at the request of another man. 1t is


not my own bill at all, and do not en-


dorse it.


Mr.. Horr-I am glad of it. The bill


would make horse laugh if he had any


sense of the ludicrous. What the country


needs is rest and quiet. Business interests


demand that we should pass the appropri-


alton bills and go home about our business.


Why do we not2 The Greenbackers are


uniting with the Democrats, so they may


flood the country with mass of trash.


How long (moving up toward the Green


hackers and addressing the question


to them) do you suppose it would take
the treasury, to print the money these
fellows want? 1 figured it up; it would
require ten steam presses working night
and day for the next six months. Some
fellow has figured up statistics about the
flood, and has discovered that it must have
rained eight hundred feet of solid rain
every day. Now, in order to meet the res
quirements of these gentlemen, they would
have to get their clergyman meaning De la
Matyr] to ask our Father above to open
the windows of heaven, and have it rain
Greenbacks instead of water for forty days.
Loud laughter. The eloquent and elegant
gentleman from Iowa, [Mr. Weaver had
the temerity, the other day, to intimate
that God was able to raise up new David
for President in $780, meaning, suppose,
he was able to advance the interest of the
gentleman on the other side of the hall,
Talluding to Mr.. Wright of Pennsylvania,
who has always written after his name the
word ''Independent." 1 am not here to
contend that God Almighty cannot do that,
for / have too much confidence in His pow
er to dispute it, but 1 do ask the gentleman
from Iowa whether he is not asking too
much OF Providence Laughter Who
are these "Indeperdent men?" AS rule
they are good for nothing always on both
sides of every question, and on neither side
of any. "Renewed Laughter. They are
half fish and half woman-political mer-
maids too much woman to be good ior any
thing as fish, and too much fish to be good
for anything as woman. Shouts of laugh |
ter 1t is surprising that men of business
men who have material interests at stake |
should conceive the idea that money can be
made by legal enactment. Then moving over
to the Democratic side, and addressing |
the Southern members, he said: What the |
country needs and the South needs is not
more greenbacks. 1 am not a sectional
man but good feeling man, and l say
that what you want down there is to go to
work. daughter. You want to raise in
more corn and cotton and less
''cussedness.' Laughter. You want
more hogs and less humbug. You must
raise horses ana noBS more ana nell less.
Laughter on both sides of the House Mr..
Horr then changed his manner, and spoke
If the "bIoody shirt" as the sort that was
worn not by the gentlemen of the North
Who, with blanched cheek and relaxed NUS
les, started for Canada when they could not
prevent the draft, but as the sort of shirt
worm by ''the boys in blue" and he said
hat the Southern members should not find
ault with the Republicans for putting for
yard that emblem. This is a question, ho
continued, about which the people of the
North are in earnest. What they ask of us
O do is to pass these appropriation bills
ike business men, and go home about our
work.. There used to be an idea preached
" old theologians, that God sometimes
,rought about good actions among mortals (
" pestilence and famine, and other terrible
xpedients. 1t has occurred to me that the
lefty never had better opportunity to aid
his country than to-day, and that would
70 by turning yellow fever into this house,
would want him, however, to use great !
in making his selections. l
Shouts of laughter all around the House t
nd galleries. I